Aegean Airlines reported 2015 first-half net profit of €14.8 million ($16.4 million), down 8% from a €16 million net-profit in the year-ago period.
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How the world sees Greece
Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Aegean Airlines reports solid 1H results despite GREEK debt crisis
New EU migrant plans ready next week
Dimitris Avramopoulos told Reuters that new EU systems for processing asylum claims in Italy, Greece and possibly Hungary could involve detaining those rejected until they return home, as European governments strain to balance obligations to provide refuge with hostility among the public to mass immigration. In an interview, Avramopoulos said the Commission would put new proposals to interior ministers at an emergency meeting on Sept. 14, five days after Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker is expected to outline plans to the European Parliament during his annual state of the Union address on Wednesday. Avramopoulos said his discussions with governments gave him hope they would drop objections to a distribution system for asylum-seekers that Juncker put forward in May and would next week present as a permanent EU mechanism.
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Ancient Greek relic looted from Libya to be returned
But Jordanian national Riad Al Qassas claimed the sculpture - which experts believe dates to the third or fourth centuries BC - belonged to him. District Judge John Zani today ruled that the sculpture was owned by "the state of Libya" and should …
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How Team USA's Loss To GREECE Nine Years Ago Propelled The Americans To Heights Of Today
“We have to learn the international game better,” United States coach Mike Krzyzewski told the Associated Press on this day nine years ago.
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GREECE Faces Non-Development Period After Bailout
GREECE faces a prolonged period of low economic development due to the bailout programs signed with its international creditors, President of the ...
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Olympiacos F.C. Brings in Two New Players
Olympiacos F.C. concluded their summer transfer activity with two new roster additions on the transfer deadline day. The Piraeus team signed striker Brown Ideye from the English Premier League side West Bromich Albion F.C. The exact transfer fee for the 26 year old Nigerian international is undisclosed. The Greek Superleague champions did not stop there and also agreed
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What if Greece won the argument after all?
'What if Greece won the argument after all?' on Yahoo Finance UK. This is not about being pro or anti-austerity; that gross over-simplification was always a red herring
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UPDATED: GREEK coastguard raids vessel carrying weapons possibly linked to ISIS
The GREEK coastguard has raided a cargo vessel carrying weapons suspected to be destined for Islamic State (IS) forces in Libya, according to local ...
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Discovery of an Ancient GREEK Palace Reveals Fragments of a Lost Language
The GREEK Ministry of Culture announced on August 25 that since 2009, archaeologists at a Mycenaean palace on Aghios Vassilios Hill on Greece's ...
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Recipe: Korean, Hungarian and GREEK beef kebabs
Saturday will be the 16th commencement of the Shamineau Fantasy Football League. Every Labor Day weekend, I get together with close friends at a ...
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A look at what migrants are carrying with them to Europe
ROSZKE, Hungary (AP) — To survive days on end of walking and improvised camping in harsh weather, they must concentrate on essentials: pain medicine, foot powder and first aid, food and personal hygiene items. The savviest have smartphones with backup battery power and SIM cards that work in the countries they're passing through. Otherwise, they can end up walking in circles without satellite navigation, particularly at night, when many travel to avoid police. The tens of thousands of migrants who spend weeks on foot, vehicle and boat traveling to Europe to escape war, persecution and poverty must weigh carefully what they carry with them in their backpacks. Men typically carry the tents and sleeping bags, while women hold infants in slings or carriers. Although most have left personal effects behind with relatives and hope to retrieve them later, some also manage to bring a bit of themselves on the road. The Associated Press asked trekkers crossing the border from Serbia to Hungary recently to share what they were carrying — and what they treasure the most. __ WAFAA BUKAI, 25, student Waiting with her brother at a Serbian camp for migrants before the border crossing, Bukai shows a visitor sentimental objects and images from her past in Damascus, Syria. She explains that she left virtually everything behind with relatives, but requires a few emotional touchstones to keep memories alive. "My homeland is destroyed and not safe," Bukai says. "I left everything: my home, my clothes, my friends, my family." Unlike many trekkers, who carry precious photos only electronically on a phone, Bukai thumbs through her album of childhood images, including herself in school uniform and trips with family to the beach. Perhaps her most prized trinket, while of no monetary value, transports her mind to the vibrant heart of old Damascus, the sprawling Al-Hamidiyah Souq inside the walled inner core of the Syrian capital. It's a simple cowrie shell, purchased as a youth in the market beside the medieval Citadel of Damascus. "I remember Damascus everywhere, every town I go to," she says, thumbing the seashell in her hand. ___ MOHAMMAD AL-ABDALLAH, 36, architectural engineer "I would never go anywhere without my Quran," says the Baghdad resident, who has spent three weeks traveling with his 17-year-old son, Bashar, from Iraq to the Hungary border via Turkey, Greece and the Balkans. "I pray five times every day. I read by the moonlight." He opens his backpack and pulls out his palm-sized edition of the Muslim holy book. Its cover is frayed and it is wrinkled from water damage from overnight rains. Some pages stick together and threaten to tear, but al-Abdallah opens the book gingerly and recites a favorite passage to his son. Bashar tells his father that is too slow. He pulls out his smartphone, launches his Quran app, and finds the same passage in seconds. "My pages never tear," he says. ___ MEKDAD MAREY, 25, computer graphics designer The native of Damascus has spent two weeks traveling from a refugee camp in Turkey to the border of Hungary in hopes of making it to Germany. For Marey, Germany doesn't represent merely the strongest economy in Europe; it's also where he thinks his health challenges might be solved. In his unusually small bag, he carries a wide range of painkillers and, most importantly, a neck brace. He attributes his chronic back pain, including a slipped disc, to long hours at a desk while studying in Egypt and working in Turkey. "Turkey is good, but the money is little, and I need more money to fix my problems," he says, donning his neck brace, which he uses mostly when trying to sleep in his group's overcrowded pup tent. "I am hoping that medicine is better in Germany, the doctors are better, and they can help me." ___ HUSSEIN AL-SHAMALI, 20, student In his backpack, the university student from the northern Syrian city of Idlib carries what he hopes is the key to his future: the records of his learning. Al-Shamali carefully unwraps the plastic waterproofing that he uses to protect his old school ID, his academic transcript and the second-level certificate he earned in science. He hopes that, when he reaches Germany, the university system there will recognize his three years' study of civil engineering and permit him to pursue a postgraduate degree in medicine. "I really do not know what they will think of my school work. I hope it will be enough," he says, gesturing to the multipage, neatly folded transcript in Arabic. He says he deeply regrets how Syria's civil war prematurely ended his education, and he hopes one day to return as a doctor. But he says family members who funded his journey from Turkey to Hungary via Greece and the Balkans first expect him to send money back home from Germany. So he imagines that would mean, if the German system permits, an education and a first job in a hospital there. "Many people have spent thousands of dollars on me, to get me this far," he says, covered in sweat as he walks past two simple posts marking the Serbia-Hungary border. "I have to give back. It is expected of me." ___ BEHAT YASIN, 45, shepherd The Kurd, who has lived in Syria and Iraq while following his flocks of sheep, says he was fortunate to flee west ahead of the threat from the Islamic State. "Many of my friends, I am sure, are dead," says Yasin, who unlike many travelers has no smartphone or social media skills to keep in touch with home. He does have his shepherd's tool with him: a long, bone-colored cane that he once used to tap the rear ends of his sheep. Now he uses it simply to keep himself upright, seven hours into his walk across the border from Serbia to Hungary. "Now I am the sheep. I just follow the others. I must go faster now," he says in broken German, gesturing ahead to a large group of mostly teenage Kurds he has followed since Turkey. ___ MOHAMMAD ZAMANI, 26, high school math teacher Zamani had a bag full of belongings when he left his home in Shiraz, Iran, nearly a month ago: clothes, toiletries, a gold chain, a watch. The bag is gone now. While being smuggled with about 40 others by vehicle through Turkey, he says the driver suddenly stopped when confronted by police and ordered everyone out. He then drove off with many of his clients' bags, including Zamani's. "I've had only these same clothes for three weeks. It's terrible," Zamani says, wearing a collared blue shirt, white undershirt and stonewashed blue jeans. He arrived Sunday in Hungary as part of a larger group of Iranians, including couples with young children. They all had crawled under razor wire at Hungary's border and evaded police that morning. Exhausted from an August heat wave, they allowed themselves to be caught and processed as asylum seekers, even though none wants to stay in Hungary. Zamani says he hopes to teach in Belgium. He still has his most prized possession, on his finger: a ring of silver and black stone that his older brother, Mojtaba, gave him for his 25th birthday. "My brother is dead now," Zamani explains. "He died last year in a car accident. I have no other brothers or sisters. This ring is most precious to me." ___ Associated Press reporter Ivana Bzganovic in Kanjiza, Serbia, contributed to this report. Join the conversation about this story »
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Greece's Syriza to scrap VAT on private schools if elected ...
ATHENS, Sept 1 (Reuters) - Greece's Syriza party will scrap a value added tax on private education if voted back to power in a snap election in September ...
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23000 Migrants And Refugees Arrived in GREECE Last Week
Frontex announced on Tuesday that based on preliminary data 23,000 seaborne migrants and refugees arrived in GREECE last week. Among the most ...
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Quake-damaged GREEK islands request property tax exemption
Authorities on Cephalonia and Ithaki have asked for residents of the Ionian islands to be excused from paying the ENFIA property tax for 2015 ...
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GREEK police make 4 arrests over illegal adoption
A couple aged 45 and 38, as well as two other people, were arrested in Athens on Tuesday on suspicion of arranging an illegal adoption.
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GREEK media, politician fooled by parody tweet
The Cyber Crime Unit is investigating an apparent parody Twitter account created in the name of public broadcaster ERT's president, Dionysis Tsaknis ...
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Mama Merkel: the ‘compassionate mother’ of Syrian refugees
Her stance over Greek debt earned comparisons to Hitler, but Syrians have taken to social media to post heartfelt tributes to the German chancellor Angela Merkel is seven months old and currently lives in a refugee camp in Hanover, with about 700 other migrants from 33 countries. Her mother, 26-year-old Ghanaian Ophelya Adé, arrived in Germany this year, after crossing the Mediterranean while heavily pregnant. In an interview with Der Spiegel, she said she named her daughter after the German chancellor because: “I was so grateful, so relieved that Angela Merkel is accepting us, so impressed with what this woman is achieving here.” Heartfelt tributes such as these are not exceptional among the migrant communities stationed on Europe’s borders: barely a month after Germany’s intransigence over Greek debt saw protesters likening her to Hitler, Merkel is suddenly finding herself at the receiving end of a virtual love-in on social media. Continue reading...
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Greece’s hard-left looks to star recruits
Two ex-Tsipras allies could boost Popular Unity after new group’s lacklustre start in election race
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Immigration: Rajoy urges Italy, GREECE to organize hotspots
(ANSAmed) - BERLIN, SEPTEMBER 1 - Italy and GREECE ''must quickly organize registration centers'' for immigrants, Spanish Premier Mariano Rajoy ...
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Greece: Good Riddance
… several months. However, just because Greece has moved off the center … and wholesale realignments within the Greek Parliament are almost a certainty … end be shunted aside. Further, Greece and Russia…two nation’s …
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Keftedes (GREEK Meatballs)
Enlarge Image Request to buy this photo FRED SQUILLANTE | Dispatch Keftedes, or GREEK meatballs, prepared by festival organizer Stacey Stathulis.
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Gamecock GREEK Life Goes Kaput -
By FITSNEWS || Thirteen of the nineteen GREEK fraternities operating on the campus of the University of South Carolina have been suspended due to ...
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First Private School to Close in Greece After Imposition of 23% Value Added Tax
The first private school that fell victim to the 23 percent value added tax (VAT) implementation on private education is the Michalopouleion private school established in 1931. The Michalopouleion private school in the Kallipolis neighborhood of Piraeus has endured the German occupation, the Greek Civil War, and other turbulent periods of Greek history, but apparently
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Greek Elections: SYRIZA Keeps Bleeding as Party Youth Members Withdraw Support
Less than three weeks before Sunday, September 20, and SYRIZA numbers keep dropping in polls. The blows Alexis Tsipras is receiving keep coming from all directions, and they are really strong. On Monday, his speech writer Theodoros Kollias resigned stating that SYRIZA has lost its founding ideals. On Tuesday, the SYRIZA Youth issued a statement saying
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IMF Official: Greek Elections Delay Bailout Tranche, Market Loses €800 Mln
International Monetary Fund official Poul Thomsen said that elections will cost Greece the delay of the next bailout tranche disbursement and deprive the market of 800 million euros in liquidity. Thomsen briefed the IMF board of directors on the Greek program, estimating that elections and the time it will take for the formation of a
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Archaeological Restoration of the Amphipolis Tomb a Possibility
Greece’s Central Archaeological Council (KAS) will convene on Tuesday to decide on whether to approve a study for the maintenance and restoration of the Amphipolis tomb. The discovery of the ancient burial monument on the Kasta hill in northern Greece caused a major stir in August 2014. Initially it was believed it was the tomb
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For many refugees, journey to Europe begins on Facebook
By Naline Malla, Ayla Jean Yackley, Marton Dunai and Aleksandar Vasovic BEIRUT/ISTANBUL/BUDAPEST/BELGRADE (Reuters) - Would-be refugees hoping to flee war in the Middle East are using Facebook as their compass for finding the people smugglers they hope will get them to a better life in Europe. The U.S.-based website and other social media that were once used to help mobilise the "Arab Spring" uprisings now host information services for those escaping the Syrian civil war and other conflicts in the region. In Facebook groups set up in Arabic, users post phone numbers of contacts they say can take refugees from the Turkish coast to nearby Greek islands or even further into Europe, a continent struggling to cope with the migration crisis.
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GREECE Hurries Towards Fateful Elections
GREECE last Friday entered one of the shortest election campaigns in its history, heading for snap polls on September 20 that are likely to shape the ...
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GREECE seizes arms ship possibly bound for Islamic State
The Greek coast guard intercepted on Tuesday a shipment of weapons and explosives on board a foreign-flagged cargo ship suspected to be bound ...
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Cyprus negotiations continue "to create forward momentum:" UN adviser
Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders trying to reach a settlement to the intractable Cyprus problem continued "to create forward momentum," UN Special Adviser Espen Barth Eide said Tuesday.
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The Greek Crisis’ Sad Conclusions
The question “who lost Greece” will be raised all the more frequently, as it becomes evident the attempt to bail out the country didn't work. The post The Greek Crisis’ Sad Conclusions appeared first on The National Herald.
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Ship Transfers Over 1300 Migrants From GREEK Island to Mainland City Port
“We have arrived on the (GREEK) island of Chios”. Among those from the ferry in Piraeus aiming to head north right away was 17-year-old Ahmad ...
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GREEK creditors may delay bailout review until Nov
Mark this down as the first evidence of Greece and its European creditor overlords noting that milestones were being missed and economic growth ...
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Volunteers spend weeks in kitchen to satisfy hungry GREEK Festival visitors
The GREEK Festival will take place from 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday, noon to midnight Sunday and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday at the ...
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Watch live: migrants on the move across Europe
Watch live streams from Greece, Macedonia and Hungary as migrants seek a new life in Europe
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Crete: Greek Coast Guard seizes vessel loaded with weapons. Destination: Islamic State in Libya?
Greece’s Coast Guard seized a cargo vessel loaded with weapons off the island of Crete in the east Mediterranean Sea. According to local media, cargo vessel HADDAD 1 is carrying a Bolivian flag and was sailing from Turkey to Libya. In the early morning hours of Tuesday, units of the […]
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The Latest: Frontex: Greek ferries carry over 4,000 ...
The Latest: Frontex: Greek ferries carry over 4,000 migrants from eastern islands to mainland The Latest: Greek ferries carry 4,000 migrants to mainland
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GREECE and Latvia opt out of Monsanto MON810 re-authorisation application
Biotech giant Monsanto has said it will abide by requests from Latvia and GREECE to be excluded from its application for re-authorisation of its MON180 ...
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Cornwall aid teams fly to GREECE to help hundreds of refugees and migrants flocking to islands
The men, women and children, many in family groups, who are arriving in droves in GREECE are among a relentless flow of people caught up in a ...
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GREEK life is more than just its stereotypes
As someone in GREEK life, I've heard it all: It's exclusionary, elitist and superficial. There have been countless instances where, after offhandedly ...
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The Latest: More than 1000 people rescued off GREEK islands
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The latest developments in the tens of thousands of migrants flooding into countries across Europe. All times local…
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GREEK police find large weapons stash on Libya-bound ship
HERAKLION, Greece: A large weapons stash was discovered Tuesday on a cargo ship off the GREEK island of Crete, a police source said, with initial ...
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Primordial sea beast resembled ancient Greek warship ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the earliest big predators to prowl Earth's primordial waters was a sea scorpion nearly 6 feet (1.7 meters) long whose body looked a bit ...
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Greek Elections: SYRIZA – New Democracy Agree to Televised Debate
With the September 20th Greek snap elections fast approaching, it seems that the country’s political leaders will face off directly before the Greek voters’ eyes. According to local media reports, SYRIZA and New Democracy have agreed to engage in two televised debates prior to the elections. The most likely dates for the live televised events are September 10 and
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Europe's hidden political crisis: Internal Eurozone disagreements over GREECE could have deep ...
Yet political concerns prevail, and much of that has to do with dear little GREECE. While there is an overwhelming feeling among investors in Europe ...
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Europe's passport free travel area explained
BRUSSELS (AP) — Desperate to halt the flow of migrants fleeing conflict or poverty, some European countries have begun erecting fences and tightening border controls. But the crackdown, as people leave Greece and Italy to move deeper into the European Union, has raised questions about whether Europe's passport-free area is viable.
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GREEK life under fire after charters revoked
Sigma Alpha Epsilon (pictured above) was one of the two fraternities to have their charter revoked after a violation of Sonoma State University's code ...
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ESMA approves emergency 30-day GREEK short selling ban
the imposition of capital controls and the restrictions of transfers in the acquisition of financial instruments (i.e. restrictions on the buy side) for GREEK ...
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Greek Ministers Singin’ in the Reign
The post of Minister has become of little value in Greece, or those who pick the ministers are not competent enough to make wise selections. The post Greek Ministers Singin’ in the Reign appeared first on The National Herald.
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Pittsburgh Greek Festival Expected to be Biggest Ever
PITTSBURGH, PA – When the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox parish created its new home in the McCandless, a suburb north of Pittsburgh, the design also took into account the annual food festival. From September 2 to 6, the parish’s new neighbors and thousands more from miles around will enjoy the Taste of Greece festival. […] The post Pittsburgh Greek Festival Expected to be Biggest Ever appeared first on The National Herald.
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