How the world sees Greece
 Fifa.com | A gripping Greek derby Fifa.com Any student of Greek history will know that the country has long been a pioneer in many fields. The philosophy of Plato and Socrates among others is a shining example, but less widely-known is that an early form of football was invented in Greece ... |
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Female Abuse in Greece Greek Reporter rape1_420_420 On March 8, the day that marks International Women's Day, some shocking information came to light. According to SOS 15900, a telephone line for immediate advice for all women victims of violence, more than 7,000 women in Greece have ... |
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 AFP | US-Israel-Greek Navies Drill in Med DefenseNews.com Tel Aviv — Navies from the United States, Israel and Greece kicked off a two-week exercise in the Mediterranean Sea on March 7, the third in an annual trilateral event dubbed Noble Dina. In a March 7 statement, the Israeli military said the drill aims ... Israel, US and Greece launch joint naval exercise |
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Power plant case sees more Greek officials charged Reuters UK The two officials were among former board members of Greek state utility PPC (DEHr.AT) charged with breach of duty on Friday for commissioning a loss-making power plant, a court source said. They follow a prosecutor's charging of three ministers for ... |
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 Kathimerini | Capital gains levy on Greek stocks may be put off or scrapped Kathimerini The repeatedly postponed imposition of a capital gains tax on Greek stocks might not be implemented at all, helping the local bourse in its struggle to retain its position among the world's mature stock markets, sources have told Kathimerini. A ... |
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Judge sets auction for Greek Peak assets Elmira Star-Gazette Assets of Greek Peak, the Virgil ski, snowboard and year-round resort, are to be auctioned March 19 subject to approval of a U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge. The resort's financial troubles began last winter after its loan provider, Tennessee Commerce Bank ... |
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Bulgaria, Greece and Turkey: The Syrian refugees at Europe's gateway New Statesman After relating the story of how he was deposited on the banks of Turkey by border patrol officers in Greece, I assumed my interview with Farouk, a Syrian refugee, was finished. It was twilight, and the shabby cafe on the edge of the tiny Bulgarian ... |
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 World Jewish Congress | Holocaust trains are jewel of collection of Greek train enthusiast. But are ... Jewish Telegraphic Agency Holocaust trains are jewel of collection of Greek train enthusiast. But are they real? By Gavin Rabinowitz · March 8, 2013. THESSALONIKI, Greece (JTA) -- It was spring in northern Greece, 1943. Efthymios Kontopoulos, 13, had come to Thessaloniki for ... World Jewish leaders to show support for Greek Jews at upcoming events in ... |
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Greece tempts private equity with high-reward, high-risk deals Reuters Even before the 2009 debt crisis that almost pushed Greece out of the euro, its private equity market was small by European and U.S. standards but now both domestic and international private equity investors are assessing whether the time is right to ... |
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Former managers of Greece's PPC facing breach of duty charges Kathimerini PPC commissioned the 250-million-euro natural gas-fired plant at Aliveri in central Greece in October 2007. “The charges were filed against PPC managers who signed the contract but don't name any individual,” the court official said. He said the ... |
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1996 Greece hockey team will be honored this weekend Rochester Democrat and Chronicle The 1996 Greece hockey team will be inducted in the New York State High School Hockey Coaches' Hall of Fame at the state tournament this weekend in Utica. Greece won 3-2 in the semifinals over Suffern and 4-3 over Oswego (with Erik Cole, now of the ... |
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Puns can be fun but they can be cruel too, as Vicky Pryce would have discovered if she dared to read today's national newspaper headlines: the Pryce of revenge, the price of vengeance, the Pryce is wrong.
Scores of pages were devoted to the conviction of Chris Huhne's ex-wife, with the Daily Mail going way over the top by giving the story 12 successive pages plus an editorial.
Calling it a "squalidly tragic saga of modern politics", the leader writer mused on the possibility of film directors queuing up to tell the story. In the event that they do, the Mail has provided all the source material they could ever want for a script.
Every element of a movie melodrama could be found in the Mail's coverage. The lives of Pryce and Huhne were excavated in enormous detail as the paper, peering down with disdain from its moral high horse, poured scorn on them.
Pryce betrayed her sex, her career and her children, wrote the Mail's Carol Sarler. Sure, there is something to admire in women who hit back at unfaithful husbands but what Pryce did "soiled" other women "by extension". Sarler wrote: "No other woman scorned has left us, frankly, ashamed of our own sex."
Huhne - "the sneering public school Trot" - was treated to even rougher treatment in a profile that accused him of several sins: a privileged background, overbearing self-confidence, pompous insubordination, grasping ambition, youthful radicalism, elitism. No brick was left unthrown.
The Mail even wheeled out the former perjurer, Jonathan Aitken, to give Huhne some unwanted advice on how to cope with his inevitable prison term.
But Pryce and Huhne were merely pawns in the Mail's favourite game of bash-the-Lib-Dems. This story played to its political agenda because its real target was the party that dared to go into coalition with the Conservatives.
Aside from two obvious large headlines - "A new Lib Dem cover up" and "Less than 1 in 3 Lib Dem voters still back the party" - the unmistakeable message of the totality of the Mail's coverage was its bitterness towards Nick Clegg and his party.
The only other paper to give anything like the same space to the story as the Mail was The Independent, with eight pages. Its leader argued that marital coercion, Pryce's defence, "should have no place in the British legal system."
A neighbouring article by Mary Dejevsky contended that it was not a criminal trial, but a divorce case by proxy.
Elsewhere, as with the Mail, papers took the opportunity to assault the Lib Dems. The Sun, which carried only two pages, saw the affair as part of "the stink of scandal" affecting the party.
The Daily Mirror asked questions about whether Clegg, his wife Miriam, and business minister Vince Cable had known, and therefore covered up, that Pryce had agreed to accept her husband's speeding points. Its headline, "Shame of the Lib Dem liars", suggested the paper had already made up its mind.
The Daily Telegraph's Allison Pearson concentrated on Pryce's actions, contending that she had "thrown her whole family on to the funeral pyre in order to bring down the man she once loved."
Echoing Sarler, Pearson wrote: "For those of us who followed the trial, the temptation to look away in disgust was strong… Were there any depths this woman wouldn't plumb to save her own skin?"
Zoe Williams, in The Guardian, was only slightly more sympathetic to Pryce's defence of marital coercion, but could not avoid concluding that her forthright public performances as an economist made that an almost impossible argument to maintain.
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Kouvelis Says Austerity Killing Greece Greek Reporter Fotis Kouvelis, leader of the tiny Democratic Left (DIMAR) that is a junior partner in Greece's uneasy coalition government, has told international lenders that the country can't stand any more of the pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions it keeps ... |
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 News 10NBC | Greece police patrol bus stops after man approaches child Rochester Democrat and Chronicle Officers were called to Maiden Lane near Long Pond Road about 8 a.m. Wednesday, after a man in a sport utility vehicle pulled up to a child waiting for a school bus, said Greece Police Lt. Jason Helfer. A man driving a maroon Ford Explorer with gold ... Greece police patrolling school bus stops Greece Police Investigate Suspicious Incident Police in Greece Investigating Suspicious Incident on Maiden Lane |
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 DigitalJournal.com | Greece Poised To Make A Tourism Comeback Huffington Post "I also wish that European countries which are famous for tourism get good custom - I name Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy - all countries in which growth is really necessary at the moment and where we have to make an effort to finally get people back ... Greece to Tourists: We're Open for Business Angela Merkel asks Germans to vacation in Greece Merkel tells Germans to spend vacations in Greece |
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Acropolis Closed?: Popular Greek Archaeological Sites Shut Down For A Day ... Huffington Post ATHENS, Greece -- Archaeological sites and museums across Greece have shut down for 24 hours due to a strike by Culture Ministry employees protesting planned reforms that aim to streamline the ministry's operations. Tourists arriving at the country's ... |
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Greek, Gibson 2013 concert schedules unveiled Los Angeles Times Los Lobos, Carly Rae Jepsen, a symphonic tribute to Grateful Dead guitarist Jerry Garcia and a complete performance of English prog-rock band Jethro Tull's “Thick as a Brick” Parts 1 and 2 by the band's frontman Ian Anderson highlight the Greek Theatre ... |
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