How the world sees Greece
… , according to senior European and Greek officials. Greece alone opposed the action … ," said a second Greek official. Greece's decision came despite … ties to the Greek government also weighed in as Greece was warned …
 |
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT world.einnews.com |
… leg-up for alternative tourism in Greece In an attempt to boost … and getting to visit traditional Greek villages, monasteries and archaeological sites …
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT world.einnews.com |
The union representing Greek seamen, PNO, on Tuesday announced a 24-hour strike for Thursday, November 24, which means that there will be no passenger ferry services to and from the Greek islands or Italy. The workers are protesting social security reforms ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.tornosnews.gr |
The Presidents of Parliament met on Monday in order to discuss the formation of a new National Council for Radio and Television (ESR), however they failed to reach the necessary 4/5’s majority to for an agreement. With tension running high and the ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.tornosnews.gr |
Greek Orthodox Church celebrates the annual anniversary next Thursday in the presence of Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa Kiriws Theodoros II The celebration is to be held from November 3rd to November 7th.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.copts-united.com |
Making their long awaited return to the Greek Theatre on Friday night, M83 seemed to borrow from the vast endlessness of the cosmos above to fuel their epic soundscapes. Led by the harrowingly triumphant wails of synth-wizard Anthony Gonzalez, the band ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.grimygoods.com |
“You see what's happening in the Middle East? You see that they're massacring Christians?” Kyriazopoulos said to me in GREEK. “If even 1 out of 100 ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT chicago.suntimes.com |
Friends and family of a Derby woman, who's critically ill in Greece after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage, are praying she will pull through.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.itv.com |
The GREEK government welcomes New Democracy's delayed decision to return to talks over the formation of the new board of Greece's TV regulator, ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.tornosnews.gr |
The charity, the brainchild of Xenia Papastavrou, a former GREEK Food Bank 201 volunteer, was founded in 2011 to tackle food waste and hunger.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
Like a big family reunion, alumni members of Lamar University's social GREEK fraternities and sororities will gather to celebrate 60 years of GREEK Life ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT theexaminer.com |
GREECE defied EU and US pressure last month to reapply sanctions on the Iranian bank Saderat, the first sign of dissent inside the European Union on ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT sputniknews.com |
Arrears to Greece's beleaguered social security funds continue to accumulate at an accelerated pace, with a relevant state collection agency for pension contributions announcing this week that the figure is very close to topping 17 billion euros.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.tornosnews.gr |
Alumni members of Lamar University's social Greek fraternities and sororities will gather to celebrate 60 years of Greek Life at Lamar University, according to a release from the university. Alumni Affairs, in partnership with Greek Life, is hosting the ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.beaumontenterprise.com |
Greece has defied its European allies and Washington by blocking European Union sanctions on an Iranian bank the U.S. accuses of financing terrorism, officials familiar with the move say.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.wsj.com |
Greece’s creditors have proposed more flexibility and mobility regarding employment and suggested the Danish model for labor legislation. The proposals came to light after the conclusion of the first bailout program review. They are included in the latest Parliamentary Budget Office report on the economy. Creditors propose that Greece adopts the Danish model, which provides […]
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
The fifth meeting of the Greek Parliament Presidents failed to agree on the make-up of the National Council of Radio and Television (NCRTV), Greece’s independent TV regulator. In the aftermath of the failed meeting, the main opposition conservative New Democracy party on Tuesday put forth the recommendation that former Supreme Court president Athanasios Koutromanos as […]
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
This is a political public opinion poll of the …special kind. Conducted by Public Issue, the pol gives the main opposition party conservative New Democracy 42% and governing left-wing SYRIZA 18%. This 42% is extraordinary for a poll result even if Greeks swear at SYRIZA from morning till the evening […]
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.keeptalkinggreece.com |
She started as a Playboy Bunny and slowly morphed into a Greek goddess! Ariel Winter debuted her fourth Halloween costume on Monday, rocking a racy white top adorned with gold leaves and sequins, matching bottoms and gold, strappy, knee-high sandals.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.etonline.com |
ATHENS Nov 1 Piraeus Bank, Greece's largest lender, has …
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT world.einnews.com |
ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A new poll shows Greece's governing Syriza party trailing the main opposition Conservatives by a massive 24 percentage points. But Greeks appear deeply disillusioned with both major parties, which have overseen deep income cuts and ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT hosted.ap.org |
The visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov to Greece on November 1-2 was especially significant for Greece and came during a fragile international conjuncture, Greece's Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias commented in an interview with the Russian news ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.tornosnews.gr |
[Refugees and migrants line up for food distribution at the Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesbos, Greece October 6, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis/File Photo]Thomson Reuters ATHENS (Reuters) - Seven months after the European Union and Turkey struck an agreement to turn back the tide of Syrians fleeing west, not a single refugee has been sent back from Greece, and Brussels is losing its patience as overcrowded camps grow violent. The agreement reached in March was designed to reduce the number of migrants crossing into Europe from Turkey, after more than a million people arrived in Europe last year, most reaching Greek islands by boat and continuing by land to Germany. Under the deal, the European Union declared Turkey "a safe third country", meaning those who make the crossing can be returned there, even if found to have fled Syria or other countries as refugees deserving protection. Turkey agreed to take them back, in return for a range of EU concessions. At around the same time, Balkan countries along the land route north closed their borders, so that migrants who once poured across Greece to reach other parts of Europe are now trapped there and prevented from pressing on. For the most part, the goal of stemming the tide has been achieved so far. Only 17,000 people, around half of them Syrians, have made the hazardous sea crossing from Turkey since the deal was signed, a tiny fraction of hundreds of thousands that arrived the previous year to pass through Greece. But for the deal to continue to work for the longer term, European officials and experts say refugees will have to be sent back to Turkey. As long as those crossing are still able to stay in Greece, there is a risk that more will decide to come. "There's the deterrence effect. If it's proven that people are being turned back, it can force people to think twice about even trying," said James Ker-Lindsay, an expert on southern Europe at the London School of Economics. Only about 700 people who arrived since the deal was signed - just four percent of the total - have gone back to Turkey, and none was ordered back after being recognized as a refugee. Of those who returned, most were economic migrants from countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh who left without seeking asylum in Greece. Around 70 people who did claim asylum in Greece gave up on the process and asked to leave before it was over. The rest are still in Greece, prey for smugglers who offer to take them to northern Europe. Some 61,000 migrants are still scattered across Greece, including 15,900 in overcrowded island camps that have grown violent as the delays mount, with around 2,500 more arriving each month. The camps are now holding three times as many people as they held when the deal was signed, and twice as many as they were built for. [refugees greece]Thomson Reuters The EU blames the delays on Greek inefficiency. "The goal of ensuring returns ... has mostly been hampered by the slow pace of processing of asylum applications at first instance by the Greek Asylum Service and of processing of appeals by the newly-established Greek Appeals Authority," the EU Commission said in a progress report. "Further efforts are urgently needed by the Greek administration to build a substantially increased and sustained capacity to return arriving migrants, which is considered to be the key deterrent factor for irregular migrants and smugglers." Athens says it is simply overwhelmed and cannot speed up the painstaking process of evaluating claims. It has asked the EU to send more staff, but European officials say that would not help without more effort from Greece to improve its system. Interviews with asylum-seekers and officials involved in the process suggest Greek staff are indeed stretched, but red tape, inefficiency, the lack of a unified plan across refugee camps and a lengthy appeals process are also to blame. [REFUGEE CAMP GREECE]THOMSON REUTERSUNLUCKY Amir, Walaa and their two young children fled from the Syrian city of Homs to Turkey and reached a beach on the Greek island of Chios in March. They say they came ashore the day before the deal with Turkey, but their arrival was not recorded by police until the next day, exposing them to the new rules. "We were unlucky," Walaa said, smiling weakly. Her two brothers had taken just two weeks to reach Germany from Greece before the land border was shut. Her husband Amir added: "We were in the boat and (German Chancellor Angela) Merkel and Turkey were finishing the deal." Their asylum case should be easier to process than many: they have their passports and do not need to prove their identity. But they are still months from an answer. In their first weeks in Greece they were given a number: 10,624. Each day, they rose from their tent in the dusty remains of a castle moat, and walked to a notice board, looking anxiously for it. If posted, it meant they should walk or catch a bus to the island's main camp, a few miles (km) away, and queue there at the processing center, a few prefabricated containers arranged inside an abandoned aluminum factory. They spent four months in the tent before their number finally was posted the first time, summoning them to a meeting to establish their identity, where authorities finally sat them down to ask for their names and fingerprints. Six months after they arrived, they were finally told the date of their first actual interview: Dec. 6. They were finally given the right to leave the camp and relocate to Athens while they wait for their case to be heard. Now they live at a grimy, abandoned Athens school where smugglers roam, offering passage to northern Europe for $1,000. "We wait. Every day we just wait. Why, I don't know," Walaa said, gazing at the floor. She and her husband asked that their surnames not be published to protect relatives back in Syria. [refugees greece]Thomson Reuters Humanitarian groups on the ground say poor coordination slows things down on the islands, a conclusion backed up by the EU Commission report, which urged Greece to develop unified management for the camps. The camps are typically run by local municipalities or the central government, while screening and interviews are carried out primarily by officials from EU border agency Frontex and the European Asylum Support Office (EASO). Asylum-seekers say they receive contradictory information and are confounded by a lack of interpreters. One camp used a loud-hailer to call people to appointments; if they didn't hear it, they missed their turn. Frontex and EASO officials go to unusual lengths to confirm an identity or check an asylum seeker's story. Someone who has no documentation and professes to be from Syria, for example, will be asked to name streets, identify landmarks or pick out Syrian coins from a handful of different currencies. A CRUEL BUREAUCRACY The long waits and squalor of some camps have turned frustration into violence. On Chios and the island of Lesbos in recent days, asylum-seekers attacked EASO's offices to protest against delays. Interviews there have yet to resume. EASO has deployed 202 staff in Greece and has called for 100 more, but EU member states have yet to respond, EASO spokesman Jean-Pierre Schembri said. Greece has repeatedly asked for more. The Greek legal system allows for an elaborate appeals process, which the EU says is too slow. Greece responded in June by sending more judges to replace civil servants and staff of either the U.N. refugee agency or Greek human rights commission, who had previously sat on appeals panels. The new boards appear to be moving only slightly faster: they made 35 decisions in their first month, compared with 72 made by the old boards in the first three months of the deal, the EU Commission report said. The report did not specify what decisions had been reached. [refugees greece]Thomson Reuters The most contentious part of the process is determining whether those with valid asylum cases can safely be returned to Turkey, the heart of the March deal. The new appeals boards have dealt with at least three such cases as of Sept. 18, and at least one is challenging the decision at Greece's highest court, according to the EU report. Reuters could not find a board member willing to comment publicly on the process. "A wrong decision might send someone back to serious harm," said Giorgos Kosmopoulos, an Amnesty International researcher and former Greece director. "It's about quality not quantity." (Additional reporting by Gabriela Baczynska in Brussels; editing by Peter Graff) NOW WATCH: Animated map shows where your bottled water actually comes from
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.businessinsider.com |
Klaus Regling says the European Stability Mechanism, or ESM, is working on short-term debt relief measures aimed at reducing the GREEK economy's ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT sports.yahoo.com |
Our son, who lives and works in Switzerland, introduced me to a dip he tried while visiting one of the GREEK Isles recently. He said the GREEK people ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.myleaderpaper.com |
But this time it is not GREECE that dominates the agenda. Although for example the pension funds in Hellas are collapsing, the euro exit probability has ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT macedoniaonline.eu |
He faced extradition to GREECE but District Judge Mike Snow threw out the case today, criticising the 'appalling' delay between the accident and ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.dailymail.co.uk |
Syrian refugees are relieved to fly to Finland from Greece - but they are a tiny fraction of the total waiting.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.bbc.co.uk |
“The visit of President Obama to Greece constitutes an acknowledgement of the GREEK efforts and a huge opportunity for the promotion of our positions ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.ekathimerini.com |
A day after PepsiCo-Ivi said it was terminating production in Greece, Coca-Cola HBC, one of the world's biggest Coke bottlers, on Tuesday announced ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.ekathimerini.com |
“ Milwaukee at New Orleans on Tuesday night wouldn't typically jump off the schedule, but think about it. The GREEK Freak? Dueling with The Brow?
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.nba.com |
Pensioners will hold a rally against further cuts to their incomes on Thursday at Kotzia Square in central Athens. “The auxiliary pensions of November ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.ekathimerini.com |
PepsiCo has closed its only bottling operation in GREECE, as it looks to adapt to challenging market conditions in the country. The company confirmed ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.just-drinks.com |
A judge has criticised “appalling delays” by the Greek authorities while sparing a British father extradition to Greece over a minor car crash that happened 13 years ago. Paul Wright, 34, claimed that he was not even the driver of a car that crashed in ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.independent.co.uk |
The governor of the General hospital in Lamia has suspended all operations of the surgery departments due to shortage of anesthesiologists. With 3,500 surgery operations per year, the General Hospital of Lamia is one of the biggest in Central Greece next to the ones in Larissa and Volos. According to […]
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.keeptalkinggreece.com |
… in a car crash in Greece in 2003 will not face … was on holiday in Malia, Crete, when he says he was … deliberately absented himself from the Greek proceedings. He also criticised the … warrants. He said countries like Greece were using the threat of …
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT world.einnews.com |
Albanian officials are not in a position to claim urbi et orbi that minority rights are respected throughout the Albanian territory, while at the same time they are violating them in practice, undermining the country’s EU accession path. Facts speak for themselves: the demolition notices, in the context of the redevelopment plan for Himara, were addressed exclusively to people of Greek origin. This is a methodically planned effort that leads to the conclusion of the existence of a scheme to deliberately breach the rights of the Greek minority. The relevant statements made yesterday by Albanian officials evoke outdated concepts, which...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.mfa.gr |
With Greece's pension system facing a near 17-billion-euro ($18.75 billion) beneficiaries are taking a new hit to their monthly checks. The post Greek Pension System 17B Euro Black Hole, More Benefit Cuts Now Begin appeared first on The National Herald.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.thenationalherald.com |
International arrivals at Greek airports showed a robust Q3 with an increase of 9.3% y-o-y. September was particularly strong with an increase of 13.2% y-o-y. However, arrivals on the islands of Kos and Lesbos dropped by 13% and 57% respectively up to Q3 ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.hotelnewsresource.com |
A deal to end the partition of Cyprus, one of Europe's most enduring conflicts, is closer than ever and could be clinched by the end of this year, a senior U.N. envoy said on Tuesday. Rival Greek and Turkish Cypriot leaders are slated to meet at a Swiss resort for talks from Nov. 7-11 to pave the way for greater convergence between two sides split since a brief Greek coup and ensuing Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. "We are way ahead of what has ever happened before," said Espen Barth Eide, Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT uk.news.yahoo.com |
BRUSSELS—GREECE brushed off pressure from Washington and leading European capitals last month and vetoed a European Union decision to ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.wsj.com |
Sahir Munjral is ten year’s old but writes with a great deal of maturity and confidence. Here is his latest story set in Ancient Rome.. It was an early morning and Rome was just beginning to wake up. Tradesmen were opening up their shops and the ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT smorgasbordinvitation.wordpress.com |
Greek anarchist group Rubicon is known for storming into public buildings and banks, riots and vandalism. The group is now calling on its members to “welcome” U.S. Prime Minister Barack Obama during his official visit to Athens from November 15-16.
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
On Thursday, November 3, the National Hellenic Museum will be filled with some 500 foodies ready to dive into the culinary masterpieces of Chicagoland’s finest chefs at Kouzina. The event is in its 9th year and aims towards connecting new generations of ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT usa.greekreporter.com |
Pharmaceutical expenditure in Greece has been steadily reducing over the last years and needs to be increased by at least 200 million euros compared to the institutions’ demands and the Health ministry’s estimates, Greek scientists said in an ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church is ready to open its doors to visitors at the 53rd annual Greek Festival whether you're a dolmathes connoisseur or it's all Greek to you. Ready your palate for this year's new take on a familiar dish. This year's ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.caller.com |
The latest opinion poll by Public Issue shows the main opposition conservative New Democracy (ND) party striding ahead of the ruling Radical Left Coalition (SYRIZA) party by 24 units. If an election was called today ND would receive 42 percent, SYRIZA ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
A decision by local authorities at the Albanian town of Himara to demolish the homes of 19 ethnic Greek families at a predominantly ethnic Greek seaside resort has angered Athens and caused a diplomatic fued between Greece and Albania. On Tuesday, the ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT greece.greekreporter.com |
She's certainly had a fun Halloween. Ariel Winter dressed up in her fourth risque outfit of the spooky season on Monday evening, the actual date when ghosts and ghoulies - and children looking for candy - are said to roam. The 18-year-old looked ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT www.dailymail.co.uk |
The Greece Athena Trojans are matching the hype, as they build toward the Section V football tournaments. Pegged as one of, if not the team to beat in area Class A high school football, the Trojans remained undefeated after a 34-18 win at Brockport’s ...
|
| READ THE ORIGINAL POST AT usatodayhss.com |