How the world sees Greece
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Olympiakos beat Xanthi 1-0 Saturday to maintain its big lead in the Greek league. Alan Pulido scored the only goal in the 74th minute with a shot into an empty net from an assist by Costas Fortounis. Five days after its league-record ...
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The other Turkish ports the ships were to visit were Kusadasi, Antalya, Alanya and Izmir. Instead the lines will substitute ports including Athens, GREECE ...
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[Refugees and migrants disembark from the Eleftherios Venizelos ferry arriving from the island of Lesbos in a port of Piraeus near Athens on January 23, 2016]Greece wants EU border agency Frontex to help send back to Turkey migrants deemed ineligible for asylum in Europe, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias told reporters Saturday.
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Anticipating success but prepared for chaos, GREEK Senate watched their hard work burst into real life as the GREEK organizations of Kean University ...
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WEEKEND WEATHER: Unseasonably warm temperatures mean London will be hotter than GREECE. Much milder conditions are on the way from today ...
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ALEXANDROUPOLIS, GREECE — A day after 46 migrants drowned in a choppy Aegean Sea, protesters demonstrated Saturday at a Greek border town ...
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Athens. Greek farmers have blocked a number of roads in Northern GREECE, special correspondent of FOCUS News Agency Mariela Ruseva reported.
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Residents in the picturesque coastal town of Nafplio, in east Peloponnese, Greece, on Friday rescued another endangered Caretta caretta sea turtle that was found injured and unable to swim near the beach of Karathonas. This was the second such incident recorded near Nafplio. The turtle had been seriously hurt in its ventral shell or “belly,”
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Greek refiner Hellenic Petroleum (ELPE) and Iran’s national oil company NIOC reached a long-term agreement for the immediate start of crude oil deliveries to Greece, the company announced on Friday. ELPE will purchase 25 percent of their needs from NIOC and settle an estimated 550-650 million euros in debt repayable over four years. The debt
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Two opinion polls published on Saturday show that overall Greeks are pessimistic about the future and don’t trust the current government, while not favoring the opposition either. A study conducted by University of Macedonia on behalf of Skai television shows that 85 percent of participants are not satisfied with the government’s performance and only 6.5
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At the GREEK-Macedonian border things are moving once again. As many as 1,500 people were stranded after a closure brought in by Macedonian ...
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Of the more than one million refugees who arrived in the EU last year, more than 850,000 arrived by sea in GREECE from Turkey, according to the ...
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TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Hellenic Petroleum, GREECE'S biggest oil refinery, has decided to restart crude oil purchases from the National Iranian Oil ...
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Syrian and Afghan refugees fall into the sea after their dinghy deflated some 100m away before reaching the Greek island of Lesbos, Sept. 13, 2015.
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Austria has warned GREECE that it could face "temporary exclusion" from the European Union (EU)'s passport-free Schengen zone if it fails to tighten ...
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Despite negotiations, a resolution to Europe’s refugee crisis seems as far away as ever. Within the Schengen zone interior states are blaming exterior border states, and vice-versa, amid calls to suspend Greece.
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It was exactly one year ago when SYRIZA turned the tides of Greek politics and became the first ever radical left-wing party to win a national election in Greek political history since 1833, when the modern Greek state came into existence. Moreover, the ...
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The Alternate Foreign Minister for European Affairs, Nikos Xydakis, met at the Foreign Ministry today with the UNHCR's Assistant High Commissioner for Protection and Director of the Division of International Protection, Volker Turk.The meeting focused on the potential for closer cooperation between Greece and the UNHCR, bearing in mind the latest developments in the migration/refugee crisis.
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Protesters are demonstrating at Greece's border with Turkey, urging authorities to ease transit restrictions in the wake of two deadly boat sinkings that left at least 46 refugees dead
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Thousands of protesters have taken to streets of Athens over proposed cuts to pensions in Greece. Students, workers and pensioners protested outside parliament on 23 January, against the plans which come as part of the latest bailout deal for the country.
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[A left-wing group holds a banner reading in Greek and English "refugees welcome" during a solidarity rally for the refugees and migrants at the border town of Alexandroupolis, northeastern Greece, on Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016. About 1,000 people took part as human rights groups and local campaigners are calling on Greece’s government to ease transit restrictions at the country’s heavily militarized border with Turkey, in the wake of two deadly boat sinkings that left at least 46 migrants and refugees dead. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)]SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The latest developments in Europe's immigration crisis (all times local):
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The evaluation of Greece’s economic program must be completed as soon as possible because it may be Greece’s last chance, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in an interview with Huffington Post Editor-in-Chief Arianna Huffington on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum in Davos on Friday. “The evaluation must be completed as soon as possible.
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The meeting of the coordinating body of Greek farmers union at Tempi is completed with the farmers deciding on daily two-hour blocks of national thoroughfares. Farmers will block all national highways with their tractors at 12 pm-2 pm and 7 pm-9 pm every day starting Sunday. At the same time, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras
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Greece has received more pressure on the refugee crisis on Saturday as Austria‘s Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner warned that Athens faces “temporary exclusion” from the Schengen zone. Earlier in the week Athens criticized a Financial Times report alleging several European ministers and senior European Union officials said that threats of suspension from the passport-free zone
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The Palestinian Authority's (PA) municipality in Bethlehem, Judea, held an event in late December honoring 52 terrorist prisoners from the city serving life sentences, with a particularly ironic twist taking place during the ceremony. Palestinian Greek ...
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Move comes as Austria demands Greece is suspended from the free-travel zone.
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Thousands marched on the Greek parliament on Saturday (January 23) in protest against planned pension cuts negotiated with the country's international creditors under the terms of its third bailout agreement. The proposed reforms will be a test for the ...
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European powerhouse Germany's Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier lashed out meanwhile at Austria's warning, branding it a "pseudo-solution". This week Greece slammed a Financial Times report saying several European ministers and senior EU officials ...
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At least 46 people, including 17 children, have died in the Aegean Sea after two overcrowded boats carrying Europe-bound migrants overturned near the Geek coast Friday. The first boat overturned near the Greek island of Farmakonisi, while the second boat ...
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Some 45 refugees, including 17 children, drowned in boat sinkings in the Aegean Sea Friday, after capsizing near the Greek island of Farmakonisi, according to Greece’s coast guard. The dead were among the growing toll of victims to die while fleeing from ...
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The initiatives proposed nearly three years ago by the GREEK Life Task Force at the University of Tennessee are showing success, according to the ...
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A new report released by the United States Department of Homeland Security shows statistics related to the number of overstays— or people who ...
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called for anti-immigration border barriers to be erected on Greece's frontier with Macedonia and Bulgaria ...
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Between the languages of ancient civilisations and the foibles of today's news media, there is some distance. But if we allow for diversion, a link can ...
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The GREEK budget deficit reached 3.533 billion euros ($3.869 billion) by the end of 2015, according to Friday's preliminary assessment by the GREEK ...
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GREECE'S main oil refiner Hellenic Petroleum has reached an agreement with Iran for importing crude oil now that international sanctions have been ...
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Pending revisions to refugee policies across the EU are causing a series of unpredictable border openings and closures in the Balkans, leaving asylum-seekers in the cold. Diego Cupolo reports from Idomeni, Greece.
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The Greek coast guard says at least 21 people, including nine children, died Friday after migrant boats sank in the Aegean Sea.
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Protests of Greek farmers led to the temporary … located at the frontier with Greece. The passage of motor vehicles … by blocking major thoroughfares across Greece.
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Hundreds of migrants and refugees remain stranded between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with intermittent border closures and regulations hampering their journey to a new life. Only Syrians, Iraqis and Afghans are deemed eligible to ...
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GREEK banks were rallying on the news: Piraeus Bank (BPIRD) was up nearly 26%, National Bank of Greece (NBGGY) was up 9%, Alpha Bank ...
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ATHENS—Greece’s largest refinery Hellenic Petroleum has agreed to buy oil from the National Iranian Oil Company, marking the first sale of Iranian crude to a European country since the lifting of trade sanctions against the Middle Eastern nation.
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[Alexis Tsipras is set to mark one year in office Monday, still dogged by the country's chronic debt crisis]Leftwing Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is set to mark one year in office Monday, still dogged by the country's chronic debt crisis.
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Hundreds of refugees have been stranded at the border of Greece and Macedonia in the freezing cold. The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia stopped accepting refugees that were not heading to Germany or Austria on 22 January, leaving around 750 stuck near the Greek village of Idomeni. "Even if they are Syrian, Afghan or Iraqi nationals, if [their paperwork] does not say Germany or Austria, they are turned back from the border," said Gemma Gillie, spokesperson for the local Doctors Without Borders mission.
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[Migrants wait to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia near Idomeni, on January 21, 2016]Greece faced fresh pressure Saturday on its handling of the migrant crisis after Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner warned that Athens faced "temporary exclusion" from the EU's passport-free Schengen zone.
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“Hope begins today” was the message that the current Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent to the Greek people when his Coalition of the Radical Left (SYRIZA) party won the national elections held a year ago, on January 25th 2015. Syriza’s meteoric rise to power from a small, loose association of leftists representing a plethora
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Greece faced fresh pressure Saturday on its handling of the migrant crisis after Austrian Interior Minister Johanna Mikl-Leitner warned that Athens faced "temporary exclusion" from the EU's passport-free Schengen zone. In midweek, Greece's top migration ...
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A Wharton sophomore — who preferred to remain anonymous to avoid negative reactions from friends in GREEK life — rushed last spring, but dropped ...
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Standard and Poor’s ratings agency has upgraded Greece’s credit rating by one notch to B- saying the country seems to be broadly complying with the terms of its latest international bailout. Nevertheless, the financially troubled country’s rating remains well within the junk, or non-investment-grade, territory. S&P said Friday that Greece’s […]
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[Alexis Tsipras is set to promise on Sunday that the upturn in Greece is just around the corner]He came to power vowing a debt revolution, but after a rollercoaster year of economic meltdown forcing him to abandon his election promises, a less bouncy but still charismatic Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is facing the music.
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