How the world sees Greece
ATHENS, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- The Greek privatization fund announced on Wednesday that China's COSCO was formally declared the preferred investor for the privatization of Greece's largest port, Piraeus. The board of directors of the Hellenic Republic Asset ...
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Three lawmakers of GREEK neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn have been ejected from a parliamentary committee briefing after insulting the defense ...
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Sofia. “I find the actions of GREEK protesters and authorities disgraceful to the furthest degree.” That is what Bulgarian Minister of Transport, Information ...
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In its intensity and scope, “A View from the Bridge” is Miller's play that most nearly resembles a GREEK tragedy — and as with a GREEK tragedy, ...
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A prominent GREEK journalist and dissident during the GREEK military junta, Elias P. Demetracopoulos died from natural causes in his home country ...
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GREEK Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras condemned the terror attack that killed at least 28 people and injured 61 others in Turkey's capital Ankara on ...
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Kammenos said four of the island centers - where migrants will be led and screened to eliminate identity fraud - are now functional, while the fifth was delayed by protesting islanders and will be ready in five days. As in Kos - where riot police fired ...
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NEW YORK – Michael Jaharis, industrialist, philanthropist, churchman, and patron of the arts, fell asleep in the Lord on February 17. He served for many years as Vice Chairman of the Archdiocesan Council of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America. At the dedication of the Jaharis Family Center for Biomedical and Nutrition Sciences on […] The post Michael Jaharis Falls Asleep in the Lord, is Mourned by Community, Family, and Friends appeared first on The National Herald.
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[Greece Greek Pharmacist Drugs]REUTERS/John Kolesidis The drugs you need to treat your asthma or migraines could be at risk of running out or being swapped for another medication. That's because hospitals and pharmacies are facing shortages in drugs that lead them to make tough decisions about how to make the most of what's available. C. Michael White, a pharmacist and professor at the University of Connecticut told Business Insider this problem has become more prevalent in the last decade, driven mainly by a decrease in competition among generic companies. And it's not relegated to one disease area: The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) lists 150 compounds that are currently facing shortages. The list includes everything from antibiotics to vaccines to cancer medications. Last month, The New York Times reported an instance at Johns Hopkins Hospital in which pharmacists were faced with the troubling decision of whether they should give smaller doses of medication to multiple children or give the same amount of medication to one adult. "The discussions became, 'Why are two kids more important than one adult?'" Dr. Kenneth Cohen, the clinical director of pediatric oncology at the hospital, told the Times. If drug shortages continue, the results could become even more intense — and would likely affect far more people, from inaccessible medications to others that will come at a much higher cost. "The result could be disastrous," said White. "There would be more shortages, and generic drug costs would not go down as significantly as they had in the past." THE CULPRIT The ASHP cites a number of reasons for the shortages. Most are related to manufacturing problems. Sometimes, some of the companies who make large portions of the drug simply stop making it. Other times, a drug is only being produced by a single manufacturer. And therein lies the problem: There simply are not enough companies making the drug to keep up with demand. It's all part of a consolidation of the manufacturers who produce generic drugs. US generic companies have had a harder time turning a profit on generic drugs while competing with companies outside the US that are able to make the same drugs at a cheaper cost. That's caused manufacturers to home in on certain generic drugs and discontinue others that don't make as much money. And if a generic manufacturer has a shortage, there's no easy fix — you can't just pass off the job to another company while the first fixes its problems, since getting approval to take on a new drug can take years. "It isn’t like, if you have a home business making cookies, and a competitor goes out of business, you can just bake more cookies," White said. [PILLS MONEY]REUTERS/JOHN KOLESIDISFINDING ALTERNATIVES Pharmacists are facing a mounting dilemma. Instead of stocking up on life-saving medications ahead of time, health care providers are only able to order on a week-to-week basis. They're also having to make tough decisions about how to treat their patients with the amount of a drug that's available. In the event of a shortage, some medications can be substituted with alternatives. These alternatives can either come in the form of another, similar medication or a combination of other, "compounded" formulations of drugs. Compounded drugs, while sometimes safe, aren't always a good idea. Nevertheless, given recent drug shortages, they've become increasingly common. To make a compounded drug, pharmacists make specific combinations for specific patients (for example, if a patient can't swallow, they'll substitute a pill with a liquid version of the same medication by making their own versions of the drugs). And the US government doesn't regulate this process as closely as it does the process for making generic or branded drugs. More than just the safety concerns over how the new versions of the drug are made, White said using compounded pharmaceuticals is "inefficient," and ultimately more expensive. When pharmacists have to make their own versions, it takes more time and energy and can cause more confusion when it's time to give it to a patient, since different versions of the same drug might appear in different packages or colors on the shelf. THE SOLUTION The best chance we have at ending drug shortages, then, is mending the generic drug business. "Generic drugs have saved billions and billions to the US consumer, but we might have to look more carefully at what is a reasonable price point what allows manufacturers to have a level of profitability," White said. By setting up a better infrastructure for generic drugmakers, the US has the potential to kill two birds with one stone: drug shortages AND drug price gouging. "[Overseas competition and consolidation aren't] just bad for drug shortages, it’s also bad for drug prices," White said. When there isn't more than one generic out there, manufacturers don’t have to price it at much less than the original branded drug. "That’s why some of the Wall Street hedge fund people started getting in to business of buying generics where they were the only ones manufacturing." Turning the tide against these practices won't be easy and single-faceted, but being able to pull it off could save health care providers a fair amount of daily strife. NOW WATCH: This recent discovery at Stonehenge clears up a huge misconception about the monument
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The Greek government has delivered at the last minute. Just ahead of the EU Summit in Brussels, the government has unveiled all its new reception centers conceived to stem the refugee flow. "We're proud that in just ten days, the army has been able to ...
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Anchorage, AK- Anchorage's annual GREEK Gala kicks off on March 5th, 2016. The event is an elegant evening of dinner and dancing, and is being ...
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It is a fact that in the year 2016, the majority of young people in Greece are trapped in the whirl of unemployment and illegal labor. However, there are also cases of youngsters who manage to stand out, one way or another. In this article I am going to ...
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In light of the Syriza-led government’s plans to restructure the country’s media landscape, New Democracy’s newly elected president Kyriakos Mitsotakis made an announcement today to the Greek website liberal.gr in which he says that “one of the most precious goods that need to be defended in a democratic society is freedom of the press…and the
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Last week, former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis launched in Berlin with much fanfare his new political movement, DIEM25, a pan-European movement with the aim of democratizing Europe within one decade. However, Varoufakis’ new undertaking has a lot of people wondering what actually drives this man’s politics as he is all over the field. He
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A Baltimore Greek food favorite transitions well into a fast-casual setting. You can't beat the charm and old-world ambience at Samos in Greektown, which opened in 1977 when Baltimore Mayor William Donald Schaefer was shaping the city. Then and now, diners ...
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Prague. Management of the Association of Czech Travel Agents announced this year in the Czech Republic sales of “last minute” tourist packages in ...
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KEELPNO said 108 H1N1 patients were being treated in intensive care units across GREECE. The virus is expected to peak by the end of February, the ...
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Blagoevgrad. I cannot speak with a hundred drunken farmers and the GREEK authorities to abdicate the problem. That is what Transport Minister Ivaylo ...
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Deputy Foreign Minister Ioannis Amanatidis met at the Foreign Ministry today, Wednesday, 17 February 2016, with the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer.During their constructive conversation, they looked at ways in which the International Committee of the Red Cross can more effectively assist the Greek government in its efforts to deal with the refugee crisis.Mr. Maurer expressed his admiration for the compassion shown by the islanders of the northern Aegean and for the Greek state’s actions, recognizing the significant progress that has been made in managing refugee flows.Mr. Amanatidis underscored that “if the deeper causes...
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The events spanned the entire day, beginning with a white breakfast at Amarante’s Sea Cliff for all members, alumnae initiates, visiting members, national volunteers, and headquarters staff. Members wore all white and enjoyed breakfast together as ...
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The fourth European round of the Men's Water Polo World League 2016, held in various places on Tuesday February 16, confirmed GREECE, Serbia ...
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Back in September, we named Helen GREEK Food & Wine Houston's best new restaurant of 2015. It looks like the folks at the James Beard Foundation ...
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It's a re-imagining of the GREEK tragedy Antigone by Sophocles. Antigone's brothers have killed each other fighting on different sides of a war.
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The refugee issue dominated a meeting between main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the president of the European Parliament Martin Schulz on Wednesday in Brussels. Mitsotakis underlined that Greece‘s northern borders should not ...
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One year after Syriza was elected promising change and an end to harsh austerity, the Greek ruling party faces tremendous pushback from a populace that is resisting efforts to impose additional cuts and austerity measures. Throughout Greece, farmers have ...
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Maltzahn attributed the drop to the negative publicity GREECE gets on a daily basis in the German media due to the migration issue. This has dissuaded ...
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… have been blockading highways across Greece for weeks to protest a … Turkey and Greece after farmers blockaded a crossing on the Greek-Turkish border … to meet the conditions of Greece's third international bailout …
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A four-year-old boy died on a boat crossing the Aegean Sea, the Greek coastguard said on Feb. 17, as the flow of refugees and migrants increased again after a brief lull
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Three lawmakers of Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn were ejected from a parliamentary committee briefing on Feb. 17 after insulting the defence minister and the head of the army, officials said
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The co-leader of the Kurdish-problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) accused the European Union of turning a blind eye to human rights violations in Turkey in a doomed bid for a solution to its migrant crisis, in an interview with the Greek newspaper on Feb. 17
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In the summer of 2012, Monika Christodoulou was locked in a fight for her life. The singer-songwriter was on a boat trip with four friends off the coast of her hometown in Athens, Greece, where a pair of folk-pop albums had already catapulted her to ...
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Over the past weekend, Greek farmers and others held a massive, (mostly) non violent flag waving, anti-tax, anti-price control, anti-pension payout cuts, protest in Athens. Tens of thousands of farmers from all over Greece traveled to Athens to rally in ...
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Germany’s Angela Merkel is trying to salvage her open-door policy as a growing number of countries move to seal borders Europe’s deep divide over immigration is to be laid bare at an EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, with German chancellor Angela Merkel struggling to salvage her open-door policy while a growing number of countries move to seal borders to newcomers along the Balkan routes. A debate on the migration crisis over dinner on Thursday evening will do little to resolve the differences, senior EU officials predict. Donald Tusk, the president of the European council, has avoided putting any new decisions on the agenda in an attempt to avoid fresh arguments. Related: EU migration crisis: Greece threatened with Schengen area expulsion Related: Pressure to resolve migration crisis could tear EU apart Continue reading...
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Readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific concepts We know that in ancient Rome and Greece they had die-stamped coins. Why then did it take until the 15th century for mankind to invent the printing press? _Kris Jones, London, W14_ Continue reading...
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Certainly it΄s possible for Greece to come out of the crisis and achieve a better growth path which is important because we need jobs and GREEK ...
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The Turkish Air Force has violated GREEK airspace more than 20 times, with two cases of "virtual air battles." All of these events took place on Monday, ...
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[Elsa Hosk]Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images It's no secret that Victoria's Secret Angels work arduously to get into killer shape for the annual Victoria's Secret Fashion Show. But being an Angel is a full time gig; the work doesn't stop once the show is over. Just in time for New York's Fashion Week, Elsa Hosk caught up with StyleCaster to fill them in on what she eats in a day. She doesn't give away exact portions, but it's likely that she exercises ample portion control. Here's what she told StyleCaster: BREAKFAST: She said she ate eggs and bacon LUNCH: She said she ate a tomato and mozzarella panini and lentil soup. DINNER: She told the website that she went out to eat at a restaurant in New York City's trendy Tribeca called The Greek, and that she ordered a salad with potato, cucumber, and feta cheese, fried cheese, and chicken skewers with a rice pilaf. She said that's her favorite restaurant. The restaurant indicates if food is vegan, vegetarian, contains fish, or if it's is gluten free. (There also appears to be no prices on the website, although it's likely it's quite pricey.) [elsa hosk victoria's secret]Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images She also divulged a few contradictory diet practices — she said she's been consuming green smoothies for snacks during Fashion Week, and that her favorite snack is "tzatziki and carrots, and smoothies." However, she separately said that she doesn't snack, but rather, she aims to "survive." Her words, via StyleCaster: "I don’t usually snack at all. I have main meals, and I make sure I eat a lot so I survive to the next meal." She also is a huge fan of Juice Press, although she told StyleCaster she was not a fan of "juice cleanses without solid food." Unsurprisingly, she works out a ton. She told StyleCaster she prefers boxing and basketball, which makes sense — before she was a Victoria's Secret Angel, she was a basketball player. NOW WATCH: A model for Victoria’s Secret’s biggest competitor is taking on her critics
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IT IS a “myth” that Greek shipowners are not taxed and fears that Greece’s regime for the industry is under mortal attack have been exaggerated, a leading maritime lawyer in Piraeus has said.Taxes, particularly in the form of mandatory solidarity ...
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Greece has birthed numerous well-known scientists, however, due to its current situation the country is not able to support them in their careers, forcing most of them to move to other countries, noted Greek physicist Dr. Eleftherios Goulielmakis ...
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Cambridge academic’s new book disputes that atheism is a ‘modern invention’ and sets out evidence that ‘disbelief in the supernatural is as old as the hills’ Atheism is not a modern invention from the western Enlightenment, but actually dates back to the ancient world, according to a new book by a Cambridge academic – which challenges the assumption that humanity is naturally predisposed to believe in gods. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh, professor of Greek culture at Cambridge University, lays out a series of examples showing that atheism existed in polytheistic ancient Greece. It is, according to its author, partly “an attempt to excavate ancient atheism from underneath the rubble heaped on it by millennia of Christian opprobrium”. Continue reading...
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BERLIN (AP) — Chancellor Angela Merkel said Wednesday that it's in Germany's national interest for Britain to remain in the European Union, and she also pressed her fellow European leaders to work with Turkey to curb the migrant influx. An EU summit on Thursday and Friday aims to reach an agreement on a package of measures to keep Britain in the 28-nation bloc, and Merkel hopes to make some headway toward an elusive European solution of the migrant crisis. In a speech to parliament, Merkel painted a largely positive picture of chances of an agreement on Britain's EU reform demands. [...] she said, the key issue is to work with Turkey to try to stem the flow of migrants across the Aegean Sea to EU member Greece — a crossing that more than a million people made last year — rather than shutting down Greece's northern border with Macedonia.
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“The most important thing is trust. If investors feel secure about the future of the country, then they will begin investing,” says European Commission Vice-President Jyrki Katainen, responsible for Jobs, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness, to Berlin and Frankfurt, in an interview in today’s Capital.gr. At the same time, Jyrki Katainen says that “things in Greece
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According to the Hürriyet daily, Turkey and GREECE had a “mini crisis” before Tsipras's visit to Iran on Feb. 7, with the military plane carrying Tsipras not ...
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More than 400 people drowned off the coast of GREECE in January. More than 30 of these happened off the coast of Samos. The crossings are made ...
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A California-based company geared toward Greek organizations, fraternities and sororities, is offering huge discounts on its products in February. Representatives with Letters Yard announced today that for the month of February, it is offering 15 percent ...
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Angry Bulgarian truckers blocked off the country's main border checkpoint with Greece on Wednesday to protest against weeks of blockades by GREEK ...
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The GREEK border descended into chaos today as truckers in Bulgaria set up a road blockade in retaliation for weeks of similar protests on the ...
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Greek consumer prices continued to decline …
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Fine Gael TD and Meath East candidate Helen McEntee welcomes Taoiseach Enda Kenny to her constituency offices in Kells. Photo: Frank McGrath.
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