How the world sees Greece
Athens has sought out bids for a ship that could house at least 1,000 migrants after a fire tore through a refugee camp. Police have arrested nine people in connection with the devastating blaze. The Greek government on Tuesday said it would send up to ...
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Greek drivers are attached to their cars with 54 percent of those questioned stating that their car was more necessary to them than their cell phone, when questioned by Lease Plan Hellas in a study held in collaboration with TNS ICAP. Though the average ...
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In the framework of the 71st Session and the high-level Week of the UN General Assembly in New York City, Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias met, on Tuesday September 20th, with Bolivian Foreign Affairs Minister David Choquehuanca Céspedes. During this meeting, the two Ministers discussed a range of issues of mutual and global concern and looked into current scope to boost bilateral cooperation. The two Ministers had the opportunity to talk about the Greek initiative of establishing the GC10, an Organisation of the ten oldest world cultures and civilisations, including Bolivia’s. Actually, Foreign Minister Kotzias extended an invitation for...
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Dear Prime Minister, I welcome you to New York and wholeheartedly wish you success in your efforts for the good of the country. I also hope that during... The post An open letter to the Prime Minister of Greece appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, speaking from the podium of the 71st UN general assembly on Monday, warned the international community that if it fails to deal with the current refugee / migrant crisis, then it will merely allow nationalist and ...
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Thousands of asylum seekers are without even basic shelter in Greece after a fire swept through a large refugee camp in Monday night. By midday Tuesday much of the Moria camp on the island of Lesbos was destroyed. FSRN’s Nell Abram has more. Nell Abram ...
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POTAMóS, Greece, Sept. 20 (UPI) --In the second quarter of the 1st century B.C., a Greek cargo ship sank off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera in the Aegean Sea. This summer, researchers pulled most of a human skeleton from the wreckage.
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Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, on Monday tweeted a picture of a white bowl filled with the popular, rainbow-colored Skittles candies. Written above the image is: “If I had a bowl of skittles and I told you just three would kill you.
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As regards travel services in Greece during July 2016, both receipts and non-residents' arrivals declined by 3.5% and 2% respectively, according to the Bank of Greece. The same data show that in July 2016, the current account showed a surplus of €1.4 ...
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Daily Mail presents the best Mediterranean cruises for 2017 with Greek destinations prevailing in an article entitled "From admiring the whitewashed churches of Santorini to partying in Mykonos: The best Mediterranean cruises revealed" The British ...
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Elyanow's point of departure is the GREEK tragedy of Medea: the woman who murdered her own children in a vengeful furor after her husband, Jason, ...
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Wanna be a hero for a gyro? Get out your credit card. New restaurant Meraki Greek Street Food recently launched a Kickstarter campaign to raise $7,500. Planned for the former Proto’s Pizza spot at 345 S. 8th St. in Boise, Meraki will serve gyros and ...
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YERUSHALAYIM - President Reuven Rivlin on Tuesday met in his office with Lana Karrer, daughter of Loukas Karrer who served as Mayor of the Greek island of Zakynthos during the Nazi occupation of the island. Mayor Karrer, together with the local bishop, was ...
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2016 Olympic gold medalist and wrestling champion Helen Maroulis chatted with Greek-American journalist Markos Papdatos about her historic win at Rio de Janeiro, and she offered advice for wrestling hopefuls. On August 18, she bested three-time defending ...
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The 81st annual Greek Dinner Festival is Thursday, Friday and Saturday at Spokane’s Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church. The event, started in 1935, sees more than 1,000 visitors each of the three days. Dine in or carry out: Beef kapama, orzo with browned ...
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Children have been moved from the Moria camp to another facility after clashes and a huge fire at the camp. Amnesty International welcome the move, but say a number of migrants were forced to "sleep rough" and calls on the Greek authorities "to provide ...
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ATHENS ― For months, aid organizations warned of deplorable conditions at Moria camp, an outdoor Greek detention center housing some 4,000 migrants and refugees on the island of Lesbos. They slammed an asylum process that caused refugees to languish.
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Alternate Finance Minister Tryfon Alexiadis submitted figures to Greek Parliament on Monday showing that in the region of Attica alone, where Athens is located, there are eight out of 10 public properties that have been breached by private parties. Data shows that millions of square meters of land have been usurped making it difficult for […]
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The Parents and Guardians Association of the 2nd Primary School of Philippiada, northern Greece, have expressed their objections to the refugee integration program at their children’s school. The objections come just a week following similar complaints by the parents of two schools in the region of Oreokoastro. The parents have submitted numerous reasons explaining why […]
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Ukraine and GREECE have agreed to start jointly designing feasibility aspects for the organization of a ferry between the two countries. According to a ...
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ATHENS, Greece – The GREEK government on Tuesday said that it would send ships to Lesbos to act as temporary accommodation for refugees after ...
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Source: www.theatlantic.com - Tuesday, September 20, 2016 “It’s time to recognize that we cannot go on as before,” the head of the UN’s refugee agency declared on Monday, at the UN General Assembly’s first-ever Summit for Refugees and Migrants in New York. “This summit could not be more urgent,” Filippo Grandi added. What he didn’t mention is that “time” and “urgency” have starkly different meanings in the stately halls of the United Nations than in the refugee camps of Greece and Turkey and Lebanon and Kenya. Crisis had brought Grandi to the microphone: One in every 113 people in the world today has been driven from home by violence, persecution, or human-rights violations. Last year, on average, 24 people fled these conditions each minute . More than 65 million people (roughly the equivalent of the United Kingdom’s population) have been uprooted within their country or forced to seek refuge outside their country. This corresponds to the highest share of the global population that has been forcibly displaced since the United Nations started tracking such statistics in 1951. Chronic conflicts in countries like Syria, Afghanistan, and Somalia have swelled the ranks of the dispossessed, the vast majority of whom now live in limbo—displaced but not yet permanently resettled—in Africa and the Middle East . UN officials have characterized the one-day summit of world leaders as a “ breakthrough ” and a “ game-changer .” But the document that emerged from the meeting—the fancy-sounding New Yor All Related
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With recruitment coming in the next few weeks, Greek Life hosted an information night on Sept. 13 to answer questions and encourage students to join. During the event, students could speak with members of the fraternities and sororities on campus.
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The current tourist season is expected to be a positive one, the president of the Hellenic Hoteliers Federation Yiannis Retsos told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency. However, he explained that the revenues... The post Greek Tourism Revenue Up in 2016 appeared first on The National Herald.
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Budget airline Ryanair has accused the Greek government of ignoring its attempts to talk about reducing airport taxes in the low season in return for increased flights. Ryanair’s Chief Commercial Officer, David O’Brien, told Euronews Greek airport ...
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A non-governmental organization (NGO) in China opened an exhibition in Shanghai this week of paintings by Syrian children to raise awareness about the migrant crisis in the war-torn country. The Chinese Initiative on International Law, an independent NGO, obtained the paintings when its founder Liu Yiqiang and his team researched Syrian refugees in Greece and Turkey. After a request from a refugee centre, Liu's team brought 50 paintings by Syrian children back to China and put 30 of them on display in Shanghai on Monday.
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ABU DHABI // Emirates Red Crescent is ready to start welcoming Syrian refugees at one of two camps it is setting up in GREECE. Dr Mohammed Al ...
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Like many diaspora GREEKS, Constantine and Patricia Mavroyannis from Montreal are concerned with what's happening to young people in Greece ...
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Greece is under pressure to care for a tide of unaccompanied refugee children from babies to teenagers arriving on its shores. The reason why so many are alone varies. Some of them have lost parents in conflict, others saw them die during the hazadous ...
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… 160,000 asylum-seekers mainly from Greece and Italy to other European … Moria reception centre on the Greek island of Lesvos on Monday … and frustration among asylum-seekers in Greece. On islands like Lesvos, the …
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… 2,000-year-old shipwreck off the Greek island of Antikythera are expected …
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… have long complained of overcrowding. Greek shipping minister Thodoris Dritsas said … Monday remains unclear. According to Greek news agency ANA, a brawl … the sea", according to Greek website Kathimerini.
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Fianlly! The European Commission found a solution for the Migration crisis in Greece and the Greek islands. During a press conference on Tuesday, the EC coordinating spokesperson, Natasha Bertaud, revealed the well-hidden plans: EU Commission spo Bertaud says migrants will remain on islands "as much as possible" #Greece #Lesvos pic.twitter.com/Vtj2MsxeKK […]
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[WELLS FARGO JOHN STUMPF]WELCOME TO FINANCE INSIDER, BUSINESS INSIDER'S SUMMARY OF THE TOP STORIES OF THE PAST 24 HOURS. _TO SIGN UP, SCROLL TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE AND CLICK "GET UPDATES IN YOUR INBOX," OR CLICK HERE._ Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is in front of the Senate Banking Committee to answer questions about fraudulent accounts opened by Wells employees. Here's what you need to know: * Hillary Clinton on Tuesday published an open letter to Wells Fargo customers, slamming the bank's illegal account openings and outlining what should happen next. * Stumpf said the business was dealing with the issue for a number of years before he knew of it. "If I could turn the clock back, I, we all, wish we had done something earlier," said Stumpf. * Sen. Elizabeth Warren lit into Stumpf, saying he had exemplified "gutless leadership" and he should be personally "criminally investigated" for the scandal. Sen. Jeff Merkley also called for Stumpf's resignation. * You can follow our live coverage here. * Here's Business Insider's Linette Lopez on why people on Wall Street cheat over and over again. A changing of the guard is taking place at Goldman Sachs. The securities division, which houses the bank's equities and fixed income, currencies, and commodities units, has seen at least 18 partner-level departures from key roles in the US and Europe in 2016. You can read all about the quiet shake-up taking place at the bank here. Once again, we’ve asked some of the sharpest strategists, economists, and reporters for one chart that’s at the top of their minds right now. Here are the most important charts in the world from the brightest minds on Wall Street. In other news, Obamacare and EpiPens are causing an inflation problem. Allergan could pay up to a 1,800% premium to acquire a tiny pharmaceutical company. West Virginia is accusing Mylan, the maker of the EpiPen, a life-saving autoinjector used to treat severe allergic reactions, of Medicaid fraud. And a group of drug companies just laid out a plan to combat superbugs. The next big tech IPO of the year is starting to look like a bummer, and Comcast plans to launch its own wireless service in 2017. Lastly, here are the 25 coolest new businesses in New York City. _HERE ARE THE TOP WALL STREET HEADLINES AT MIDDAY:_ JEFFERIES JUST REPORTED A BIG JUMP IN PROFITS - Investment bank Jefferies Group on Tuesday reported a jump in third-quarter profits, driven by strong revenue in its fixed income trading business. SEAWORLD IS TUMBLING AFTER SLICING ITS DIVIDEND - SeaWorld shares are sliding after the company cut its dividend. ONE OF WARREN BUFFETT'S INVESTING GURUS WAS NAMED TO JPMORGAN'S BOARD - JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday said it elected Todd Combs, a stock-picking deputy of billionaire investor Warren Buffett, to its board of directors. SOROS: THE REFUGEE CRISIS 'HAS NO SIMPLE SOLUTION' - The refugee crisis is at the top of George Soros' agenda. GUNDLACH: THE FED WON'T RAISE RATES ON WEDNESDAY - Jeff Gundlach, the CEO of DoubleLine Capital, thinks the Federal Reserve will be on hold in September. T. BOONE PICKENS SAYS 'KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS' AND DO ONLY WHAT YOU ARE GOOD AT - The 88-year-old founder of BP Capital Management doesn't pretend he's someone he's not. JPMORGAN TAKES STAKE IN INVESTCLOUD - JPMorgan said it had hired and would take a stake in InvestCloud, which provides software that makes online transactions easier for customers with banking and investment accounts. LLOYDS IS HIRING A FINTECH 'TSAR' — HERE IS THE JOB DESCRIPTION - Lloyds Bank is looking for a "Head of FinTech Discovery," as part of its £1 billion digital transformation plan over three years. ITALY IS A 'SYSTEMIC RISK' AND COULD BECOME INVESTORS' NEW OBSESSION - For the past several years, investors have been held hostage by the threat of Greece defaulting on its debt and eventually leaving the eurozone. AMERICANS WASTED $2.1 BILLION ON PREMIUM GAS DURING THE LAST YEAR - Hello America! You do not need to put premium fuel in your vehicle if the manufacturer does not require it. CHINA'S TESLA KILLER JUST RAISED $1 BILLION FOR ITS ELECTRIC CAR PROJECT — HERE'S EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT IT - Chinese company LeEco is making serious moves to compete with Tesla. SEE ALSO: THIS BRILLIANT MAP RENAMES EACH US STATE WITH A COUNTRY GENERATING THE SAME GDP Join the conversation about this story »
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A fire that destroyed large areas of a migrant camp has revealed underlying tensions on the Greek island of Lesbos. Mark Lowen visited the Moria camp where overcrowding and frustration have boiled over.
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The Greek government is to send a ship to house more than 1,000 migrants after fire destroyed much of their camp on Lesbos.
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Egnatia Odos, one of Greece’s longest and newest national highways, is to be sold for 100 million euros, when its construction cost was 6.5 billion euros, according to a newspaper report. Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper says that the privatization of the national highway that connects Igoumenitsa in the Epirus region with Alexandroupolis in Thrace is […]
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The restored Archaeological Museum of Kos was inaugurated on Sunday by Culture Minister Aristidis Baltas and regional governor of southern Aegean Giorgos Hatzimarkos. The museum is a very important piece of culture — a jewel for the island of Kos as well as for Greece — that has been handed over to the people fully […]
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Riot police stand guard as a large fire burns inside the Moria refugee camp on the northeastern GREEK island of Lesbos, late Monday, Sept. 19. 2016.
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In the framework of the 71st Session and the high-level Week of the UNGA in New York City, tomorrow, Wednesday September 21, there will be the first trilateral meeting of Greece, Cyprus and Palestine, which the respective Foreign Ministers thereof, Nikos Kotzias, Ioannis Kasoulidis and Riad Malki, will be participating in.Thereafter, Foreign Minister N. Kotzias is having meetings with his Libyan counterpart Mohamed Taha Siala and Amos J. Hochstein, US Special Envoy and Coordinator for International Energy affairs. Next, he is meeting with Qatari Foreign Affairs Minister Sheik Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani as well as Iyad Ameen Madani,...
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Around 4,000 people were evacuated from a refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos Monday evening after a fire ripped through the site.
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The Bank of Greece on Tuesday announced that it had lifted temporary restrictions on new lending and credit facilities by Attica Bank, after the bank resolved corporate governance issues. The central bank said that an emergency general shareholders ...
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The low-rise homes and tree-lined streets of Astoria have always given the area a wonderfully homey vibe. These three neighborhood eateries — all an easy walk from the N train at 30th Ave. — do the same. Mom’s in the kitchen If you think the “under ...
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Today in the lovely-Politically Correct-Greek state, free speech received one more major blow. A journalist by the name Stefanos Chios, was arrested by police officers in civilian attire (the Greek equivalent of Feds) and was taken to the central police ...
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An Amnesty International research team has arrived at the Moria refugees camp on Lesvos following yesterday’s fire that necessitated the evacuation of thousands of asylum-seekers. “Witnessing the charred remains of Moria camp is shocking but comes as ...
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Greece’s current account balance showed a surplus of 1.4 billion euros in July, down by 1.1 billion year-on-year, the Bank of Greece said on Tuesday. The central bank, in a monthly report, attributed this development to an increase in the deficit of the ...
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The Special Permanent Committee on Institutions and Transparency of the Greek Parliament has called the four tenderers of the recent television licensing auction and State Minister Nikos Pappas to testify. Despite her initial refusal, the president of the ...
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The refugee-hosting crisis in the GREEK islands is spiralling out of control, a regional governor said after violent clashes that took place yesterday (19 ...
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[Italy soccer fan] For the past several years, investors have been held hostage by the threat of Greece defaulting on its debt and eventually leaving the eurozone. The thought process is that a "Grexit" would create a domino effect in Europe where other countries, like Portugal, Italy, Ireland, and Spain, would then also choose to leave the eurozone. And while Greece's problems continue to be kicked down the road, a new problem is coming to the forefront. Italy is facing a full blown banking crisis. On Tuesday, trading in Monte dei Paschi di Siena, the world's oldest bank and third largest lender in Italy with about 170 billion euros ($190 billion) in assets, was halted after the shares slid nearly 6% over concerns of weak investor interest in its emergency rescue plan. Approximately 50 billion euros, or about 30% of the bank's assets are bad loans. And while Atlante, the privately funded bank bailout fund, will be buying assets, BMI Research says that alone may not be enough. Additionally, the country's two largest lenders, UniCredit and Intesa Sanpaolo, are among those backing the bailout fund so if things go bad that is going to impact their bottom lines. In response, shares of Italian banks have been hammered to their lowest levels of the crisis. [Italian banks] And it's not just Monte dei Paschi that is in trouble. Italy's entire banking system is at risk as non-performing loans have climbed to 17% of all loans. Earlier in 2016, Popolare di Vicenza and Veneto Banca saw Atlante take controlling stakes, and additional capital injections were made in August, putting further pressure on the the country's healthier banks. And things could get even worse. BMI notes that the UK's decision to leave the European union has put "downward pressure interest rates, squeezing already razor thin margins." Additionally, BMI believes the outlook for growth in the region is deteriorating as a result of "weaker external demand and confidence." Finally, there is uncertainty over the tenure of prime minister Matteo Renzi, who may lose he upcoming referendum on constitutional reforms. In short, BMI says "the sector will remain a key source of systemic risk for the domestic and wider eurozone economies." An "Italexit" could alter the landscape of Europe. Stay tuned. SEE ALSO: CANADA'S HOUSEHOLD DEBT JUST PASSED ITS GDP Join the conversation about this story » NOW WATCH: Krugman reveals the economic risks of a Trump presidency
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