How the world sees Greece
The head of the Eurogroup, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said on Thursday that eurozone finance ministers are behind the idea of providing Greece with the financial support that would allow it to exit its bailout at the end of the year without requiring further fu... ...
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Both Azeri firm Socar and the Greek government appeared calm and collected on Thursday following the European Commission’s announcement on Wednesday that it would subject the transfer of a 66 percent in Greece’s DESFA to the Azeri company to an in-depth e... ...
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A historically black sorority, the multicultural Greek chapter faced sanctions for hazing and disorderly conduct in September, according to the ...
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Strong support within the Eurogroup for Greece to take a precautionary loan when it exits its bailout, meaning that the programme of reforms and surveillance would continue into next year.
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By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers backed on Thursday a precautionary credit line for Greece after the country exits its bailout at the end of the year, in a bid to balance the need to reassure investors with the demands of domestic Greek politics. The Greek government has staked its survival on regaining economic policy-making sovereignty after the end of the ...
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone finance ministers have expressed strong support for the option of granting Greece a precautionary credit line as ...
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Paris (AFP) - In-form Harry Kane helped Tottenham to victory in the Europa League on Thursday as Celtic and Inter Milan had to settle for draws.
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Kountis and his wife were both born and raised in Chania on Crete, Greece's largest island. She came to the United States with her parents and ...
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The economic crisis has had a negative impact on live music venues in Greece as fewer people go out for entertainment, a National Center for Social Studies (EKKE) survey showed. According to EKKE, attendance in live cultural events and activities of any kind has dropped significantly and entertainment habits have changed. According to Greek newspaper “Kathimerini,” live music in big clubs (bouzoukia) has dropped by 45.7% between 2008-09 and 2011-12. Live stages with rebetiko songs showed a decrease of 51.5% for the same period, small live stages by 20.8%, jazz and ethnic music clubs by 21.5%, rock/dance music venues by 9.2%, while classical music and opera halls dropped by 12.4%. The survey results were presented in a conference at the University of Athens. The research was funded by the General Secretariat of Research and Technology as part of a bigger project that studies consumption patterns during the time of economic crisis. Head of research at EKKE Dimitris Emanuel said that the biggest changes in consumption patterns regarding cultural events are shown in people who are small business owners or do menial work. At the same time, people of the upper socio-economic class prefer more high brow entertainment like opera and their consumption habits have only changed slightly. Emanuel also said that entertainment consumption patterns have changed drastically compared to those of the prosperity era Greeks enjoyed, twenty years before the economic crisis.
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National Bank of Greece on Thursday announced healthy profits for the first three quarters of the year, enhancing its capital position and cash flows in the context of what is proving to be a general rebound in the local credit sector, as the recent Europ... ...
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France’s world-leading industrial minerals company Imerys signed the absorption of Greece’s S&B Industrial Minerals in one of the biggest international deals in the history of Greek enterprises on Thursday. Imerys said in a bourse filing from Paris that t... ...
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The anti-austerity demonstration by some 100,000 people in Brussels on Thursday was further proof of a truth we discovered at the start of the Greek crisis: It is very difficult to manage a society’s decline. Throughout Europe, a wave of rage and despair ... ...
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Greek President Karolos Papoulias on Thursday made his most outspoken comment yet on speculation about whether the current parliament will be able to elect his successor, suggesting that he believes it is in the country’s interest for early elections to b... ...
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My grandmother was 100 years old when she passed away two years ago and, given the ups and downs of Chinese history, one doesn't need a great deal of imagination to realize she must have gone through a lot in her lifetime. She originally lived a simple life in a small village in Manchuria, in the far northeast of the country. Typically for her generation, her feet were bound and, although she kept a drawn record of her life, she was illiterate and couldn't read or write a word. Yet despite this, she had a vision for her two daughters -- one of whom was my mother -- to go to university. Although our lives are very different, my grandmother was and remains my role model, and I carry in me a quote from her, as true for my generation as it was for hers: "As women, we depend on ourselves." This wasn't something she picked up from a book. She got it from her own experience and through witnessing the lives of the generation of women before hers. That inner strength and strong will from her has been a constant source of inspiration and vitality for me, at any time. In the World Economic Forum Global Gender Gap Report 2014http://reports.weforum.org/global-gender-gap-report-2014/, China was ranked 87th overall out of the 142 countries surveyed. Though ahead, interestingly, of such countries as Italy, Greece, Chile and Japan, there is clearly still some way to go. Here in China, we know that very clearly. Though Chinese women have improved their position in some indices, such as political empowerment as a result of contemporary politics, they are still losing out in categories such as health, educational attainment and wage equality. While arguing for more efforts from government to do more on gender equity, I believe it is the example of role models among the current generation of Chinese women that is key to raising awareness, motivating society, closing the gender gap and ensuring that women play their full part in the development of China's future. That's why I'm delighted to see that the World Economic Forum over the years has been inviting leading Chinese women from all walks of life to its Annual Meeting of the New Champions. This year, I am delighted to see that Dong Mingzhu, President of Gree Electric Appliances, will be speaking at the meeting in Tianjin, not necessarily just on women's issues, but also on how technological and business innovation is driving the Chinese economy. Being the head of a company with annual sales revenues over $16 billion speaks volumes about the potential of Chinese women. There are many other inspiring Chinese women business leaders in this country. I hope they will all have their chance to showcase their examples to China and the rest of the world. Stereotypes are hard to change. As a television personality, it not rare that when I host programmes with other women in the studio, colleagues ask in a friendly way which women's topics we will discuss. I find it an interesting phenomenon but also thought provoking. Why? Well, if there had been three men in the studio, no one would have assumed the programme was about men. People just take it for granted that men can talk about any topic. But when it comes to women, things are different. Breaking stereotypes starts with women ourselves, encouraging one another, and jumping out of the old frameworks. I think role models work miracles in terms of encouraging people and making social change possible, in China and elsewhere. One individual's story can change a person and even a whole generation. Unfortunately, there is a hesitation among potential women's role models in China to step up and tell their own stories. This hesitation is inherited and has been with our culture for a long time. Even though Chinese women have shown themselves to be strong throughout thousands of years of history, they have always tended to remain in the background. There are, however, increasingly inspirational exceptions. I was honored earlier this year to host an evening gala in Beijing for Chinese First Lady Peng Liyuan, wife of President Xi Jinping, and Michelle Obama, the US First Lady. Their meeting has been highly regarded as efforts of First Lady diplomacy and has won attention worldwide. Both of these inspirational women are working for the interests of their countries and the world, and they are both much more than simply leaders' wives. Professor Peng Liyuan is one of the best known artists in China, an extremely beloved singer, who has won the love of her audience for decades and already was earning academic recognition when her husband was still only a local official. I think it is extremely inspirational for women that our First Lady is not only a successful professional in her own right, but that she also managed to make the transition to playing an important role in public service, as the First Lady and as the World Health Organization's goodwill ambassador for Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS. And, we have the example of Cheng Hong, the wife of the Chinese Premier, Li Keqiang. She is a professor of literature and when she and her husband visit other countries, he gives copies of his wife's books as gifts to foreign leaders. It is a very sweet gesture which speaks about the pride he has in his wife and touches the hearts of many women here. It is also recognition of the desire for gender equity here in China. Today, gender equity is very much an idea that a lot of people in China would love to embrace, but it takes a long time, much longer than a few decades, to establish the idea deeply in people's hearts and minds that men and women are equal. To an extent, I suppose, China is still wrestling with the long feudal tradition of how women were portrayed and framed. Counterintuitively, increasing Western influence doesn't always help. We embrace films and TV series such as Sex and The City, which is very enjoyable. Unfortunately, some of its Chinese imitations lack wit, intelligence, and above all, the message of strength that is essential to be inspirational - except how to marry a wonderful man, which is important, but certainly not all what life is about for women in China. There is also the phenomenon in China of "the left-over women", a term coined by women's magazines, which I feel really ought to be sources of encouragement and strength for women. It is used to describe women as young as 28 who have not yet married, and are labelled as "left over". How sad is that? You can see the belittling of women, the social concept that a woman's main preoccupation should be marrying the right man, right there in that one phrase, which tells us about a society lacking wider awareness of gender equity. I am, however, confident that, with the advocacy of successful and independent women, China will be able to build on the work that has already been done and close its gender gap. It has to. Any society that fails to harness the energy and creativity of its women is at a huge disadvantage in the modern world. Full stop!
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Tottenham continued their march towards the Europa League knock-out stages with victory in Greece, yet their shocking second-half display against ...
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Tottenham are just one win away from qualifying for the knockout rounds of the Europa League after a nervous 2-1 win over Asteras Tripolis in Greece.
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Students have taken to the streets of Athens to protest against a government education reform bill. Amid ongoing spending cuts to meet austerity ...
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“Ever since we won Best Greek Pizza two years in a row, people come in looking for the Greek specialty pie with this combination of toppings.
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New York yogurt makers should apply to be included in a third round of testing Greek yogurt in school lunches, according to Sen. Charles E. Schumer.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture is now accepting proposals from Greek yogurt makers to provide yogurt to schools in up to 12 states as part of the ...
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Next. Opa! St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church hosts the 51st annual Greek Festival this weekend. What started as a bake sale in 1963 has grown to ...
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According to the Greek Reporter, this will be the first general strike in the country after a period of seven months and it is expected to coincide with a ...
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The Stonehill Theatre Company's Fall 2014 mainstage production is a modern adaptation of the classical Greek tragedy, Antigone, written in 1943 by ...
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Greek President Karolos Papoulias on Thursday made his most outspoken comment yet on speculation about whether the current parliament will be able to elect his successor, suggesting that he believes it is in the country’s interest for early elections to b... ...
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Greece's coalition leaders are likely to have to take a decision in the next few days on how the country will reach the target of dismissing another 5,500 employees from the public sector by the end of the year. Sources told Kathimerini that Administrativ... ...
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That’s how John Derrick, Director of Research here at U.S. Global Investors, summed up his trip to Greece, the beleaguered country that hopes to put its financial woes behind it and rise again like the phoenix from the Mediterranean culture’s ancient ...
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National Bank of Greece (ADR) (NYSE:NBG) lower following Fitch Ratings commentary on 15 October “Greek banks remain burdened by large ...
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by Associated Press BC-SOC--Europa League Glance Associated Press - 6 November 2014 14:01-05:00 BC-SOC--Europa League Glance Europa League At A Glance By The Associated Press GROUP STAGE GROUP A GP W D L GF GA Pts Villarreal 3 2 1 0 9 2 7 Monchengladbach 3 1 2 0 7 2 5 Apollon Limassol 3 1 0 2 3 11 3 FC Zurich 3 0 1 2 4 8 1 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) 3, FC Zurich (Switzerland) 2 in Nicosia Monchengladbach (Germany) 1, Villarreal (Spain) 1 Thursday, Oct. 2 FC Zurich (Switzerland) 1, Monchengladbach (Germany) 1 Villarreal (Spain) 4, Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) 0 Thursday, Oct. 23 Monchengladbach (Germany) 5, Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) 0 Villarreal (Spain) 4, FC Zurich (Switzerland) 1 Thursday, Nov. 6 Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) vs. Monchengladbach (Germany) in Nicosia, 1800 GMT FC Zurich (Switzerland) vs. Villarreal (Spain), 1800 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 FC Zurich (Switzerland) vs. Apollon Limassol (Cyprus), 2005 GMT Villarreal (Spain) vs. Monchengladbach (Germany), 2005 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Apollon Limassol (Cyprus) vs. Villarreal (Spain), 1800 GMT Monchengladbach (Germany) vs. FC Zurich (Switzerland), 1800 GMT ___ GROUP B GP W D L GF GA Pts Torino 3 2 1 0 3 0 7 Club Brugge 3 1 2 0 4 1 5 FC Copenhagen 3 1 1 1 3 2 4 HJK Helsinki 3 0 0 3 0 7 0 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Club Brugge (Belgium) 0, Torino (Italy) 0 FC Copenhagen (Denmark) 2, HJK Helsinki (Finland) 0 Thursday, Oct. 2 HJK Helsinki (Finland) 0, Club Brugge (Belgium) 3 Torino (Italy) 1, FC Copenhagen (Denmark) 0 Thursday, Oct. 23 Club Brugge (Belgium) 1, FC Copenhagen (Denmark) 1 Torino (Italy) 2, HJK Helsinki (Finland) 0 Thursday, Nov. 6 FC Copenhagen (Denmark) vs. Club Brugge (Belgium), 1800 GMT HJK Helsinki (Finland) vs. Torino (Italy), 1800 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 HJK Helsinki (Finland) vs. FC Copenhagen (Denmark), 2005 GMT Torino (Italy) vs. Club Brugge (Belgium), 2005 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Club Brugge (Belgium) vs. HJK Helsinki (Finland), 1800 GMT FC Copenhagen (Denmark) vs. Torino (Italy), 1800 GMT ___ GROUP C GP W D L GF GA Pts Besiktas 3 1 2 0 6 2 5 Tottenham 3 1 2 0 6 2 5 Asteras Tripoli 3 1 1 1 4 6 4 Partizan 3 0 1 2 0 6 1 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Besiktas (Turkey) 1, Asteras Tripoli (Greece) 1 Partizan (Serbia) 0, Tottenham (England) 0 Thursday, Oct. 2 Asteras Tripoli (Greece) 2, Partizan (Serbia) 0 Tottenham (England) 1, Besiktas (Turkey) 1 Thursday, Oct. 23 Partizan (Serbia) 0, Besiktas (Turkey) 4 Tottenham (England) 5, Asteras Tripoli (Greece) 1 Thursday, Nov. 6 Asteras Tripoli (Greece) vs. Tottenham (England), 1800 GMT Besiktas (Turkey) vs. Partizan (Serbia), 1800 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Asteras Tripoli (Greece) vs. Besiktas (Turkey), 2005 GMT Tottenham (England) vs. Partizan (Serbia), 2005 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Besiktas (Turkey) vs. Tottenham (England), 1800 GMT Partizan (Serbia) vs. Asteras Tripoli (Greece), 1800 GMT ___ GROUP D GP W D L GF GA Pts Celtic 3 2 1 0 5 3 7 Red Bull Salzburg 3 2 1 0 8 5 7 Dinamo Zagreb 3 1 0 2 7 6 3 Astra Ploiesti 3 0 0 3 3 9 0 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 5, Astra Ploiesti (Romania) 1 Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) 2, Celtic (Scotland) 2 Thursday, Oct. 2 Astra Ploiesti (Romania) 1, Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) 2 Celtic (Scotland) 1, Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 0 Thursday, Oct. 23 Celtic (Scotland) 2, Astra Ploiesti (Romania) 1 Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) 4, Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) 2 Thursday, Nov. 6 Astra Ploiesti (Romania) vs. Celtic (Scotland), 1800 GMT Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) vs. Red Bull Salzburg (Austria), 1800 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Astra Ploiesti (Romania) vs. Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia), 2005 GMT Celtic (Scotland) vs. Red Bull Salzburg (Austria), 2005 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Dinamo Zagreb (Croatia) vs. Celtic (Scotland), 1800 GMT Red Bull Salzburg (Austria) vs. Astra Ploiesti (Romania), 1800 GMT ___ GROUP E GP W D L GF GA Pts Dinamo Moscow 4 4 0 0 6 2 12 PSV Eindhoven 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 Estoril Praia 4 1 0 3 3 4 3 Panathinaikos 3 0 1 2 2 5 1 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 1, Estoril Praia (Portugal) 0 Panathinaikos (Greece) 1, Dinamo Moscow (Russia) 2 Thursday, Oct. 2 Dinamo Moscow (Russia) 1, PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 0 Estoril Praia (Portugal) 2, Panathinaikos (Greece) 0 Thursday, Oct. 23 Estoril Praia (Portugal) 1, Dinamo Moscow (Russia) 2 PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) 1, Panathinaikos (Greece) 1 Thursday, Nov. 6 Dinamo Moscow (Russia) 1, Estoril Praia (Portugal) 0 Panathinaikos (Greece) vs. PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), 1800 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Dinamo Moscow (Russia) vs. Panathinaikos (Greece), 1700 GMT Estoril Praia (Portugal) vs. PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands), 2005 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 PSV Eindhoven (Netherlands) vs. Dinamo Moscow (Russia), 1800 GMT Panathinaikos (Greece) vs. Estoril Praia (Portugal), 1800 GMT ___ GROUP F GP W D L GF GA Pts Inter Milan 3 2 1 0 3 0 7 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 4 1 1 2 2 3 4 FK Qarabag 4 1 1 2 2 4 4 Saint-Etienne 3 0 3 0 0 0 3 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan) 0, Saint-Etienne (France) 0 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) 0, Inter Milan (Italy) 1 in Kiev Thursday, Oct. 2 Inter Milan (Italy) 2, FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan) 0 Saint-Etienne (France) 0, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) 0 Thursday, Oct. 23 Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) 0, FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan) 1 Inter Milan (Italy) 0, Saint-Etienne (France) 0 Thursday, Nov. 6 FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan) 1, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) 2 Saint-Etienne (France) vs. Inter Milan (Italy), 1800 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Inter Milan (Italy) vs. Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine), 2005 GMT Saint-Etienne (France) vs. FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan), 2005 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 FK Qarabag (Azerbaijan) vs. Inter Milan (Italy), 1700 GMT Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (Ukraine) vs. Saint-Etienne (France), 1800 GMT ___ GROUP G GP W D L GF GA Pts Sevilla 3 1 2 0 4 2 5 Standard Liege 3 1 1 1 3 2 4 Rijeka 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 Feyenoord 3 1 0 2 3 6 3 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Sevilla (Spain) 2, Feyenoord (Netherlands) 0 Standard Liege (Belgium) 2, Rijeka (Croatia) 0 Thursday, Oct. 2 Feyenoord (Netherlands) 2, Standard Liege (Belgium) 1 Rijeka (Croatia) 2, Sevilla (Spain) 2 Thursday, Oct. 23 Rijeka (Croatia) 3, Feyenoord (Netherlands) 1 Standard Liege (Belgium) 0, Sevilla (Spain) 0 Thursday, Nov. 6 Feyenoord (Netherlands) vs. Rijeka (Croatia), 2005 GMT Sevilla (Spain) vs. Standard Liege (Belgium), 2005 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Feyenoord (Netherlands) vs. Sevilla (Spain), 1800 GMT Rijeka (Croatia) vs. Standard Liege (Belgium), 1800 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Sevilla (Spain) vs. Rijeka (Croatia), 2005 GMT Standard Liege (Belgium) vs. Feyenoord (Netherlands), 2005 GMT ___ GROUP H GP W D L GF GA Pts Everton 3 1 2 0 5 2 5 VfL Wolfsburg 3 1 1 1 6 7 4 Lille 3 0 3 0 2 2 3 FC Krasnodar 3 0 2 1 4 6 2 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Everton (England) 4, VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 1 Lille (France) 1, FC Krasnodar (Russia) 1 Thursday, Oct. 2 FC Krasnodar (Russia) 1, Everton (England) 1 VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 1, Lille (France) 1 Thursday, Oct. 23 FC Krasnodar (Russia) 2, VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) 4 Lille (France) 0, Everton (England) 0 Thursday, Nov. 6 Everton (England) vs. Lille (France), 2005 GMT VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) vs. FC Krasnodar (Russia), 2005 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 FC Krasnodar (Russia) vs. Lille (France), 1700 GMT VfL Wolfsburg (Germany) vs. Everton (England), 1800 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Everton (England) vs. FC Krasnodar (Russia), 2005 GMT Lille (France) vs. VfL Wolfsburg (Germany), 2005 GMT ___ GROUP I GP W D L GF GA Pts Sparta Prague 3 2 0 1 7 4 6 Young Boys 3 2 0 1 8 3 6 Napoli 3 2 0 1 5 3 6 SK Slovan Bratislava 3 0 0 3 0 10 0 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Napoli (Italy) 3, Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) 1 Young Boys (Switzerland) 5, SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) 0 Thursday, Oct. 2 SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) 0, Napoli (Italy) 2 Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) 3, Young Boys (Switzerland) 1 Thursday, Oct. 23 SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) 0, Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) 3 Young Boys (Switzerland) 2, Napoli (Italy) 0 Thursday, Nov. 6 Napoli (Italy) vs. Young Boys (Switzerland), 2005 GMT Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) vs. SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia), 2005 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia) vs. Young Boys (Switzerland), 1800 GMT Sparta Prague (Czech Republic) vs. Napoli (Italy), 1800 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Napoli (Italy) vs. SK Slovan Bratislava (Slovakia), 2005 GMT Young Boys (Switzerland) vs. Sparta Prague (Czech Republic), 2005 GMT ___ GROUP J GP W D L GF GA Pts Ste Bucharest 3 2 0 1 9 4 6 Dynamo Kiev 3 2 0 1 6 4 6 AaB Aalborg 3 2 0 1 4 6 6 Rio Ave 3 0 0 3 1 6 0 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Rio Ave (Portugal) 0, Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 3 Ste Bucharest (Romania) 6, AaB Aalborg (Denmark) 0 Thursday, Oct. 2 AaB Aalborg (Denmark) 1, Rio Ave (Portugal) 0 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 3, Ste Bucharest (Romania) 1 Thursday, Oct. 23 AaB Aalborg (Denmark) 3, Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) 0 Ste Bucharest (Romania) 2, Rio Ave (Portugal) 1 Thursday, Nov. 6 Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) vs. AaB Aalborg (Denmark), 2005 GMT Rio Ave (Portugal) vs. Ste Bucharest (Romania), 2005 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 AaB Aalborg (Denmark) vs. Ste Bucharest (Romania), 1800 GMT Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine) vs. Rio Ave (Portugal), 1800 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Rio Ave (Portugal) vs. AaB Aalborg (Denmark), 2005 GMT Ste Bucharest (Romania) vs. Dynamo Kiev (Ukraine), 2005 GMT ___ GROUP K GP W D L GF GA Pts Fiorentina 3 3 0 0 7 0 9 Guingamp 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 PAOK 3 1 0 2 6 4 3 Dinamo Minsk 3 0 1 2 1 9 1 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Fiorentina (Italy) 3, Guingamp (France) 0 PAOK (Greece) 6, Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) 1 Thursday, Oct. 2 Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) 0, Fiorentina (Italy) 3 in Borisov Guingamp (France) 2, PAOK (Greece) 0 Thursday, Oct. 23 Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) 0, Guingamp (France) 0 in Borisov PAOK (Greece) 0, Fiorentina (Italy) 1 Thursday, Nov. 6 Fiorentina (Italy) vs. PAOK (Greece), 2005 GMT Guingamp (France) vs. Dinamo Minsk (Belarus), 2005 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Dinamo Minsk (Belarus) vs. PAOK (Greece), 1800 GMT Guingamp (France) vs. Fiorentina (Italy), 1800 GMT Thursday, Dec. 11 Fiorentina (Italy) vs. Dinamo Minsk (Belarus), 2005 GMT PAOK (Greece) vs. Guingamp (France), 2005 GMT ___ GROUP L GP W D L GF GA Pts Legia Warsaw 3 3 0 0 3 0 9 Trabzonspor 3 2 0 1 4 2 6 Lokeren 3 1 0 2 1 3 3 FC Metalist Kharkiv 3 0 0 3 1 4 0 GROUP STAGE Thursday, Sept. 18 Legia Warsaw (Poland) 1, Lokeren (Belgium) 0 FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine) 1, Trabzonspor (Turkey) 2 in Lviv Thursday, Oct. 2 Lokeren (Belgium) 1, FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine) 0 Trabzonspor (Turkey) 0, Legia Warsaw (Poland) 1 Wednesday, Oct. 22 FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine) 0, Legia Warsaw (Poland) 1 in Kiev Thursday, Oct. 23 Trabzonspor (Turkey) 2, Lokeren (Belgium) 0 Thursday, Nov. 6 Legia Warsaw (Poland) vs. FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine), 2005 GMT Lokeren (Belgium) vs. Trabzonspor (Turkey), 2005 GMT Thursday, Nov. 27 Lokeren (Belgium) vs. Legia Warsaw (Poland), 1800 GMT Trabzonspor (Turkey) vs. FC Metalist Kharkiv (Ukraine), 1800 GMT Thursday, 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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece midfielder Sotiris Ninis returned to his first club Panathinaikos on Thursday after agreeing a two-and-a-half year contract. He left in 2012 to join Serie A ou...
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The Athens stock market posted gains on Thursday, in line with most of its international peers and stretching its rising streak to five sessions on slightly improved turnover. The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index ended at 962.31 points, adding 0.48 p... ...
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The second pan-educational demonstration within a period of four days took place in downtown Athens, Greece, earlier today, starting at 12:00 pm from the city’s University Propylaea, with the participation of more than 1,500 secondary school students and teachers. The demonstration was the students’ response to government plans regarding the “new school” bill, which, amongst others, includes drastic changes to the exams process, the merging of schools, the exam topics pool, and teachers’ and textbooks’ shortages. The mobilizations started on Monday, when hundreds of secondary schools across the country were occupied by its students in protest sit-ins, who also demonstrated against the controversial education reforms in a nationwide scale. The Education Ministry estimated earlier this week that some 500 schools were under occupation. According to official data, the number has dropped on Tuesday to about 350, while students raised the number to Monday’s level. Today’s demonstration ended in front of the Greek Parliament, where protesters sent a clear message that they do not intent to back up or give in to Education Minister Andreas Loverdos’ threats, who recently announced measures against the occupations. Earlier this week, Supreme Court prosecutor Efterpi Koutzamani asked prosecutors across the country to act in order to ensure that public schools are not damaged during students’ sit-ins, although Loverdos later denied he requested the judicial initiative. Amongst others, the Education Minister underlined that the school hours will not be lost and that pupils will have to go to school some Saturdays to replenish lost days. If need be, Christmas holidays will be shortened and students may also miss the traditional spring-time five-day excursion. At the same time, Loverdos requested the Greek Police Electronic Crime Unit to investigate who was behind the “Panhellenic Occupation, No to the new System” Facebook page, through which the sit-ins were organized. The page was inactive yesterday but was restored today. The Secondary pupils demonstration was followed by another, with the participation of University students and personnel at 3:00 pm.
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Chelsea’s Agora Gallery in New York City will feature the original work of Greek artist Varvara Liakounakou in the exhibition “Reconstructing Reality.” The exhibition opens on November 29 and continues until December 19. The opening reception will ...
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Critics deplore Leni Riefenstahl footage of Hitler games in promotional video as ministry stresses mistake should not detract from Greek tourism successThe Greek government has been forced to withdraw a tourism video unveiled in London this week because it contained footage of the infamous 1936 Olympics held in Berlin under Hitler.The offending clip, which depicted the torch lighting ceremony at the controversial pre-war games, would be removed immediately officials said, after being alerted to the gaffe by the Guardian. By last night the video had been taken down from YouTube. Continue reading...
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Deputy Labor Minister Vassilis Kegeroglou on Thursday unveiled a European Union-funded program aimed at providing food and material support to some 165,000 poor Greek families. The program, which has a budget of 330 million euros, is to run from 2015 thro... ...
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The Greek Ombudsman reminded the government on Thursday that it has been a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Greece to extend civil unions to gay couples without any action from Athens. The rights watchdog said that the governme... ...
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Greek-Canadian artist Katerina Mertikas has donated a painting to be reproduced in order to raise money for Marcus Cirillo’s trust fund. Marcus is the son of Nathan Cirillo who was slain while standing sentry at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Ottawa.
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Reuters, citing European officials, claimed that the Greek debt may not need a fresh haircut since it is viable. According to the news agency, “the euro zone is reconsidering whether Greece needs the additional debt relief it has been hoping for ...
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The number of officially recognized hot springs in Greece is growing, following a positive stance of the Natural Thermal Resources Protection Committee. As is was stressed in a Greek Tourism Ministry statement, five new hot springs have been recognized in Greece, while the notices have already been published in the Government Gazette. The new hot springs are located in Souroti, Kyllini, Thermae Sylla, Phryni Skourtanioti and Gialtra. Twenty more hot springs in various parts of the country remain under inspection.
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ATHENS, Nov 6 (Reuters) - National Bank of Greece (NBG) reported a third-quarter profit on Thursday, helped by strong results at its Turkish business, ...
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The Greece Chamber of Commerce's 2014 Small Business of the Year Luncheon will begin at noon today at the Rochester Marriott Airport Hotel on ...
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An official visit to Ankara and a meeting with his Turkish counterpart, Mevlut Cavusoglu, has been scheduled in three weeks for Greek Foreign Minister Evangelos Venizelos, as revealed earlier today by Cavusoglu, only a day after the verbal confrontation ...
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The European Commission has just started an in-depth investigation in order to assess whether the proposed acquisition of Greek public gas transmission system operator DESFA by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) is in accordance with the European Union’s Merger Regulations. DESFA owns and operates Greece’s sole high-pressure gas transmission and mainly transports gas through its network, while SOCAR’s activities include the production of natural gas and the upstream wholesale sale of gas in Greece in the context of the Southern Gas Corridor. The Commission’s investigation is based on the fact that the transaction agreement may reduce competition on the upstream wholesale supply market of natural gas in Greece, as it could allow the merged company to hinder SOCAR’s competitors in accessing the Greek gas network. The investigation’s aim is to ensure that the sale of DESFA, which was part of the Greek government’s privatization program, does not result in the harm of competitiveness or higher gas prices in the country, and will last for up to 90 working days, until March 23, 2015. According to the Commission, the merged entity could resist its competitors’ access to the Greek gas transmission network by strategically limiting investments in possible future expansions of the import capacity, including an expansion of the LNG Pipeline terminal (owned by DESFA) and an interconnection between TAP Pipeline and DESFA’s network. Finally, the merged entity could restrict inflows of gas into Greece by managing the gas transmission network in a discriminatory way, favoring SOCAR’s supplies over its competitors. The Commission will also investigate if SOCAR has the ability to shut out its competitors from access to Greece’s network, in order to increase its own profit, as this could reduce the number of suppliers and the amount of natural gas in Greece and increase the prices for clients.
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Greece international midfielder Sotiris Ninis has signed a two-and-a-half year contract with Panathinaikos, the Greek Super League club announced on Thursday. No financial terms of the deal were announced by the Athens team. Ninis, 24, began his career wi... ...
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World leading French industrial minerals group Imerys SA has bought Greek bentonite producer S&B for a maximum purchase price of 558 million euros, it was revealed today. Imerys said the deal represented a “strategic combination for the integration of the main activities of S&B.” The deal between S&B and Imerys was sealed in Paris following six months of negotiations. Imerys, a French multinational company operating in the production and processing of industrial minerals, announced yesterday the integration of the main activities of the Greek industrial minerals company, which belongs to Kyriakopoulos family. Following the agreement, the Greek company is expected to control 4.5% of the French company while S&B president Odysseas Kyriakopoulos is expected to become a member of Imerys’ board of directors. S&B utilizes the multiple properties of industrial minerals to offer a portfolio of customized solutions across a broad range of industry applications. The company is active in Greece for 80 years and recently grown into an international group of more than 40 companies with sales in 76 countries across the globe.
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While the Greek islands are normally associated with happy sun-and-sea holidays, mountains of trash are also a common eyesore that authorities have failed to deal with in an effective manner. It was this failure that recently prompted the University of th... ...
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ATHENS Nov 6 (Reuters) - Greece's largest lender National Bank (NBG) on Thursday reported a profit in the third quarter, helped by strong results at ...
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Greece's Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis speaks during an interview with Reuters in Athens November 5, 2014. Greece will quit its bailout ...
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Greek people do not grant it this right." Syriza, which polls show leads Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's conservatives by a margin of 4-11 points, ...
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The parish of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of Carmel (home of the annual Greek Fest) is hosting a fun evening of wine tasting and smooth jazz ...
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Members of the region's Jewish and Greek communities silently gathered at Carnegie Mellon University's McConomy Auditorium last week to ...
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