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How the world sees Greece
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Homemade Greek Yogurt
This DIY by gluten-free goddess, Alexandra of Alex T Cooks will have you enjoying au naturale homemade goodness straight from her own kitchen... Greek yogurt consumption has blown up in the last couple of years, and rightfully so. It's high in ...
Greece must step up efforts, to unlock funds
By Jan Strupczewski and Martin Santa BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers pressed Greece on Thursday to speed up structural reforms and continue fiscal consolidation and privatisation to unblock more of the international loans that keep it afloat. "A lot of progress has been made, also at social and political costs for the Greek society, and I think we fully acknowledge that," the ...
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Taste Test Thursday: Greek Yogurt
D MagazineTaste Test Thursday: Greek YogurtD MagazineThere are some fads I will never understand, and Greek yogurt is one of them. (I guess I've never been much of a yogurt person, anyway, unless you tell me you're making a mango lassi with it.) But who am I to judge? Greek yogurt is good, sure.
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DIMAR Returning to Coalition Government?
Yesterday the MP of New Democracy Dora Bakoyanni, stated that the antisocial measures imposed by the Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, will not help in convincing DIMAR to return to the coalition government. According to sources from newspaper Ta Nea, the most important officers of DIMAR stated that they are not willing to return or even […]
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Venizelos, we want Talks on Economy
Greece’s Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister Evanghelos Venizelos on Thursday said Athens ‘is not asking for political negotiations’ but rather for ‘influential political interlocutors who are able to understand the real data and dynamic of numbers in order to hold talks on the economy’. Venizelos was speaking during a meeting with members of the European […]
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Athens: Construction of Mosque Finally Begins
After thirteen years of delay, the Greek government announced on Thursday, that the construction of the first mosque in Athens will finally begin. According to the The Ministry of Infrastructure, Transport and Networks, a Greek consortium has been chosen. The five previous attempts of the state to find a company that would take on the construction project had failed. The […]
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Anniversary of Polytechnic Uprising: More than 6,000 Police Officers on the Streets
This year’s security measures for the 40th anniversary of the Polytechnic students uprising will be more strict than the previous years. According to officials of the police, this year there will be a large number of policemen in the building of ERT in Agia Paraskevi, and in local organizations of Golden Dawn in various areas of Athens–mostly the […]
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Prisoner Says He Knows the Assassin of Golden Dawn Members
A criminal who is incarcerated for murder, gave the Greek Special Counter-Terrorist Unit a key testimony. He said that he personally knows the assassin of the two young men, who were members of Golden Dawn. He also stated that he has taken part in several terrorist attacks of the organization–ghost ARM and the Sect of […]
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Greek consortium wins tender to build first mosque in capital
Athens has not had a formal mosque since Greece won independence from occupying Ottomans in 1832 and has been criticised by human rights groups such as Amnesty International for being one of the few European capitals without one. But a ...
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LGBTQ fraternities, sororities expanding
Delta Lambda Phi and Gamma Rho Lambda are just two of a number of L.G.B.T.Q. Greek groups.
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Greece Says On Track For Surplus
While Greece is locked in tense negotiations with its international lenders over a looming budget gap of as much as 2.9 billion euros, Deputy Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said he still expects the country will record a primary surplus of about 345 millions euros ($463 million) this year because of revenues brought in by tax increases, even though they are still less than was expected. ...
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Greek Island Folegandros Charms CNN
CNN’s list of seven most beautiful villages in Europe. In fact, CNN compares Folegandros with the famous island of Santorini, saying though, that Folegandros is better. According to the website of CNN, ';Santorini’s streets sag with admirers, but on Folegandros, a nearby island in the Cyclades, you’ll find similar architecture--streets paved in slate, whitewashed buildings ...
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Greece troika talks could drag to December
Athens (AFP) - Negotiations between Athens and its international creditors, to unblock a one-billion-euro ($1.3 billion) instalment of financial aid, could last until Christmas, a finance ministry source told AFP on Wednesday."We estimate that negotiations will drag on, because there are still many issues to settle," the source, that chose to remain anonymous, told AFP."We ...
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Turkish Frigate in Greek Territorial Waters
During the night of Tuesday November 12, the Turkish frigate "Oruc Reis" sailed through Euboea and Skyros. In the middle of the night, the Turkish Generals from Ankara sent a Turkish frigate in order to test the time that the Greek military needs to react. The Turkish frigate sailed from the Hellespont and reached Greek territorial waters passing ...
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Nikolaos Martis Aide to Constantine Karamanlis Passes Away
Nikolaos Martis passed away at the age of 98. He was a former minister of Northern Greece and close aide to Constantine Karamanlis. Martis was born in 1915 in Mousttheni, a village located in Kavala in northern Greece. He had studied law in Thessaloniki and had also worked as lawyer before committing himself to politics. During his career in politics, he served as Minister of Commerce, Minister ...
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Dora Bakogiannis Democratic Left Must Rejoin Government
Democratic Left (DIMAR) must return to the Greek coalition government. She urged the Greek Prime Minister to take initiatives in order to convince DIMAR's leader Fotis Kouvelis towards this direction. "It is a very difficult and crucial period for our country. From the parliamentary discussion that was made within the frame of SYRIZA's censure proposition, we can be sure of two ...
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Fyssas Family Angry with PASOK’s Poster
George Roupakias , a Golden Dawn member. The poster also depicts photographs of Grigoris Lamprakis, Sotiris Petroulas and Nikos Temponeras. It was created for the 40th anniversary celebrations of the Athens Polytechnic uprising which took place in 1973, collapsing the seven-year dictatorship in Greece. Giorgos Marangos, the lawyer of the Fyssas family, said that it was inappropriate to use his ...
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5000 Layoffs of Civil Servants in March
horizontal measures . The case will be extended under negotiations with troika. The Greek side requested to join the layoffs of 2013 to those of the first quarter of 2014. Therefore, 5,000 people will be dismissed by next March. In the case that troika will agree, the suspended civil servants will be the target. However, if troika will not accept the prolongation, 2,000 layoffs will take place. ...
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160 Million Fund for Youth Unemployment in Greece
European Commission, the total amount of 160.24 million Euros will be provided to Greece in order to support the unemployed youth during the years 2014 and 2015. The funds are part the European Youth Employment Initiative. The total budget of this initiative is 3 billion Euros and will be available for subsidized employment programs and apprenticeships in different European regions, where youth ...
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Fernando Santos “Experience” Decisive Factor to Overcome Romania’s Obstacle
2014 Brazil World Cup final stage . The Portuguese coach of the Greek national team expects his most experienced players, like Fanis Gekas, Kostas Katsouranis and Giorgos Karagounis, to perform well and help their younger teammates cope with the pressure and the difficulties of the upcoming first leg match against Romania on Friday and get a positive result. Santos' team failed to qualify ...
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Papastathopoulos aims to realise Greece dream
"Either we qualify and everything's perfect or we get eliminated and everything's a mess," Sokratis Papastathopoulos told UEFA.com ahead of Greece's play-off with ...
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Greece Will Force Universities To Open
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who this year issued civil mobilization orders to force striking Metro and port workers to return to work under threat of being arrested or fired – and prevented a planned teachers strike – has run out of patience with administrative staff whose refusal to work in protest over government plans to suspend or fire 1,300 workers has kept nine ...
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SYRIZA Takes Lead Over New Democracy
There’s good news and bad news for Greece’s major opposition party the Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA.) The bad news was the licking the party took when its motion for a vote of no-confidence in the government of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, failed miserably and was rejected with only 124 out of 300 votes in the Parliament. The good ...
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Greece Recession Slows Further In Q3
Greece's recession eased further in the third quarter, preliminary data released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority showed on Thursday. Gross domestic product shrunk an unadjusted 3 percent year-on-year, after a 3.7 percent contraction in the second quarter, which was revised from 3.8 percent. The pace of contraction slowed for the fourth quarter in a row. ...
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Greece Has the Highest Road Tax in Europe
road tax on the following cars for the year 2014, in Greece are: 120 Euros: Fiat 500 (0.9 TwinAir BlackJack 3dr) 875 cc 135 Euros: Fiat Punto Evo (Hatch 5Dr 1.3 Multijet DPF SS 75) 1.284 cc 240 Euros: Audi A1 (1.4 TFSI S Line S Tronic) 1.390 cc 265 euro: Ford Fiesta (2011) 1.596 cc 300 Euros: Ford Mondeo (2.0 TDCi Titanium X Sport) 1.997 cc 660 euro: Audi A6 (2011) 1.968 cc Comparing the ...
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Increase on Heating Oil Sales
heating oil sales have already shown an incredible increase for this year, the rate ranged from 20 to 80 percent. It seems that the Greek consumers reverted to the "traditional" way of heating after trying alternative types of fuel. The Greeks believe that the return to heating oil is due to the increased subsidy which the Greek State offers, and it will allocate to more households ...
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Greece Unemployment Stays at 27.3
Greece’s record jobless rate was stuck for a second month in August at 27.3 percent – some 60.6 percent for those under 25 – leading the government to say that it’s a ';sign of recovery'; because it hasn’t gone up although the country remains mired in a deep recession for the sixth year with no signs of change. The Greek Statistical agency ELSTAT said on ...
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Dijsselbloem to Greece “Intensify Your Efforts”
Jeroen Dijsselbloem has underlined that Greece must intensify its efforts, as further progress is needed to reach an agreement on how Greece's financial gap will be closed in the 2014 budget. A team of officials from Greece's European partners regularly inspects if Greece on its behalf, keeps its bailout commitments. These inspections help our lenders to decide whether further loan ...
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Santos Drives Greek Soccer Toward World Cup
Greek national soccer team coach Fernando Santos Passionate, fierce and contradictory would be a fair way to sum up the Greece team of Fernando Santos, who are preparing for their most important 180 minutes in recent years: the two games against Romania that will decide if the country qualifies for a second consecutive FIFA World Cup(TM) for the first time in its history. The Greeks, who earned a ...
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Bwin gaming group hit by Greek internet block
ONLINE gambling group Bwin.party said yesterday that blocks by Greek internet service providers would hit earnings this year."In Greece, despite an outstanding infringement notice issued by ...
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‘Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods’ by Rick Riordan gets official release date
Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods by Rick Riordan is a retelling of the Greek myths in Percy’s voice, and now we have an official release date! Previously, we knew that the novel would be released in August, but now we know … Continue reading → The post ‘Percy Jackson’s Greek Gods’ by Rick Riordan gets official release date appeared first on Hypable .
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Greece's Eurobank announces 2 billion euro share issue
Eurobank (EURBr.AT) is one of four major Greek banks bailed out by the European Union and the International Monetary Fund after the country's debt crisis. March 2014 is the deadline to return it to the private sector, either fully or partially.
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Greek market rebounds
AFPGreek market reboundsCapital.gr (press release)Comments regarding the progress of the discussions are rather mixed, with “unnamed” EU sources citing that the 2014 fiscal shortfall estimated by the troika is significantly higher than that forecast by the Greek govt, comments later downplayed by the ...GREECE - Factors to Watch on November 13ReutersTugging at threadsKathimeriniGreece, troika talks could drag to DecemberFRANCE 24Greek Reporter -4-traders (press release)all 28 news articles »
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Greece's Eurobank begins 2 bln euro rights issue
The move comes as Greece faces a March 2014 deadline laid down by its international lenders to sell back the bank to private investors. Eurobank is the only one of Greece's four systemically important banks to fall under the full control of the ...
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EU court issues ruling against Greece for 'inhuman treatment' of refugees
EU court issues ruling against Greece for 'inhuman treatment' of refugeesEurActivThe Court ruled that a refugee from Iran who had arrived in Germany from Greece should not be returned to the Greek authorities because he would "face a real risk of being subjected to inhuman or degrading treatment". The ruling says that Greece has ...and more »
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DIMAR officially rules out coalition return
Former coalition partner Democratic Left (DIMAR) on Thursday denied speculation that it is considering a return to Greece's power-sharing administration.
New Democracy MP Dora Bakoyannis on Wednesday suggested that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras should in... ...
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Greece trusts old guard for win over Romania
Greece will rely on the experience of seasoned campaigners such as Fanis Gekas, Giorgos Karagounis and Costas Katsouranis in its playoff against Romania as they aim for a place in the World Cup finals for only the third time.
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Dynagas LNG Partners unchanged in trading debut
Shares of Dynagas LNG Partners LP, whose ships transport natural gas, ended unchanged in its New York Stock Exchange debut on Wednesday.
Dynagas, which is based in Greece, and its backers raised $225 million in an initial public offering. In the IPO, 12.5... ...
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ADEDY walkout scheduled for Thursday
Greece’s civil servants’ union, ADEDY, has called for its members to walk off the job from 12 p.m. on Thursday to protest against the public sector mobility scheme.
The measure, ADEDY said in a statement, “will speed up the destruction of public services ... ...
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Dijsselbloem: Greece must step up effort to find 2014 budget gap financing
Greece must step up efforts to reach an agreement with international lenders on how to close a 2 billion euro ($2.68 billion) financing gap in its 2014 budget, the head of eurozone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said on Thursday.
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Nobody can deny Greece's progress, Stournaras says ahead of Eurogroup meeting
There should be no question about Greece's efforts to shake up its ailing economy and meet the demands of its lenders, the country's finance minister said ahead of a Eurogroup summit in Brussels on Thursday.
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Greek Recession Shows Signs of Easing
Greek Recession Shows Signs of Easing
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Greece’s bail-out: Little respite
“IT IS the bad-news season,” says an adviser to Antonis Samaras’s struggling coalition government. He means the onset of winter, when cash-strapped Greeks start worrying about the price of heating fuel. A new property tax in next year’s budget, due to be presented to parliament on November 21st, is another headache. Farmers are being asked to pay tax on their landholdings for the first time. Squeezed by five years of austerity, one-third of property owners claim they will be unable to pay up, according to a survey by the Athens chamber of commerce.Mr Samaras’s centre-right New Democracy party and its junior partner, the PanHellenic Socialist Movement (Pasok), narrowly survived a no-confidence vote in the early hours of November 11th. The motion was proposed by Alexis Tsipras, boss of Syriza, a hard-left opposition party, in an attempt to bring a fractious far-left faction of his party on board after he pledged in a speech during a trip to America that, if elected, he would not take Greece out of the euro. The coalition scraped through after a defection by a Pasok lawmaker, the sixth since last year’s general election.The government can expect...
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BREAKSTONE’S Unveils First-Ever Nationally Distributed Greek Style Sour Cream
Known for the finest dairy products made with fresh, wholesome ingredients, BREAKSTONE’S continues to innovate by offering the first-ever national brand of Greek Style Sour Cream. BREAKSTONE’S new Greek Style Sour Cream features the smooth ...
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Political influence of University of Alabama Greek system validated as judge ...
Political influence of University of Alabama Greek system validated as judge ...al.com (blog)27 election, emails from the University of Alabama Greek community surfaced in which students were offered free drinks in exchange for voting. A majority of the emails specifically told sorority and fraternity members to vote for Kirby and Lee Garrison ...Judge dismisses claims that University of Alabama Greek students manipulated ...The RepublicLETTER: Voter lists matter of public recordTuscaloosa News (subscription)all 9 news articles »
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Greek Fest during a Greek Orthodox fast? Blame Alabama football
Greek Fest during a Greek Orthodox fast? Blame Alabama footballal.comMOBILE, Alabama – This year Greek Fest runs into the Nativity Fast in the Greek Orthodox Church, which means that for two out of the three days of the festival, church members who'll prepare and sell the food will be abstaining from much of it. No meat ...St. Demerios' Greek food fest set for Nov. 21-22Lake County News SunTempting treats and more await at Greek Fest 2013 (photos)Press-Register - al.comSt. John's dinner is its annual fundraiserCharleston GazetteRichmond.comall 6 news articles »
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Greece returns to haunt euro ministers
The HinduGreece returns to haunt euro ministersEUobserver.comBRUSSELS - Eurozone finance ministers will meet on Thursday (14 November) with the currency union's four bailout programmes dominating an otherwise quiet agenda. Officials are, once again, becoming frustrated by Greece. The Greek government and its ...Move emboldens 'sovereignty restored' argumentIrish TimesIreland opts to exit bailout without back up credit linewww.worldbulletin.netall 91 news articles »
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Debt Cut Last Chance For Greece
ATHENS - Further haircuts on Greek government debt should only be ?the last resort? in the country?s efforts at an economic turn-around, European Central Bank Executive Board member Yves Mersch said.
Speaking at a conference here in Athens, organized by the Levy Institute of Bard College, Mr. Mersch cautioned that ?Greece today stands at a crossroads.? Hard-earned reforms towards a sustainable economy is one way, ?easy answers? the other, he said.
Greece?s privately-held debt was restructured in May 2012 in the biggest debt restructuring in history. Most of its debt is now held by Eurozone governments and the International Monetary Fund, which have been keeping the country afloat since 2010 through bailouts worth a total of some 240 billion euros.
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BIBLIA: "Three" is the Anti-300
Even with its many influences on Western civilization and American culture, there is precious little the average citizen knows about ancient Greece and its people. We learn a bare bones summation of its social and political structure (or at least we did when I went to school), hold it up as the great progenitor of Western civilization and move on by.
Learn the myths, learn some bullet point descriptions of each city state, boil it all down to a simple black and white picture of a people easily codified and move on to the next chapter.
In popular culture the bits and pieces we all learned about as children imbue so much that they have become not so much historical references as things invented solely for fantasy novels. In truth, and it shouldn?t be too surprising, this one dimensional interpretation couldn?t be the furthest thing from the truth and Kieron Gillen?s newest book takes one small step to rectify this.
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Samaras Will Order Universities To Open
ATHENS - Striking staff at Greek universities, who've stayed off the job for 10 weeks to protest government plans to shed 1,300 jobs at the schools, will reportedly be ordered back to work.
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who this year issued civil mobilization orders to force striking Metro and port workers to return to work under threat of being arrested or fired ? and prevented a planned teachers strike ? will do the same for the striking staff at the Athens University and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
Staff at the two institutions stopped work in protest at the so-called labor mobility scheme, though professors at the NTUA, who had been striking in solidarity with the workers, returned to work this week while those at Athens University had decided to come back next week.
But with the administrative staff saying they would stay out ? while being paid the whole time ? the schools could not have resumed normal operations.
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