How the world sees Greece
Westfield celebrates a “Taste of Greece” with Holy Trinity Greek Fest 2013 Independent Press - NJ.com “We're back this year with a four-day celebration that truly offers something for everyone who wants a Taste of Greece. Join our big Greek family to jump-start the summer!” says Agapios Kyritsis, Chairman of Holy Trinity Greek Fest 2013. Greek Fest ... GREEK FEST: Music, dancing, a market place & of course, fantastic Greek food |
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Restaurant mailbag: Greek diners in Portland, salad rolls and spending money ... OregonLive.com In today's restaurant mailbag, readers ask how much is too much to spend on dinner in the Pearl, where to find salad rolls and whether there's a Greek-owned diner nearby. Questions have been edited for brevity and clarity. Q: Does Portland have a good, ... |
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Author Margaret Atwood to explore Greek myth at Arts & Letters Live in Dallas Dallas Morning News “I started knowing about Greek myth with Heroes of Greek Mythology by Charles Kingsley,” the late 19th-century author, she says. “He tried to make the case that these stories were good for you. The Victorians always wanted things to be good for you ... |
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Greek Reporter | OECD Says Prices High In Greece Greek Reporter Recent reports by the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund explain that in Greece dozens of closed professions remain to be liberalized, competitiveness remains low and as a result there are high prices as the coalition government of ... |
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Kathimerini | Greece changes term of gas privatization to accomodate Gazprom, source says Kathimerini Greece agreed to change some terms in the planned privatisation of natural gas distributor DEPA, opening the way for Russian energy giant Gazprom to bid for the firm, a senior official directly involved in the sale talks said on Saturday. Privatisation ... |
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Group that follows the Byzantine Greek Rite comes to Rome to cheer on the Pope Rome Reports “We celebrate our liturgies in Greek. We keep and protect that tradition because our reality was born when Albanians arrived. Even though they spoke Albanian, they celebrated Mass in Greek, because they were Orthodox who belonged to the Church of ... |
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Greek government in bid to mend rift over anti-racism bill Kathimerini In a bid to mend a widening rift in his fragile government regarding the fate of a contentious anti-racism bill, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras is to meet with his coalition partners on Monday afternoon for talks that are expected to be heated amid ... Diamantopoulou Breaks From PASOK Too |
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While in Cannes covering the Film Festival which brings the crème de la crème of global cinema to the Cote D’Azur in May every year, Federico Grandesso had the opportunity to speak exclusively with Greek-born Oscar movie director and President of the French Cinémathèque, Costas Gavras. He received the Magritte Honorary Award at the 3rd Magritte Awards in Brussels not so long ago and was in top form at Cannes attending screening of the movies Neraska and others with his wife.
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Cyprus Bailout Update Reveals Bad News for Greece legal Insurrection (blog) While the repercussions of the Cypriot bailout are still not clear, it is worthwhile taking a look at the recipient of another bailout deal: Greece. Three years after their “rescue”, the Greek economy is still full of fail. In Mindful Money, economist ... |
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Kathimerini | Greece visa pledge attracting investors Kathimerini Less than two weeks after Samaras told a business conference in Shanghai that Chinese entrepreneurs investing more than 250,000 euros in real estate in Greece would get a five-year residence permit, the first major deal has been struck between a Greek ... |
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Borussia Dortmund will have most neutrals on their side, and for good reason – the match is as much about politics as football
A friend tells the following story. In 1999, he was watching Bayern Munich play Manchester United in a bar in Kiel, high up in the northern tip of Germany. Most of the people were drinking, chatting, playing cards – they barely looked up when Bayern took the lead. But when Manchester equalised in the 91st minute, a loud cheer went around the room. When the English team scored an unlikely winner two minutes later, people were in each others arms, singing, dancing on the tables.
Borussia Dortmund, Bayern's opponents this time around, may no longer be quite the romantic working-class club coach Jürgen Klopp tried to evoke in a Guardian interview during the week, but it's likely that his boys in yellow have the majority of neutral fans on their side tonight. For a vast majority, being raised as a football fan in Germany still means learning to hate Bayern.
Where does this animosity come from? There is their knack for scoring late goals, the legendary Bayerndusel – the German equivalent of "Fergie-time" – and their history of rapacious capitalism. My own team, St Pauli, may be known as the "buccaneers" of the German league, but Bayern actually has a history of acting like pirates: raiding smaller successful clubs for their best players and leaving them to sink into obscurity, like they did with poor FC Karlsruhe in the 90s.
But sport is only half the reason. Munich is not only the richest club in German football – Bavaria is also Germany's richest region. Federal Germany is a transfer union, and in 2011 Bavaria paid 3,663 million euros to subsidise poorer parts of the country, such as Berlin. It has not always been thus: until 1986 Bayern used to be subsidised by regions in the industrial west (where Dortmund hail from), and two years later it became the first and only region to transform itself from "receiver" to a "giver". Nonetheless, no German politicians have been more vocally opposed to eurozone bailouts than those in the Bavarian CSU – its finance minister has loudly campaigned to have Greece chucked out of the euro.
There may be some unresolved psychological issues too. The first football chant every German child learns is the Freudian "Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus": "Pull down the Bavarians' lederhosen". One reason why we want to see them stripped naked may be that they have strong belief in their distinct cultural identity. A separate kingdom until 1918, Bavarians have they have their own folk costumes, their own political party, their own culinary tradition, a small separatist movement, a bloody castle as their own embassy in Brussels and an annoying habit of belittling other Germans as Preissn, "Prussians". And yet, Bavaria's ongoing economic and sporting success seems to imply that that arrogance is not entirely unjustified. Which is, of course, precisely what the rest of Europe finds so dislikable about Germany.
Over the last ten years or so, Bayern Munich have got very good at convincing the rest of Germany that they are not that bad after all. In 2003, they organised a charity friendly to pull back St Pauli from the brink of bankruptcy, and loaned Borussia Dortmund 2 million euros when the club was on the brink of collapse. They have insisted on TV money being distributed according to league position, when they could earn a fortune if it was assigned on the basis of viewing figures. They looked after troubled players like Sebastian Deisler, when other clubs might have just cancelled their contracts. Most annoyingly of all, they started playing free-flowing, inspirational football. Bayern promised an answer to that much asked "German question": whether Europe's largest economy can be strong and powerful without being evil.
About a month ago, that answer became a bit more complicated. On 20 April, it was reported that Bayern's president Uli Hoeness, who has come to embody the club's brand of socially responsible enterprise, was investigated for tax fraud. Just after German politicians had spent weeks lecturing Cyprus on dabbling in irresponsible casino-capitalism, it emerged that the man at the centre of Germany's most successful football club had lost millions on stock market bets.
All this means that tonight's match at Wembley is at least as much about politics as about football. Shortly before the Hoeness scandal broke, conservative politicians had been lobbying for a tax amnesty deal with Switzerland – did they know about Hoeness's affairs? Hoeness has repeatedly expressed his admiration for the chancellor, and Merkel has had to confirm that she had met the Bayern president in private seven times in the last three years – now she is reportedly staying away from London today for fear of being photographed with him.
The Swiss tax deal collapsed partly because of opposition by her main rival in September's elections, the Social Democrat Peer Steinbrück – who is also happens to be on the supervisory board at Borussia Dortmund. Borussia, incidentally, is neo-Latin for "Prussia".
• Philip Oltermann is the author of Keeping Up With the Germans: A History of Anglo-German Encounters
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Greece is the word for Amabile Young Women London Free Press There will be the chance to hear three stirring anthems when the Amabile Young Women's Ensemble stages a “farewell” concert on June 2 at Beal secondary school before a trip to Greece. O Canada will be heard because it's ours. The Greek anthem will be ... |
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Business Times (subscription) | Greece's National Bank posts second consecutive quarter of profit Reuters ATHENS May 24 (Reuters) - Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) reported a profit for the second consecutive quarter, helped by its Turkish subsidiary Finansbank, as well as lower funding costs and provisions for bad debt. The bank posted net ... National Bank of Greece Swings to Narrow Profit Ahead of Capital Boost Greece's NBG lifted by strong Turkish performance National Bank Greece's Management Discusses Q1 2013 Results - Earnings ... |
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Hundreds of Jews march in Thessaloniki on March 16th to the railway station where the first train left for the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943.
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"No worker who is not a shareholder, no shareholder who is not a worker," say the workers of VIOME , a factory in northern Greece.
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The Nissos Rodos, a 630-foot ferry, used to cruise the Greek islands, moving tourists from one sunny paradise to the next. Business dried up when the Greek economic crisis hit three years ago. But then came the war in Syria, creating new opportunity.
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