How the world sees Greece
The head of Greece’s central bank Yannis Stournaras has arrived in Sofia at the invitation of his Bulgarian counterpart Dimitar Radev. "The importance attributed by the Greek banks to the Bulgarian market is evident, as the share of Greek banks ...
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The Euro Working Group’s meeting in Helsinki, Finland, on Thursday focused on ironing out the details of the program review for Greece. Technocrats of the Euro Working Group came to a positive conclusion, paving the way for the release of 7.5 billion ...
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Co-founder of the Wilmington GREEK Festival Gerasimos Giannatos (left) and Byzantine chanter Anastasis Lazaridis (right) sit outside of the GREEK ...
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… can be found at 26 Greek Street in London's …
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Grilled sandwiches or panini are a delicious way to transform a basic sandwich into a culinary experience. Simple meats and cheeses on bread are not a new phenomena, but grilled using a panini press, stovetop or outdoor grill, a frying pan, or even a waffle iron, creates a warm, melty taste sensation everyone will enjoy.
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The Greek community of Utah celebrated the construction of Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, the first Greek Orthodox church in the state, built 111 years ago at 439 W. 400 South in Salt Lake City. A $7,000 loan for the construction was secured by the community, and the church was dedicated on October 29, 1905,
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Last November, Lehman went to the GREEK island of Lesbos, just off the Turkish coast. She had read of the developing emergency on Lesbos — no ...
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Alexander Jones, center, Mike Edmunds, right, and Yanis Bitsakis sit behind a possible reconstruction of the more than 2,000-year-old Antikythera Mechanism during a press conference in Athens, Thursday, June 9 , 2016. An international team of scientists ...
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GREEK fresh fruit and vegetable exports have recorded an increase of 37.8% in volume and 25% in value in the first quarter of 2016, compared to 2015.
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[Migrants sit at a makeshift camp staged near the port of Mytilene on the Greek island of Lesbos on April 15, 2016]UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will travel to the Greek island of Lesbos next week to meet with refugees and draw global attention to their plight.
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Brussels (AFP) - Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos on Thursday urged economic powerhouse Germany to invest more in Europe and help stimulate growth in the lacklustre European economy. "We have a northern economy who have zero interest rates and to ...
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… left-wing parties across Europe, from Greece’s Syriza to France’s … by the gruelling standoff between Greece’s left-wing Syriza government and … source of pro-Europe commentary. Is Greek humbling killing European dream? …
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… to Belgium, Russian Federation and Greece, 13-19 June New York, 9 … , on 16 June, and visiting Greece the following day. In Brussels … Secretary-General will travel to Athens, Greece, where he will meet with …
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Buffalo, N.Y. (WKBW) - Authentic Homemade Greek Specials - especially the Gyro Wrap which is a customer favorite! Serving breakfast lunch dinner and appetizers anytime . We make everything in house rice pudding and baklava as desserts. We are open 7 days ...
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In August 2015 Hala Gabriel talked to Mondoweiss about Road to Tantura, the documentary she is making about the massacre committed by Zionist forces in her ancestral village during the Nakba. Hala and her crew spent most of the month of March 2016 among ...
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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he will head to the Greek Island of Lesbos next week to assess the migrant situation and show his solidarity.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Whenever you're trying to fathom a mangled sample of very old hi-tech, it helps to have the manufacturer's instructions.
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[Migrants who will be returned to Turkey demonstrate inside the Moria registration centre on the Greek island of Lesbos]The tension is palpable on Greece's islands, where about 8,000 asylum seekers feel stranded by a European Union deal with Turkey to stem the arrival of refugees and other migrants on European shores from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond. The deal, hailed a success by its European architects, prevents migrants from going beyond Greece - or even its islands - in their search for a new home in Europe, until their asylum claims are processed and those rejected are sent back to Turkey, from where they arrived. In clashes on Lesbos the night of June 1-2, families with young children had to flee and spend the night in nearby fields or Mytilene town, several kilometres away, Amnesty International said.
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A pro-ISIS hacking group known as United Cyber Caliphate (UCC) published a fresh list of international targets from places around the world, including Greece. The list, written in English and Arabic, included the addresses of those targeted and e-mail ...
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[Pope Francis is hugged by migrants of the San Francesco association at the end of his weekly general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 8, 2016. (AP Photo/Fabio Frustaci)]ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The Latest on Europe's immigration crisis (all times local):
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Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos urged Germany to take advantage of record-low borrowing costs and invest more to spur the economy, saying Europe should seize the chance to modernize its infrastructure. “It just cannot be the case that in Germany ...
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[German police]Getty BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany is failing to deal with a surge in hate crimes such as attacks on asylum homes and there are signs "institutional racism" is a problem among law enforcement agencies, an Amnesty International report said on Thursday. The human rights group said that even before the influx of more than a million migrants to Germany last year, authorities had not adequately investigated, prosecuted or sentenced people for racist crimes. It pointed to the discovery in 2011 of a small neo-Nazi cell, the National Socialist Underground (NSU), which murdered nine immigrants and a policewoman between 2000 and 2007. "With hate crimes on the rise in Germany, long-standing and well-documented shortcomings in the response of law enforcement agencies to racist violence must be addressed," Amnesty researcher Marco Perolini said. Justice Minister Heiko Maas said his ministry would carefully evaluate Amnesty's report and examine whether action needed to be taken. "One thing is clear - a state under the rule of law can never accept racist violence. We need to do everything we can to quickly catch the perpetrators and rigorously punish them," he said in an emailed statement. After a 19-month inquiry into the NSU, a parliamentary committee said a combination of bungled investigations and prejudice enabled the NSU to go undetected for more than a decade. The Amnesty report said Germany should set up an independent public inquiry to look over the NSU investigations as well as how Germany classifies and investigates hate crimes. It said part of the problem was that there was a high bar on considering a crime racist in Germany and treating it as such. Attacks on asylum shelters surged to 1,031 in 2015, up from 199 in the prior year and 69 in 2013, data from the Interior Ministry shows. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere has said the number is likely to rise again this year, with 347 such attacks registered in the first quarter of 2016 alone. While refugees who arrived in Munich last September were applauded and handed sweets, the mood has since soured, with concerns about integration and security rife, and support for the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) rising. About six anti-refugee protests took place every week in 2015, Amnesty International said. NOW WATCH: An AT&T spokesperson and former refugee is now helping Syrian refugees in Greece
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Macedonian Defense Minister Zoran Jolevski said that the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) is “committed” to finding a mutually acceptable solution for the long-running name dispute with Greece. In Washington, Jolevski took part in the NATO conference titled “The Future of NATO Enlargement and New Frontiers in European Security.” He referred to Greece in
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Education Minister Nikos Filis called the upcoming protest rally of the “Resign!” movement as “verging on the limits of constitutional tolerance.” The minister’s comment created a stir with the rally organizers claiming that Filis is trying to ban the rally, or undermine it by using shameless propaganda methods. The “Resign!” rally is scheduled to take
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… Wilmington writer who traveled to Greece earlier this year to work … crowded into tent cities in Greece, waiting to reach other locations … camp near the Greek village of Idomeni on the Greek-Macedonian border. Since …
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ATHENS, Jun 9 2016 (IPS) - Closure of the Western Balkans route has trapped tens of thousands of refugees heading to Central and Northern Europe in Greece, including many unaccompanied minors who either escaped from war zones after having lost their ...
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This report elaborates Greece's power market structure and provides historical and forecast numbers for generation, capacity and consumption up to 2030. Detailed analysis of the Greece power market’s regulatory structure, import and export trends ...
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Nottingham Forest are understood to have registered an offer of 1.2m euros for Apostolos Vellios – but still face competition for the GREEK striker.
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BRUSSELS, June 9 (Reuters) - The eventual winding up of the European Central Bank's massive bond-buying programme will create problems for ...
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The Future of Retailing in Greece to 2020" is based upon an extensive, cross-country, industry research program which brings together Verdict Retail’s research, modeling, and analysis expertise in order to develop uniquely detailed market data.
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities say they have returned 13 Syrian refugees to Turkey under an agreement between that country and the European Union to stop the flow of migrants and refugees to Europe.
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The rest of the world’s view of Latin America has never been straightforward or transparent, and all the more so in a crisis. As Venezuela endures runaway inflation, food shortages and political upheaval, disingenuous polarisation is on display. On one side, the bulk of the mainstream media coverage emphasises the themes of corruption and crisis, constantly reiterating that it’s the sometimes authoritarian “socialist project” that has driven certain Latin American countries to the brink of disaster. On the other, many left-wing voices argue that the whole thing is a US-backed confection, a neoliberal conspiracy to overthrow progressive governments that are making a difference in that continent. Both camps make extravagant references to history: while the mainstream media invokes the collapse of state socialism in the former Soviet Union, the left points to the US’s regime change policies in Guatemala, Chile and Nicaragua. But contrary to what both sides claim, the situation is far more complex than either cares to acknowledge. Let’s start by debunking the scaremongering against populist policies. If Latin America at large really is on the verge of another monumental economic crisis, this is not just thanks to the failure of a particular model, nor a set of populist policies gone haywire. As it has always been, the continent is highly dependent on international commodity prices, as well as on state institutions too weak to perform well in a crisis. This has all been exacerbated by the volatility of globalisation, and the rise of neoliberal ideology as the default global economic order. Indeed, many journalists seem to forget that leaders such as Hugo Chávez did not come out from the blue. They were the result of decades of neoliberal governments who failed to modernise their economies or improve living standards. As economist Mark Blyth has put it, austerity has been a dangerous idea throughout recent history, and particularly in Latin America. As a journalist, I witnessed at first hand the disastrous effects of the structural adjustment programmes foisted on Latin America by economists such as Jeffrey Sachs (now seemly a convert to the other side) and imposed by institutions such as the IMF and the World Bank. The 1989 riots in Caracas and the political and economic instability that followed cannot be separated from this history. So no joy for those media outlets in Europe, such as Spain’s El Pais and El Mundo, which have splashed with a story about the chaos in Venezuela almost every single day for the past few months. As much as these media outlets would want to use the ongoing crisis in Venezuela to demonise their own leftist radicals, Pablo Iglesias’s Podemos, this simply doesn’t amount to a solid argument against anti-austerity policies. Austerity, as many serious economists have now argued, has failed in many places across Europe as well as in Latin America. It’s a cruel fate indeed to subject the people of Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece to these often unworkable and destructive programmes, and to punish them for their bankers' and past governments' corruption and incompetence. But even with all the double standards and selective readings of history that bedivil the establishment media, the left isn’t off the hook. MAKING EXCUSES Many of the left’s most respected voices have joined an irresponsible campaign to dampen any criticism of leftist Latin American governments with revisionism and relativism. The fact remains that these governments' redistributive policies were unsustainable not just because of meddling by outside powers, but because most of them failed to diversify their economies or increase productivity. If anything, their populist leaders have only undermined their countries' institutions by insisting on indefinite re-election, taking absolute control of other branches of power, and almost completely disregarding standard legal procedure. And yet, people such as Tariq Ali, Oliver Stone, and John Pilger – as well as many academic colleagues whom I otherwise respect and admire – have rushed to defend the indefensible. Showing much the same sort of bias the mainstream media had shown in the past, and often speaking on networks such as TeleSur, Russia’s RT and Iran’s Press TV, they are apparently happy to side with deeply corrupt and undemocratic governments and leaders who cynically claim to speak with the voice of the people. We’ve been here before. More than a few leftist intellectuals supported Josef Stalin, Mao Tse-Tung, the Khmer Rouge and the like, saying that it was all Western propaganda. Talking about the decline of socialism in Latin America today, some of the same voices point to the very real CIA-sponsored overthrow of Salvador Allende’s government in Chile; if it happened once, they say, it can happen again. Which is perhaps why many of them, despite all the hard evidence of his human rights violations and deliberate targeting of civilians, are giving Maduro their support. This is a deadly mixture of ideological blindness, political naïvety and intellectual dishonesty that does progressive causes no favour. They should know better. [The Conversation] _Jairo Lugo-Ocando does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above._
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- People of all ages will line up for GREEK food and GREEK fun during the GREEK Festival in Overland Park Friday, June 10 through ...
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Europe’s beggaring of Greece has rattled British left-wingers, dismaying the Europhile and emboldening the Eurosceptic. Where they will stand in a referendum campaign dominated by right-wingers will determine the outcome of the June 23 vote.
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GREECE'S unemployment rate dropped for the second successive month in March – though marginally – according to data from the Hellenic Statistical ...
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For $599 per person, this five-night summer vacation in GREECE includes a luxe stay in Athens plus a beach-hopping cruise to some of the chicest ...
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Dana Sachs said she plans to give a slide presentation and talk about her experiences beginning 7 p.m. Tuesday in Thalian Hall's Stein Theatre.
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* ECB’s Draghi says eurozone is at risk of lasting damage * European markets fall * UK trade deficit narrows unexpectedly * George Soros: Brexit would trigger EU collapse * Poorest would be hit hard by Brexit costs, NIESR claims * US jobless claims fall more sharply than expected 2.08pm BST LAITH KHALAF, SENIOR ANALYST, HARGREAVES LANSDOWN, HAS A TAKE ON THE DROP IN 10-YEAR UK BOND YIELDS TO A RECORD LOW. While all eyes have been on the EU referendum campaign, gilt yields have been slipping, fast. The US Federal Reserve is backing away from interest rate rises following wavering employment data, and in Europe the central bank is pumping billions of euros into the bond market every month in the form of quantitative easing, both of which have served to drive yields down. 2.02pm BST Back at the Brussels Economic Forum, EUROPEAN COMMISSIONER PIERRE MOSCOVICI AND GREEK FINANCE MINISTER EUCLID TSAKALOTOS have both identified Brexit as a potential crisis facing Europe. Moscovici: A year ago we were talking about Grexit, now we are talking about positive integration. There are several crises around... Brexit, hopefully it will be remain but we await that... Continue reading...
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… Africa, from the Island of Crete to the Vineyards of Cape … Africa, from the Island of Crete to the Vineyards of Cape … vintage aircraft will depart from Crete in Greece bound for Cape Town … month before the departure from Crete. Please come to Horse Guards …
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… former TOWIE star headed to Crete to enjoy a well-deserved baby … the couple jetted off to Crete, with the reality star sharing … her pre-holiday excitement Exploring the Greek town and its sights, Maria …
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… project for refugees stranded in Greece. Meals were distributed in four … the conditions of refugees in Greece during Ramadan, and assist the …
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Rain or shine, St. Sophia will be ready to welcome families and friends Thursday, June 9th from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, June 10th from 5 p.m. to 10 ...
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A GREEK Orthodox church on Crete has been vandalised and smeared with faeces by attackers claiming to be followers of Zeus. Icons in the Church of ...
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It's been a combination of hard work and family fun, while it's a tradition that has gone on for more than 40 years. The 43rd annual GREEK Cultural ...
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The apricot season has recently kicked off for the GREEK company Nespar, which grows the Bora (since 2013), Faralia, Farbaly, Fardao and Bebeco ...
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Greece has signed a 915-million euro deal to develop the old Ellinikon international airport site into a luxury development and park.
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A near six-month long strike by Greek lawyers upset over reforms has created a 10-year-backlog in court cases and growing fast.
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Battered after reneging on anti-austerity promises, Greece’s ruling Radical Left SYRIZA wants to change the Constitution’s election laws.
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Greece and Turkey are trading shots over readings of the Koran in the ancient Haghia Sophia in Constantinople and religious freedoms.
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With more than 54,000 migrants and refugees stuck in the country, Greek officials have started a new plan to process asylum applications.
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