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How the world sees Greece
Saturday, November 28, 2015
Leaders of 5 Greek political parties fail to agree on ...
ATHENS, Greece – The leaders of five of the seven parties represented in Greece's Parliament have failed to agree on pension reforms after a six-hour ...
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Iraklis beats 2nd-place Panathinaikos 1-0 in Greek league
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Apostolos Vellios' solo effort and score from a tight angle in the first half was enough for Iraklis to beat Panathinaikos 1-0 in the Greek league on Saturday.
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Modern-day Syria and 'Antigone': Syrian women find strength through acting
For Syrian women, "Antigone" is more than an ancient Greek tragedy. In a production put on by Syrian refugee women – none of whom have ever acted professionally – the women have chosen the play as a way to represent their stories. Recommended: How well do you understand the conflict in Syria?
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Greek political leaders fail to agree on pension reforms ...
Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos, center, presides of a meeting of the Greek political party leaders, left to right, Panos Kammenos of the Independent ...
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Greek PM Alexis Tsipras fails to get opposition backing on ...
ATHENS: Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras failed to secure the backing of Greek opposition parties on Saturday for tough pension reforms the country has ...
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Angry migrants clash with police as Macedonians put up ...
IDOMENI, Greece – Migrants on the Greek-Macedonian border attacked police with stones Saturday, enraged by the sight of Macedonian authorities erecting a ...
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Migrants Clash With Macedonian Police on Greek Border
… Asia have entered Europe through Greece this year, many after making … , Pakistan, Bangladesh, Somalia and Congo. Greek police didn't intervene … on its southern border with Greece in order to prevent illegal …
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Macedonia begins fence construction on GREEK border
Belgrade (dpa) - Macedonia began building a fence along its southern border with Greece on Saturday to slow the flow of refugees crossing its terrain ...
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Learn to cook and open a little restaurant
In the early 1900s through the 1940s, Raleigh boasted dozens of restaurants started by GREEK immigrants and refugees who, fleeing war, turned to ...
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Greece On a Knife Edge
By Karderinis Isidoros | It is exactly five years since Greece joined the European Support Mechanism with the close cooperation of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
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Greek PM fails to get opposition backing on pension reform
By Lefteris Papadimas and Angeliki Koutantou ATHENS (Reuters) - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras failed to secure the backing of Greek opposition parties on Saturday for tough pension reforms the country has promised to submit by December under its international bailout. The leftist government has already raised the retirement age and health care contributions and scrapped most early retirement benefits to get part of the financial aid promised by its European lenders.
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Political Leaders Unable to Reach Accord on Greece’s Social Security System
Greece’s political leaders failed to find common ground on reforms to Greece’s social security system but agreed on future discussions over a Constitutional Revision as well as on a united approach to the refugee crisis, during a meeting on Saturday afternoon. Greek Prime Minister and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras, Panos Kammenos, the leader of SYRIZA’s junior coalition
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Greek Prime Minister Questions Behavior of Political Opposition
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras criticized New Democracy and PASOK’s stance during Saturday’s political party leaders meeting, which failed to yield a common approach on social security reforms or to generated agreements on the refugee crisis as well as discussions on Constitutional Revisions. In a televised speech after the meeting, Tsipras accused New Democracy and PASOK of
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OPAP sues GREEK government over VLT changes
On the heels of a nearly 8% dip in earnings for the third quarter and a new tax the company expects to lower revenues even more, GREEK gambling ...
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Author of Study on GREEK Female Sex Workers Denies Cheese-Pie Comment
A report on the increasing rates of GREEK women in the prostitution industry in Greece and GREEK women's motive behind involving themselves in it, ...
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Macedonian police enter GREECE, throw stun grenades to disperse migrants who threw rocks
SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local:.
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Shocking! In GREECE, prostitution a major activity; sex for the price of a sandwich
London: London: Poverty-stricken women in GREECE are selling sex for the price of a sandwich, as the country continues to reel under the catastrophic ...
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Swastika Over the Acropolis: Re-Interpreting the Nazi Invasion of Greece in World War II
… during the German Invasion of Greece Profs. Stockings (Australian Defence Force … of Commonwealth operations during the Greek Campaign of April 1941. Stockings … , of the German campaign in Greece on preparations for Operation Barbarossa …
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The Latest: Macedonia: 18 officers injured in migrants ...
Macedonia's interior ministry says 18 police officers were injured in a clash with a group of stranded migrants on the country's southern border with Greece. The ...
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Greek Supermarket Sales Tank
With capital controls in place, Greek supermarkets are taking a big hit, seeing sales in September fall 6.4 percent as people have to budget. The post Greek Supermarket Sales Tank appeared first on The National Herald.
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Notable Runners: Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC), National Bank of GREECE (ADR) (NYSE:NBG ...
Bank of America Corp (NYSE:BAC) rose 0.23% and closed the last trading session at $17.48. The market capitalization of the company is $181.59 ...
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“Border remains open”: Macedonia builds fence to GREECE
Macedonia has started the construction of a border fence to GREECE in order to control by its own account the refugees from the neighboring country ...
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FYROM Begins Construction on Border Fence Amid Migrant Tension with Police
The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has initiated the process of sealing its southern border with Greece by erecting a fence, resulting in clashes between migrants and police at the border on Saturday. Migrants located on the Greek side of the border began throwing rocks at FYROM police who responded with flashlight grenades. The altercation
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European Refugee Crisis: As Macedonia Builds Fence Along GREEK Border, How Will Europe ...
He has said he won't start the company or accept donations for the project until the GREEK government approves his request to buy an island.
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Top GREEK treasury official accused of breach of faith
She is said to have exploited a law passed in 2006 which allows the GREEK state to provide state guarantees to help struggling businesses but only ...
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GREEK farmers sign petition against new tax hikes
A petition signed by farmers across Greece regarding government plans to raise their taxes was expected to be handed to SYRIZA deputies in their ...
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November 29: A Significant Date in Arab-Israeli History
November 29 is a noteworthy date for all those interested in Israel and the Middle East. Sixty-eight years ago, following the recommendation of a decisive majority of the 11-member United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, the UN General Assembly met to consider Resolution 181. The measure called for the creation of independent Arab and Jewish states in the land west of the Jordan River, which for decades had been governed by Great Britain under a mandate, first, from the League of Nations, then the UN. The final vote was 33 countries in favor, 13 against, and ten abstentions. To this day, it remains important to recall how each UN member state at the time voted. Those in support were: Australia, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Byelorussian S.S.R., Canada, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, France, Guatemala, Haiti, Iceland, Liberia, Luxemburg, Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Sweden, Ukrainian S.S.R., Union of South Africa, United States, U.S.S.R., Uruguay, and Venezuela. In opposition were: Afghanistan, Cuba, Egypt, Greece, India, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, and Yemen. Abstaining were: Argentina, Chile, China, Colombia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Honduras, Mexico, United Kingdom, and Yugoslavia. Among the proposal's supporters, the eloquent words of Ambassador Enrique Rodriguez Fabregat of Uruguay stand out to this day: "Both peoples [Jews and Arabs] are fully ripe for independence. We are not here to give lessons in organization to two peoples in their infancy, two peoples whose destinies are just beginning. The Jewish effort in Palestine is, in many respects, exemplary, and this is confirmed in both the reports of the Special Committee on Palestine. And the ability of the Arabs to shape their own destiny by their work, their initiative and their courage is shown not only by their present achievements but by their glorious past. Those of us who are voting for partition are not voting against either of these two peoples, against either of these two sectors of social reality in Palestine. We are voting for both of them, for their progress, their civic development, their advancement within the community of nations, so that they may not only never come into conflict, but may combine in a multitude of productive undertakings, thus ensuring that economic unity for which the plan under discussion definitely provides." He laudably chose to strike a note of optimism, believing that both Jews and Arabs could fulfill their respective national aspirations through this two-state resolution. And he earnestly hoped that the end result would not be conflict, but mutually beneficial cooperation. Alas, his vision was not quite fulfilled. The Arab nations categorically rejected the resolution, denied any Jewish link to the land that was, in fact, associated with the Jewish people for millennia, and declared they would not be bound by its terms. They chose to go to war, with the goal of seizing all the land and preventing a Jewish state from coming into being. Despite vastly larger populations and territories, they did not succeed in their quest. There are at least five important takeaways from this dramatic chapter in history. First, actions have consequences. The Arab world opted for confrontation, not compromise. They gambled and lost. They paid a price, as have all defeated aggressors in history. They could not have it both ways - losing a war they began, then claiming victimhood. Second, as the Uruguayan envoy stated, another path was possible. There could have been two states living side by side - one Jewish, the other Palestinian (though the UN language at the time referred to an Arab, not a Palestinian, state) - in peaceful coexistence for the past 68 years. The Jews, joined by a clear majority in the international community, sought precisely that outcome, but the Arab world rejected it out of hand. It turned into a clash in this instance between Arab maximalism and Jewish pragmatism. The latter won out. Third, the UN recognized the validity of a Jewish state. In November 1947, no one knew what the name of the state would be - it was only announced on May 14, 1948, the actual date of Israeli independence - but what was clear to all was that it would be a Jewish state, and rightly so. The Jewish people fully merited a sovereign home in their ancient land and had every right to chart their own destiny, the UN General Assembly affirmed. Insofar as there is some debate today about the "legitimacy" of a Jewish state, that question was, in fact, addressed 68 years ago by the UN General Assembly. Fourth, much is still made of the Arab refugee population from the 1947-48 period, which resulted from a number of factors in a tumultuous era. For 65 years, there has been a special UN body, UNRWA, to deal with the issue, but not, it must be noted, for purposes of resettlement, as with all other refugee groups in the world, but rather to keep alive the issue from generation to generation as a festering wound and permanent grievance against Israel. At the same time, some Arabs chose to stay in Israel after its creation in 1948. Today, their share of the total population is approximately 20 percent, and they enjoy equal rights and protection under the law. Meanwhile, less well-known, there was a second refugee group from the very same years - roughly an equal number of Jews from Arab countries who were forced from their homes, expelled from the ancestral lands where many had lived long before the Arab invasion and conquest in the seventh century, and too often victims of deadly pogroms. Why has so little been heard about the 750,000-850,000 Jewish refugees? Among other reasons, because they were offered a haven in Israel (and other countries) and opted to start anew, rather than follow the Palestinian example of remaining in camps as wards of the international community, while nurturing dreams of revenge against the detested Jewish state. And fifth, the Israel that emerged from this defining period was only a part of the land under discussion in the 1947 UN debate. The West Bank and eastern Jerusalem were entirely in the hands of Jordan, while the Gaza Strip was controlled by Egypt. During the ensuing years, Egypt and Jordan had uncontested power to create a Palestinian state with eastern Jerusalem as its capital, precisely what the Palestinian leaders today claim they seek. But, alas, no such state emerged. To the contrary, Jordan annexed its territory, a step recognized by only two other nations in the world. Meanwhile, Egypt imposed harsh military rule on Gaza. In other words, the history of the past 68 years could have been very different, but the all-or-nothing approach of Arab leaders at the time was a calamity for the Palestinian people, the larger Middle East, and the course of modern history. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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A European prime minister is talking seriously about the EU collapsing like the Roman Empire
In an interview with international news organisations this week, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte suggested that western European states might need to bring in a "mini-Schengen" to deal with the bloc's migrant crisis, referring to the Schenghen Agreement that began the abolition of internal border controls in much of the European Union. A shrunken agreement to leave internal borders open might, for example, exclude countries in south-eastern Europe. A huge number of refugees have arrived in Europe on boats from Turkey, landing in Greece and attempting to travel north. He turned that into a more startling analogy, according to a report from the Financial Times. Here's the kicker: “As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected,” said Mr Rutte in an interview with a group of international newspapers. “So we really have an imperative that it is handled.” He's one. His concern is perhaps not unrelated to the fact that Geert Wilders' hard-right and anti-immigration Party of Freedom leads some Dutch political polls by double digits right now. But Rutte isn't the first or only person to make the analogy. Historian Niall Ferguson made a similar point about the EU and Rome in the aftermath of the Islamist attacks on Paris this month. Here's a snippet from his op-ed in the Boston Globe: Let us be clear about what is happening. Like the Roman Empire in the early fifth century, Europe has allowed its defenses to crumble. As its wealth has grown, so its military prowess has shrunk, along with its self-belief. It has grown decadent in its shopping malls and sports stadiums. At the same time, it has opened its gates to outsiders who have coveted its wealth without renouncing their ancestral faith. The tremendous surge in the number of refugees arriving in Europe is the latest in a series of crises that the bloc has attempted to muddle through in recent years. From Greece's bailout and the economic turmoil in southern Europe generally, to the heightened security concerns following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it seems like Europe drifts from one challenge to the next, failing to find a healthy balance between national sovereignty and the need for collective action. Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: SeaWorld is ending its killer whale show after being criticized for how it treats them
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Unrest erupts as Macedonia erects fence on Greek border
Police fire tear gas after refugees stranded for days in cold and squalid conditions threw stones, injuring officers.
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Clashes at GREECE Border as Macedonia Builds Fence to Stem Migrant Flow
The interior ministry said 18 police were injured, two of whom were hospitalised, in the protests at the Gevgelija crossing point between GREECE and ...
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Migrants, Police Clash as Macedonia Builds Wall on Greek Border (PHOTOS)
… at the Greek-Macedonian borders near the village of Idomeni, Greece November 28 … ,000 asylum seekers arriving in Greece from Turkey in October alone … tracks on the border with Greece, near Gevgelija, Macedonia, November 28 …
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Migrants Stranded In Greece Clash With Police At Macedonia ...
IDOMENI, Greece, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Police in Macedonia fired tear gas and stun grenades at desperate migrants stranded for days at the Greek border and ...
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Protests mount at Macedonia's fence with GREECE
The Macedonian army has started reinforcing a metal fence on the country's southern border with GREECE at the point where migrants cross on their ...
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The Latest: Macedonia Starts Erecting Fence on Greek ...
SKOPJE, Macedonia — The latest on the mass movement of asylum-seekers and others seeking refuge in Europe. All times local: 3:25 p.m. A government ...
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NYSE Boots National Bank of Greece
The New York Stock Exchange announced on Friday that it has commenced proceedings to delist the American Depositary Shares (ADRs) of the National Bank of ...
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Police, migrants clash on Macedonia border; soldiers build fence
By Yannis Behrakis IDOMENI, Greece (Reuters) - Police in Macedonia fired tear gas and stun grenades at desperate migrants stranded for days at the Greek border and who are demanding passage to western Europe, as soldiers began erecting a metal fence to keep them out. Macedonia, along with other Balkan countries on the migrant route, began turning away "economic migrants" nearly two weeks ago. Human rights groups have criticised the decision, under which only Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans are allowed through.
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BUSINESS DIGEST: GREECE, creditors near deal on next piece of bailout
BRUSSELS — GREECE and its creditors are close to sealing a deal on conditions that Athens must respect to obtain the next slice of rescue money.
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The Latest: Tensions at Greek border subside
Tensions between migrants stranded on the Greek side of the Greek-Macedonian border and Macedonian police have subsided. Greek police forces didn't actively intervene in the clashes, but positioned themselves between the migrants and Macedonian police to protect the latter, as the migrants would not throw stones at the Greeks. Macedonian police have charged into Greek territory after an estimated 250 or more asylum-seekers began pelting the police with rocks. A Macedonian army spokesman, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment before an official statement is released, confirmed the operation on Saturday but declined to provide details. Greek police say about 800 migrants are stranded on the Greek side in worsening weather after Macedonia blocked access to citizens of countries that are not being fast-tracked for asylum in the European Union.
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Macedonia Erects Fence on GREEK Border as Migrant Pressure Builds
The move has left about 1,000 migrants from countries such as Iran, Pakistan and Morocco stranded at the village of Idomeni on the GREEK border with ...
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Mid-Day Buzzers: National Bank of GREECE (ADR)(NBG), AEterna Zentaris Inc. (USA)(AEZS ...
National Bank of GREECE (ADR)(NYSE:NBG) decreased -13.59% at the price of $0.161 recently on a traded volume of 15.56 million shares, ...
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Macedonian Army Builds Metal Fence on Border with GREECE
The Macedonian Army has begun erecting a wire fence along the country's border with GREECE to control a wave of migrants trying to cross, local TV ...
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CHEAP SEX: GREEK hookers now charging just £1.40…they'll even do it for a SANDWICH
CHEAP SEX: GREEK hookers now charging just £1.40…they'll even do it for a SANDWICH. GREECE'S economy is so knackered that hookers have ...
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GREEK girls selling sex for sandwiches: Study
Sociology professor Gregory Laxos and his team at Panteion University in Athens found that young GREEK women had now overtaken Eastern ...
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State of the Art Greek-American Coffee Roasting Production
Translated from the original Greek MASPETH – Four Greek-Americans, friends since childhood, joined forces about six months ago when they started operating one of the most modern coffee roasting production units in the New York Metropolitan Area. They are Athanassios (Tom) Tsiplakos, Stefanos Vouvoudakis, Nikos Tsoukalas, and George Kaloyiannis, who founded the company […] The post State of the Art Greek-American Coffee Roasting Production appeared first on The National Herald.
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FYROM Police Charge into Greece to Chase Rock-Throwing Migrants
FYROM police have charged into Greek territory on Nov. 28 after an estimated 250 or more asylum-seekers began pelting the police with rocks. Police were chasing the migrants with stun grenades. The post FYROM Police Charge into Greece to Chase Rock-Throwing Migrants appeared first on The National Herald.
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Teenage prostitutes selling sex for the price of a sandwich as GREECE'S crippling recession pushes ...
GREECE'S crippled debt crisis has meant that more women in the European country are selling sex with prices tumbling as low as the cost of a sandwich ...
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Greece and Institutions Reach an Agreement on Second Package of Prior Actions, EU Commission Confirms
Greece has come to an agreement with the institutions on the reforms included in the second package of prior actions, European Commission spokeswoman Mina Andreeva confirmed. She added that the implementation of the second package of prior actions, which is expected by mid-December, according to the November 23 Eurogroup decision, will unlock the 1 billion
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Greece Guarding the EU’s External Borders, PM Tsipras Reiterates
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday expressed his government’s determination not to remain in the position of a passive observer, but to claim an active role by taking initiatives on the ongoing refugees issue. Tsipras underlined that Greece is waging a battle to address the refugee issue as a Europe-wide problem, as well as
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Greek University Sets Up Website with Available Health Services for Refugees
The National Kapodistrian University of Athens presented on Friday a website which informs refugees and migrants arriving in Greece of available health services in Greece, legal advice, as well as simplified information on possible diseases and illnesses. Presenting the website www.healthgate4all.gr, during a press conference, the university said it has four main thematic areas: A
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