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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, December 14, 2013
Remains of Dead Greek Soldier Back Home After 65 Years
Greek ReporterRemains of Dead Greek Soldier Back Home After 65 YearsGreek ReporterIn a modest, yet moving ceremony, a military contingent paid tributes to 23-year-old soldier, Charalambos Korkovis, who was killed in 1948, in the Greek region of Souli. The military contingent delivered the bones of the dead soldier to his family, 65 ...Soldier's remains go home 55 years after he was killed in Greek civil warKathimeriniall 2 news articles »
ECB's Weidmann urges Greece to stick to painful reforms: paper
ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece must stick to painful reforms that are yielding results to make its economy competitive and help it exit its economic crisis, the head of the German central bank told Sunday's Kathimerini newspaper.
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Five Greeks face charges for copyright infringement
An effort to clamp down on copyright infringement has led to the owner of a website in Volos, central Greece, being arrested and four other people from Larissa being charged, police said over the weekend.
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Thessaloniki man facing charges over illegal antiquities hoard
Police seized 68 Roman and Byzantine coins after raiding the home of a 45-year-old man in Thessaloniki on Saturday.
They also found 14 bronze Byzantine rings, a metal detector and other equipment.
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Soldier’s remains go home 55 years after he was killed in Greek civil war
The remains of a 23-year-old conscript who was killed in 1948, during Greece’s civil war, were returned on Saturday to his family in the village of Kerasochori in Evritania, central Greece, the Athens-Macedonian news agency reported.
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Euro leftists pick Tsipras as Commission president candidate
SYRIZA is just “a step away from power,” Alexis Tsipras told an audience of European leftists in Madrid on Saturday.
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Intel report of plans to raid ex-IMF official’s residence
Greek authorities have intelligence reports that show anti-establishment groups had been preparing an attack on the International Monetary Fund’s permanent representative in Athens Bob Traa, Kathimerini understands.
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Greek, German prosecutors join forces in bribery probe
Greek and German prosecutors have joined forces to investigate bribery charges connected to the purchase of submarine equipment during the tenure of former Defense Minister Yiannos Papantoniou, a Socialist who succeeded the now-convicted Akis Tsochatzopou... ...
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Agreement with troika on future of EAS is close
Talks between the troika and the Greek government continued over the weekend, with the two sides believed to be very close to an agreement on the future of Hellenic Defense Systems (EAS), the last “prior action” needed to secure the next bailout sub-tranc... ...
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Greek neo-Nazi party protests Athens mosque construction
Some 700 members and supporters of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn protested Saturday against the construction of Athens' first official mosque, the state-run Athens News Agency reported. Shouting "Greece belongs to the Greeks" and "No mosque in Athens ...
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Turkey calls on Greek Cypriots to contribute to talks
Davutoglu spoke during a visit to the breakaway Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC) as part of a recently intensified push to resume the talks. "We hope that the Greek Cypriot side will make positive contributions to the active efforts of the United ...
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Greek royals Constantine II and Anne-Marie leave London and return to Greece
hellomagazine.comGreek royals Constantine II and Anne-Marie leave London and return to Greecehellomagazine.com... to HELLO!'s sister publication HOLA!, the couple have been living in an apartment that coincidently belongs to Sofia Papandreou, whose father Andreas passed the legislation that stripped Constantine of his property in Greece and his Greek citizenship.
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Erdogan’s Thrace Claims Irk Greece
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s provocative statements asserting his country’s role in Thrace have sparked a rebuttal from Greece, which advised him to keep his nose out of Greek business. Just before his Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu came to Athens to talk about further co-operation between the countries, Erdogan was in the city of […]
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Golden Dawn Rated Greek Bishops
ATHENS – Among evidence Greek authorities said they’ve uncovered during a probe of the extremist Golden Dawn party on charges of operating a criminal gang is video footage showing leader Nikos Michaloliakos discussing with friends which Greek Orthodox Bishops helped party rally public support and votes, evaluating who was friendly or unfriendly to the party. […]
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Greece Testfires Russian Missiles
ATHENS - NATO member Greece says it has successfully tested a Russian made S300 surface-to-air missile system during a military exercise on the island of Crete, for the first time since the system was acquired 14 years ago. Greece bought the missiles in the late 1990s to defuse a crisis between Turkey and war-divided Cyprus, […]
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Simple truths on Greece
KathimeriniSimple truths on GreeceKathimeriniBy Nikos Xydakis. Commenting about Greece to the Financial Times newspaper earlier this week, Carsten Schneider, budgetary policy spokesman for Germany's Social Democrats, said, “It is evident that there will be a new support program with conditions.”.German Social Democrats Propose New Memorandum for GreeceGreek Reporterall 2 news articles »
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Here Are The Countries Where Tons Of People Are Getting Plastic Surgery [MAP]
There were 14.6 million cosmetic plastic surgery procedures performed in the U.S. alone in 2012, up 5% from the previous year, according to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
But America doesn't top the list of countries with the most aesthetic/cosmetic procedures. Italy, Greece, and, South Korea had the most aesthetic/cosmetic procedures per 1,000 people in 2011, according to a map from International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS) and Goldman Sachs.
The U.S., Colombia and Brazil are also right up there.
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Getting Into The Greek Holiday Spirit!
Getting Into The Greek Holiday Spirit!WWNY TV 7The baklava, sweet bread, spinach pie and other Greek favorites are expected to draw up to 800 people. The church folks have baked extra this year to make sure they don't run out. "That's why we had to increase our quantities because it's increasing each.and more »
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Golden Dawn rallies supporters against plans for building a mosque in Athens
Several hundred supporters of the extreme right Golden Dawn party have attended a rally to protest against construction of a mosque in the Greek capital.
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Newcastle United monitoring the progress of Greek star Konstantinos Mitroglou
Newcastle United monitoring the progress of Greek star Konstantinos MitroglouChronicleLiveHe has notched 22 goals for club and country this season, including four hat-tricks, and his form has helped inspire the Greek outfit into the knockout stages of the Champions League. The Greek giants are not too concerned about Mitroglou's future at ...and more »
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German Social Democrats Propose New Memorandum for Greece
Even before the appointment of the new coalition government, the German Social Democrats are making their intentions for Greece clear. Carsten Schneider, the parliamentary spokesman of SPD, spoke to the Financial Times and clarified: “It is evident that there will be a new support program with conditions.” He justified the Social Democrats decision to continue […]
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Tsipras Presses Rehn on Debt Relief
It wasn’t a receptive audience, but Greece’s major opposition party Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) leader Alexis Tsipras, meeting in Strasbourg, France with European Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Olli Rehn, told him that Greece can’t afford to pay back its bailout loans of $325 billion to international lenders. Rehn and Tsipras are ideological […]
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Greek and Turkish Ministers’ Meeting on Minority Issues and Cyprus
The Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu met in Athens on Friday to discuss about the upcoming launch of a new round of peace talks on Cyprus and on controversial bilateral issues including Turkey’s insistence on the existence of a Turkish minority in Thrace. During a joint press conference, Venizelos […]
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Greek Former PM George Papandreou Favors Marijuana’s Legalization
In an article entitled “An innovative approach to the use of marijuana,” which was uploaded on Mr. George Papandreou’s personal website, the former Prime Minister of Greece congratulates Uruguay’s government on how it handled the issue of marijuana’s legalization. In fact, the former Prime Minister refers to it as an “innovative approach” which releases abusers […]
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Greece Among European Countries with Poorest Living Conditions
According to data released by the Hellenic Statistics Service (ELSTAT), Greece “won” 6th place among 30 European countries in a survey concerning material deprivation and poverty. As ELSTAT reported, 76.3% of the poor population and 30.8% of the non-poor population claim that they not only face difficulties in dealing with emergencies, but necessary expenditure. It […]
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Greece school celebrates art project
Greece school celebrates art projectRochester Democrat and ChronicleThe impetus for the murals and the collaborative effort that created them is a “Family Friendly Schools” initiative in the Greece school district. The murals are intended to be on permanent display and help make the cafeteria a more welcoming ...and more »
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Greece hotel had many names — and saw many eras
Greece hotel had many names — and saw many erasRochester Democrat and ChronicleAt first, it was simply called the North Greece Hotel. Soon after, it changed names to the Moerlbach Hotel, named for a new local brewery that was one of the main suppliers to the hotel. By the time the 1920s came around, it went through its third name ...
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Annual Greek pastry sale continues today
Annual Greek pastry sale continues todayWatertownDailyTimes.comMr. Kalamaras, who is known as the baklava king at the sale, said he oversees the making of the classic Greek pastry with layers of filo dough and a walnut mixture, covered with honey syrup. Other offerings include: kourambiethes, an almond holiday ...Getting Into The Greek Holiday Spirit!WWNY TV 7all 3 news articles »
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Turkish and Greek Foreign Ministers meet for talks on Cyprus
KathimeriniTurkish and Greek Foreign Ministers meet for talks on CypruseuronewsHopes were high negotiations would resume over the future of the island last month but they stuttered over the wording of a joint statement due to be made by the leaders of the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities. “Turkey and Greece have supported ...Greek, Turkish ministers discuss Cyprus, minority issuesKathimeriniGreek and Turkish Ministers' Meeting on Minority Issues and CyprusGreek ReporterGreek, Turkish FMs meet to discuss Cyprus, minority issueUPI.comJournal of Turkish Weekly -London South Eastall 25 news articles »
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It takes more than law-making to shift cultural contempt towards gay people
Gay marriage is sanctioned from next year and legal protections are mostly in place, but it may take another generation for minds to slowly change
Sometimes we forget that not all relations, not all behaviour in the past, were controlled and restrained by law, or needed to be. When vulnerable behaviour is protected by law, the role of personal decency starts to seem disposable. You've got the laws you asked for – why do you want people to be nice as well? Or, even worse – we're being nice to you because the law tells us to be. That's good enough, isn't it?
This may be the issue with the acceptability, or otherwise, of gay people in society. The legal protections are all pretty much in place, and the principle of equality enshrined. When same-sex marriages start taking place next March, we can work wherever we choose; hoteliers may not turn us away; we must be treated equally by the providers of goods and services. We must not be abused in the street on the grounds of our sexuality. You must be nice to us. It's the law.
The grounds are set for a small but emphatic backlash. It's easy to point to international examples, where individual jurisdictions have decided they want nothing to do with the general spread of liberalising legislation, and are going to make a stand. India's supreme court overturned a 2009 ruling decriminalising homosexuality, arguing that it was not an equality issue. An Australian court disallowed gay marriages, which had already taken place in the Australian Capital Territory. A referendum on gay marriage in Croatia produced a firm rejection. A ruling by the European court of human rights about gay marriage was rejected by Greece. Russia is enshrining prejudice and creating opportunities for physical violence against gay people through its laws. And so on.
It is easy to say that things are much easier in the UK, and the legal protections are now firmly in place. But the difference between anti-discrimination laws and a change in culture can make things less clear. A generation ago, people bemoaned the alteration in the meaning of the word "gay". Now, very similar people are discovering the virtues of semantic change and are firmly defending a shift in the sense of the word to mean "rubbish", in the face of a school playground campaign by Stonewall. When the diver Tom Daley came out, he hardly had a word to use of himself, as hundreds of other young gay people must be finding.
And the reaction to Daley's coming out showed an interesting cultural problem, not to be legislated against. There was a largely positive response; and there was also a banal online flurry of old-fashioned abuse. More interesting, however, was a widespread response that ran "Who cares? Why is this even news? Why are we hearing about this?"
For a standard response to shift from "We really don't want to hear about your disgusting private life" to "I'm too cool to want to hear about you being gay" is not much of an advance. At the last Olympics, 12,000 athletes included exactly three gay men who were out. Of course, Daley coming out was important news, for him and for the primitive culture of professional sport. To say "Why is this on the news?" is to demand silence from a minority.
Every gay person has examples of cultural contempt that no legal recourse can touch. Most people are reluctant to bring them up for fear of sounding petty. When I worked at the University of Exeter, every colleague who embarked on any step in the great journey of heterosexuality had it promptly marked with a general email from the administration about babies, engagements, weddings and so on. After my civil partnership, I had to ask a junior colleague to send a note round, and forever afterwards one administrator used to say "Your partner – oh, you like to call him 'your husband', don't you?" with a poisonous smile, as if it were a harmless eccentricity of my own that she might as well indulge.
Even to mention it seems petty; no legal sanction will touch, or ought to touch it. There's no law on earth to compel work colleagues to invite their gay team member out for a drink on Friday night, or to congratulate them on their marriage without making quotation marks in the air. Probably a generation or more will pass before such dismissive stereotypes stop being used in the most unlikely circumstances – once, I was discussing the marking of an MA thesis with a colleague at Exeter when another sailed past saying: "I can't think what you two queens are bitching about."
It's all on the way out: we are less likely to be beaten up than we would have been a generation ago, or if we were living in Russia. We probably have to resign ourselves to a generation of disadvantage – and the occasional, curious resurfacing of what never went away – while minds slowly change.
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The Average Turkish Tourist in Greece
The average age of the Turkish tourist coming to Greece is 25-45 years old ... They bring bags with them, which are filled with Greek soil, to take back to Turkey with them,” Nermin comments. The remaining 30% visit Greece for shopping ...
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Cathie Anderson: Diners mourn closure of Greek Village Inn
Cathie Anderson: Diners mourn closure of Greek Village InnSacramento BeeThis material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Restaurateur Leo LaGesse reluctantly closed his Greek Village Inn at 65 University Ave. in November as a weak dollar and slower traffic made the cost of imported foods prohibitive.and more »
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S-300s tested in Greece
S-300s tested in GreeceCyprus MailTHE object of the 1997-8 'Cyprus Missile Crisis' – the S-300 missiles purchased from Russia by Cyprus but redirected to Crete following a barrage of threats, counter-reactions and finally an agreement shrouded in mystery – were successfully tested on ...NATO member Greece tests Russian S300 air-defence missilesMontreal GazetteGreece Tests Russian-Made S-300 Missile System for First TimeRIA Novostiall 10 news articles »
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ICS conference in Athens predicts shipping market rebound in 2014
The ninth conference of the Greek branch of the Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers (ICS) this week concluded that the shipping market is expecting a rebound from next year.
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Greece's EOPYY doctors to continue strike action
Doctors working for EOPYY, the country’s main healthcare provider, said on Friday they would continue their strike, now entering its fourth week, until Monday at least.
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Davutoglu agrees to put exclusive economic zones on agenda of exploratory talks
A meeting between Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu yielded a significant breakthrough on Friday as Ankara agreed to Athens’s longstanding request that issues relating to exclusive economic zones be inc... ...
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Greek prosecutor calls 25 to trial over 270-mln-euro embezzlement
Appeals Court deputy prosecutor Stelios Kostarelos recommended to a council of judges on Friday that 25 people should stand trial in connection to allegations of money laundering, embezzlement and breach of faith on the part of two private electricity pro... ...
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Draft law seeks to improve rights of non-Greek speaking suspects
A draft law submitted to Parliament on Friday by the Justice Ministry aims to improve the rights of suspects by making it obligatory for them to be provided with interpreters and translations of documents during the judicial process.
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Retailers’ demand for one more Sunday adds to confusion
Just as retail commerce in Greece had started getting to grips with the new law on Sunday opening – that will allow retail stores to open on December 15 and 22 – a number of retailers, including the association of professionals at the Varvakeios meat mark... ...
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Ball in gov’t court after Onex makes EAB offer
After state-owned companies Hellenic Defense Systems (EAS) and the Hellenic Vehicle Industry (ELVO), the next in line to be restructured or shut down altogether is likely to be the Hellenic Aerospace Industry (EAB), as the representatives of Greece’s cred... ...
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Rifts develop in PASOK and DIMAR over response to political newcomer
Greece’s two center-left parties, PASOK and Democratic Left (DIMAR), found themselves in turmoil Friday over disagreements about how their leaders should respond to the efforts of the country’s social democrats to revitalize their fortunes.
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Amnesty Says Greece Abused Syrians
Syrian refugees fleeing their country’s Civil War and hoping to find safe ground in Greece instead of sometimes being beaten, robbed or pushed back on boats to Turkey, Amnesty International has charged. The human rights group said Greece – along with Bulgaria – showed “deplorable treatment” of the refugees, holding them in detention in poor […]
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Arsonists Hit Simitis’ Summer Home
An arson fire at the summer home of former PASOK Socialist leader and Prime Minister Costas Simitis is being investigated by Greece’s anti-terrorism unit to see if there any links to groups which target politicians, journalists, bankers and business executives. Authorities said they found the remains of an incendiary device at the vacation home in […]
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Greece Will Curtail Dreaded “Haratsi”
ATHENS – After outrage over the cutting of electricity for poor households, Greece will stop the practice of putting an unpopular property tax surcharge – known as an “Haratsi,” in anger over a Turkish term for taxes during the Ottoman Occupation – into utility bills, the government said. But the amount owed, which along with […]
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A Call to Live up to American Values in the Eastern Mediterranean
WASHINGTON, DC – The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) has released nine essays authored by participants of the Fifth Annual American Hellenic Institute Foundation College Student Foreign Policy Trip to Greece and Cyprus. The students’ insightful essays describe their personal experiences from the trip to Greece and Cyprus held June 19 to July 6. During the […]
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Electra Ready to Whip NY with White Stuff
The Greek weather gods are angry this autumn. First and Dion and Cleon and now Winter Storm Electra have made their presence felt. The National Weather Service expects New York City to get 3 to 5 inches of snow on Saturday. The latest storm begins hammering the Midwest on Friday night and will spread across the Northeast during this […]
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Navagio Bay: a Gem in the Ionian Sea
Crystal clear waters, a breathtaking natural environment, and an exciting nightlife are what make Zakynthos one of Greece’s most popular island getaways. Also known as Zante, Zakynthos is home to a number of beautiful coves and caves, which serve as a habitat of the Greek sea turtle Carreta. On the west coast of Zakynthos, tucked […]
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Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church glorifies God, reaches out to community
BILOXI -- Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church began in 1967 as a mission chapel established on the Mississippi Gulf Coast by the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of New Orleans. The congregation previously had met at Keesler Air Force Base. With the help of Coast leaders in the orthodoxy and a bid from the Air Force to build a new chapel, the original building set as a mission was given to the ...
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Turkish FM meets with his Greek counterpart in Greece
Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkish and Greek Cypriots had the will of contributing to the peace process, adding "As long as Turkey and Greece approach to the Cyprus issue with a common perspective, I am sure that peace will easily come to the ...
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Greek Former Deputy Manager of Armament Arrested
Greek ReporterGreek Former Deputy Manager of Armament ArrestedGreek Reporterkantas Antonis Kantas, former deputy general manager of armament, during 1996-2002 (with Minister of Defense Akis Tsochatzopoulos and then Yannos Papantoniou), was arrested for the second time. He is now accused of money laundering. Kantas will ...
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