President Obama will travel to GREECE, Germany, and Peru November 14-21, 2016. This trip will highlight the President's commitment to trans-Atlantic ...
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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Statement by the Press Secretary on the President's Travel to GREECE, Germany, and Peru
Obama to visit GREECE November 15, White House says
In a statement Tuesday the White House said Obama will hold talks with Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos and Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras.
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For the Calais refugees, this is the destruction of hope as well as home
As I saw in Greece, razing the Calais camp will serve politics, not the needs of people on the move The dismantling of the Calais refugee camp brings a sense of deja vu for those of us who followed the eviction of the Idomeni camp on the Greece-Macedonia border in May. The streams of buses; the heavy machinery waiting to destroy the tents and shacks; the queues of bewildered people with their lives in bundles at their feet; the riot police standing by. For the refugees there’s the terrible uncertainty about what happens next, the fear of being deported, taken into detention, separated from the small community they’ve made. And there’s the anxious surrender to the inevitable grief mixed with relief. Will the new place be better, safer, or just further away from where you hope to go? Related: Calais 'Jungle' camp clearance – in pictures The message to Europeans is: 'Look, we’re taking control.' The message to refugees is: 'Don’t come.' Continue reading...
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Greece’s pension system at high risk due to unemployment, low wages & lack of liquidity
Alarm bell is ringing for Greece’ social security funds. Arrears have reach €17 billion, in the third quarter of 2016 alone, debt rose to another 300 million euros. Unable to pay, debtors abandon also the arrangements they have made with the funds in order to pay their debts in installments. […]
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Turkish Authorities Detain and Release Six Men Fishing Off Coast of Chios
Turkish authorities on Tuesday released the five Greek nationals and one Greek-American detained while fishing near the islet Paspargos, in waters between Chios and the Turkish coast, on board the vessel “Mia.” The six men were taken to Cesme on the ...
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Greece awaits Obama trip amid tough bailout talks
[Greece awaits Obama trip amid tough bailout talks]Greece's government says it was facing pressure from the International Monetary Fund to aggressively scale back union powers and employment rights, as the White House confirmed Tuesday that U.S. President ...
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Talks on Cyprus reunification reach critical stage
But Nikos Anastasiades, the GREEK Cypriot president, and Mustafa Akinci, his Turkish Cypriot counterpart, have still to address other important issues.
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