How the world sees Greece
ATHENS, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) -- A year ago on the Jan. 25 national elections in Greece, the Radical Left SYRIZA party achieved a historic victory assuming office for first time in the country's modern history with the promise to end austerity and bailouts.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — AEK Athens defeated PAOK 1-0 at home on Sunday to strengthen its hold on second place in the Greek league.
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In recent days, extremist conservative European circles have been attempting to target Greece, presenting it as the source of the refugee problem. In this context, they have taken the Greek coastguard to task for supposedly not “protecting” the maritime borders by intercepting refugee and migration flows by military means.We are absolutely clear on this.Greece is guarding its national border, which is also a European border. What it cannot do, and what it will not start to do, is sink boats and drown women and children, because this is prohibited by international and European conventions, as well as by our cultural...
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“That’s a smuggler,” the captain of the coast guard’s lifeboat says, swinging the vessel around and opening up the throttle, the boat cutting through the water on a frigid January night. [...] the lifeboat, designed for search-and-rescue operations rather than high-speed chases, is no match for the smuggler’s speedboat. The smuggler ignores the searchlight, the shouts and the warning shots fired by the Greek coast guard, deftly navigating his small vessel onto a tiny patch of beach. Hour after hour, by night and by day, Greek coast guard patrols and lifeboats, reinforced by vessels from the European Union’s border agency Frontex, ply the waters of the eastern Aegean Sea along the frontier with Turkey. Hours spent on patrol shows the near-impossibility of sealing Europe’s sea borders as some have demanded of Greece, whose islands so near to Turkey are the most popular gateway into Europe. [...] unless a Turkish patrol stops a migrant boat and returns it to Turkey, there is little Greek or Frontex patrols can do once it has entered Greek territorial waters but arrest the smugglers and pick up the passengers or escort the vessel safely to land.
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Hundreds of people have protested in north-east Greece against the security fence along the Turkish border, demanding the opening of safe routes for migrants just days after 45 people died making the risky Aegean Sea crossing. It came as France promised to ...
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Former AEL star, Orlando Sá, set for AEK Athens... A Ronald Vargas goal was enough for Gus Poyet's side who remain second on 39 points, 16 behind runaway leaders Olympiacos. Sunday's win represents AEK's sixth consecutive victory in league and cup, while ...
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CHIOS, GREECE – In the inky nighttime blackness, a small red dot appears on the radar screen, moving fast. “That’s a smuggler,” the captain of the coast guard’s lifeboat says, swinging the vessel around and opening up the throttle, the boat ...
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Last week Omirou expressed the conviction that justice will prevail in Cyprus sooner or later and the country will be freed of Turkey's military occupation. On Thursday, Omirou became the first President of the Cypriot House who addressed the plenary of ...
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ORESTIADA, GREECE — The latest developments in Europe's immigration crisis (all times local): 5:00 p.m.. The first of a total of 153 Iraqi Christians ...
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Hours spent on patrol shows the near-impossibility of sealing Europe's sea borders as some have demanded of GREECE, whose islands so near to ...
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Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, center, attends an event of his left-wing party Syriza celebrating a year since his party's general election victory, at an indoor sports stadium, in southern Athens, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. Tsipras survived a ...
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Demonstrators burn an EU flag during a pro-migrant protest march in Kastanies against the fence of Evros intended to stop the flow of migrants across the Turkey-Greece border. Hundreds of people protested in northeast Greece yesterday against the security ...
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GREEK farmers are singing GREEK revolutionary songs, tractors are adorned with the GREEK national and black flags and border cafes were converted ...
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“We gave Greek people a breath of dignity,” said Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras addressing SYRIZA supporters in celebration of one year in government. The Greek prime minister spoke at a gathering in the Tae Kwon Do Arena in Palaio Faliro with his ...
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[Migrant Survivors Recall Horror Of Boat Disaster]In the hospital mortuary on the Greek island of Kalymnos, there are the bodies of 35 refugees - 17 women, 11 children and seven men.
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The name Scheffel is well known in Volos. Many people have seen this name on a road sign, off the main, Ermou Street, commercial strip. How many people have thought about the history associated with of this name? Unfortunately, Greek citizens remain ...
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Milwaukee's original "GREEK Freak" Theodore Anton stood only waist-high to the current one playing for the Bucks. But in a match-up in Anton's arena, ...
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Tucked away in a little building off Route 1 in Old Saybrook is a family business that has been making pizza in their own special way since 1977, which has not gone unnoticed. The Pizza Palace received the most votes for the best Greek pizza on the Shoreline.
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Demonstrators have called for the Greek government to offer safe passage to refugees seeking to cross over from Turkey. They insist the fence along the border has put migrants in further danger.
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Patras mayor Costas Peletidis declared on Saturday the official start of the Patras carnival. In Peletidis’ address to the people he said that despite low temperatures the best carnival in Greece had started. “The drums of peace sound tonight from Patras for the entire world. If half of my heart is here, in this square, the
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It was only a few months ago when the tragic death of little Aylan Kurdi became front-page news all over the world. Millions of words were written about the boy and the sad picture of him on the shore had millions of views. Two days ago, 17 children lost their lives among the total 45
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Bilateral relations, the refugee issue, the crises in several regions as well as the Cyprus issue were among the topics discussed during a working dinner hosted by German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeir to his Greek counterpart Nikos Kotzias on ...
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Athens. A surge on numbers of desperate migrants fleeing war in conflict zone areas has been recorded over the past few months and still they ...
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[A Syrian refugee child looks on, moments after arriving on a raft with other Syrian refugees on a beach on the Greek island of Lesbos, January 4, 2016. REUTERS/Giorgos Moutafis ]Thomson Reuters LONDON (Reuters) - Britain might take in refugee children who have been displaced by the war in Syria and have traveled to other countries in Europe, a government minister said on Sunday. International Development Secretary Justine Greening said the government was considering whether it could do more for the estimated 3,000 children who have fled the conflict without their parents or guardians and are in Europe. Asked whether the government was close to agreeing to calls from relief groups for Britain to admit the children, Greening told Sky News television: "That's what we are doing and I think that is the right thing." Prime Minister David Cameron has previously said Britain would accept 20,000 refugees over the next five years from camps in the Middle East, as opposed to those who have already made it to Europe. Critics say that response has been meager when compared with the 1.1 million asylum seekers who arrived in Germany last year. Campaign groups and more than 80 Church of England bishops have urged Cameron to do more. _(Writing by William Schomberg; Editing by Mark Trevelyan)_
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Following the completion of his visit to Berlin, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will travel to Istanbul, where he will meet on Monday, 25 January, with his Turkish counterpart, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu. Mr. Kotzias will then travel on to Israel, in preparation for the Greek-Israeli High Level Cooperation Council, and to Cyprus, for the Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral Summit Meeting.
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Not a single car over 300,000 euros was sold in crisis-stricken Greece in 2015 says a News Auto report. A few years ago, there were several cars costing 400,000 euros or more sold by car dealerships in Greece. Luxury car owners paid the high taxes and ...
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Main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) deputy Aytun Çıray has brought the issue of GREEK boats' “systematic” incursion into Turkish waters ...
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RTX22CN1 GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens, Greece, January 14, 2016. As his government marks a year in power, what has he ...
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(CNN) —Residents of the GREEK islands have found themselves on the front lines of Europe's migration crisis, rescuing, feeding and sheltering ...
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A man who was declared an economic migrant pokes his fingers through the grill of a police vehicle outside a stadium in Athens, GREECE on ...
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Athens, January 24, 2016/ Independent Balkan News Agency By Olga Mavrou Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services raised Greece’s credit rating to B- (from CCC+). As the company puts it “Greece is broadly complying with the terms of its financial aid program” and “Greek economy proved itself to be more resilient than expected”. Yet, the rating […]
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International Development Secretary Justine Greening spoke Sunday as the U.K. faced mounting calls to do more to help migrants fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East and Africa. British charities and the leaders of opposition parties urged the government to let 3,000 more children start a new life in Britain. Human rights groups and local activists say the fence and police patrols along Greece's 200-kilometer border are forcing asylum-seekers from Syria and other conflict areas to pay hefty sums to smugglers and risk their lives to reach Europe by sea. Riot police set up the blockade in the border village of Kastanies, where several hundred activists burned a European Union flag and chanted "open the borders." Human rights groups and local activists say the fence and police patrols along Greece's 200-kilometer border are forcing asylum-seekers from Syria and other conflict areas, to pay hefty sums to smugglers and risk their lives to reach Europe by sea. Two migrant boats sunk in the eastern Aegean Sea earlier this week, killing at least 46 people, including more than a dozen children. Open the borders, are planning to travel in a bus convoy to the edge of a military area that includes the border fence, and onto a nearby border crossing point.
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Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Likud) will set off for a working visit to Greece tomorrow (Monday), where he will be a guest of his Greek counterpart Panos Kammenos. This is reciprocal visit, after Kammenos visited Israel last July. While in Greece, Ya ...
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The crossing of refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria at the buffer zone between Greece and the Former Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) in Idomeni was conducted smoothly today. This is a positive transition on border crossings, especially in light of ...
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Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon will travel to Greece on Monday, where he will be hosted by his counterpart, Panos Kammenos. The visit comes after Kammenos visited Israel in July. The two are expected to issue a joint declaration, and meet with additional ...
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Wanted 35-year-old Albanian James Claude Lesi who had murdered his Greek wife and kidnapped his 4-year-old son was arrested on Sunday in the town of Chalkidiki. According to Greek police Lesi and his son were found on Sunday morning in a cabin near the village of Ormylia in Chalkidiki, northern Greece. Lesi’s son, Phoevos was found
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Data from the First Instance Court of Athens show that divorces during the economic crisis have dropped significantly, while the same applies to religious weddings. According to an Ethnos newspaper report, the judicial year before the crisis, 2008-2009 ...
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Orestiada. Hundreds of people protested in north-east GREECE Sunday against the security fence along the Turkish border, demanding the opening of ...
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Jan 24 (Infostrada Sports) - Results and standings from the Greek championship matches on Sunday Sunday, January 24 Levadiakos 0 Panathinaikos 2 Saturday, January 23 Kalloni 2 Panthrakikos 0 Olympiakos Piraeus 1 Xanthi 0 Panionios 0 Asteras Tripolis 0 ...
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… Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Trinity, along with the entire Greek … food, wine and music of Greece. Our Fall Festival offers the … Community the opportunity experience the Greek faith, culture, and heritage. Come …
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Wanted Albanian James Claude Lesi who had murdered his Greek wife and kidnapped his 4-year-old son was arrested on Sunday at Chalkidiki. According to Greek police Lesi and his son were found ion Sunday morning in a cabin near the village of Ormylia in ...
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Hour after hour, by night and by day, GREEK coast guard patrol and lifeboats, reinforced by vessels from the European Union's border agency Frontex, ...
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Motor traffic has resumed through the Ilinden crossing at Bulgaria's border with GREECE at midday on Sunday following a two-hour closure by Greek ...
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The exhibition in the school hall showcased the work the children have been doing during their ancient GREECE topic, and parents were invited to look ...
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ORESTIADA, Greece (AP) — The latest developments in Europe's immigration crisis (all times local): 3:25 p.m. A protest in northern Greece calling on the government to grant safe passage to refugees across the land border to Turkey has ended. The rally ...
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Athens. Greek farmers will stage a demonstration through blocking border roads in GREECE with their agricultural machinery for total of 4 hours, BNR ...
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ORESTIADA, Greece (AP) - The latest developments in Europe's immigration crisis (all times local): 3:25 p.m. A protest in northern Greece calling on the government to grant safe passage to refugees across the land border to Turkey has ended. The rally was ...
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… today’s mass tourism on Greece’s culinary traditions, what the … back to Lerapetra, Crete, 20 years ago. Amid Greece’s economic problems … touch of Greek mythology to the decor and opened Urban Greek in …
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Varoufakis claimed that his proposal to announce the following day that Greece would default on the GREEK bonds held by the European Central Bank ...
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The demonstrators from Athens and elsewhere in GREECE are rallying for a second day in the border region, in the wake of more migrant deaths in the ...
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