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How the world sees Greece
Friday, August 9, 2013
Disabled Greeks enjoy the sea in solar-powered chair
Paralyzed from the waist down, Lefteris Theofilou has spent nearly half his life bound to a wheelchair and recalls as if it were a dream the first time a solar-powered chair enabled him to swim on his own in the Greek sea.
SYRIZA Downplays Obama-Samaras Meeting
Greece’s major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA), not unexpectedly didn’t think much of Greek Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras’ Aug. 8 White House meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama. SYRIZA stressed that "regarding the statements of the two political leaders and the news that were published, no particular ...
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PAOK faces Maccabi in Europa League playoffs
PAOK will play Maccabi Tel Aviv and Atromitos will face AZ Alkmaar in the playoff stages of the Europa League.PAOK, dumped out of the Champions League this week by Metalist Kharkiv, will play the first match against its Israeli opponent in Tel Aviv.Maccabi has a good record against Greek teams as it has knocked Panathinaikos and Olympiakos out of European competitions.Atromitos will play its ...
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Greek Health Ministry to hire 95 doctors on 12-month contracts
The Health Ministry announced on Friday that it is going to hire 95 doctors to work in the national health service on 12-month contracts.The doctors will be handed employment deals governed by private sector labor laws and will be posted at public hospitals and health centers around the ...
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Greek met office staff cry foul over mobility scheme placements
Employees at the National Meteorological Service (EMY) complained on Friday that 15 staff members are being moved from their jobs even though they have specialized knowledge.Twelve of those being placed in the public sector mobility scheme have postgraduate degrees or PhDs in meteorological or environmental subjects and were hired after passing exams set by the Supreme Council for Personnel ...
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Half of Greek tourism businesses inspected found to be breaking law
Just under half of businesses in the tourism sector checked by the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) between July 25 and August 5 were found to be committing offenses, the Finance Ministry said on Friday.A total of 3,904 offenses, including restaurants and cafes not issuing receipts, were recorded.The highest rate of offending was in Evia and Skyros, where 85 percent of businesses that were inspected ...
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Obama on Greece It?s Important to Have Plan For ?Managing Debt?
- After meeting with the prime minister of Greece in the Oval Office on Thursday, President Barack Obama said it is important that government officials in Greece have a plan to manage their debt. In the United States, the total national debt is $16.7 trillion and Congress and the president are gearing up to raise the ceiling on federal borrowing - to keep spending -- after the August ...
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Critchley Says Parthenon Marbles Are Greece?s
Simon Critchley, a professor of philosophy at The New School in New York City, brought the house down at the 23d World Congress of Philosophy meeting in Athens when he said the Parthenon Marbles stolen from the Acropolis nearly 200 years ago and now in the British Museum should be returned to Greece. Critchley, who is British, was speaking to an audience on the banks of the Ilissos and had them ...
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Troika Banks Want Homes Repossessed
If Greece lifts a ban on foreclosing homes critics contend there'll be more people put onto the streets to join the ranks of the homeless. The default rate is 22.9 percent. ATHENS - Faced with a 22.9 percent default rate in mortgages because Greeks buried under austerity measures can't pay, banks and the country's international lenders are pressing for homes to be seized. Prime ...
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Disabled Greeks get swim thanks to solar chair
ALEPOCHORI, Greece (Reuters) - Paralyzed from the waist down, Lefteris Theofilou has spent nearly half his life bound to a wheelchair and recalls as if it were a dream the first time a solar-powered chair enabled him to swim on his own in the Greek ...
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Brazil Backtracks On IMF Greek Snafu
Paulo Nogueira Distancing itself from its own representative to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) who abstained from a vote on more aid for Greece after declaring the money would never be repaid, Brazil said the incident was all due to a misunderstanding it didn’t explain. Late last month, Paulo Nogueira, who represents 11 countries at the IMF including his own, didn’t vote when ...
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Industrial output rises 0.4 pct year-on-year in June
Greek industrial output rose 0.4 percent year-on-year in June after a downwardly revised 5.2 percent drop in the previous month, the country's statistics service ELSTAT said on Friday.Increased production of petroleum products and pharmaceuticals led to a 4.2 percent year-on-year rise in manufacturing output in ...
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Opposition parties play down Samaras-Obama talks
The main leftist opposition party SYRIZA on Friday played down the outcome of talks between Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and US President Barack Obama, declaring in a statement that they had yielded "nothing good for Greek society or the economy."The statement was particularly critical of Samaras' comments eyeing a closer regional cooperation between Greece and Israel, ...
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Damage from central Greece quakes beats expectations
Dozens of aftershocks have struck following an earthquake in central Greece this week that was felt as far away as Athens.A magnitude 4.9 temblor hit the region of Fthiotida Friday following the 5.1-magnitude quake on Wednesday.Thanassis Ganas, a seismologist at the Athens Observatory, said the earthquake ...
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Lechaina Student Out Of This World
Krinio Marouda, a student from Lechaina, a town in Elis, West Greece, won the bronze medal at the 7th International Olympiad on Astronomy and Astrophysics (IOAA), which took place for the first time in Greece. This is the second medal in IOAA for Marouda, as in 2012, she won the bronze medal in the Olympiad that took place in Brazil. During the 7th IOAA, more than 180 young men and women from ...
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Boutaris Allows Muslim Call to Prayer
It was a little after 4 in the morning on August 9, when the psalm by the young imam from Xanthi, Greece, was heard from Yeni Mosque in Thessaloniki, inviting all Muslims living or visiting as tourists the city to participate in the Morning Prayer for Ramadan's closing. Yeni Mosque, constructed in the year 1902, is the work of the Italian architect Vitaliano Poselli for the city's ...
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Thermopylae Remembers The 300 Spartans
A ceremony marking the last stand of the 300 Spartans and their Greek allies against the Persian hordes of King Xerxes at the Pass of Thermopylae, a gallant battle that helped save Western Civilization, was marked on Aug. 8. Some 2,493 years ago, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian Empire at the pass of Thermopylae in central Greece. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held ...
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Tourist Arrivals in Greece Take Off
Greece’s busiest-ever tourist season continues to get better with news that there was a 9.28 percent rise in air arrivals, mirroring that of arrivals via ship. Some 6,887,532 people have flown into Greece so far this season with the country on target to see 17 million visitors. The data came from Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises (SETE) and gave a boosts to the country’s ...
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Recent tragedy highlights need for more control at Malia resort
By Ioanna Fotiadi Thousands of young Britons flock every year to the resort of Malia in Iraklio on Crete, dreaming of a wild Greek summer holiday. Many will at some point find themselves on Dimocratias Street, a strip of bars known by foreign tourists as Bar Mile and by locals as the Street of Loss.The dream, however, can easily turn into a nightmare, as it did for 19-year-old Briton Tyrell ...
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Youth unemployment close to shocking 65 in Greece
Youth unemployment in Greece has soared to a record 64.9 per cent as the country's downward spiral continues almost unchecked. "Nothing as devastating as this has ever been seen in my country before," said Professor Yanis Varoufakis from Athens University. "The spirit of the Greek people has been broken. They've stopped demonstrating and are licking their wounds at home or leaving the ...
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No Greek Cypriot leader ever wanted to reach an agreement in Cyprus
Turkish Cypriot president said Turkish Cypriots and guarantor state Turkey are running out of patience on Cyprus problem President of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) Dervis Eroglu on Saturday said that "no Greek Cypriot leader ever wanted to reach an agreement with the Turkish Cypriots in Cyprus".President Eroglu`s remarks came after a luncheon he attended at the Adiyaman ...
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Darilis Builds Diaspora TV Bridges
NEW YORK - Not everyone ends up in the field they first fall in love with, but some childhood interests bolster chances of success in any profession by fostering teamwork and discipline. Yanna Darilis, for years a popular TV host in Greece and now the President of New Greek TV (NGTV), was an athlete from a young age and her experiences served her well. Energy and seriousness are there too, now as ...
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A 4.9 Aftershock Hits Greece
It’s been an anxious week for Greeks with earthquakes, including an aftershock of 4.9 on Aug. 8, only two days after the area around Athens was hit with 5.1 magnitude tremor. The strongest aftershock took place at 2:49 p.m.near the town of Amphicleia, 123 kilometers northwest of Athens, where the quake was particularly felt, and 28 kilometers northwest of Atalanti. It was recorded by the ...
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Samaras Briefed Anastasiades On U.S. Visit
The Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras communicated with the President of Cyprus Nikos Anastasiadis and briefed him on the talks he had in Washington with the President of the U.S.A. Barack Obama and the Secretary of State John Kerry. As it is referred in a written statement of the Cypriot government spokesman Christos Stylianidis, "Among other things, Mr. Samaras informed Mr. ...
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Exports hit by political uncertainty
Greek exports declined in July, adversely affected by the political uncertainty caused by speculation about a fresh election.According to data from the Hellenic Statistial Authority (ELSTAT), the value of total exports reached 2.13 billion euros, down 7.2 percent year-on-year.The fact that the drop was mainly accounted for by exports to non-European Union countries (-15.8 percent), which Greek ...
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Greek privacy watchdog fines Finance Ministry over major tax data theft
ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's Finance Ministry has been fined 150,000 euros ($200,000) by the country's privacy watchdog for allegedly failing to protect data on millions of taxpayers that ended up in the possession of private companies. The Data Protection Authority said Friday the ministry hadn't taken sufficient steps to protect its databases from unauthorized access. That led to ...
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Greece puts bond sale on hold
• Athens delays plans to raise €5bn to service debt • Greek prime minister to meet Germany's Angela Merkel on Friday Greece has put its planned bond sale on hold amid expectations that further support from European countries will cut the premium investors demand to lend money to the troubled country. "Normally they would test the market but now nothing has been fed [into the market] it's all on ...
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Tax fraud still a massive problem in Greece
Random checks by inspectors have shown that Greek authorities haven't been able so far to significantly rein in rampant tax fraud in the country. But drastic sanctions are meant to result in a change of behavior.
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Greek Finance Ministry fined over tax data theft
BBC News | Greek Finance Ministry fined over tax data theft MiamiHerald.com ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's Finance Ministry has been fined 150,000 euros ($200,000) by the country's privacy watchdog for allegedly failing to protect data on millions of taxpayers that ended up in the possession of private companies. The Data ... Greek spot checks find half of firms cheating on tax Tourist Arrivals in Greece Take Off Greece gets tough on tax dodgers |
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Greek Cypriots elect Nicos Anastasiades as president
Veteran rightwinger wins 57% of the vote and is likely to usher in reforms to help island out of economic crisis Their nation's solvency hanging by a thread, Greek Cypriots elected the veteran rightwinger Nicos Anastasiades to become their seventh president on Sunday giving the pro-bailout politician a landslide victory not seen in more than 40 years – and bringing the euro zone's next rescue ...
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Nationwide spot inspections find 1 in 2 Greek businesses are cheating the taxman in some way
Nationwide spot checks by Greek tax inspectors have found that almost every other business is cheating the taxman in some way, as the debt-hobbled country's authorities struggle to improve revenue collection amid a crippling recession.
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Greece catches tax cheat firms
In its most recent round of spot checks Greek investigators find that almost half of the firms investigated were committing some kind of tax offence.
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Popular Greek Restaurant Snack Taverna Expands With West 39th Street Lease
Popular Greek Restaurant Snack Taverna Expands With West 39th Street Lease Commercial Observer The Greek cafe Snack Taverna is expanding from the West Village to a 1,100-square-foot restaurant at 522 Ninth Avenue, The Commercial Observer has learned. It will be a welcome arrival to a still-nebulous gray area between Hell's Kitchen and the ... |
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Colleges Biggest On Greek Life According To Princeton Review 2013-14 Ranking
Colleges Biggest On Greek Life According To Princeton Review 2013-14 Ranking Huffington Post Princeton Review this week released its annual ranking of colleges that are biggest on Greek life, based on survey responses from more than 122,000 students over the past couple academic years. We have some reservations about this list, though, ... |
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Raising a Greek Cinema Paradiso
Huffington Post | Raising a Greek Cinema Paradiso Huffington Post When Alexander Payne stepped off the boat in late July to arrive on the Greek isle of Patmos, few locals recognized a major Hollywood writer-director in their midst -- or had a chance to see his films on the silver screen. But the Omaha-born filmmaker ... |
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