How the world sees Greece
A raft of international broadcasters have picked up Greek and Roman history shows from All3Media International. SBS (Australia), AMC (Central and Eastern Europe), TVO (Canada) and Top TV (New Zealand) have all pre-bought upcoming BBC2 series Meet the Roman ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- Greek journalists have walked off the job ahead of a general strike set to disrupt services across the country to protest pension reforms that are part of the country's third international bailout. Wednesday's media strike pulled all ...
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Greece proposed to its creditors on Tuesday raising the top rate of personal income tax to 50 percent in order to avoid increases in social security contributions. The top rate of personal income tax now stands at 42 percent and Athens proposed a raise to 50 percent. The finance ministry expects to raise 300 million
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Almost 6,000 Greek businesses have relocated to Bulgaria in the last two years alone, says the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (GSEVEE). In addition, about 60,000 Greeks have registered new companies in Bulgaria’s tax offices or opened accounts in Bulgarian banks, said GSEVEE president Giorgos Kavathas on Tuesday. The figures come from an
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It drove people from their own country including a GREEK couple whose search for a better life has brought them to Brisbane. They have a GREEK ...
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Greek agriculture has proved surprisingly resilient, but tax increases now threaten the very survival of farmers.
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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. Thousands of migrants land daily on Greece' shores seeking asylum in Europe. Hundreds don't make it, drowning during the perilous sea voyage. Volunteers, with ...
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Season for Caring 2015 City Council PolitiFact Texas Latest news videos Last 7 days of local news Greek journalists have walked off the job ahead of a general strike set to disrupt services across the country to protest pension reforms that are part of the ...
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Children now make up over a third of the migrants making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, the UN said on Tuesday, as two more babies drowned off Europe's shores. For the first time since the start of the migrant crisis in Europe, there are ...
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Some 6000 Greek firms have relocated to Bulgaria over the last two years alone, English-language Kathimerini quotes a business representative as saying. According to Giorgos Kavathas, who heads the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and ...
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Devastated members of Red Hill's GREEK Orthodox Church are pleading for unknown offenders to return an icon of the Virgin Mary, stolen on Saturday ...
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GREEK journalists are holding a 24-hour strike on Wednesday against pension reforms in the country, the Panhellenic Federation of Journalists' Unions ...
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Protesting Greek farmers are set to continue their strike action at the common border with Bulgaria, the Kulata-Promachonas crossing having been severely affected since Monday.Greece's other neighbors are also affected by blockades as farmers are venting ...
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ALEXANDROUPOLI, Greece (AP) — A Greek magistrate on Tuesday ordered two men to remain in custody pending trial on charges of attempting to travel to Syria through Greece to join the Islamic State group. The two men, born in Bosnia and Yemen but ...
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BATAVIA — It’s been one impressive showing after another for Batavia’s girls basketball team this season. On Tuesday night, the Blue Devils romped over Greece Odyssey 58-33 in Monroe County League action. The win gives Batavia a 16-2 record on the ...
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Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev received a delegation led by Foreign Minister of Greece Nikos Kotzias on February 3, Azertac state news agency reported. President Aliyev expressed confidence that Kotzias’s Baku visit would be important in terms of ...
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UN Security Council tears over chlorine gas... Children now make up over a third of the migrants making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, the UN said, as two more babies drowned off Europe's shores. For the first time since the start of the ...
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Athens, February 3, 2016/Independent Balkan News Agency By Spiros Sideris Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will be in London Thursday, February 4, for the Donors Conference for Syrian refugees. According to government spokeswoman Olga Gerovasili, in the official press briefing, the Prime Minister will have a bilateral meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, as well […]
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In an unprecedented move, the National Diet Library is demanding back the “compensation money” it paid for a series of nonsensical books it is returning to their publisher, library officials said Feb. 2. The "Asho" series consists of page after page of ...
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For the first time since the crisis began, women and children make up the majority of refugees undertaking the perilous journey to Greece Children now make up over a third of the people making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, the UN has said, as two more babies drowned off Europe’s shores. For the first time since the start of the migration crisis in Europe, there are also now more women and children crossing the border from Greece to Macedonia than adult males, according to UN children’s agency Unicef. Related: Portraits of Syrian refugee families – and an empty place for the missing Continue reading...
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A trip - pilgrimage to Bonegilla, immigration center in Victoria during the 50s, is being prepared by the Former Greek resident's association. On the occasion of the tour, their president and organizer Theofanis Emmanouilidis, remembers with emotion his ...
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THURSDAY Feb 4 - Sunday Feb 7 . St. Barbara GREEK Orthodox Church, 7671 N. Lockwood Ridge Road, Sarasota, FL. Thursday-Saturday 11 AM - 9 ...
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University of South Carolina Beaufort student Katherine Brophy chats with Phi Mu recruiters at a tent on campus during GREEK life recruitment week, ...
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Angry farmers in Greece blocked the country’s borders and main motorways on Tuesday (Feb 2) in an ongoing dispute with the government over planned pension changes. More than 6000 tractors have blocked the country’s highways for brief periods of time in ...
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Children now make up more than a third of asylum seekers making the perilous sea journey from Turkey to GREECE, according to the UN children's ...
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On Monday night, the Greek Leadership Council passed two changes to their code of standards and greater bylaws, explicitly banning Greek houses from displaying the Dartmouth Indian head on Monday night. While the council’s code of standards had ...
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STRASBOURG: The European Union (EU) has urged Greece to take specific steps to check the flow of asylum seekers to its shores and protect the 28-nation bloc's external border. The European Commission adopted a draft report published last week that said ...
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The Greek government will implement the agreement it has achieved with its lenders while “maintaining strictly its red lines”, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday during a speech at a meeting of SYRIZA’s political secretariat. According to party sources, the prime minister focused on the government’s main policy, with Tsipras expressing confidence that the
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The Athens stock market experienced losses following the first meeting between Greek government officials and the country’s creditors, especially since there were no news on the negotiation front. After a day of light trading, the Athens stock exchange ...
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Children now make up over a third of the migrants making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, the UN said Tuesday, as two more babies drowned off Europe's shores. For the first time since the start of the migrant crisis in Europe, there are ...
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A special edition of the World Bank statistical representation of equality between women and men on the planet shows some interesting results for Greece. The results are based on 2013 data that were published recently by Greece’s General Secretariat for ...
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From saltworks to crocodile hunting, GREEK immigration is inextricably linked to the story of the Northern Territory and dates back almost as far as the ...
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AEL Larissa and Acharnaikos delayed the start of their second-division game last Friday by sitting down in protest against the authorities’ indifference to the deaths of migrants in the Agean Sea. The moving gesture took place at AEL FC Arena in Larissa ...
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The visit to Greece marks the final capital on … he will hold talks with Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on … Philip Hammond said: Britain and Greece have a number of issues … migration into Greece - on which the UK is supporting Greece in …
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LESVOS, GREECE – Shortly after arriving on the shores of the Greek island of Lesvos, Ahmed Aldhab, 25, spoke to Global News about why he risked ...
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Geneva (AFP) - Children now make up over a third of the migrants making the perilous sea crossing from Turkey to Greece, the UN said, as two more babies drowned off Europe's shores. For the first time since the start of the migrant crisis in Europe, there ...
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27 against GREECE. Standing on the front line of the refugee crisis and bearing much of the burden for the EU, Athens finds itself criticized by Brussels ...
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Last year, GREECE and Russia agreed to build up the South European Pipeline, which is expected to bring 47 billion cubic meters of gas from the ...
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In recent years, students from early primary school level up until VCE level have embraced the educational programs offered by the Greek Community of Melbourne, which continues to offer programs that strengthen and promote the quality of teaching and ...
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Music and applause filled the third level of the Adanti Student Center on Jan. 26 as Southern’s sororities and fraternities congregated for the Greek showcase. The room was split in half. Upon entrance to the ballroom, the 11 organizations set up tables ...
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Greece is setting up two new registration centres for migrants arriving on its island of Lesbos. Its partly in response to EU criticism that inadequate procedures have been making identification of refugees impossible. Container units are being equipped to ...
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[iraq oil] The plunge in oil prices is already having far-reaching effects on countries whose economies are dependent on oil exports. But in Iraq, the stakes of cheap oil are even higher than in Saudi Arabia, which is instituting unprecedented taxation and austerity, or in Nigeria, which is now asking for an $11 billion World Bank loan. What little remains of Iraq's government and social order might collapse if oil remains in its current price trough — with dire consequences. According to a Monday AFP report, Iraq is now selling oil at half of the country's apparent fiscal break-even price. Right now, Iraq is selling its oil at around $22 a barrel, half of what it would need to fetch for the country to be able to fund the upcoming year of government budgetary obligations, the report said. [Screen Shot 2016 02 02 at 12.44.18 PM]But Iraq's situation is actually even worse. As recently as the 2014 fiscal year, Iraq was formulating its national budget on the assumption that oil would remain at around $90 a barrel and that the country's oil exports would continue to climb (which they have). Iraqi government revenue experienced dramatic annual increases between 2009 and 2013, almost entirely because of oil (see the chart on the left). That's all over, now that oil is expected to stay under $40 a barrel through the end of the year. Though Iraqi oil is comparatively cheap to extract, it also contains unusually high levels of sulfur, meaning that it typically sells for around 10% less than Brent crude, the global price benchmark. The Iraqi government is still making money pumping oil — just not nearly enough to fund the country's anticipated national budget. Such a daunting fiscal cliff would be challenging for a stable or politically coherent country. But it's potentially disastrous in a place like Iraq, where the majority of territory is split between the terrorist group ISIS and the Kurdistan Regional Government. Even the areas still under some semblance of federal control are fought over by a constellation of militia groups with ties to recognized political parties. Ali Khedery, the CEO of Dubai-based Dragoman Partners, a former adviser to US Central Command, and a former Exxon executive with extensive on-the-ground experience in Iraq, warned that cheap oil threatens the country's last remaining semblance of order. "You are looking at a significant possibility of state collapse due to civil unrest," he told Business Insider. [iraq map] Cheap oil will eat into the Iraqi state's ability to continue fighting ISIS, which still controls Mosul, the country's second-largest city. And it could have an alarming effect on the patronage, corruption, and militancy that buoys the already dysfunctional Iraqi state. As Khedery explained to Business Insider, the number of Iraqi government employees is believed to have shot up from around 850,000 at the time of the US-led invasion in 2003 to more than 2.5 million by early 2015. It's a revealing statistic, considering Iraq's transition from a strong, centralized state under Saddam Hussein to a loose and often-violent federation under its current system. Khedery said that people were added to government rolls because of family, sectarian, or tribal connections. Some officials would pocket money through "ghost job" scams, embezzling salaries from employees that didn't actually exist. Some of the government's oil revenues would go towards militias with ties to official Iraqi political parties — organizations like the powerful Badr Group. "Why did the number of government employees go up 200%? The reason is that Iraq is a kleptocracy built on systemic corruption and patronage as a means of buying votes," Khedery told Business Insider. As a result, Iraq has little ability to hedge against against a plunge in oil prices. "Unlike Russia or Saudi, which have hundreds of billions in hard currency reserves and trillions in assets and state owned entities, Iraq is insolvent and bankrupt," he said. In a price crunch, Saudi Arabia has the option of selling off chunks of Saudi Aramco, its perhaps multi-trillion-dollar state oil concern — which is exactly what Riyadh is reportedly planning on doing. Russia is a major gas exporter, and has a more-diversified economy than many other rentier states. Iraq, on the other hand, has little to show for the nearly half-trillion dollars in oil-export revenue the country received just in the decade after the 2003 invasion. It's largely been stolen, or dispensed to militia groups. [Screen Shot 2016 02 02 at 1.00.06 PM] As Khedery explained, an Iraqi "hard landing" has some alarming ramifications. A plunge in federal revenue would only harden the division between Baghdad-administered Iraq and the Kurdistan Regional Government, which already has is own oil ministry, government, and security apparatus, and which sells more than 600,000 barrels of oil a day independently of Baghdad. In addition to hastening the country's breakup, a budget plunge would also badly destabilize Basra, the southern export point for the vast majority of Iraq's oil. The city has already seen increases in violence between Shi'ite militia groups that the federal government has been unable to disarm. Once organizations like Khataib Hezbollah, Jaysh al-Mahdi, and Asaib Ahl al-Haq see their bottom line threatened, the city on which much of the Iraqi economy is dependent could begin to erupt. "The militias are going to start turning on the state, and they're going to start turning on each other," Khedery told Business Insider. "They're basically vultures who feasted on ethno-sectarian hatreds and high oil prices and patronage. And now they're going to have to start fighting each other for the scraps as the oil-funded pie has shrunk by more than 80%." SEE ALSO: HOW AN AUTHOR UNLOCKED THE SECRETS OF ONE OF AFRICA'S MOST OPPRESSIVE DICTATORSHIPS Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: An AT&T spokesperson and former refugee is now helping Syrian refugees in Greece
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GREEKS' faith in the European vision appears to have been particularly shaken, even if that was not directly reflected in the results of the last general ...
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Mr. Timoleon Kokkinos, Principal of the GREEK Afternoon School of St. Demetrios, Astoria, (left to right) President Triantafillou, and Rev. Vasilios Louros ...
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