Revelers gathered at Klaftmonos Square in Athens on April 5, 2015 to celebrate the International Pillow Fight Day. International Pillow Fight Day is ...
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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, April 5, 2015
Greece: International Pillow Fight Day celebrated in Athens
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's icy ruthlessness take Europe to the brink
One might righteously deplore such open blackmail by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, yet this is to ignore what has been done to Greece over ...
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Soccer-Attack on TV crew casts shadow over Greek weekend action
By Graham Wood ATHENS, April 5 (Reuters) - Another violent incident cast a cloud over Greek football on Sunday as five people were taken to hospital after a group attacked a television crew ahead of a match in Greece's second-tier Football League. The employees attacked at the Kaftanzoglio Stadium in Thessaloniki, who suffered minor injuries according to local media reports, worked for cable ...
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Economy staring at recession again
The Greek state may be able to service its debt and pay pensions and salaries to civil servants in April. However, the limited progress in negotiations between the government and the official creditors on the conclusion of the economic policy program increases uncertainty, reduces credit availability and adversely affects domestic demand despite less austerity. The economic damage has increased the risk of recession.
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Creditors are warming to new TAIPED
Although all is quiet on the privatization front since the change in government over two months ago and in the management of state sell-off fund TAIPED a few weeks back, it appears that the representatives of Greece’s creditors have come to some kind of an understanding with the officials responsible for the country’s struggling privatizations program.
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Greek bonds are a risk for most but a big opportunity for some
Small though it may be, the Greek government bonds market could under certain conditions prove to be the success story of the year, especially for those attracted by risk.
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Greek holiday home market attracting foreign buyers as prices drop
Foreign buyers spent some 250 billion euros on holiday homes in Greece last year, compared to 168 billion in 2013, as prices in the popular but debt-hit tourism destination have fallen by 50 percent since the outbreak of the crisis, Kathimerini understands.
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Failed EU policy turns Greece to Russia
'It is not surprising that Greece looks to another country which, for whatever reason, might offer some help,' writes Paul Flewers. Above, Russian ...
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Frustrated officials want Greek premier to ditch Syriza far left
Many officials — up to and including some eurozone finance ministers — have suggested privately that only a decision by Alexis Tsipras, Greek prime ...
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Tsipras will not find salvation in Moscow
The longest section of the pipeline, over 500km, would run through Greek ... Where would that leave any new strategic Russian-Greek relationship?
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Tasia Malakasis Shares Her Southern Heritage in Latest Book “Southern Made Fresh”
Add a Greek connection to the mix with Tasia Malakasis— cookbook author, tastemaker, and owner of the award-winning and nationally lauded Belle ...
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Eurozone anger with Athens intensifies
Finance ministers want Greek prime minister to jettison far left of governing Syriza party
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Greek political unrest and deepening debt crisis fuel talk of snap election
Yanis Varoufakis meets IMF’s Christine Lagarde in Washington DC ahead of Thursday deadline for €450m loan repayment The worsening Greek debt crisis has reanimated talk within the ruling Syriza party of a snap general election if discussions with creditors fail, as the country faces a Thursday deadline to repay a €450m (£330m) loan to the International Monetary Fund. The Greek finance minister ...
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Greek finance minister in informal talks with IMF over Greek debt crisis
Varoufakis' unexpected meeting with the IMF chief has been arranged as senior government officials repeated assurances that Greece was not about ...
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Greece marks Pillow Fight Day for first time
Greece marked the International Pillow Fight Day for the first time on Sunday as thousands of people took part in the capital and the northern city of ...
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Greek Week Celebration Events Kick Off on Monday, April 6
Ferris State University’s Greek Week celebration begins Monday, April 6 and runs through Thursday, April 9. Greek Week events promote Greek unity and philanthropy and support a local charity. This spring, Greek Week participants will collect canned goods ...
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Five Greek Villas You’d Love to Live In
When Greek architects have inspiration, unique houses to cities, islands and villages, even in the middle of nowhere turn into a haven of serenity and luxury. This is what happens when aesthetics align with imagination and the unique Greek landscape… Small architectural wonders. Which is your favorite? Antiparos The design of the house is a dual response to the particular topography of the site and the rural domestication techniques that in the past shaped the raw “Cycladic island” landscape. In the past, dry-rubble stone walls domesticated the land for agricultural purposes and were the most prominent man-made interventions in the landscape. The walls retained earth and transformed a steep topography into a series of arable plateaus. Today, the Cycladic islands are being reshaped by a very different force: The demand for holiday homes. The design uses the precedent of earth-retaining stone walls to create an artificial landscape that is both rural and domestic in use. Syros Situated in the island of Syros, this summer house hosts a couple and their guests. The design process was defined by the clients’ desire to maximize the view of the Plagia bay. The main intention was to unify the various spaces of the house under one roof facing the Aegean, without creating massive volume, thus resulting in a deconstructed rectangle with massive openings from all sides. The entrance is situated in the back, following a gentle descent through continuous miniature courtyards, planted with local aromatic herbs. The main volume houses the common areas, whereas the slightly higher volume, covered in local masonry houses the couple’s private area. The volumes are set next to each other, under a united roof slab, facing the magnificent view of the bay. The design of the guesthouses varied significantly, as the clients’ desire was the creation of spaces that could be both private and with constant access to the pool and outdoor space. The four guesthouses are situated in opposing parts of the site, gaining distinct characteristics: the ones closer to the house are intended for close friends and visitors whereas the ones under the master bedroom enjoy a private entrance and can easily be rented. Corfu The “Skolix” houses are situated in a lush landscape of forest, flower and vegetable gardens and olive groves. Their designs grow out of the earth, and as they gently twist turn, carefully framed and breathtaking vistas open up towards the vast horizon. Sifnos The two-story residence and the guest house, the linear pool that disappears in the horizon, the big yard; the meeting point of owners and visitors: The residence in Sifnos, with its snow-white volumes and rigid geometry combines grandiosity with the minimalism characteristic of Aegean islands and dominates the landscape without imposing. Furniture from Bali and creations of famous modern artists have the first say in the interior and contrast harmoniously against the white bamboo and wood surfaces. Mykonos Big spaces with delicate details and unhindered view to the sea from an environment that harmoniously combines luxury with a bohemian feeling. The first floor of the residence hosts the bedrooms and on the ground floor small sitting corners with a special character from the big living room. Shaded verandas also offer ideal conditions for relaxation, while different versions of it are suggested by the sitting areas and the gazebo next to the pool. Relaxation reaches its peak in the spa of the basement, where the secret communication with the poll surprises. Earthy shades, natural materials and ethnic objects add to the personality of the space while keeping aesthetic purity intact.
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Voices: In a time of crisis, modern Greece retains its character
Isn’t the economy terrible right now? Doesn’t the government have serious issues? What made you choose to study there? Is it safe? These are just a few of the questions that people ask me with when I tell them that I am studying abroad in Athens, Greece.
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Greece and Not Much Else: EU Week Ahead April 6-10
A very light schedule in this holiday-shortened week for the European Union institutions. The European Parliament will not be in session, and the only ...
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Protest march in Athens against Sunday trade
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Greek FinMin to meet IMF chief, as Athens promises no default this week
ATHENS, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis is to hold a meeting with International Monetary Fund Managing Director ...
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Supporters, Opponents of Greek Gold Mine Clash
Police say hundreds of supporters and opponents of a gold mining operation in northern Greece have clashed despite efforts to separate them.
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Greek President: We Stay Loyal to Our Principles and Values
“We stay loyal to our principles and values and we do not lower the flag,” Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Sunday after the memorial service in the Garden of Heroes in the city of Messolonghi, Greece, as part of events for the 189th ...
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Greek Doctor and Super Athlete to Participate in Sahara 'Marathon des Sables'
Next stop: The Sahara desert. This is the next big challenge for the Greek doctor and super athlete Georgios-Ioannis Tsianos, who will participate in ...
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Greek Gov't Signs $500 Mln Contract With US Company for Modernization of P-3B Orion Planes
The leftist led Greek government has signed its first major armament deal with the U.S. contractor Lockheed Martin for the modernization of five aged ...
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Greece plan to release 3,500 illegal immigrants from asylum centres sets it on a collision course with Europe
Inside the barbed wire and fences at the Amygdaleza camp, undocumented migrants of all ages wander around the yard, tending to clothes hanging to dry outside shipping containers.
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What Happens If Greece Fails to Repay Its IMF Loans Due April 9?
Greece_IMF Greece is only four days ahead of another crucial deadline as on Thursday it has to repay some 450 million euros to the International ...
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Supporters, opponents of gold mining operation in northern Greece clash; injuries reported
ATHENS, Greece — Police say hundreds of supporters and opponents of a gold mining operation in northern Greece have clashed despite efforts to ...
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Greek minister of finance to meet IMF chief Lagarde
Greek Minister of Finance Yanis Varoufakis was scheduled to meet IMF managing director Christine Lagarde in Washington yesterday ahead of the ...
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Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire Members Stop Hunger Strike
A bill completed by Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos aiming at improving Greece’s prison system via decongesting Greece’s overcrowded prisons and foreseeing house arrest instead of detention in specific cases has caused a fierce reaction from prosecutors. There is a fear the bill could lead to the uncontrolled release of inmates, but has cheered convicts. On the contrary the bill was welcomed by 22 imprisoned members of Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire urban guerrilla group who issued a statement yesterday saying they were stopping a hunger strike after 32 days. The 22 were satisfied by a provision included in the new bill allowing relatives of convicts who are implicated in offenses to be put under house arrest rather than kept in custody. In their statement, the convicts said they looked forward to the swift release of the mother and girlfriend of one of the jailed convicts, Gerasimos Tsakalos, who have been detained on terrorism charges. On its behalf, the prosecutors’ union said the prison bill, which was submitted to the Greek Parliament last week, is moving in the wrong direction. Mr. Paraskevopoulos, though, has defended the bill which is also aiming at the abolition of the Domokos high-security (Type-C) prison in central Greece. As he said, overcrowding in Greek jails is intense and must be addressed. Clashes between anarchists and police outside Athens’ Polytechnic Scool Yesterday evening April 4, minor clashes erupted between members of the anti-establishment movement and police forces outside Athens’ Polytechnic School, after a demonstration in solidarity with the hunger strikers. Some 20 men burned trash cans and set road blocks around the historic building, while a riot police squad arrived on the scene. Two people were arrested and faced prosecutors earlier this morning.
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The Telegraph: What happens if Greece defaults on IMF loans?
The Greek government faces another crucial deadline in its interminable bailout drama this week, as fears mount that the country could become the first developed nation to ever default on its international obligations, the Telegraph reported. After a harrowing March, ...
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IMF default by Greece looms on Thursday a day after its Prime Minister meets Russian President ...
By Peter Cooper. Greece no longer has enough money to pay the International Monetary Fund €458m coming due this Thursday nor to cover salaries ...
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Dairy farmers struggle as immigration reform sours
The problem has simmered for years, but it became more urgent with the Greek yogurt boom since yogurt maker Chobani's arrival in upstate New York ...
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Anastasiades Backs Off Grexit Talk
Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said he was misquoted in a report he said the country had a plan to deal with the fallout of Greece leaving the Eurozone. The post Anastasiades Backs Off Grexit Talk appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek bliss on the paradise island of Tsougrias will get your heart thumping
I was artfully posed on the comfortable cushions of our magnificent speedboat moored just off the glorious golden beach of the tiny Greek paradise ...
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Hip-hop theater: Brothers visit Casper to rework classic Greek play
G and J Q listen as Casper College's Scenic and Lighting Designer Kyle Melton, left, points out areas of the stage during a rehearsal for the Q ...
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EUR/USD Volatility Starting to Run Higher as Data, Greek Headlines Collide
Liquidity concerns have made themselves abundantly clear in debt markets, where the Greek 3Y yield is nearly double the Greek 10Y yield, ...
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Greek Economy Minister: Agreement with Lenders Within the Next Days
Greek Economy Minister George Stathakis appeared certain that an agreement with Greece ’s lenders will close within the next days, in an interview to the Sunday edition of Eleftheros Typos newspaper. The minister left open the possibility of a special law for borrowers in Swiss franc and insists on the debts’ haircut via a special fund that will be established especially for the ‘bankrupt’ households. He said that the major motorways will be completed in 2016 and aims to link the new development law that he will bring to parliament before summer with the so-called “Juncker package.” He also preannounced that shops will not open on Sundays (except in special cases). Moreover, Greek government spokesman Gavriil Sakellaridis in an interview to the same newspaper, made clear that the installment to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be paid on April 9 and described the scenarios of an “ecumenical government” to be “midnight summer dreams.” (source: ana-mpa)
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Protest against Sunday trading in Athens, Greece
Workers in retail staged a demonstration at Ermou street, a major commercial street of Athens, to defend Sunday as a day of rest.
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Tsipras to visit Belgrade early May
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will visit Belgrade early May following Serbian Prime Minister Alexandar Vucic invitation, according to a government source. Tsipras visited Serbia when Syriza was main opposition on December 6, 2014 and had a meeting with Foreign ...
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Greek Defence Minister: No cutbacks in pensions and salaries
Greek Defence Minister and Independent Greeks leader Panos Kammenos send a message to Greece's lenders that the government will not make cutbacks in salaries and pensions in an interview to Sunday newspaper RealNews. Kammenos clarified that even if Greece's partners ...
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Prometheus Bound by Ungrateful Authorities – Like Greece?
NEW YORK – The Onassis Cultural Center in New York, in collaboration with the New York Review of Books (NYRB), presented a discussion of the latter’s new translation of Aeschylus’ play “Prometheus Bound” at the New York Public Library (NYPL) on Fifth Avenue on May 31. Edwin Frank, the editor of NYRB Classics, introduced Joel […] The post Prometheus Bound by Ungrateful Authorities – Like Greece? appeared first on The National Herald.
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SYRIZA Wants Terrorists Out of Jail
A bill to relieve overcrowding in Greek prisons would lead to hardened criminals and terrorists also being released and given house arrest. The post SYRIZA Wants Terrorists Out of Jail appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek Default, Early Election Talks Arise
Speculation has risen again that Greece could be forced to default and pushed out of the Eurozone or new snap elections again as soon as June. The post Greek Default, Early Election Talks Arise appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek Mortgage Loans Fall 90%
Greece's lingering economic crisis has ground lending, especially for mortgages, to a near-half with figures showing home loans have fallen dramatically. The post Greek Mortgage Loans Fall 90% appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greece Closer to Debt Default?
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In Greece, Getting By On The Brink Of A Financial Meltdown
American poet Alicia Stallings, who has been writing a lot about the crisis and the Greek experience for an American audience, says there has been ...
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Lagarde finds Varoufakis in a basket of Easter Eggs
Managing Director of International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde was surprised to find Yanis Varoufakis hiding in a bush next to other Easter Eggs. The Greek Finance Minister had asked her for an urgent meeting on this Easter Sunday to talk “negotiations” and “reforms” as time and cash are running up […]
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Greek Productive Reconstruction Min: SYRIZA Government Must Be One of Progressive Reversals
“Either our government will be a government of huge rifts and progressive reversals or it will not have a future” stated Productive Reconstruction, Greek Environment and Energy Minister Panagiotis Lafazanis in an interview with Saturday newspaper Agora. The minister underlined that the government will not make a single step back from its commitments not for reasons of in-party pressure, but because such a retreat will mean a real “waterloo” for the government and mostly for the country. Lafazanis said that the “institutions” and mostly the German establishment, face with dogmatic prejudice the government and the country as a half-colony “They are not interested in the context of our proposals but that it comes from a radical left government that wants the country to be independent and to have a progressive course. That’s what bothers them up to hysteria” he said and warned that if the deep conservative and neoliberal Europe continues on the same course and does not change thoroughly it will confront decadence and dissolution. Referring to his recent visit to Moscow, Lafazanis estimated that it may open a new historic chapter not only in the energy but also in the economic and political relations of Greece and Russia which, as he said, it is possible to be sealed during Tsipras-Putin’s meeting on April 8 in Moscow. Finally, the minister reiterated that privatizations, particularly of strategic companies and excellent properties will not take place. (source: ana-mpa)
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Tsipras eyes Russia deal as EU concern intensifies
As Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras prepared for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during a visit to Moscow on April 8-9, designed to ...
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