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How the world sees Greece
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
EIB provides EUR 550 million support in Greece
KathimeriniEIB provides EUR 550 million support in GreeceCapital.gr (press release)The finance agreements were signed on behalf of the EIB by Mihai Tanasescu, Vice-President responsible for Greece, with the Minister of Finance Yiannis Stournaras, concerning the motorways, and with Alexandros Antonopoulos, President of the ...Greece and EIB sign 550-mln deal for growth and jobsKathimeriniall 4 news articles »
Athens to Replace Paper Tickets With Smart Cards for Public Transportation
The European Commission has approved a major investment of €29.5 million from the European Regional Development Fund that aims to modernize the urban transport ticketing in the wider metropolitan area of Athens. The available co financing will ensure putting in place an Integrated Electronic Ticket System related to the public means of transport operating under […]
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Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award 2014 Opens for Entries
The Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award (HEA) today announced the opening of applications for its 2014 award programme. Conceived and operated by the Libra Group on behalf of The Hellenic Initiative (THI), the Hellenic Entrepreneurship Award seeks to stimulate entrepreneurial spirit and reward Greece’s most promising start-up businesses. It is open to both experienced and first-time entrepreneurs […]
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Cyprus welcomes home icons stolen after Turkish invasion
Cyprus formally welcomed home from Germany on Tuesday scores of frescoes, mosaics and icons stolen from churches after the Turkish invasion in 1974 and returned after a long legal battle.The 173 Byzantine and post-Byzantine antiquities, which still show the damage caused when they were removed from around 50 Greek Orthodox and Maronite churches, were on public display at the capital's ...
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Greece intercepts ship with 20000 assault rifles believed headed for Syrian rebels
Special to WorldTribune.com ATHENS -- Greece has intercepted a weapons ship believed destined to Sunni rebels in Syria. Officials said Hellenic Coast Guard captured a ship with more than 20,000 assault rifles as well as ammunition and explosives. They said the weapons shipment came from Ukraine and was heading for the Turkish port of ...
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Another Girl from Bulgaria Found in Greek Roma Camp
Roma camp in Farsala; the girl’s biological parents were proven to be Bulgarian. After an investigation from Public Prosecutor’s Office of District Court Judges of Thessaloniki on birth certificates during 2008-2013, it was found that a Roma couple had declared the second birth of a child only six months after the previous birth. The authorities directly detected the couple and a ...
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Research Shows Increase in Greece’s Elderly Population
elderly population. The research, entitled ';The new historical context of population aging,'; was done by Marie-Noelle Dyken, associate professor at the University of Thessaly and Stamatina Kaklamanis,assistant professor at the University of Crete’s Department of Philosophy and Social Studies. It showed that,despite the positive contribution of foreigners in the demographic ...
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Greek Loans Threatened by Missed Reforms Budget Shortfall
Greek Loans Threatened by Missed Reforms, Budget Shortfall (Reuters) Greece and its international lenders — a troika of the International Monetary Fund, the European Commission and the European Central Bank — have not yet reconciled their expectations regarding the 2014 Greek budget. The Greek government estimates a EUR500 million gap, while the troika believes the gap is EUR2 ...
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Cosco raises investment in Greek port Piraeus
(15 mins ago) Chinese-owned COSCO subsidiary Piraeus Container Terminal and Piraeus Port Organization have reached an agreement in principle for an additional investment of 230 million euros at Piraeus, Greece's largest port, Greek Shipping Minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis announced. The deal paves the way for the construction of OLP's west pier container terminal III and upgrade of ...
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COSCO to invest additional $309m at Greek port
eu s Container Terminal (PCT) and Piraeus Port Organisation (OLP) have reached an agreement in principle for an additional investment of 230 million euros ($308.9 million) at Piraeus, Greece's largest port, Greek Shipping Minister Miltiades Varvitsiotis announced on Tuesday. The deal, which had been under negotiations from June, paves the way for the construction of OLP's West Pier ...
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Greece charges Roma couple in fresh child kidnapping case
: Greek authorities have removed a four-year-old girl from a Roma couple, after DNA tests showed she was not their daughter, and have charged the pair with kidnapping, a judicial source said Tuesday. The case was similar to that of another that made headlines in October, when Greek authorities circulated the photo of a blonde girl named Maria living in a different Roma camp in Greece with a ...
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Chinese COSCO to invest additional 230 mln euros at Greek port
Chinese COSCO to invest additional 230 mln euros at Greek portXinhuaThe principle of the new deal has already been ratified by the two companies' boards of directors and the deal needs to be approved by the Greek parliament before coming into force. With the expansion of PCT's activity the total worth of COSCO's ...and more »
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Export-led growth key for Greece's economic recovery, says American economist ...
Export-led growth key for Greece's economic recovery, says American economist ...KathimeriniIn an interview with Kathimerini, the American economist and director of Columbia University's Earth Institute who was recently in Athens on an invitation by the Harvard Business School Club of Greece describes the country as a top global brand. He ...
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Varvara Trachana: Surviving the Science Crisis in Greece
Varvara Trachana: Surviving the Science Crisis in GreeceScienceCareers.orgGreece, Spain, Italy, and Portugal are among the countries hit most severely by Europe's economic crisis. Science has not been spared. Last Friday, in a meeting organized under the auspices of EuroScience, scientists from the four countries gathered in ...
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SDOE catches MP who failed to declare 5.5 mln euros
While tax evasion remains extensive in Greece, the monitoring authorities have recently managed to net some rather big fish.
The October data published on Tuesday by the Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) showed it had imposed fines adding up to 163.6 million ... ...
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At European summit on youth unemployment, Samaras pleads Greek case
Amid speculation about the troika demanding more austerity measures from Greece, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras again insisted on Tuesday that “Greek society has reached its limits.”
Addressing his European peers at a summit in Paris on tackling youth une... ...
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British Airways to fly direct to Santorini, Myconos in 2014
British Airways will operate direct flights next year from the British capital to the Greek islands of Myconos and Santorini for the high season from March until October, Gavin Halliday, BA’s general manager for Africa and Europe, said on the occasion of ... ...
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Greek civil servants’ union calls for walkout Thursday
Greece’s civil servants’ union, ADEDY, called yesterday for its members to walk off the job tomorrow afternoon to protest against the public sector mobility scheme, “which will speed up the destruction of public services and will lead thousands of civil s... ...
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Greek dairy firm executives summoned over cartel allegations
Managing directors and other executives of six major dairy producers have been called to respond to allegations that they formed a cartel between 2004 and 2006, forcing producers to sell their milk at low prices.
Corruption prosecutor Spyros Georgouleas h... ...
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Distance separating Greece and troika getting smaller, says Stournaras
Though it was not evident in comments made by officials from each side, the Greek government and the troika appeared a little closer on Tuesday to agreeing the size of Greece’s fiscal gap for 2014.
Finance Ministry sources told Kathimerini that the troika... ...
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Mayor of Cava de’ Tirreni, an Italian town with a Greek connection, explains why it is twinning with Delphi
The southern Italian town of Cava de’ Tirreni and the ancient city of Delphi are about to come together after centuries apart. The twinning of the two cities was set in motion last August during a visit of Cava de’ Tirreni Mayor Marco Galdi to Delphi, whe... ...
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Waste plan for Peloponnese in the works
A plan for managing the refuse of Greece’s Peloponnese peninsula foresees the creation of three waste processing plants and two transit facilities and is to start operating by the end of next year, Kathimerini understands.
A feasibility study for the proj... ...
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Erdogan’s comment on Cyprus irks Athens
Greek and Cypriot government officials on Tuesday expressed shock and anger at claims by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday that “there is no country named Cyprus” ahead of a fresh effort by the United Nations to broker a deal between t... ...
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Greeks pay most property levies in EU
Real estate owners and buyers in Greece have to pay the highest property tax contributions in Europe, while one in three Greeks say that they will not be able to pay the new Single Property Tax to be imposed from January, amid reports of an amended bill t... ...
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NBG to fully absorb Probank by December 9
The process for the incorporation of Probank into the National Bank of Greece network is in full swing.
NBG’s plans foresee the completion of the operational merging in the coming weeks so that from Monday, December 9, all branches will operate through Na... ...
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Troika Envoys Probe Greek Budget Shortfall
ATHENS (AP) ? International debt inspectors were meeting on Nov. 12 with Greece's finance minister to examine government claims that a financing shortfall next year can be covered without any major new austerity measures.
The officials from the Troika ? the European Union, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund ? are scrutinizing the government's forecast that the bailout loans will be 500 million euros ($670 million) short of the country's financing needs next year.
Greece maintains the sum would be small enough to make up for without resorting to more spending cuts or tax increases.The Troika officials were in talks with Yannis Stournaras to reach an understanding on the issue before the government submits its 2014 budget to Parliament at the end of next week.
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Looted Church Icons Returned to Cyprus
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) ? The largest haul of looted, centuries-old church icons, frescoes and mosaics ever repatriated to Cyprus were officially welcomed Nov. 12 after a nearly four-decade journey.
A ceremony marked the return of the 173 items that were stolen from Orthodox and Maronite Christian churches in the Turkish Cypriot northern part Cyprus. The island was ethnically split in 1974 when Turkey invaded after a coup by supporters of union with Greece.
'The Church of Cyprus is joyous that after 40 years, the largest number of stolen treasures is coming back home, to their homeland,' said Archbishop Chrysostomos II, the head of the island's Orthodox Christian Church. Chrysostomos also thanked retired Pope Benedict XVI for his assistance in the repatriation.
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FOTOGRAFIA: Dog Day Afternoon
Even a dog couldn't get by police guarding the Greek Finance Ministry in Athens on Nov. 12 as envoys from international lenders were inside checking the books on long-delayed reforms before deciding whether to release a pending one billion euro ($1.37 billion) installment.
The cops also had to keep away the building's cleaning ladies who heckled the officials who want more austerity measures and firings, mostly aimed at lower-paid workers as the government protects the privileged. Many of the women lost their jobs.
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Historic Belvedere, next to Greek Club in South Brisbane, destroyed in suspicious fire
The decision was appealed and is currently before the courts. (Frame content direct link: https://maps.google.com.au/maps?q=The Greek Club&ll=-27.479473,153.015561&spn=0.018694,0.033023&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=au&hq=greek club, brisbane&cid=0,0 ...
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Greece's Titan Cement heading for second year of losses
Business RecorderGreece's Titan Cement heading for second year of lossesKathimeriniGreece's biggest cement maker Titan is heading for a second consecutive year of losses, weighed down by an austerity-fueled construction slump at home, its nine-month earnings indicated on Tuesday. The company posted a net loss of 15 million euros for ...Greek cement maker Titan posts interim loss as building slump continuesReutersall 3 news articles »
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How Wall Street Has Profited From Puerto Rico's Misery
Puerto Rico’s economy and bond ratings are starting to resemble those of Detroit and Greece. Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary last week called Puerto Rico’s bonds “the junkiest of the junk”.
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Man Dies After Opening 'Pandora's Box'
Authorities remain baffled over the mysterious death of a man who reportedly died shortly after opening a container labeled "Pandora's box."
This week, England's News & Star reported that Jason Airey, 37, was found dead in his Carlisle, Cumbria bedroom in May.
From the News & Star:
Coroner Robert Chapman said a post-mortem showed Jason’s heart had stopped beating, causing his organs to fail –- but they would probably never know why. He never regained consciousness and died in the Cumberland Infirmary two days later.
The box found near Airey's body contained unused synthetic cannabis.
Airey's father, Dennis, said his son seemed like "just his normal self,” on the day he died. He also said he believed the box had been recently opened before his son's death.
The story has a dearth of original sources. However, Chapman, the coroner directly quoted in the report is indeed a coroner in Cumbria.
The coroner's office did not return a request for comment from The Huffington Post.
As the Telegraph explains, "Pandora’s Box is an artifact taken from Greek mythology. The box, given to Pandora, was said to contain all the evils of the world."
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Greek creditors receive official 'haircut' notification
Private investors such as banks, insurance companies and investment funds as well as ... As part of the deal - also known as a haircut - private creditors are asked to trade in their Greek bonds for new ones offering lower interest rates and longer maturities.
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Greek critics cry censorship at Thessaloniki
In 2012, the fest removed the Guild’s Award from the gala’s list of prizes, noting that the TV station transmitting the event had requested its air-time be clipped ... a day care centre after he literally crashes a private celebrity party.
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Greece: New case of girl with unrelated couple
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities have charged another Roma couple with child abduction after DNA testing showed a four-year-old girl being brought up as theirs was not related to them.
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The 10 Best Public High Schools In New York City
Long regarded as an academic powerhouse that educates some of the country's brightest students, Stuyvesant High School is the best public high school in New York City, according to data compiled by FindTheBest.
FindTheBest recently partnered with the NYC Department of Education to build a comparison system for public schools in the city. Its "smart rating" is based off of Quality of Education scores and Student Progress Reports.
Based on this rating, FindTheBest has come up with a list for Business Insider of the 10 best public high schools in NYC. These schools represent all five of the city's boroughs, and specialize in everything from science to performing arts.
Check out the full list below:
#1 Stuyvesant High School — Battery Park, Manhattan
Stuyvesant had 10 Intel Science competition semi-finalists in 2013, the most of any high school in the country. In 2012, the school had 13 semi-finalists, which was also the highest amount.
#2 Staten Island Technical High School — New Dorp, Staten Island
The school recently opened a state of the art television studio, which allows for both in-school broadcasts and student produced features.
#3 High School of American Studies at Lehman College — Bedford Park, Bronx
American Studies is located on the Lehman College campus, and students have access to their gym and cafeteria.
#4 Bronx High School of Science — Bedford Park, Bronx
Eight Bronx Science alumni have gone on to win Nobel Prizes — seven in physics and one in chemistry — which is the most of any secondary school in the United States.
#5 Townsend Harris High School — Kew Gardens Hills, Queens
All students have to complete a two-year classical language requirement in either Latin, classical Greek, or Hebrew.
#6 Queens High School for the Sciences at York College — Jamaica, Queens
Students take two periods of science each year, and many finish their math requirements by their sophomore year, allowing for AP courses and electives.
#7 High School for Mathematics, Science and Engineering at City College — Hamilton Heights, Manhattan
About 75% of students study German for their foreign language requirement, making for the largest high school German program in the United States.
#8 Brooklyn Technical High School — Fort Greene, Brooklyn
Brooklyn Tech uses a major system for upperclassmen classes, and students can apply for a specific major — options include BioMedical Engineering and Media Communications — after their sophomore year.
#9 Eleanor Roosevelt High School — Upper East Side, Manhattan
Founded in 2002, Eleanor Roosevelt has quickly established itself as a top high school and just graduated their eighth class of students this past May.
#10 Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts — Upper West Side, Manhattan
LaGuardia served as the inspiration for the move "Fame," about a group of students at a performing arts high school in New York City.
For more details on these top schools, check out this interactive infographic from FindTheBest:
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In new case, Greek authorities charge Roma couple with abduction over unrelated girl aged 4
Greek authorities have charged another Roma couple with child abduction after DNA testing showed a four-year-old girl being brought up as theirs was not related to them.
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