How the world sees Greece
Popular yogurt brand 'The Greek Gods' recently debuted three new varieties, each of which is made with a rich chocolate base. The new product is meant to appeal to consumers who are looking to buy more nutritious products such as Greek yogurt, but don't ...
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ATHENS， Oct. 21 (Xinhua) -- More than 15，000 Greeks have registered new companies in Bulgaria's tax offices in the first quarter of 2016， according to data provided by the Greek embassy in Sofia on Thursday. On average， a dozen accounts opened in ...
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More than 1 ton of cannabis was seized by the Greek police in an anti drug operation near the region of Afidne. Police sources say that several members of the organization were arrested, including 6 Albanian citizens. The drug was being sent from Albania ...
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TBILISI – Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent claims that parts of GREECE, the Balkans, Syria and Iraq belong to Turkey has outraged the Greek public.
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No more Greek parties at UC Berkeley — for …
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… close to the border with Greece, prevented 11 foreign nationals, including …
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… and operates five hotels in Greece. Once the hotel completes its … houses the National Library of Greece and the National Opera. “The …
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The situation for Greek employees is getting worse by the month. Recent data released by the Greek Labor Ministry state that 126,956 private-sector employees are only receiving gross salaries of 100 euros per month. A total of 343,760 employees are either classified as part-time or casual workers and receive a gross salary ranging from 100 […]
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A retired Greek policeman and ultra-nationalist Golden Dawn member, aged 63, is believed to be responsible for the shooting of a man that occurred shortly after 6 p.m. at the corner of Panormou and Vatopedi streets in Athens, near the General Police Offices. Sourves in the region who knew the retired policeman say that he […]
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The main opposition conservative New Democracy party criticized Justice Minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos on Friday for his handling of the case of the top court judge’s email leak, saying he was aware of the case and chose to publicize it now in an attempt to influence justice. “Mr. Paraskevopoulos admitted today that he had been officially […]
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Police raided the grounds of two secondary schools in Lamia, central Greece, where pupils were staging school sit-ins to protest cutbacks and the poor facilities at their grounds. The police officers entered the grounds on Friday and arrested 11 people responsible for the occupation of one of the schools. Specifically, ten pupils and one parent […]
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German municipal authorities in Karlsfeld, 12 kilometers from central Munich, have angered the Greek community following a decision to take back a plot of land benchmarked in 2001 for the construction of a Greek school. The construction deal had outlined a ...
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3:29: Beer aficionado Barry Hansen, Mid-Atlantic regional manager for City Brew Tours, talks about his tours of the craft breweries that have taken root in Baltimore. 7:53: Coming attractions: Film critics Linda DeLibero and Christopher Llewellyn Reed have ...
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It's GREEK street food, and something you find in GREEK-American restaurants, pizza shops and diners, or sold out of food trucks. Please check out the ...
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ATHENS, Greece, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- A GREEK snorkler filming his underwater encounter with a small octopus recorded the moment the mollusk latched ...
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MONTREAL — The European Commission has authorized the sale, with no conditions attached, of Transat A.T.'s France- and GREECE-based ...
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“So GREECE will be part of the QE program at the start of or early in the new year,” Tsipras said, referring to the European Central Bank's quantitative ...
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High taxes and the unproductive manner in which revenues are spent keep Greece’s competitiveness ratings at near Third World levels, World Economic Forum economist Silja Baller stressed this week, in an interview with “N”. Greece clearly remains ...
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In an unusual move, student leaders, not administrators, at UC Berkeley have suspended on-site social events held by university Greek organizations, days after back-to-back reports of sexual assaults at off-campus fraternity parties. The president of UC ...
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Alexandra Sofroniew’s Household Gods is a splendid publication on several counts. It is elegantly presented and the illustrations (of objects for the most part in the J. Paul Getty Museum) have been chosen with wit and sensitivity. The real strengths ...
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Greece’s return of 10 Syrian refugees to Turkey, reportedly without considering their asylum claims, is a dangerous move that shows a callous disregard for their safety, Amnesty International said. According to information received by Amnesty ...
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[mcNugget, McDonald's, chicken nuggets]Flickr/ Link576 McDonald's chicken McNugget sales are soaring, according to the company. Nugget sales have risen 10% since the company removed artificial preservatives from its recipe, McDonald's CEO Steve Easterbrook said Friday. McDonald's announced the change to its McNuggets in August, and said it would also remove high-fructose corn syrup from its hamburger buns and transition to antibiotic-free chicken one year earlier than planned. After the announcement, the company received some criticism that its sauces still contained preservatives. Panera Bread CEO Ron Shaich was one of the most outspoken critics of the company. "I was offended watching this commercial during the Olympics about the preservative-free McNuggets," Shaich told Business Insider in August. "I thought, 'You've got to be kidding.' Sure, you've got McNuggets that are preservative-free, but what are you dipping them in? Sauces that are filled with that stuff!" But it appears that the change to the McNugget recipe has paid off for McDonald's. The company said Friday that the nuggets, along with all-day breakfast and its McPick 2 promotions, were the biggest drivers behind its 1.3% growth in US same-store sales in the third quarter. "We are putting the customer at the center of everything we do and are directing our resources towards those innovations and investments that will strengthen our ability to deliver a better McDonald's experience over time," Easterbrook said in a statement. "Our customers, system, and shareholders are best served when we direct our focus and energy towards executing against these critical customer expectations." NOW WATCH: We tried the trendy restaurant that could become the Chipotle of Greek food
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PARIS Oct 21 (Reuters) - French power grid operator RTE, a unit of state-owned utility EDF, has not made a bid for GREEK grid operator ADMIE, ...
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… opt not to participate in Greek recruitment. Greek life offers rushing freshmen … , students that choose to go Greek find family-like support and a … decide to remain independent of Greek life have no similar opportunities …
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… the Greek mortgage covered bonds (CVB) programmes rated by the agency. Greek … agency assumes for a standard Greek residential mortgage loan and individual … pools' composition. The report, Greek Covered Bonds Peer Review is …
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ATHENS Oct 21 Greece's 14 regional airports … for a majority stake in Greece's second biggest port … of natural gas grid DESFA. Greece aims at privatisation revenues of … been a key condition of Greece's three international bailouts …
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras raised the issue of Greece’s debt in meetings with French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, noting the need to resolve disagreements among the institutions that perpetuate the uncertainty regarding its sustainability. Merkel appeared to oppose the launch of any discussion regarding Greek debt relief, say sources. […]
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ATHENS Oct 21 Negotiations between Greece and shareholders of the country's biggest airport to extend a concession deal by 20 years are expected to be wrapped in November, an official at the country's privatisations agency said on Friday, declining to be ...
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The Lernaean Hydra (or Hydra of Lerna) was a serpent-like water monster with multiple heads. When one head was cut, several would regrow, and its breath and blood were poisonous. The Hydra was eventually killed by Heracles as part of his Twelve Labors.
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(by Francesco Tedesco) (ANSAmed) - NAFPAKTOS, OCTOBER 21 - "If we want tourism to be a factor in Greece's development, we must make it ...
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A separate source at the GREEK energy ministry told Reuters earlier on Friday that power utility PPC had received two binding bids for the ADMIE stake.
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The Euromed Summit 2016 of Economic and Social Councils and Similar Institutions is scheduled to take place on the 24th and 25th of October at the ...
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Speaking to the press following the summit, Tsipras said that he told his European counterparts that GREECE needs to enter the European Central ...
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THE Greek government has pleaded with creditors to reduce the country's crippling debt burden, so the economy can have a hope of recovery.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras appeared optimistic on Friday over debt relief for Greece while he also stressed the need for Greece’s inclusion in the European Central Bank’s (ECB) Quantitative Easing (QE) program. He made his statement a day ...
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The subtle presence of Greece's economic problems has been of little interest for to public eye recently. As deceptive as this silence might be, the Greek economy has showed some signs of recovery, and, if we believe internal government estimates – is on ...
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Government spokesperson Olga Gerovasili has hinted that an extensive cabinet reform may be imminent, in statements she made to Skai. According to Mrs. Gerovasili extra-parliamentarians will participate in the new cabinet, while an autonomous Ministry of ...
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The machetes of condemnation are out for the investigative journalist and self-styled “king of stings”, Mazher Mahmood. The man who dominated the British tabloid world for decades with his “fake sheikh” operation at the now defunct News of the World has been jailed for 15 months for tampering with evidence in a high-profile case. There is something about the modern Greek tragedy in the narrative of the crusading – and to quote media commentator Roy Greenslade, “tawdry and disgusting” – tabloid entrapper, who ended up standing in the dock to face the kind of justice he wished for his many targets. Such is the coverage his trial has received, you could be forgiven for thinking Mahmood had committed a crime much worse than the paedophilia, terrorism, class A drug supplying, arms dealing, immigration rackets, and political corruption, dodgy doctors, solicitors, pimps, judges, bent cops and even murderers that his adventures sought to expose. In fact, he has been found guilty along with his driver, Alan Smith, of one offence: plotting to pervert the course of justice by suppressing evidence in the drugs trial of pop star Tulisa Contostavlos. The singer had been accused of arranging for Mahmood to be sold £800 worth of cocaine by one of her contacts. Her case was later dismissed after Mahmood’s evidence was called into question. This was in the context of one of Mahmood’s elaborate stings for The Sun on Sunday, the paper he joined after Rupert Murdoch liquidated News of the World – the most successful ever Sunday newspaper – following the toxic Milly Dowler phone hacking scandal. When the trial judge realised Mahmood had given evidence in direct contradiction to what he had said in a pre-trial hearing, Contostavlos was acquitted. The tables then dramatically turned on the journalist who had posed as a film producer and plied Contostavlos with alcohol as they discussed an acting role alongside Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio. The phone hacking victims’ lawyer Mark Lewis talked about £800m of claims by Mahmood’s “past victims”. The Metropolitan Police and Crown Prosecution Service, once enthusiastic and grateful champions of Mahmood’s operations, became reverse ferrets of criminal justice. The Crown Prosecution Service has since dropped live cases given to them by Mahmood’s alter ego and has been reviewing 25 past convictions. Six cases of high-profile figures have been taken up by the Criminal Cases Review Commission. Notwithstanding the grinding of the wheels of justice, within the profession of journalism the methods of the “fake sheikh” have always attracted controversy. Greenslade has been on his case ever since the pair worked together on The Sunday Times. In 2006, Greenslade wrote a piece in The Independent with the headline: “Why I am out to nail Mazher Mahmood”. The formidable John Sweeney of the BBC turned Mahmood over in 2014; Channel 4 castigated Mahmood’s tactics and reputation in a documentary in 2012 which was made with the help of one of his former assistants who had turned against him. However, this whole affair has been diminished into a reductionist fable of good and evil with no tolerance for the light and shade, moral ambiguity and rough and tumble of raucous tabloid sensationalism. The past is being judged harshly by the politics and values of the present. Domonic Ponsford, the editor of Press Gazette, found himself under attack for suggesting that “in the race to demonise Mazher Mahmood, don’t forget his ‘victims’ were often rich people, driven by greed to do bad things”. Ponsford faced a tsunami of critical onslaught which debunked any credit or merit for Mahmood’s investigative journalism. Nevertheless he concluded that “for me, the jury is still out on Mahmood as far as the wider allegations against him go. But I accept that given what we now know about phone-hacking at the News of the World (and elsewhere) it is best to keep an open mind when it comes to historic allegations of tabloid wrongdoing.” How the mighty has fallen. Mahmood’s 2008 book, Confessions of a Fake Sheik: ‘The King of the Sting’ Reveals All, can be bought for a penny on Amazon. The “world’s best-known investigative journalist”, a reporter of the year in 1999, is the source of the profession’s self-loathing – Private Eye mocked his fear of reprisals and his efforts to keep his photograph out of the public eye. The Metropolitan police released his full facial image on conviction. And The Sun revealed his face complete with anorak hood and glasses that he wore to and from court. Mahmood’s career is neither typical, nor is it the mainstay of British investigative journalism. The theatrical sting of performance journalism will always be resented by those who are embarrassed, or have something unpleasant to hide – particularly when it is teased out by the somewhat juvenile stunt of exaggerated temptation. But while subjects stung by this method might appear to condemn themselves, problems inevitably arise if this is then relied on by the state for criminal prosecutions. Mahmood and his team were tabloid journalists – not police detectives or intelligence officers. Ultimately, however, Mahmood tampered with evidence – and for that he is now to serve time in jail. But it would be wise for the legal system, politicians and public opinion to be wary of throwing bricks in glass houses. They all once delighted and sniggered when concealing their copies of the News of the World inside The Sunday Times or the Observer and other so-called “respectable broadsheets”. Now that the morality of what went on has been judged and found wanting perhaps they should look to their own consciences and measure their condemnation with some sense of proportion. [The Conversation] _Tim Crook is chair of the Professional Practices Board of the Chartered Institute of Journalists. _
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The statement of European Parliament President Martin Schulz "I was surprised" did not refer to the Greek position on debt, but to the question itself, a spokesman of the EU Parliament chief explained. "During the press conference that followed the ...
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis has come out today and bluntly warned that failure to agree on a debt restructuring for Greece would push it into a perpetual spiral of borrowing from Europe. But it is actually much worse. Greece is being persecuted because ...
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ATHENS Oct 21 Greece's power utility PPC has received two binding bids for a 24 percent stake in power grid operator ADMIE, an energy ministry source told Reuters on Friday. The short list was Italian power grid Terna jointly with infrastructure fund F2i ...
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Bank of Greece announced that in August 2016, the current account showed a surplus of €1.8 billion, down by €379 million year-on-year. This development is attributable to a decline in the surplus of the services balance and to the deterioration in the ...
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Greece is undoubtedly a perfect tourist destination in Europe no matter to which age group you belong or what you expect in your holidays. Surrounded with more than 6000 beautiful islands, the country hosts something unique for everyone's taste. Whether ...
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Real estate values in Greece have imploded, with the value of residential apartments down 41.4 percent over 2006-2016 period, Bank of Greece (BoG) vice president Theodoros Mitrakos told participants at a relevant conference on Thursday. Mitrakos said ...
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UC Berkeley has banned fraternity and sorority parties amid reports that two female students were sexually assaulted last week at off-campus fraternities. KNTV reports (http://bit.ly/2epy1uD ) Interfraternity Council President Daniel Saedi and Panhellenic …
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… keep Greece in bailouts, lending it money," Tsipras said. Greece wants … Athens, said any projections on Greece's future economic outlook … into account before deciding whether Greek debt can be included in …
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Are you finding a suitable island destination for escape from your daily life? If yes, then Greece is a synonymous alternative for islands. Exerting an enticing pull, the key island groups of the country offer endless opportunities for you to explore ...
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Greek PM Alexis Tsipras met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on the sidelines of the Brussels EU Summit, Friday in an effort to push the Greek case for a deb relief. According to sources close to the PM’s office ...
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US President Barack Obama's expected visit to the GREEK capital next month could mark a turning point in bilateral relations between Washington and ...
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The Supreme Court of Greece (CoS) released a harsh resolution condemning press reports that leaked personal information about one of the judges ...
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