How the world sees Greece
"Three sisters. A hunky Greek demigod. And a mantrap. Throw in a diva-the Oracle at Delphi-and you have We've Got Our Eye on You." Is how the show is being billed, but Mr. Cote prefers to refer to the work as a "post-modern-ancient-Greek-romp!" We've Got ...
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"You can clearly see that the living conditions are affecting the health of the children" With some 12,000 migrants massed at the Greek-Macedonian border, the most vulnerable residents of the makeshift refugee camp there are suffering the most. Living in ...
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The proceedings of the 5th Greek-Armenian Joint Interministerial Committee (JIC) on Economic, Industrial, Technological and Scientific Cooperation concluded in Athens on Friday, 4 March, presided over by Greece’s Deputy Foreign Minister for International Economic Relations, Dimitris Mardas, and Armenian Deputy Foreign Minister Garen Nazarian.The JIC looked at issues such as the upgrading of the bilateral institutional cooperation framework in the sectors of economy, transport, tourism, agriculture, SMEs, energy and the environment, and science and technology, as well as at broader cooperation within the framework of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC).
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(Reuters) – Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday. Austria ...
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The Finance Ministry in Athens says it plans to submit legislation offering VAT exemptions to businesses that offer donations and free services to ...
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Bulgaria will send more than 400 troops and security personnel to guard its border with Greece, amid fears the migrant flow along the Balkan route will ...
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This is the full text of a letter written by prominent émigrés to ministers in protest over the country’s role in border closures against refugees Austrians living and working in Greece, who feel deeply connected with this country, appeal to the Austrian government to take a more responsible position in dealing with the refugee crisis. Instead of putting on blinkers, pretending that by closing the borders the problem will go away, the situation has to be tackled head-on at a European level. The Austrian government needs to understand that individual, national approaches fail to produce results, also because solitary advances contradict the basic tenets of the European programme, which is meant to serve as the foundation for a new generation. Continue reading...
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Prominent group of academics, teachers and others write to ruling coalition saying they are deeply embarrassed by its role in unilateral border closures Greece’s Austrian community has issued a withering denunciation of Vienna’s strongarm approach to ...
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Doctors are warning that conditions at a makeshift refugee camp on the Greece-Macedonia border are becoming dangerous for children. Medics at the Idomeni camp say they have seen cases of a whole range of illnesses, including hypothermia. Around 12,000 people are stuck at the camp after Macedonia tightened their border controls in February.
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Senior EU diplomats said that in negotiations on Thursday with Frans Timmermans, the vice-president of the European commission, Turkish prime minister Ahmet Davutoğlu pledged that all "economic migrants" arriving in Greece and not qualifying for asylum ...
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A regional governor has called on the Greek government to declare a state of emergency for the area surrounding the Idomeni border crossing where thousands of refugees are stranded due to border restrictions along the route towards Western Europe.
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… says many migrants on the Greece-Macedonia border are living in flimsy … grows. Apostolos Tzitzikostas, governor of Greece's Central Macedonia region … emergency would facilitate aid supplies, Greek media report. Earlier, the EU …
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Media captionGavin Lee says many migrants on the Greece-Macedonia border are living in flimsy tents A regional governor in northern Greece has called for a state of emergency to be imposed on the border with Macedonia as the migrant crisis grows.
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"The Former Yugoslav Republic needs to open the borders immediately" Greece has been urged to declare a state of emergency on its border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia where some 12,000 migrants and refugees are stuck, unable to continue ...
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov arrives for a meeting with Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the city of Ramallah in the West Bank, ...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Greece needs to deliver quickly on its promise to provide accommodation for 50,000 refugees and the European Union should help Athens with this task, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a media interview published on Saturday.
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In a rare honor, New York City has renamed the street on which the National Herald sits, including in Greek, to mark its service.
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While European Union leaders argue over walls and quotas and what to do, Greece is still being invaded by endless refugees and migrants.
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Later on Thursday, Tusk was due in Ankara for talks with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, whom he will press for more "intensive" help in reducing the flow of people landing on Greek beaches. "It is all for nothing". According to him, "neither ...
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ATHENS: Greece returned to recession last year, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) confirmed on Friday, as gross domestic product declined 0.2 percent to 185 billion euros from 185.5 billion in 2014, the only year when GDP increased in the last ...
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Last September, Aylan Kurdi, who was 3 years old, was one of 14 Syrian refugees on board a boat that sank en route to Greek islands in the Aegean Sea. His body washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum. On the beach, as if he were sleeping ...
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The column krater from the GREEK colonies in the Apulian region of south Italy, dated to the late Classical era (360–350 B.C.) and attributed to the ...
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According to GREEK officials, Macedonia has allowed some 2,000 people through its borders in the last two weeks. The same number of people fleeing ...
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Athens (AFP) - The father of UEFA's new interim general secretary Theodore Theodoridis, a top official at Greek champions Olympiakos, has called on media to leave his son out of match-fixing talk concerning the club. "They should leave my son out of it ...
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told associates that he is satisfied with the outcome of the meeting between political leaders on the refugee crisis, but the opposition leaders seem to differ in opinion. Several negative statements from the opposition side leaked after the 8-hour meeting, presided by President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos. In
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The refugee and migrant crisis is a global problem that concerns all of Europe, not just Greece or Turkey, Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Friday in joint statements with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu, following their meeting in Athens. “We agreed that the refugee issue is not a Greek or Turkish issue, nor
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The Governor of a region in northern Greece is demanding that state of emergency be declared in the area around the Idomeni border crossing. At least 13 000 people are stranded on the border between Macedonia and Greece, as Macedonian authorities are applying restrictions to the flow of migrants for several weeks, local and international media quoted him as saying. Some 30 000 migrants are thought to be stuck across Greece, with the number expected to rise to 70 000 in March. Apostolos Tzitzikostas, the governor of the region of Central Macedonia, has called on the EU to act against countries that are closing borders. Macedonia is one of the countries on the Western Balkans migrant route that have been applying restrictions in the last few weeks, after Austria warned it would only let a limited number of migrants pass on a daily basis. Western Balkan countries have also been enforcing a ban on "economic migrants", i.e. people who don't come from Syria and Iraq. The move has resulted in thousands of people from Afghanistan, which is not in the list, being stuck on the Greece-Macedonia border.
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Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov on Saturday suggested Greece might make use of its northern neighbor's security forces to tackle the migrant crisis by cracking down on smugglers. Borisov commented on the migrant crisis after a joint drill between police and army officers in Southwestrn Bulgaria, at the border with Greece and not far from the one with Macedonia. Fifty units of military equipment (including two helicopters, SUVs, and armored vehicles) were used in the drill, along with vehicles used by the fire brigade and ambulances. "It is not only me who raises the issue to the Greek Prime Minister [Alexis Tsipras]," Borisov added, noting that every day Bulgarian border police officers detained "illegal immigrants and their smugglers". While praising cooperation with Turkish authorities on the migrant crisis, he noted the same cannot be said with regard to Greece, extending an offer to help Athens. "We cannot leave Greece, our neighbors, our friends, they have been brothers to us for centuries and will remain so." "If they want it, I can send them our [Chief Directorate for Combating Organized Crime] and [counter-intelligence and security agency] DANS and in a day smugglers will be dealt with," Borisov suggested. He explained Sofia would demand a united response to the crisis at the EU-Turkey summit due on Monday, March 07. Borisov added Sofia would insist again that "the term 'illegal migrant' should be appled in its leagal sence, in other words we cannot tolerate violation of the law. Only at the official border crossing points - and after footprints and medical care are taken, after we have a confirmed destination where they are welcome - will we let migrants in." "Based on what we have just seen, we can develop our plans further and guarantee to Bulgarian citizens that we stand at full alert during to react even in the worst situation of illegal crossing of the Bulgarian border on behalf of migrants," Interior Minister Rumyana Bachvarova told reporters. She added the exercise was aimed at examining deployment of forces "in a real situation" and coordinating effort of border police, riot police, and the Bulgarian Army.
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… and migrants are stuck in Greece due to progressive border closures … can cross the border from Greece. A woman and a boy … a makeshift camp at the Greek-Macedonian border on Friday. (Louisa Gouliamaki … but has been stranded in Greece for more than two weeks …
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… 29 (Reuters) - In the Greek myth of Sisyphus, he was …
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IDOMENI, Greece — A regional governor is asking the Greek government to declare a state of emergency for the area surrounding the Idomeni border crossing where thousands of migrants are stranded due to border restrictions along the route toward western ...
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An official of Germany's anti-Islam Pegida movement is being investigated for injuring a 75-year-old woman in the southern city of Munich, a police spokesman said Saturday, confirming media reports. Almost 1,000 migrants arrive in Greek port of Piraeus ...
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Reneging on yet another promise, the SYRIZA-led Greek coalition government is hiking income taxes for private workers who are being pounded.
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Greek Interior Minister Panayiotis Kouroublis said doctor protests against the government were good because they “need to lose some weight.”
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Apostolos Tzitzikostas, governor of the GREEK region of Central Macedonia, said 13,000-14,000 people are trapped in Idomeni and described the ...
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[Governor asks Greece to declare state of emergency]IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — A regional governor is asking the Greek government to declare a state of emergency for the area surrounding the Idomeni border crossing where thousands of migrants are stranded due to border restrictions along the route toward western Europe.
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Proceedings in Brussels over the coming week will be dominated by the European Union-Turkey summit on Monday, when EU leaders will meet with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu to discuss migration. The other main scheduled events are meetings of the ...
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Athens, March 5, 2016 (AFP) One of Greece's most renowned painters and academics, Panayiotis Tetsis, died in an Athens hospital early Saturday aged 91, state agency ANA said. Born on the Greek island of Hydra in 1925, Tetsis is best known for his seascapes ...
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Athens (dpa) - A further 975 migrants arrived in the GREEK port of Piraeus from the Aegean islands of Lesbos and Chios on Saturday morning, the ...
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… growth and recovering employment in Greece have disappeared. The debt-wracked nation … Greece to remain in the euro currency. "Today, we Greeks decide … on what Greece should do about its overstretched finances. Greece is no …
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As I flounder in the Aegean, gulping saltwater and watching my sailboat languidly bob farther and farther away from me, the reality dawns that Jack Sparrow may not be the most reliable of surrogate sailing instructors. Still at least the scenery more than ...
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The church of “Panagia Kakaviotissa” has made it in the feature “Greece’s 30 nicest churches.” The church located on Lemnos island, in the North Aegean, was named Kakaviotissa, after the mount “Kakavos” upon which it is built. The Greek ...
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Europe's most senior official for migration has told the BBC that Greece is "overwhelmed" by new arrivals and that the whole world must react. At least 2,000 new migrants are registered in Greece every day. But more than 10,000 are stranded on the northern ...
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ROME (Alliance News) - The number of migrants stranded in GREECE as a result of border closures in the Balkans could more than triple over the next ...
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The EU needs now to come to GREECE'S aid. If we're not able to manage this we actually put the entire EU cooperation at risk," Lofven told the Swedish ...
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At least 30,000 people fleeing conflict or poverty in the Middle East and beyond are bottled up in GREECE after Western Balkan states effectively closed ...
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Tsipras phone-call with US: country on the brink... Greece President Prokopis Pavlopoulos chaired a special meeting on Friday night with Greek political leaders at the presidential mansion discussing ways in which the country can proceed handling the ...
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… on the Macedonian - Greek border. Fico called Greece to be expelled … border toward Greece, have made him a scarecrow in Greece, which at … the European Union", the Greek Foreign Ministry writes in its …
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ATHENS, Greece – Greece's government says the … its emergency cash support to Greek lenders. Mardas said banks would … a daily ATM withdrawal cap. Greeks now can only take out …
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IDOMENI, GREECE — Papers clutched tightly in their hands, hundreds of frantic refugees clamor for the attention of Greek police to fix documents the ...
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