How the world sees Greece
NEW YORK— The Onassis Festival opened on October 13 at the Onassis Cultural Center in midtown Manhattan. The guests included His Eminence Archbishop Demetrios, Consul General of Greece in New... The post Antigone Now- Onassis Festival Opening Night appeared first on The National Herald.
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GREEK Life is a community where many students can find the support of their peers in the form of brotherhood or sisterhood. However, some policies ...
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Yet few GREEKS thought the army would hold sway for seven years, longer than any democratic government in memory. While Pattakos could boast ...
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Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has issued a call for joint resistance against fascism during a speech on Oct. 13 at the opening of the congress of Syriza, the main partner in Greece’s government, in Athens
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Three Greek hotels in Halkidiki, Santorini and Zakynthos were distinguished as finalists in the Condé Nast Johansens Awards for Excellence 2017, for Europe and the Mediterranean, that reward excellence in luxury services. Condé Nast Johansens is the ...
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Consumers intend to spend less on their holidays following the Brexit vote, but are not significantly scaling back on their travel plans, according to travelmole.com. Analysis of research carried out before and after Britain's vote to leave the European ...
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Deputy Defense Minister Dimitris Vitsas has dismissed as “nonsense,” the claim that Vladimir Putin was asked by Greek officials in 2015 if Athens ...
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An increase of 31.1% in volume, reaching 1,194,180 tonnes, and of 16.9% in value, to 680.975 million Euro, has been achieved by Greek fresh fruit ...
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New Mexico Feature film Cliffs of Freedom will double New Mexico for 19th century GREECE for a story set during the Greek War for Independence in ...
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… needs of those displaced within Greece, the country is simultaneously experiencing … severe negative impacts on the Greek people. It is therefore critical … Greece (GoG) in offering displaced girls, boys, women and men in Greece …
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It does not take a rocket scientist to realise that the Greek economy will take many years to recover and the country will for some time be effectively controlled by the European Union. This is the cost of the massive ongoing financial bailout after the ...
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The lovely Greek state-the one that nowadays is fully compliant with all the mandates of the left wing Politically Correct Caliphate-has had an issue with leftist terrorists and militant activists for over 50 years now. Instead of fighting fire with fire ...
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Here is a 24" square acrylic painting of fishing boat on the island of Samos. I did s smaller version (12"square) on a recent trip there. I redid it larger because I wanted both he scale and the additional detail that can be applied to larger painting.
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Get the latest from BBC World News: international news, features and analysis from around the globe. If you liked this story, sign up for the weekly bbc.com features newsletter, called “If You Only Read 6 Things This Week”. A handpicked selection of ...
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You're a familiar face from years as a TV reporter and presenter, based mostly in Melbourne. What have you been doing for the past couple of years? I'm with the Victorian Multicultural Commission [as chairperson]; I run film and documentary classes for ...
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ATHENS, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Greece's central government registered a primary budget surplus of 5.4 billion euros ($6.10 billion) in the nine months to September, beating its target by 3.5 billion euros, helped by higher tax revenues, finance ministry data ...
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They came bearing gifts when Kilmington hosted a Greek-themed evening to raise money for Axminster’s Flamingo Pool. The event, in the village hall, was a sell-out success and raised almost £1,600 for the charity. Locals, Flamingo Pool supporters and ...
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Greek banks’ dependence on the Eurosystem funding decreased for the fiftheenth consecutive month in September reaching to 75 billion euros from 78.5 billion euros in August data from the central bank showed. ELA stood at 47.6 billion euros in August ...
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LESBOS ISLAND, Greece (CNN) — All Eida Karmi wants is to see her family. It’s the simple desire of a grandparent, but she’s no ordinary grandmother. At 115 years old Eida could be Syria’s oldest refugee. The country didn’t even exist when she was ...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked by Greek officials if Athens could print drachmas in Russia, French President Francois Hollande said. The post Putin Told Hollande Greece Wanted Drachmas Printed in Russia appeared first on The National Herald.
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Disputing rosy estimates from the government, an economist at a leading Brussels think tank said Greece will probably need a fourth bailout. Zsolt Darvas, a senior economist at the Bruegel... The post Brussels Think Tank Economist Says Greece Fourth Bailout Likely appeared first on The National Herald.
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A bomb attack on a prosecutors home could presage a wave of more serious assaults on the Greek judiciary, police fear as they add security. The post Greek Officials Fear More Bomb Attacks Against Judges, Prosecutors appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek prices for local garlic are still low as traders are still playing speculation games. In the opinion of Konstantinos Mirtsidis, of Mirtsidis (Greece), the local prices are still not stable at the moment but this is expected to change next month when ...
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She already has a successful luxury children's range and now Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece is lending her style expertise to the high street. The glamorous royal has teamed up with Marks & Spencer for an exclusive 33 piece collection of clothing ...
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From September 19 to 24, a disused basement in the Athens Conservatoire, the oldest conservatory in Greece’s capital city, was transformed into a tent city of sorts, with over three dozen living units installed there. But, it wasn’t makeshift housing for the some of the 51,000 migrants who are trapped [...]
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Join Stonewall Kitchen cooking instructor, Chef Chris Toy for a one night course and experience the fresh flavors of Greek cooking. The course is being offered through Central Lincoln County Adult Education on Tuesday, Nov. 1 from 5:30 to 8 p.m. at ...
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International arrivals to Greek airports “soared” from January to September, according to data released by Greek Tourist Organization (SETE). More specifically, arrivals to the main airports of the country rose 7.6 percent in the 9-month period ...
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… trophy. They were fighting the Greeks, who’d pretended to flee … a boubou trap. The canny Greeks had carved a wooden horse … in Troy and the y (Greeks) pretended sailing away. History has … bed in the night the Greeks crept out from their hideout …
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The Associated Press (AP) has reported that on Thursday Greek police have taken a Syrian man into custody on the Greek island of Crete. The man is wanted in Belgium for his alleged involvement in migrant-smuggling. The man was taken into police custody on ...
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A picture of Supreme Court President Vasiliki Thanou and Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday when the crooked judge proposed raising the retirement age so she can stay in office and protect the rampant criminality of Tsipras longer. Tsipras was delighted with the ...
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In a statement released on 13 October, anarchist group Synomosia Pyrinon tis Fotias (SPF) claimed responsibility for an improvised explosive device (IED) attack that it claimed targeted Appeal Court Prosecutor Georgia Tsatani in the Exarchia neighbourhood ...
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Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orban seems to have mastered the art of creating controversy. On October 2, Hungarians voted in a referendum on the European Union’s planned relocation of refugees around the bloc, a move described in Brussels as a way to offer solidarity in the wake of an unprecedented number of people reaching Europe by sea. While not enough people voted in the referendum for the result to be valid, 98% of those who did supported the rejection of the quotas, representing a significant moral win for Orban’s “cultural counter-revolution”. At the same time, the referendum showed that the migration issue is merely a tool in a much wider battle about the future of where power lies between Brussels and EU member states. There’s no doubt that the migration crisis has had a visible impact on Hungary. At the height of the crisis in summer 2015, some 10,000 refugees and migrants traversed Hungary daily, sleeping en masse at Budapest’s Kelety train station as they waited for transport to Western Europe. Day and night, streams of people seeking a new life in Europe passed through homogenous towns and villages of Western Hungary. Since then, however, the Western Balkans route and Hungary’s southern border with Serbia (where the majority of the crossings took place) have been sealed. Only a handful of asylum seekers are processed every day despite a capacity to process around 100 applications. The EU’s controversial deal with Turkey on a “refugee swap” has now also come into effect, leading to both a significant drop in crossings across the Aegean Sea, and the number of lives lost at sea. The average number of daily crossings since the deal came into effect on March 18 fell from 1,740 to 94 by mid-September. But despite the question Orban put to Hungarians in the referendum, there are two reasons why it was irrelevant to the migration debate. First, the EU’s relocation scheme has so far been very slow, and shows no short or medium-term capacity for expanding. At the moment there are more than 63,000 refugees waiting for relocation from Greece alone, with an additional 100,000 people awaiting relocation. Under the quota scheme Hungary was obliged to take 1,294 asylum seekers, which is actually slightly lower than the 1,583 the EU had managed to relocate across the EU under the EU-Turkey deal by mid-September. Safe to say, at the current rate, it would take years for Hungary to receive all 1,294 refugees. Second, the debate in Brussels and across Europe’s capitals has already moved beyond mandatory quotas. The European Commission has actually shown surprising willingness to negotiate on the issue. From conversations I’ve had in Brussels, it appears the commission has been silently dropping the “mandatory” aspect of the relocation quotas, while proposing more flexible forms of solidarity between the member states, including providing financial support for the maintenance of refugees in other EU states or lowering the quota numbers. Even the commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, recently stated that solidarity must be given voluntarily, rather than being uniformly imposed from Brussels. To this end, in the wake of the referendum, the commission has tried to “appease” Hungary, increasing European Investment Fund support for small Hungarian rural firms by €160m. POLAND AND HUNGARY ON THEIR OWN But petty cash is hardly sufficient for Orban, nor is he willing to negotiate. Formerly a staunch liberal, he has become a crusader for a new form of Europe based on, in his own words, a “system of national cooperation” – in contrast to a more federalist view of Europe. Orban positions himself as a defender of Christendom, protecting its borders against foreign invaders, much as the Hungarian kings of the 16th and 17th century did against the Ottomans. It is a mythical image, but one that also has the ears of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the grey cardinal of Polish politics who is chairman of its ruling Law and Justice party. In the eyes of both men, Europe’s Brussels-centric liberal era is over, and it’s time gravity was shifted back to European capitals. This conveniently ignores the fact that in Brussels it is essentially the member states that ultimately call the shots, not the supranational European Commission. Orban’s and Kaczynski’s “cultural counter-revolution” is more defined by what it stands against, than what it stands for. Ultimately, it is battling against two Bs: Brussels and Berlin. Falsely or not, in their eyes, Brussels represents “an ever closer union” that may one day lead to a federal EU that will eat away the sovereignty of its member states. Berlin, on the other hand, means Merkel to Orban (his staunch critic and one blamed for the migration crisis) and Germany to Kaczynski – Poland’s old nemesis whose tremendous economic power he ultimately fears. So Merkel’s open-door policy on refugees and calls for solidarity and burden-sharing among member states merely made the mandatory quotas a perfect target for these two reactionaries. VISEGRAD GRUMBLES Such world views do not sit comfortably with the other two members of the Visegrad Group: the Czech Republic and Slovakia. While all four countries voted against the mandatory quotas in the Council of Ministers, and both Prague and Bratislava criticised the proposals, they trod a much more careful line. For example, while the Slovak prime minister, Robert Fico, was very quick to tell a domestic audience that Slovakia was no place for Muslims, the country is silently implementing voluntary relocation for refugees. Given that the current Slovak EU presidency sought European unity of action as one of its top priorities, the Hungarian referendum is merely an additional headache rather than an opportunity. This means that while Hungary’s referendum may have a wider _raison d’etre_, it does nevertheless also have more indirect consequences. By holding the referendum, Orban narrowed the parameters for dialogue on possible alternatives for how to relocate refugees. The referendum will merely add further divisions to an already fractured EU. So in terms of providing an instrument for Orban’s counter-revolution, the referendum has succeeded. Rather than a humiliating defeat, it ensures that the spectre of Orban will haunt Europe for years to come. [The Conversation] _Igor Merheim-Eyre does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond the academic appointment above._
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Greek police say they have arrested a Syrian man on the island of Crete who is wanted in Belgium for alleged involvement in a migrant-smuggling ring
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Greek police arrested a Syrian terror suspect following an arrest warrant from Belgium. According to a police statement, the 51-year-old Syrian national has been accused among others for “terrorist acts within the European Union, participation in a criminal organization, human trafficking and forgery.” The man was arrested yesterday, Thursday (13. […]
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After Athens, also Kremlin dismisses Hollande’s allegations that Greece was planning to print Drachmas in Russia. High-ranking sources of the Russian government who are very close to President Vladimir Putin told to the correspondent of a Greek newspaper in Moscow, “vehemently dismissed that the Greek side had such a request.” […]
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We have already previously reported about Pericles as the leader of GREECE civ in "Civilization 6". The known orator and general hails from Athens, ...
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This week saw critics pan the latest Dan Brown thriller, Inferno, the Guardian included. Can you match the following scathing critiques to the one-star films that received them? ”Napalms the screen with waves of pornographic consumerist vulgarity…dredged directly from Tinseltown’s festering scrotum.” Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back Entourage The Intern Ted 2 "The whole dreary business drags interminably on, with not a single amusing or ingenious idea in its echoing metal head: a cynical franchisebot, machine-tooled to clank into cinemas and gouge money out of people." Avengers: Age of Ultron Iron Man 3 Transformers: Age of Extinction Terminator Genisys "Could be one of those rare and terrifying serial killer cases where the psychotic culprit apparently intends to bore and embarrass everyone to death with bad acting." Solace Child 44 Regression Criminal "Blanchett gives a toe-curlingly awful and Razzie-worthy turn in this tiresome aria of liberal self-pity and self-importance." Carol Truth Knight of Cups Notes on a Scandal "As subtle as a swastika." Black Book Valkyrie Defiance Remember "It’s less a movie than preposterous self-hagiography, more appropriate for Scientology or the Rev Sun Myung Moon. As cinema it is excrement. As proof of corporate insanity it is a valuable case study." United Passions Grace of Monaco Alexander Goal! "It is the follow-up that nobody much wanted to the film that nobody much liked, resulting in something even more visually elaborate and boring, and about which the number of tosses that can be reasonably given is lower than ever." Thor: The Dark World Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice The Huntsman: Winter's War The Matrix Revolutions "One of the most cancerously patronising romantic comedies of all time." The Wedding Planner Sex and the City 27 Dresses My Big Fat Greek Wedding "This depressingly vulgar bromance left me longing for the days when mainstream comedy had more to offer than a bunch of middle-aged men morosely playing with their dicks." Horrible Bosses 2 Bad Words Dumb and Dumber To Daddy's Home "Basically Team America: World Police without the jokes, and with more wooden acting." White House Down G.I. Joe: The Rise of the Cobra Iron Man London Has Fallen Continue reading...
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Researchers have used a new x-ray scanning technique on an ancient GREEK vase to reveal layers of hidden paint beneath the surface. The results ...
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… the ancient Greeks. This, they say, could mean that ancient Greekartists traveled … . Other evidence of ties to Greece came from several bronze figurines … wax method known in ancient Greece and Egypt. [Keep reading …
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The president of New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis noted that “populism is effective in opposition and ineffective in government” during a lecture he gave at Harvard University on “The Future of Democracy” The main opposition leader separated his ...
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The investigation for Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos has turned to JCBs to help sift through the more than 800 tons of rubble in hopes of finding a lead to what happened to the missing toddler. This is the most intense and specific investigation since Ben went missing in 1991 and has so far […]
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With the vision of contributing in making Piraeus an international maritime education hub, HMC and ICS Greek Branch co-operated with Erasmus University Rotterdam and in particular its Faculty of Law (Department of Commercial Law and Department of Labor Law ...
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Get our stories in your inbox, free. Like TimesLedger on Facebook. The Church of St. Nicholas in Flushing celebrated its 45th annual Greek Festival last weekend, offering an array of Greek delicacies as well as fun activities for children. The food tents ...
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LONDON, Oct. 14, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Japonica Partners has made a 14 full-page multimedia buy in the Financial Times, the International New York Times, and the New York Times. The 14 full pages are part of a campaign dedicated to educating ...
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From humble beginnings 23 years ago the Greek Film Festival has become a much anticipated event, says the president of the Greek Orthodox Community of Melbourne and Victoria, Bill Papastergiadis. He spoke to Dina Gerolymou.
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Finally, we have confirmations that you will be able to choose between more than one leader for your civilization. After Firaxis Games introduced Queen Gorgo of Sparta as another option for Greece leader long-rumored feature if Civilization VI has been ...
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The systematic teaching of the ancient Greek language can help children with dyslexia, linguistics and psychology professors say. According to a theory of Harvard Classics Professor Eric Havelock (1903-1989), based on philosopher Plato‘s ideas, ancient ...
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The smitten couple are preparing for a grand opening party in the GREEK capital on Saturday and were pictured cosying up at the venue on Thursday ...
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will impose more austerity but will demand a debt relief deal from bailout lenders by Christmas. The post Besieged Tsipras Demands Creditors Debt Relief by Christmas appeared first on The National Herald.
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