How the world sees Greece
Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras warned on Monday of the risk of «irreparable damage to the Greek economy» from ongoing political uncertainty and the resulting reduction of liquidity in the market. Speaking at an event in Athens, Stournaras said ... ...
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Chuck Mitrano, a graduate of Greece Olympia High and St. John Fisher College, is the new president of the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse ...
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It hit them hard in Greece; the economic downturn. You had probably seen it in the news. Student protests. Occupations. A revolution of sorts. Well, it's been a while since then, and you may be curious to know what the fallout is. I know I certainly was ...
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A row has broken out between the national weightlifting federations of Greece and Albania following claims over the weekend that the former Greek Olympian and current national squad coach, Leonidas Sabanis, played a role in the doping of three Albanian at... ...
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Stefan Balafoutis, a Greek-Australian lawyer who was one of the hostages at Martin Place’s Lindt cafe in Sydney, Australia, managed to escape before police entered the building to bring the siege to an end. Balafoutis was among the first five hostages ...
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Athens • The European Union’s top finance official is visiting Athens ahead of a parliamentary vote that could topple Greece’s pro-bailout government this month. EU Finance Commissioner Pierre Moscovici met conservative Prime Minister Antonis Samaras ...
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It came as a shock to most, and certainly to markets, when Greek PM Antonis Samaras announced that presidential elections would take place on December 17th rather than in March 2015. Athens benchmark stock index fell 12.8 percent on Tuesday after the ...
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All members of Greek organizations will be required to take a one-hour online course. ... among Greek leaders, school officials and other students.
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San Diego State University fraternity and sorority members will be required to take an hourlong online course in response to recent sexual assaults on ...
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Reported at noon today, National Bank of Greece S.A. (NBG) of the Financial sector is trading with a volume of 2,442,368 shares and has lost -0.28% ...
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A potential return of the threat of a Greek eurozone exit would be “a pity,” European Economic Affairs Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said Monday during a visit to Athens, the first since he was appointed to his new post last month. After talks with Prime ... ...
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Following last week’s gun attack against the Israeli Embassy in Athens, the Greek Police’s counter-terrorism unit is on alert for another assault, possibly against a human target, in the countdown to critical presidential elections, sources have told Kath... ...
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Athens University, Greece’s biggest educational institution, may run out of funds to operate next year, its rector, Theodoros Fortsakis, told a press conference on Monday. Speaking from the institution’s central Athens headquarters, where protesting admin... ...
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A documentary about the family of well-known Greek musician Nikos Xylouris and his brother Antonis Xylouris, mostly known as Psarantonis, is set to premiere in Athens on January 8, 2015. The documentary, entitled “A Family Affair,” is directed by ...
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Greek's economy faces "irreparable" damage from the ongoing political crisis, the boss of its central bank has warned. "The crisis in recent days is now taking serious dimensions...and the risk of irreparable damage for the Greek economy is now great ...
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“It would be a pity for Greece to face Grexit again after the considerable work that has been done.” This phrase sums up the message sent to Greece by the European Union Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Pierre Moscovici, while exiting the 45-minute-long meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis at the government headquarters in Athens. While stressing that there are still reforms that have not been complete, he recognized that significant progress has been made and the Greek people have made many sacrifices. Moscovici underlined that he came to Athens in order to discuss with the country’s authorities over the “next day” of the Greek bailout program, the closure of the evaluation and the preventive credit line “that would protect Greece” in the first post-Memorandum year, 2015. In addition, he revealed that he is in constant contact with Hardouvelis in order to shape the next day after the Memorandum, which will find the country adopting the precautionary credit line (ECCL). The European Commissioner refused to answer reporters’ questions regarding the upcoming critical Presidential election, saying that he does not want to intervene in internal politics. “This is not my field,” he characteristically said. Referring to the Greek economy, he said that “it is obvious that important progress has been made in recent years and months,” while saying that no one in the European Commission can question this progress. However, he noted that there is a need of structural reforms, not only in Greece but also in other Eurozone countries, acknowledging that Greece and the Greek people have made a great effort, “the greatest ever,” as he highlighted. “But if we look at the growth and unemployment figures, it was necessary to make these reforms so that the Greek economy would become more robust,” he continued, clarifying that “there must be more reforms by the current program, which has been extended for two months (in order to achieve) a different kind of relationship between the European Union and Greece through the credit support line.” Regarding the Greek government’s relationship with the European Union and its relation with its partners, he said that there is an effort to take it to a different level. “The citizens should be aware of these. Be aware of the precautionary credit line and, why not, of a support line with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). We are working to get something clean after the current program and I am here as a friend but also stable in my principles.” In another question on the danger of a Grexit, Moscovici said: “It would be a pity, as the Greek government and the authorities have done so much work, have put so much effort and so many painful things, and especially now that we are closing the evaluation and the program, and we move into a different kind of relationship, with more harmony.”
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Greek 10-year yields fell from near the highest since September 2013 after Finance Minister Gikas Hardouvelis said a deal with creditors was possible in January if Parliament elects a president this month. The rate tumbled 34 basis points to 8.81 percent.... ...
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ATHENS, Dec 15 (Reuters) - Greece's economy faces the risk of "irreparable" damage as the political crisis of recent days takes on increasingly ...
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In the lead-up to the first round of Greece's snap election on Wednesday, investors are revisiting concerns that the euro zone's most fragile economies ...
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Greek's economy faces "irreparable" damage from the ongoing political crisis, the boss of its central bank has warned.
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National Bank of Greece S.A. (NBG) of the Financial sector (Money Center Banks) has lost -1.60% per share early this morning. National Bank of ...
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Newly elected European Commissioner for Financial and Monetary Affairs Pierre Moscovici will arrive in Athens for meetings with Greek Prime ...
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ATHENS--The political turmoil gripping Greece is already beginning to affect the local market and could have lasting damage on the country's nascent ...
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Greek organizations also will provide training for bystanders who witness a sexual assault, a leadership forum for sororities and discussions among ...
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There remains acute unease surrounding a possible Greek general election next year among policy makers and investors, but given that an outright ...
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“I want to die doing my duty, or on the way to a prison,” said Father Gervasios, who is also known as the “Saint of Prisoners.” The Greek priest has received an honorary distinction by the Daily Newspapers Journalists’ Union in Macedonia and Thrace. According to Greek media, Farther Gervasios received the honorary distinction during an event in Thessaloniki on Monday evening, December 15, for his work in helping thousands of prisoners in need. During the last 37 years, the priest has met with many Greek and foreign criminals including Kostas Passaris and members of the infamous “17N” terrorist group. In fact, he was able to change the life of Passaris, convincing him to lead a holier life in Mount Athos. The 83-year-old Archimandrite has visited numerous maximum security correctional institutions across the globe in order to lead criminals in God’s path. He never hesitated, not even after he was asked to travel 15,500 miles to Fiji, to teach the word of God to local prisoners. Father Gervasios is also known as the “Priest of the Poor” or the “Angel of Prodigal Sons.” Since 1987, when he started working with prisoners, he has helped at least 16,000 poor prisoners by paying their fines amounting to a total of 5 million euros. The money was raised by public contributions.
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The heads of Greece’s bar associations on Monday decided that the country’s lawyers will continue an open-ended strike in protest at a draft law changing the criminal code after the ratification of the bill was delayed due to Parliamentary elections this ... ...
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Pierre Moscovici accused of ‘conspiring’ to scare voters ahead of presidential election
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Greece's economy faces the risk of "irreparable" damage as the political crisis of recent days takes increasingly serious proportions, the country's central bank chief said in prepared speech ...
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NEW YORK – The Hellenic Relief Foundation filled the Sumas Community Center of the Sts. Nicholas and Constantine and Helen Church in Roseland, NJ on December 13 with musicians and guests who perfectly expressed the event’s theme – “A Concert of Love and Solidarity” – with their presence and financial support. More than $20,000 was […] The post Hellenic Relief Foundation Concert Raises Money for Needy in Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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The heads of state and government of 16 Central and Eastern European countries, as well as Chinese Premier Li Keqiang, are on their way to Belgrade for the summit meeting that takes place on Tuesday and Wednesday regarding the expansion of the region’s economic, commercial and investment cooperation with China. The catalyst for the Chinese presence in the region will be the Greek port of Piraeus, following the recent decision by the Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) to allow Chinese company Cosco to expand its presence in the port. This will clear the way for the implementation of the Chinese plan for the so-called “21st Century Maritime Silk Road,” easing the import of Asian products into Europe. Furthermore, Athens recently added its signature to the customs agreement of the region’s states, promoted upon Beijing’s initiative in order to open the commercial transport axis of Piraeus-Belgrade-Central Europe. Chinese diplomatic sources are highlighting Greece’s contributions, which are facilitating the implementation of Beijing’s plans and also helping the local economy make Piraeus the main point of entry for Chinese commodities into Europe. (source: ANSA)
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But in an interview after a meeting with Mr Samaras and his finance minister, Gikas Hardouvelis, Mr Moscovici praised the Greek authorities and ...
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The leaders of the San Diego State University Greek community today announced proactive steps their organizations will be taking to address the ...
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Production manager and long-time member of Kathimerini’s board of directors Nikos Naoumis died Saturday after a battle with cancer. He was 67. Naoumis, who worked in the Greek newspaper industry since the age of 15, earned a Sappi European printers award ... ...
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Just when it looked like nothing worse could come out of the eurozone, Greek politics returned with a vengeance. Last week, Greek Prime Minister ...
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“The government’s work continues normally,” Administrative Reform Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Monday after meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras regarding reforms in the public sector. As far as the election of the President of ...
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It's a holiday tradition in my family; we go around the table and ask for suggestions or predictions about what may happen in the coming year. We get personal forecasts and more global ones; serious and light-hearted ideas both. Decades ago, I looked forward to William Safire's always interesting and entertaining year-end column for the New York Times, in which he collected his own prognostications for the coming year. Perhaps all this explains why, as a journalist and now an executive at the Asia Society, I like to indulge in end-of-year guessing games of my own. We still have some time left in 2014, and while I work on a "list" for 2015, now it's time to take a deep breath, review last year's predictions and see how I did. This, by the way, was a noble habit Safire followed; namely, if you are going to prognosticate, then have the courtesy to revisit the list a year later, and give yourself an honest grade. A year prior, I had managed a roughly 50% success rate for the 13 predictions made; for 2014 I added one prediction to make it "Fourteen for '14," as it were. As I wrote last December, "Except where otherwise noted, all views are my own -- and many if not most may prove utterly wrong." (Indeed!) So here is the list; my colleagues have helped give each prediction a "grade." With so many critical elections coming in 2014, I thought I'd start at the ballot box. In India first: Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) win the April vote in the world's largest democracy -- but an outright majority eludes the BJP, and only after a very messy post-election does Modi become Prime Minister. SCORE: 1/2 point. Technically the main prediction proved correct, but all the difficult stuff (i.e., the analysis) was wrong. Joko runs. In Indonesia, after much hand-wringing and suspense, the charismatic Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo -- known often as "Jokowi" -- enters the race for President, after receiving the blessing of former President and Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) leader Megawati Sukarnoputri. SCORE: 1 point. He ran, and... Joko wins. In the end it isn't even close. Jokowi captures a larger share of the vote than any President since the last years of Suharto SCORE: ½ point. Correct outcome but wrong on "wasn't even close." In Afghanistan, peace wins. Meaning -- no prediction here on a winner to take the place of longtime President Hamid Karzai, but the vote that ushers in the post-Karzai era passes, mercifully, with far less violence than had been anticipated.SCORE: 1 point. Well done. But... Still in Afghanistan, a good year for the Afghan National Army (ANA). After the vote and as the ISAF mandate winds down (all combat forces will be out by the end of 2014), the Taliban wage fresh campaigns against the new government but fail to do serious harm, or to take significant territory. SCORE: 0. Jury still out - but as of late not looking at all good on this front. China. While economic and security issues fill Xi Jinping's crowded in-box, the Year of the Horse brings unprecedented public anger over something else: the unrelenting and increasingly nasty quality of the air in major cities. SCORE: 0. No doubt there was upset, and even some anger, but nothing that fit the forecast of "unprecedented public anger." On the subject of protest, remember the phrase "Occupy Central." That's the banner under which a pro-democracy movement will take to the streets in Hong Kong in July, leading to some of the largest protests in Hong Kong's main business district since the 1997 handover. SCORE: 1. Well done. Iran deal. Despite all the obstacles and all the cynicism and all the opposition from Washington to Tehran, the U.S. and Iran and other nations arrive at a more comprehensive deal on the nuclear front. This one fuels even more criticism than the 2013 interim agreement, but the parties sign it with considerable fanfare at Geneva. Israeli officials simmer. SCORE: 0. Technically there is still time - but negotiators have given themselves another extension, so it's hard to see some pre-New Year's miracle on this one. Maybe next year? A handshake at the UN. In the wake of the above item, and in the spirit of the U.S.-Iranian thaw, Presidents Obama and Rouhani shake hands on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meetings in New York in September. It is the first time leaders of the two nations have done so in 35 years. SCORE: 0. Clearly I doubled down on this issue - and the results weren't pretty. For China and Japan, no war and no peace. Having declared their dueling air defense zones, these two Asia powerhouses trade ever-hotter rhetoric and have several small-scale but dangerous run-ins near the disputed Senkaku/Diayu Islands. None of these run-ins lead to casualties. SCORE: 0. Other than the "no war and no peace" formulation, the rest isn't a fair reflection of what happened this year. China's tough talk and behavior in this area manages to mellow the enmity between Japan and Korea. A northeast Asian version of the enemy of my enemy is my friend... SCORE: 0. Not at all. In North Korea, even Dennis Rodman tires of the regime's hard line. No more basketball friendship tours with Kim Jong Un. SCORE: 1. Kind of a cheap one, really, but the point is awarded. World Cup fever, Tokyo edition. Helped by a relatively easy draw (a bracket shared with Greece, Ivory Coast, and Colombia), Japan advances through the first round of the World Cup in Brazil. Much is made of the fact that Japan gets through while the U.S. does not (the U.S. suffers in part thanks to a brutal bracket -- with Germany, Portugal and Ghana). SCORE: 0. And if there was a negative point to give, it would go here. Japan did not get through - and the U.S. did. (This one came from my colleague Jonathan Landreth) The coming year will see a rise in cooperation between Hollywood studios and a growing number of Chinese partners. Together they are trying hard to make movies that might take advantage of one of Beijing's most visible state-controlled market experiments -- the gradual opening of the commercial media sector. But we predict this increased Hollywood-China partnership will turn a blind eye to China's censors. This secretive board of men and women will continue to deny groundbreaking Chinese filmmakers such Jia Zhangke the ability to show their films to their own countrymen. Meanwhile, Hollywood studios will concede to making changes to their films to appease China's censors and access the market, thereby making it harder for Chinese filmmakers to fight against censorship. SCORE: 1. Correct on all fronts. Should rely more on my colleagues. Well, my math is better than my crystal-ball capabilities, so I can report that I went 6-for-14 by the above grading - nice if you're a baseball player (a .429 batting average) but not great for much else. So 2015 is shaping up to be a big year, not just for obvious geopolitical reasons but because if I cannot manage a better outcome I will slip into the red, the below-50% category, in my brief history of doing this on the Asia front. Please send any of your own Asia forecasts our way using the hashtag #Asia2015 . There's a lot of ground to consider: the first full years for Jokowi, Modi, and Afghanistan's Ashraf Ghani; whither Xi Jinping's rebalancing act, and where will China's GDP number land? What about other GDP booms and busts? There are the ongoing struggles against ISIS and against climate change (late 2015 will see the major Climate Change Conference in France); disputes on the seas and along any number of difficult Asian borders; and sadly there are nearly always flareups in previously peaceful parts of the continent. I will continue the prediction inflation next week, adding one to make it "Fifteen for '15." And on December 17 at the Asia Society headquarters, we will have a group far better-qualified than me to give us their forecasts. Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group, Ruchir Sharma, head of Emerging Markets at Morgan Stanley, and Josette Sheeran, President of Asia Society, join me for our special program Asia 2015: The Experts' Forecast. More than anything, I hope 2015 brings all you are hoping for, at home and beyond. Place your cursor over the map below to review my 2014 predictions country by country.
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A refusal by Greece to repay bailout debts would be "suicidal" for the country, the European Union's top finance official said Monday in a clear warning to the country's popular opposition. EU ...
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As someone from Greece, a country that gave birth to democracy but which has been wracked by continuous social unrest over the last few years, expressed in different ways, from terrorism and riots to a surge in support for the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, it's been interesting to observe the wave of protests triggered by the Ferguson and Eric Garner unlucky verdicts. Violence and abuse of power by the police is not confined only to Greece or the U.S. It's a global phenomenon. We see it in every country, albeit with a different frequency or intensity depending on the different social and economic conditions. But it exists. De facto. And in a way it perpetuates the world's division into "us against them." The "us" are the ordinary people trying to make their lives against the odds as we're at the mercy of decisions made somewhere high above us. "They" are the gatekeepers of power. They do the dirty work of the powers that be and those behind them. They are the police and other law enforcement agents. This thought lingers at the back of our minds. It persists, sometimes justifiably and sometimes by circumstance. My question, as a person who likes to question things rather than rush to provide answers, is why we see the world divided this way and how we express this belief. Is it how we show the alienation we feel as a result of this abuse of power? Or is it how we frame our hope of overturning a society with which we're dissatisfied? In my country, Greece, there were also protests these previous days, some as violent as those in Ferguson. The protests were sparked by the sixth anniversary of the shooting of a fifteen-year-old boy by police. The police officer and his partner were convicted and are serving jail sentences. Blind police violence and abuse of power were thus censured by the state, yet protests were staged solely in memory of this tragic event. Solely? Maybe not. Greeks, suffering under austerity measures imposed as a consequence of decades of bad political choices as well as global political and economic manipulations, sought to express that their discontent with a system that has lost their trust. And what stands between "us" and the system, is "them." They are the system's bodyguards. Their actions are sometimes flagrant. Sometimes perhaps even disquietingly instigator. Witness the number of videos on the internet showing individuals with bags of Molotov cocktails mingling with police officers. Look at Peru. Last January, it passed a law effectively giving police and the military a "license to kill." It's hard to shake the image of the cold-blooded murder of someone resisting eviction from his home. No one was convicted, just as in Ferguson and in the death of Eric Garner. The numbers are scary. Since 9/11, some 5,000 fatal incidents involving American police officers have been reported. These fatalities are tantamount to a small war being waged inside the country. Some of the victims were innocent. They were killed accidentally or as the result of a misunderstanding. How many were convicted for these mistakes? There's a lot of talk about racist motives. Are there? The data show that most victims were Hispanic or African American, while most police officers in the U.S. are white. So in a city like Ferguson, where the population is 67 per cent African American compared to just three per cent of the police force, it's easy to understand the context of "us against them." And, of course, reaction will be more extreme than in cities or states with higher living standards. The numbers though elsewhere aren't necessarily different. According to 2012 data for New York: African Americans account for 28.6 per cent of the population but 87 per cent of police victims. Whites are 33.3 per cent of the population but account for just four per cent of police victims. Do we need to examine these figures from a racial perspective or should we be more concerned with the authoritarianism of police power? As I said earlier, I'm a person who likes to question things. A quote by Charles Bukowski, one of my favorite American writers, comes to mind as I mull all this. I smile. Fill in the blank as you like: "I have more faith in my plumber than I do in the _________. Plumbers do a good job. They keep the s**t flowing."
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA — Manny Conditsis, the former attorney for “Hate Sheik” Haron Monis, told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. that his former client is a “damaged goods individual,” and that “his ideology is so strong and so powerful that it clouds his vision for common sense and objectiveness,” the Associated Press Reported. Conditsis’ comments pertained to […] The post Greek Ex-Lawyer Says Hate Sheik “Damaged Goods Individual” appeared first on The National Herald.
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The project “Digital Services in the Single Application Renewed Land Parcel Identification System” project was announced by the Greek Payment and ...
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Attempting to escape a cruel and mundane Sahar-less world, I started reading The Odyssey by Homer and got lost in a world of Greek mythology.
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Legal initiatives can be strange, but it's even stranger when they become actual laws. Every country has such laws up its sleeve. Sputnik has picked ...
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Any Democratic Left (DIMAR) MP to vote for the President of the Hellenic Republic in the upcoming Parliament ballots will not be considered an apostate or a venal, party leader Fotis Kouvelis declared earlier today during an interview to Greek radio. Denouncing such practices of characterizing MPs as “apostates” due to their vote on the critical election, Kouvelis underlined at the same time that the party’s 10 MPs are bound by the party committee’s decisions, according to which its parliamentary group will not vote positively for the election of Greece’s new President. Commenting on the speculation regarding DIMAR’s possible cooperation with SYRIZA in case of snap general elections if a new President is not elected by the current Parliament, the former coalition government minor partner did not rule it out, leaving everything open. At the same time, however, he stressed that the party’s tactic in the general elections will be discussed and decided by its members. Independent and former DIMAR MP Grigoris Psarianos to vote positively for the new President of the Hellenic Republic “I will vote for the President of the Republic in all three ballots,” independent MP Grigoris Psarianos declared in an interview to Greek TV, highlighting that the possibility of snap general elections would be “catastrophic for the country,” regardless of the elections’ outcome and even if a new government will be formed in February. Furthermore, Psarianos noted that the ideal solution would be a “national plan” to exit the crisis, as occurred in Ireland and Portugal, adding though that such a development is unlikely in Greece, which is a Banana Republic,” as he ironically said. Regarding the political moves of the coalition government and main opposition SYRIZA, Psarianos estimated that Prime Minister Antonis Samaras and government Vice President Evangelos Venizelos “want to get rid of the hot potato” while at the same time SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras “does not want to take it.”
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Greek markets crashed again last week, in the light of a snap election which has been called for this Wednesday. Stocks crashed by 13% – the biggest one-day crash since the beginning of the eurozone crisis. Greek government bonds spiked by 300 basis points.
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Every reader knows that a book can change your life. But what about the lives of an entire generation? Can a book change the future? Miriam Tuliao, assistant director of central collection development at the New York Public Library, helped us come up with a list of the books that changed the course of history. We also added a few of our own ideas. From Shakespeare's plays to Orwell's "1984," these 30 titles have had a major impact (listed here in alphabetical order). Do you think another book belongs on this list? Let us know in the comments."Aesop’s Fables" by Aesop Believed to have originated between 620 and 560 BCE "Aesop's Fables" is a collection of stories that are meant to teach the listener a life lesson. The fables themselves are often credited to an ancient Greek slave and story teller named Aesop (though the origin of the fables remains disputed). The stories themselves are still important moral lessons and have had a far-reaching impact on literature and common sayings, including "wolf in sheep's clothing," "boy who cried wolf," "goose that laid the golden eggs," and many others. Buy the book here "The Analects of Confucius" by Confucius Believed to have been written sometime between 475 and 221 BCE Also known as simply "Analects" or "Lunyu," this book is the collection of sayings and ideas attributed to the Chinese philosopher Confucius on how to live a virtuous life and be kind — what he referred to as ren. Today, "The Analects" continues to have a profound influence on Eastern philosophy and ethics, especially in China. Buy an English translation of the book here "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank Published in 1947 The book is a compilation of the diary writings of Anne Frank, a young woman who hid with her family for two years during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was discovered and taken in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. Since its publication, "Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl" has been translated into more than 60 languages and remains one of the most famous and influential primary documents from Europe in WWII. Buy the book here See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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ATHENS (Reuters) - The European Union's top economic official praised Greece's reform efforts during a visit to Athens on Monday, in a sign of support for the pro-bailout Greek government before a presidential vote that could trigger its collapse. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras's government faces the first round of a parliamentary vote to elect a new president on Wednesday. Failure to get its ...
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Olympiacos are the only Greek team that continue in European Competitions and the Europa League in particular after being eliminated from the Champions League Group Stage, where they played against Italian Juventus, Spanish Atletico Madrid and Swedish Malmo. In the draw held in Nyon, Switzerland, at 2 pm today, the Piraeus team avoided “giants” such as Liverpool and Roma and were drawn against Ukrainian Dnipro. Commenting on the draw’s outcome, the “red’s” coach, Michel, argued that if his team perfoms against the Ukrainian team as it did against its rivals in the Champions League Group Stage, then it definitely has many chances of qualifying. The first leg will be played on February 19 and the second on February 26, 2015. Europa League last 32: Young Boys vs Everton Torino vs Athletic Bilbao Sevilla vs Borussia Monchengladbach Wolfsburg vs Sporting Lisbon Ajax vs Legia Warsaw Aalborg vs Club Brugge Anderlecht vs Dinamo Moscow Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk vs Olympiacos Trabzonspor vs Napoli Guingamp vs Dynamo Kiev Villarreal vs FC Salzburg Roma vs Feyenoord PSV Eindhoven vs Zenit St Petersburg Liverpool vs Besiktas Tottenham vs Fiorentina Celtic vs Inter
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Back in 2008, things were different in the yogurt aisle: Chobani hadn't yet stirred up consumer tastes with its thick Greek-style yogurts, and Yoplait, ...
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(ANSAmed) - ATHENS, DECEMBER 15 - Greece registered the highest increase (+1.7%) of all EU member states in employment in the third quarter of ...
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