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How the world sees Greece
Wednesday, December 4, 2013
Caspian gas export pipeline receives Greek approval
Christian Science MonitorCaspian gas export pipeline receives Greek approvalOffshore Oil and Gas MagazineATHENS, Greece – The Greek Parliament has ratified the Host Government Agreement (HGA) it signed earlier this year with the Trans Adriatic Pipeline consortium. The HGA sets out the framework by which the project, taking gas from the Shah Deniz II ...Greece OKs major natural gas pipeline to EuropeChristian Science Monitorall 2 news articles »
Greek shipowner DryShips questions Rongsheng's ability to deliver
KathimeriniGreek shipowner DryShips questions Rongsheng's ability to deliverKathimeriniGreek shipowner DryShips Inc has already questioned whether some of the ships on order at China Rongsheng will be delivered, which could hit its revenue and profitability next year. DryShips has four dry-bulk carriers on order at the company's ...and more »
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Greece triple homicide defendants guilty on all charges
Greece triple homicide defendants guilty on all chargesRochester Democrat and ChronicleThe three defendants in the Greece triple homicide trial were found guilty on all counts Wednesday in federal court in Rochester. The defendants, Richard Emanuel Anderson, Aston Johnson and Andrew Wright, are all Jamaicans who were in the U.S ...and more »
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Brussels give Greece encouragement ahead of troika's return
KathimeriniBrussels give Greece encouragement ahead of troika's returnKathimeriniEuropean Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso on Wednesday hailed Greece's reform efforts and insisted on the need for the country's EU peers to show solidarity, and not just discipline, as Greek government officials seek to reach an agreement with ...Greece's doctors to get dose of austerity medicineCNBC.comGreek strikes build as austerity talks stalledMerced Sun-Starall 33 news articles »
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“Asteras” Investment Under Investigation
An investigation was ordered by the Prosecutor, Eleni Raikou, after accusations of fraud and embezzlement was made public by the regional councilor, Nikos Galanos, in association with the call for investments by the privatization fund TAIPED in the luxurious hotel “Asteras” — situated in Vouliagmeni, Athens. Nikos Galanos, during a meeting with the Prosecutor of […]
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Greek Doctors Extend Strike to December 13
Doctors at EOPYY, Greece’s largest healthcare provider on Wednesday decided to continue with a strike in protest at the government’s civil service overhaul adding that the EOPYY doctors voted to continue industrial action until December 13. Reacting to the unionists’ decision, Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said that “the government would not be blackmailed by […]
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Samaras Says Growth Greek Key
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has promised his government now will turn to trying to help the most vulnerable who have been the most affected by harsh austerity measures and not just protect the banks, but said growth is the only way for Greece to get out of a crushing economic crisis. He told an […]
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Employees of Tax Department Accused for Tax Evasion
The Internal Audit Service of the Finance Ministry, after an investigation of the income declarations of 93 employees of the tax department, revealed several cases of tax evasion. Many officials of the tax department had “forgotten” to declare expensive cars and houses, while others were hiding large amounts of money by transferring them abroad. According […]
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Ships Remain Docked Due to Extreme Weather
According to meteorologists, the extreme weather phenomena that started yesterday will continue for a couple more days. The strong winds have caused many problems throughout Greece, like fallen trees and branches that were blocking the roads and causing traffic jams. The weather has also affected the maritime transportation. Today is the second day that the ships […]
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Barroso welcomes upcoming Greek EU presidency
He assured Samaras and the Greek government of full support over the next six months for the presidency. "I was glad to hear Greece's priorities are largely in step with our own," Barroso sai, adding it was a crucial time for Europe with key ...
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Croatia's vote forbidding gay marriage: a sign of the rotten heart of Europe
Anti-minority moves in Croatia are symptomatic of a Europe-wide slide back to the worst nightmares of the 20th century
Imagine the following dystopian scenario. After a football game at one of the biggest stadiums in Germany, one of the players takes the microphone and shouts "Heil Hitler!". More than 30,000 people answer in one voice "Heil!". Just a few days later, 65% of Germans vote against gay people at a national referendum. At the same time, signatures are already being collected to organise another referendum – this time to ban the Yiddish language. What would you call this? Democracy?
Until now, Croatia has had only three referendums. The first was held in 1991 to declare independence from Yugoslavia, the second in 2012 on the EU accession, and the last this weekend, when 65% of Croatians voted to change the definition of marriage in the constitution to apply exclusively to "a living union of a woman and a man". Just a few days before the referendum, during Croatia's World Cup qualification celebration, footballer Joe Šimunić took a microphone on to the field and shouted to fans: "For the homeland!". The 30,000 fans responded: "Ready!" It might sound like nothing special, but he used the phrase "Za dom spremni!", an old war call used by Ustashas, the Croatian collaborators of the Nazi regime who sent tens of thousands of Serbs, Jews and others to concentration camps.
Meanwhile, a citizen's initiative – with the enthusiastic support of the Catholic church and rightwing parties – have started collecting signatures to hold a referendum on ethnic minority rights. In 1941 the Croatian pro-Nazi regime brought in a law which prohibited the Cyrillic alphabet, used by the Serbs, in the territory of the Independent State of Croatia (NDH). In September this year, plates in Cyrillic script were put at official buildings in Vukovar by the government, a city that was besieged and destroyed by Serbs during the war in 1991. But the plates were torn down by angry protesters. At the same time, the Croatian government is pursuing a law in which bilingualism is to be made compulsory in places where ethnic minorities (Italian, Serbian, etc) make up more than 30% of the population. But now, a genius came up with the idea that the threshold should be 50%, in other words, that a minority can have rights only if it's a majority!
Those behind these referendums allege that the model of the Croatian family is under threat – on the one hand, if gay people get the right to enter into marriage, and on the other, if Serbs get the right to use their own alphabet in Croatia. Yet it is the current crisis of capitalism that is truly destroying social safety nets – the gradual disappearance of a public health service and cuts to pensions are hurting the family more than gay people or Serbs. For instance, the unemployment rate among young people in Croatia is 52%, which brings us just behind Greece and Spain. And instead of organising a referendum on these problems or giving these young people jobs, Croatia spent €6.2m to define something that is already defined in family law: marriage as a legally regulated community of a woman and a man.
But it would be wrong to conclude that Croatia is now once again closer to the Balkans and conservative countries such as Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. What about the tens of thousands of protesters who marched in Paris in March 2013 opposing France's new same-sex marriage law? What about the atmosphere toward minorities in Denmark or Sweden, not to mention Italy or Greece?
What the Croatian constitutional referendum on gay rights, and the proposed one on ethnic minority rights, shows isn't only the misuse of democracy and a conservative backlash – it is actually a symptom of the rotten heart of Europe, a continent that is more and more resembling not only the dystopian scenario described above, but realising the worst nightmares of the 20th century. Not only the French Roma expulsion, the Golden Dawn in Greece, or Hungary's far-right turn, but also the rise of antisemitism in Sweden or Islamophobia in Denmark, prove that, as the Croatian poet Marko Pogačar might be right when saying "the only thing more horrible than fascism is moderate fascism".
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Greek Strikes Build as Austerity Talks Stalled
Greek strikes hit health care, universities as austerity talks on hold
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Greeks Most At Risk Of Poverty In European Union
International Business TimesGreeks Most At Risk Of Poverty In European UnionInternational Business TimesThe 2014 Greek government budget saw social welfare cut by 6.8 percent from 2012 to 2013, with a pending 3 billion euro cut, or an 18 percent reduction, set to take effect this year, MacroPolis said. Greece is the EU country with the most residents at ...
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Bishop threatens to excommunicate Greek MPs who vote for gay unions
The GuardianBishop threatens to excommunicate Greek MPs who vote for gay unionsThe GuardianA leading Greek bishop has warned lawmakers that they risk incurring the wrath of God – and will be excommunicated – if they vote in favour of legalising same-sex partnerships. In a letter lambasting homosexuality as "an insult to God and man", the ...
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Greek Chefs Invade Congress
Greek Chefs Invade CongressRoll CallAs part of a push to promote the Hellenic diet, the foyer of the Rayburn House Office Building will be transformed into a “Mediterranean festival of feasting” Wednesday evening, featuring exotic foodstuffs prepared by headline-grabbing Greek chefs.
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Greece OKs major natural gas pipeline to Europe
Christian Science MonitorGreece OKs major natural gas pipeline to EuropeChristian Science MonitorTAP will pick up from there, carrying the gas through Greece, Albania and under the Adriatic, then terminating in Italy. An estimated 16 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas will be piped from the Shah Deniz, one of the largest gas fields in the ...Caspian gas export pipeline receives Greek approvalOffshore Oil and Gas Magazineall 2 news articles »
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Greek bid to return to bond markets an uphill battle
The appeal is obvious – but it’s a big ask. A return to the markets, even partial, would reassure European public creditors and the IMF, who own 84 per cent of Greece’s €320-billion ($464-billion) debt. It would also be a confidence boost for the ...
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Barroso and Samaras setting the agenda of the Greek Presidency
After “an open, friendly and constructive meeting” with Antonis Samaras, Greek Prime Minister and many of the members of the Greek government, Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission praised Greece for its so far “impressive ...
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Greek strikes hit health care, universities
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- State health care doctors in Greece have extended a strike through Dec. 13, while the country's largest university remains closed after negotiations with the government over job cuts failed. Doctors employed by the country ...
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EU, Greek Leaders Predict Deal to Release Aid Payouts by Jan. 1
European Union and Greek leaders predicted an accord to unlock aid payments to Greece would be reached by the time the country takes over the EU’s rotating presidency on Jan. 1.
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Home grabs a high-risk mission for fragile Greek government
FRANCE 24Home grabs a high-risk mission for fragile Greek governmentFRANCE 24The protective measure is set to lapse in January, and has become a major sticking point in negotiations between the so-called troika of creditors and the government in return for loans under from the Greek bailout agreement. According to Kathimerini ...and more »
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Samaras in Brussels: Greek EU presidency one of opportunity, not crisis
KathimeriniSamaras in Brussels: Greek EU presidency one of opportunity, not crisisKathimeriniBased on an agenda whose key priorities include job creation, monetary union, the fight on illegal immigration and Europe's maritime policy, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said on Wednesday that the upcoming Greek European Union presidency ...Samaras Says Growth Greek KeyGreek ReporterBarroso and Samaras discuss Greek EU presidencyFXstreet.comSamaras: Growth means investments, exports and competitivenessCapital.gr (press release)all 5 news articles »
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Stamos’ Capitol Burgers L.A.’s Best
LOS ANGELES – There’s this weirdly unfounded reputation that just about everyone in Los Angeles is vegan and therefore sunbaked Angelenos only feast on the likes of kale and quinoa. Such a stereotype is antithetical to the City of Angels’ unhealthy obsession with the hamburger, an ongoing between-two-buns preoccupation that’s birthed hundreds of Southern California […]
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Greece Dead Last For Charity
Greece, the country that created the name “philanthropy” now finds itself in the embarrassing position of being at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to charity, even during a crushing economic crisis. With virtually no government safety nets, the country’s most vulnerable are being left on their own, buried under pay cuts, tax […]
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Stix Takes Manhattan w/ Food on a Stick
By Penelope Karageorge Stix Mediterranean Grill, the brilliant, high-concept restaurant and brainchild of Stathis Antonakopoulos, celebrated its one-year anniversary on December 1. For New Yorkers, it has become an important part of our dining and partying repertoire. If you haven’t been to the East 23rd Street restaurant yet (and I urge a visit) you have […]
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Two Pieces of Good News
In these difficult times we are all looking for some good news, something to break the depressing monotonous stream of unpleasant information. And now we have found two – somewhat – pleasant items: the first is that the latest poll shows that the vast majority of Greeks, an incredible 69 percent, still want the country […]
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Mother Says: Priest Ruined My Son’s Wedding
Translated from the Original Greek BOSTON, MA – Christine Stavropoulos, a graduate of Hellenic College, sent a strong complaint to the Archdiocese of America in New York and the Metropolis of Boston alleging that Rev. Anthony Evangelatos of the Annunciation parish of Brockton, MA ruined her son’s wedding with his unholy and unbecoming behavior. In […]
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Finance Chief Says Cyprus Danger Over
With its banks still maintaining capital controls, unemployment worsening, and the government relying on international loans to keep the economy intact, Cypriot Finance Minister Harris Georgiades nonetheless said the situation is improving, only eight months after it first asked for a rescue package. Georgiades told CNBC: “We have exited the danger zone, we are stabilizing […]
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Greece Set for Another Record Breaking Year in Tourism
In an interview with the German Press Agency (DPA), the Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni stated that new and ... changing the image of Greece abroad. Mrs Kefalogianni said “2013 was a record year for the tourism sector. In 2014, the number ...
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Pope prays for 12 Orthodox nuns reportedly abducted in Syria by rebels, urges peace
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Pope prays for Syrian nuns
by ALBERT AJI and NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press - 4 December 2013 09:39-05:00
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Pope Francis called Wednesday for prayers for 12 Orthodox nuns reportedly taken by force from their convent in Syria by rebels. Religious officials in the region have said the women were abducted, but a Syrian opposition activist said they were merely taken away for their own safety.
Francis didn't call for their release but appealed for prayers from the crowd at the end of his general audience in St. Peter's Square.
"I invite everyone to pray for the sisters of the Greek Orthodox monastery of Santa Takla in Maaloula, Syria, who were taken by force by armed men two days ago," he said. "Let us continue to pray and to work together for peace."
His call came amid ongoing battles in several parts of the country. Rebels firing mortars at government-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo killed at least 17 people and wounded dozens more, said Rami Abdurrahman of the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The reported seizure of the nuns increases fears that hardline Sunni Muslim rebels trying to overthrow President Bashar Assad are targeting Christians.
Both church leaders and pro-rebel activists say that the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front took the nuns of the Greek Orthodox Mar Takla convent in the ancient Christian village of Maaloula as part of a broader battle to control the rugged Qalamoun area north of Damascus. The area controls the smuggling routes from nearby Lebanon that sustain rebel-held enclaves, as well as a highway leading from Damascus to the central city of Homs.
The rebels took the nuns to nearby rebel-held town of Yabroud, said Mother Superior Febronia Nabhan, head of the nearby Saidnaya Convent. There was no suggestion that the rebels had entered Maloula specifically to seize the nuns. The Qalamoun area has a significant Christian minority.
Syria's three-year-old conflict began with mostly peaceful demonstrations against Assad's rule but collapsed into a chaotic uprising after security forces violently cracked down on protesters.
Hard-line Sunni Muslim brigades have become increasingly dominant within the rebellion and the conflict has grown ever more sectarian.
Syria's minorities, including Christians, have mostly sided with Assad or remained neutral, fearing for their fate if the rebels come to power. Christians have accused radicals among the rebels of abusing residents and vandalizing churches after taking Christian towns. But some members of Syrian minority groups are still fervent activists in the now-overshadowed peaceful uprising to oust Assad.
Al-Qaida-linked rebels previously kidnapped two bishops and a priest.
A Syrian opposition activist claimed the nuns were taken for their own safety because of heavy clashes nearby. However, rebels would not provide evidence of the nuns' safety, said the activist, who goes by the name Amer.
He said the rebels placed the nuns with a Christian family in Yabroud.
"They are being taken care of," Amer said. His information came from friends close to the rebels holding the nuns.
However, a nun in a nearby convent insisted the women were being held against their will.
Stephanie Haddad, deputy of the Greek Orthodox Saidnaya Convent, told The Associated Press that she spoke to the nuns on Tuesday night.
She said rebels guarding them in Yabroud kept promising they would be released soon, "but nothing in certain."
Syria's Greek Orthodox Patriarch, John Yazigi, pleaded for the release of the women on Tuesday.
Maloula was once a tourist attraction before the conflict began. Some of its residents still speak a version of Aramaic, a language spoken by Jesus.
In another move that underscore the fears of beleaguered minorities, al-Qaida-linked rebels who rule the northeast town of Raqqa converted a church into a center for proselytizing their extreme interpretation of Islam, and another into an administrative office, said the Observatory's Abdurrahman.
Rebels of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant had previously set fires in the two churches and knocked the crosses off them, replacing them with the group's black Islamic banner.
Abdurrahman sent photographs of the Church of Armenian Martyrs, with a black ISIL flag flying from where the cross once stood.
Below, a black banner read, "The proselytizing office, region of Raqqa."
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Winfield reported from the Vatican. Diaa Hadid in Beirut and Daniela Petroff at the Vatican contributed to this report.
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Greek Myths on Lying and Morals
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Last vestige of Bowdoin Greek system torn down
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Greece's doctors to get dose of austerity medicine
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Trinity Taverna offers Greek comfort food in old Boardwalk Pub
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FGCU's Kelli Harris breathes new life into tales from Greek mythology
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SA slips down corruption index
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Greek Yogurt Egg Salad
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Greece, BlackBerry
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Greek State losing 7,5 Billion from Motorways
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Kedikoglou: Foreclosures Won’t Affect the Poor
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Greek High-Tech Exports Worth Over 1 Billion Euros Per Year
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Parents Honor International Day of People with Disability
On Tuesday morning, the parents and guardians of people with disabilities gathered at Korai Square in central Athens, in order to protest for cuts on the wages of people with special needs in Greece. It was fitting that they chose Tuesday to do this, since the 3rd of December is the International Day of People […]
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Greek Minister of Education Meeting with No Results
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Greek Educational System in Crisis
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How will it end? Portugal seeks bailout closure after 3 years of austerity
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Spain still struggling with corruption while Greece improves
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