Cyprus and GREECE woo more German tourists

Holiday bookings in the first couple of months this year for Cyprus, Morocco, Egypt and GREECE from the German market posted the biggest annual rise ...

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4 Facts That Will Make You Spit Out Your GREEK Yogurt

The real story of GREEK yogurt isn't exactly what you'd expect. From avoiding animal bones to acid whey, here are four great reasons to treat your ...

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More than 20% of TAP project's pipeline work in GREECE completed

There are more than 2,500 people working for the project in GREECE, out of which about 400 are archaeologists and specialized archaeological ...

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Emirates is trolling United Airlines CEO in a new commercial (UAL)

[Emirates United tout]YouTube/Emirates The nastiest feud in the airline industry has taken another turn. On Tuesday, Emirates released a commercial ridiculing United Airlines after disturbing video surfaced of law enforcement violently removing a passenger from one of the Chicago-based carrier's flights.   In a dig at United and its CEO Oscar Munoz, Emirates offers a modified version of the US airline's famous "Fly the friendly skies" slogan.  In addition, Emirates uses the new ad to remind the public of the many accolades it has won over the past year.  Over the past few years, United along with American and Delta have been highly critical of the Dubai-based airline. The US trio has accused Emirates along with Etihad and Qatar Airways of cheating through $50 billion of government subsidies. The same time, the US airlines have lobbied to curtail their Middle Eastern rivals' access to the US market.  In March, United Airlines employees held a rally at Newark Liberty International Airport to protest Emirates' new flight from Newark to Athens, Greece. Earlier this year, Munoz told Business Insider that the Middle Eastern airlines are a threat to US jobs. Emirates president Sir Tim Clark fired back last month calling the accusations "infantile." Here's the Emirates commercial: Youtube Embed: http://www.youtube.com/embed/aEevyPse3f8?rel=0&showinfo=0 Width: 560px Height: 315px NOW WATCH: People on Twitter are roasting United Airlines after a passenger was forcibly dragged off a plane

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Spike in package holiday bookings to GREECE from UK and Germany

Bookings from Germany and the United Kingdom for package holidays in GREECE and other Mediterranean countries rose sharply in early 2017, ...

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Lawyers spar over retrial in GREECE shaken baby case

The science at the center of the debate over whether Rene´ Bailey could have shaken a toddler so viciously that the child later died has already been ...

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Greece celebrates Easter with spectacles and food

A few years ago in Greece, I noticed flags flying at half-staff and wondered who had died. Then I remembered it was Good Friday — marking the day of Jesus’ crucifixion. I was initially disoriented because I had actually celebrated Easter before ...

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Going GREEK might be going off campus

For a small college with around 2,500 students, GREEK life is taking over Florida Southern's Campus. Every year at Florida Southern College the ...

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Penn State threatens to kill Greek life over party culture

The president of Pennsylvania State University threatened Tuesday to kill off all Greek life on campus if students don’t stop acting like the bros from “Animal House,” according to a report. Nine of the university’s 82 fraternities were busted ...

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Greek State finally hands over control of 14 regional airports to Fraport

The management and operation of 14 regional Greek airports will be handed over to Fraport Greece on Tuesday, when the German-Greek consortium will also make a one-off payment of 1.2 billion euros to state sell-off fund TAIPED. It has taken four years since ...

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Greek Week pulls through with Tug-o-War

Immediately following the Greek Picture, Greek Week continued with Tug-o-War in Strawberry Stadium. The event, held on Wednesday, Apr. 5 from 6:30 p.m. until it was over, saw different fraternities and sororities come together to compete against each other ...

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Pension cuts in 2019 to affect some 850,000 beneficiaries in Greece

Pension rates in crisis-battered Greece are set for another round of reductions in 2019, a downward trend that commenced with the advent of the economic crisis in 2010 and the subsequent implementation of bailout-mandated reforms. The latest draft ...

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'America's GREECE' and its insolvent electric utility

Puerto Rico has been characterized as “America's GREECE.” The national media routinely documents the American territory's struggles with its huge ...

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Athens-Patras in just 1h 40 min after inauguration of Corinth-Patras highway

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the 120-km section of the Corinth-Patras highway that makes the journey Athens-Patras possible in just 99 minutes. “Today we are inaugurating a work that many believed would never be completed,” the Prime Minister said adding that the highway “would never have been completed if it wasn’t for the difficult negotiations … The post Athens-Patras in just 1h 40 min after inauguration of Corinth-Patras highway appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

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Greek microbiologist in team that discovered new group of giant viruses

Scientists from the US and Austria, including a Greek microbiologist, discovered a group of giant viruses that they named “Klosneuviruses”. The first giant virus, Mimivirus, was discovered in 2003 by a team of French microbiologists. Since then these ...

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Handelsblatt report: Greece will need a 4th bailout memorandum

The German financial daily Handelsblatt on Monday offered up a pessimistic view of the current economic situation in Greece, saying the country will need a fourth bailout program. Under a headline of “Greece a prisoner of the crisis”, the Düsseldorf ...

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Greece's island refugee camps buckle under the strain

Souda refugee camp on Chios is one of two camps on the Greek Island. Around 800 people live in a tented city. Most of them are from Syria. The rest are migrants from North Africa, Afghanistan and Iran. All of them escaped the Turkish coast in the region of ...

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PSU president: 'Incomprehensible' frat death, new rules drive GREEK life underground

Penn State's clampdown on GREEK organizations dates back to the revelation in 2015 that members of the Kappa Delta Rho (KDR) fraternity were ...

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Springer Reisen: Austrian packages to Greece at 85% capacity

Interest in Greece from Austria exceeds expectations

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President of the Greek banks expresses concerns over non-performing loans

Banker addressed special parliamentary committee

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Greek Week steps to the music of the movies

Each year, Greek Week ends with the Stepshow, which is an event where different teams made up of fraternities and sororities work together to compete to see who has the best performance and who are the overall winners of the week. The show was held on Apr ...

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Healthy Greek Recipes That Will Transport You to the Mediterranean

Gigantes plaki, is a traditional Greek dish of gigantes (a.k.a. giant beans) in a tomato sauce. For this recipe, the buttery beans are baked in a sauce flavored with garlic and dill. The dish is high in protein from all the beans and full of heart-healthy ...

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2 Months After Student's Frat House Death, Penn State President Pens Open Letter To Greek Community

President Eric Barron suggested that the continued defiance of the rules could mean "the beginning of the end of Greek life at Penn State." As an investigation continues into a frat party where a sophomore died, Penn State President Eric Barron published a ...

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Fraport Greece Officially Takes Over Control of 14 Regional Airports

Fraport Greece officially took over the management of 14 regional airports after the payment of 1.23 billion euros to Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF) on Tuesday, as envisaged in a concession contract signed with Greek authorities.

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Contiki launches GREEK Week Pride trips to celebrate inclusivity

TORONTO — Contiki is full of pride these days after adding GREEK Pride events in Athens and Mykonos to its summer 2017 lineup. Catering ...

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ELA for GREEK banks dropped 700 mln last month

Emergency central bank funding to GREEK lenders dropped by 700 million euros, or 1.6 percent, in March compared to the previous month, Bank of ...

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We recently interviewed United Airlines' CEO about turning the company around - here's what he had to say (UAL)

_MN_ [United Airlines CEO Oscar Munoz]AP When Oscar Munoz was tapped to lead United Airlines in 2015, he was not the obvious choice. He had served on United's board but had never worked at an airline. His résumé featured high-profile stints at Coca-Cola and AT&T before arriving at CSX as its chief financial officer and later serving as its chief operating officer. The airline he was taking over was in turmoil. Munoz's predecessor had resigned amid a corruption investigation, and its workers were divided and disgruntled. The task before Munoz was to upgrade United's product offerings, improve performance, and unite the labor groups fractured after the company's 2010 merger with Continental. Now, Munoz finds himself in the midst of one of the company's biggest challenges: dealing with the fallout after a cell phone video showing a United Airlines passenger being forcibly removed from a plane went viral. The scandal has become a public relations nightmare for the brand. In February, Business Insider sat down with Munoz during United's annual Global Leadership Conference in Chicago. The conversation touched on the airline's recent turnaround and President Trump's immigration policies. Munoz also talked about his first days as United's CEO, on managing with empathy, and rivals from the Middle East. _This interview has been edited for clarity and length._ BENJAMIN ZHANG: On your first day as CEO, you announced that you would go on a "listening tour" to take the temperature of your employees. What was that tour like? OSCAR MUNOZ: It was all raw and visceral. I'd walk into rooms that were just as hostile as any rooms I have ever been in — and I worked at a railroad — so it was pretty significant. The emotion is often filled with little truth and a lot of non-truths because there is no information. If there is a void, people fill it. [Oscar Munoz Bio]BI Graphics/ Samantha Lee ZHANG: Filling the void? MUNOZ: Every little thing the company was doing was being received negatively. Some, fair enough, were things we shouldn't have been doing. But a lot of things were blown out of proportion. It was a lot of really small things that just permeated in an incorrect way and caused all this raw emotion. That listening tour, the concepts behind it, the findings, were all just raw data that was forming into something. ZHANG: So what did you take from those interactions? MUNOZ: My assessment was that it's personal. I'm not moving anywhere with this company until we fix these personal issues. ZHANG: You often talk about empathy. What role did it play in earning the trust of your employees? MUNOZ: For me, it's common sense to treat other people like you would like to be treated. Empathy is a broad concept, but how do you get there? People get there differently. I get there by truly building a little trust and connection. You'll tell me something, I'll act on it, and then that builds on itself. But first you have to listen with humility and get people to be willing to talk to you before you can earn their trust. ZHANG: Lots of individual conversations? MUNOZ: It's funny: I can't tell you how many thousand of small moments that I've had with employees in our company that have been nothing more than a one-on-one. I'll see the baggage-services person, he or she is by himself. I'll pull them off to the side and have a 15-minute conversation about their history, their life, that kind of thing. Nobody sees that, there is nobody taking pictures, but that message carries because they are all connected with their own little network and they love the concept that somebody just stepped in and said, "Hi, hello, how are you?" as opposed to walking in and doing the royal wave. ZHANG: What changes did you make in your first few weeks as CEO? MUNOZ: I asked the executive team, "What are the top 10 stupid things we have done in the last five years that you would reverse if you could right now? Because I am giving you that leeway? Talk among yourselves." And we went and fixed every single one of those things. ZHANG: What things made the list? MUNOZ: They will sound trite. One was that there were some performers, some people in high places, that were there because somebody knew them or they knew someone else. But they were clearly not performing. When you get to be an executive of some tenure, you have a fairly immediate capability of assessing talent. If I have any strength that would be considered above average, it is that I can read people. Within a month or so, 12 VPs found other roles or were moved out of the company. Then flight benefits for directors and managing directors — flight benefits in this business are sacrosanct. It's like, you do not mess with that whatsoever. It's so difficult when you make people travel on business. So we did little things like that to make the employees feel more valued. Then stupid things — like, we had taken the cups out of the building for coffee. We left coffee but you had to bring your own cup as a cost-saving measure. Somebody thought it was symbolic to do that. Sensible cost management came out of that. [Oscar Munoz's crazy first year as CEO]BI Graphics/Samantha Lee ZHANG: Coffee cups made the top 10? MUNOZ: It was literally that the Styrofoam cups had been taken out of the building. I said, "How much can Styrofoam cups cost?" Then I said, "Don't even tell me. I would be personally happy to pay for the next year of Styrofoam cups in this room out of my own pocket, but put them in here tomorrow." When they told me, I was like, "Are you kidding me?" But that it rose to the top of a senior executive group, it made people think. "That's how you think of me?" It's like, "I don't have a problem bringing my own cup, but it was that on top of something else on top of something else." So cups are coming back, and these little things began to show what I call "proof not promise." You immediately need some wins, and that one was simple. They still never got back to me about how much it cost, but if you are going to do something like that, just take the whole damn coffee out and have people buy their own coffee, as opposed to doing something that's half-way because that just sounds idiotic. That logic I didn't understand. ZHANG: You grew up in Southern California and were the oldest of nine children. What was that like? MUNOZ: Bedlam, chaos. Rushing for food, unloading the station wagon with groceries. There was literally a line to get everything off. Nine people and the logistics around that, coordinating, organizing anything, watching a TV show with your one TV on the one remote. My mom at one time hid the remote so we wouldn't fight over that. When you have to actually go and change the channel on the actual TV, you could get tackled on the way there. ZHANG: How did your childhood shape your management style? MUNOZ: I was raised with all of that activity and that need for communication, for collaboration with each other, for understanding my sisters and why they needed the bathroom so much longer in the morning, versus us, and how the boys decided we would take our baths or showers the night before, so in the morning we could just get up and go. All these small little life things that occurred taught me that you are not alone in this world, and there are a lot of other people and their viewpoints are important to you, and then just watch them and be supportive of each other and all the difficulties they've had in life. When you are involved with that many people, you have to empathize with them, so that's part of that craziness. ZHANG: It's well documented that you were an athlete and a vegan, yet you suffered a massive heart attack one month into your term as CEO. Do you have any advice for people in high-profile, high-stress positions? MUNOZ: I do have a lot of advice, but with regard to what causes heart disease and the concept of stress and workload and traveling and all those things, clearly taking care of yourself is helpful, which I was. Clearly, nutrition is great. I was a vegan, so being an athlete and a vegan certainly sounds like it would be the right thing to prevent something like heart disease, but it's highly genetic. Heart disease is twice the cancer deaths in America, and it's a silent killer. So someone like me who has no knowledge or previous history of anything can literally just fall. ZHANG: Is there anything people can do to put themselves in a better position to survive a situation similar to yours? [Oscar Munoz United Polaris]AP MUNOZ: The trick there is that people have to know that anytime they feel something — I use the term "weird" because one of my doctor friends had told me that before — they should call 911. If my friend, a cardiologist, hadn't told me the story that he told me ... He said: "Call 911 and immediately tell them where you are because you may not make it past the phone call." When he said this, I remember saying, "OK, Mark, you're being a little dramatic." I felt weird and crawled to my phone. When you are on the 50th floor of a building, GPS isn't going to find you necessarily quickly, so I used the landline. ZHANG: What symptoms did you experience? MUNOZ: Heart-failure symptoms are many and varied, and they differ greatly between men and women. Mine was nowhere near my heart — my legs gave out. And I said, "Boy, that's weird," and I got a little clammy and that's it. You talk to 20 patients, they had pains in their left shoulder ... so there are just so many and varied, and I had no history. That's the thing: Most people have no history. It's just plaque that builds up inside your arteries. It's kind of like plaque on your teeth. You can't go to the dentist to clear that up until it's too late. So the advice is, if you feel weird, call 911 and immediately tell them where you are because you may not make it past the phone call. ZHANG: In late 2016, United introduced the "basic economy" fare class. The reaction from the public, and in our newsroom, was immediately and overwhelmingly negative. Why does basic economy exist? MUNOZ: It's not for everybody. Your guys in the newsroom will take the $100 tickets from Boston to LA if they're there. But if that's basic economy and regular economy is $125 or $150, we want you to have all those perks that come along with regular economy. But if you don't want it and you want to go cheaper, then you can do that. And it is good for customers and it will be hard. Other people have been doing it for some time. The noise starts early and then once they experience it, it makes a difference. [Oscar Munoz Quote]Business Insider ZHANG: Why was reaction to basic economy so overwhelmingly negative? MUNOZ: We, as an industry, have made flying difficult. When I say "we" it's everyone. When you are getting ready to go to the airport, the next morning it's like me, you know, I've got to get in the car, rent a car, I'm going to have to go in traffic, you know. Here, in Chicago, it's miserable because if you don't leave by a certain time, you are just dead. "I'm going to get there and there are going to be a billion people and the damn TSA line." By the time you get to sit on one of our seats you are just pissed at the world. So how do we make all of that a little bit easier? This is the thing. You've got that broad issue of anger and anti-industry noise. We've lost the trust and respect of the broader public, and so every action we take, they don't particularly like, they see it negatively. We have to work on that broad communication. I am going to do it at this airline and allow myself to differentiate in the flight-friendly mode so that people don't immediately have that visceral reaction. ZHANG: What do people not understand about the thinking behind basic economy? MUNOZ: It's the economics of matching and competing in markets where the low-cost carriers are offering this type of basic-economy service. Not only what you would get on another airline — Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant — but you also get that capability of buying something, that you do get a seat assignment or something more that allows you to have the service. One of the biggest services that people don't understand is that if you buy a ticket on Spirit and it ain't working, or if the plane doesn't go for some reason, you are done. You gotta buy another ticket. You don't get reaccommodated [but] you get very accommodated when you fly with a legacy airline. And so yes, you are getting something at the back end. It's not for everybody. My answer is a broad thing: We have to make the industry a bit friendlier so people don't always have that visceral reaction. [United Airlines Timeline]BI Graphics/Skye Gould ZHANG: How do you communicate that? MUNOZ: We have a lot of mechanisms, and that's why we are taking our time to roll it out, to make sure when you buy that ticket you fully well know, you ain't getting bags, you ain't sitting together with your family. We are going follow up. We are going to do all those different things. But it's communication that is the answer to how you do it. Not just with customers but to all your employees, because they have a lot of questions about this. ZHANG: How did United employees react to it? MUNOZ: We talked to the flight attendants' union before we rolled any of this out and got their input. The visceral reaction we got was one of them said, "Well, this sounds just like Ted" [United's low-cost airline that was shut down in 2009]. They thought we were building a whole new cheap airline. But when you sit with them for two seconds and understand the mechanics they were like, "OK, I get it." ZHANG: Is there any portion of the basic economy rollout that concerns you? MUNOZ: The family thing is the only thing I worry about the most because we want to be cognizant of them. We are working on a message, so if you are flying with a family and you choose that class of fare, "How can we better communicate with you, especially if you are traveling with young children?" We are going to strongly suggest that for a little bit more money you can get a seat assignment. ZHANG: The three mega airlines from the Persian Gulf have grown tremendously over the past 15 years. Your predecessor, Jeff Smisek, was very open about his claims that these airlines have been fueled by billions of dollars of subsidies. Is United going to continue to pursue a reexamination of the Open Skies agreement? MUNOZ: This is a competitive industry — always has been, always will be. And we recognize and realize that and work within those confines. Two other big airlines in the US have benefits and things we would like, but at the same time it is competitive, we know how to work in that space because we work on an even playing field. Some of us have unions. That's a process you have to work through. When you have to compete against someone like those folks and those sovereignties, however you slice it, it becomes an unfair competition. That's what I worry about specifically. And with regard to the subsidies, I get all that. At the end of the day, the economics of it is that, if it indeed continues, it's going to affect the jobs in this country because I'm not going to fly from Newark to Athens, Greece, every day. I fly there seasonally now, because that's where the demand is. If they are going to fly every day, they are going to lose $25 million on that route every year. If they are going to continue to do that, then I have no business in making that route. [Oscar Munoz united leadership conference]United AirlinesZHANG: What is the key issue? MUNOZ: For me, it's the jobs aspect. That's why the unions are so engaged with us and so aligned, because they understand that when demand dies down, we are not going to fly there. Which means I am not going to buy an aircraft for the route and obviously I'm not going to hire people to crew it. I don't want to get into the engagement, the analysis, or the subsidies because that just becomes emotional. ZHANG: Do you think the Open Skies agreement that governs air travel between the US and the Middle Eastern nations should be renegotiated? MUNOZ: I understand that the US government has a big role [in the dispute] and we hope that the US administration understands the facts behind it and the effect on jobs. At the same time, I understand there are some geopolitical alliances that are bigger than who flies where commercially and that have to be accounted for. Somewhere there is a delicate balance of that, and if that's not a revision of the freedom rights and Open Skies, I think there is some work that can be done that can make this thing a little bit more balanced. It was written a long time ago. It would be nice to be able to write something that benefits everyone without being so protectionist, which is sometimes how we come off. Sometimes the industry comes across as a little bit too much of that and it makes people not want to help you. Where's the delicate balance? Is the situation unfair? Yes. Do I support what these airlines are doing? Absolutely not. ZHANG: Some would argue that airlines from other parts of the world play a different role in their national economies than US carriers. MUNOZ: I understand that the ME3's are a global marketing brand for their countries. When did an American ever hear about Emirates or Dubai? When they saw it flying somewhere. No one can say the word "Qatar." But it's a country-based branding mechanism that is important to them and I get that. So do it all that you want, but don't encroach on things that affect American jobs. ZHANG: Recently, United announced that it would be expediting the retirement of its Boeing 747-400s. What was the thinking behind that, and is it the end of the jumbo jet? MUNOZ: You've got other jumbo jets out there that are being built and that a couple of people are flying. For us, we had dwindled down our fleet of 747s. They were already on a path to becoming obsolete. They have been a grand aircraft for us for a long time, but we have issues with maintenance — parts in particular. If I need a part today, I can't get it. We stripped every airplane in the world of its parts to feed the need, and no one is making new parts for this particular aircraft because there are just not as many out there. [United Airlines Boeing 747]United AirlinesZHANG: With the 747 on the way out, what does the future hold for United's fleet? MUNOZ: Every time I get accosted with the issue of the "Queen of the Skies," I say, "Have you met Miss Dreamliner over here?" It doesn't have that grand double-decker look, but that's where [the new Polaris business class] comes into play. The service that you get, the seats that we are working with, that was the decision. We were getting new aircraft that we are going to fly, and we are going to make long-term commitments to flying, and we wanted to start those new routes with aircraft that we are going to be flying into the next generation. ZHANG: How do you think the Trump administration will affect the airline industry? MUNOZ: Well, there's no question that the uncertainly of what this administration could do vis-à-vis what they say versus what they actually do. There's no great history of this. So the uncertainty that causes is clearly being seen. Our productivity, our far-out bookings to certain countries. People are not "scared" — but maybe that's the word — to fly because they don’t know what’s going to happen when they come back. Uncertainty always creates doubt and doubt creates fear. And if you do that, people are just going to stay home. So you have that impact. ZHANG: How do you feel about Trump's executive order barring people from seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US? MUNOZ: With regard to the 90-day hold — I’m trying to not the use the word "ban" because, apparently, even though the president used it, that’s not what he meant. But whatever you want to call it, it was so sudden that you have people in the air, you have people out of the country, you have people connected back here who were stranded. That job to handle that on the way back is left to people like our industry to manage. So how do you tell somebody who lives in America that they can’t come back. And so nobody thought through those things, and I just wished and hoped that we could do it a little more thoughtfully. ZHANG: What about the security argument? MUNOZ: The retort is you are going to let the bad guys in. There are a lot of facts that support that, of all the terrorist activities in this country since 9/11, most have been caused by American citizens radicalized by policies implemented by past administrations. ZHANG: As the most prominent Mexican-American CEO in the US, what are your thoughts on Trump's proposal to build a wall along the US-Mexico border? [United Airlines Boeing 787]United Airlines MUNOZ: Clearly, on a visceral human front, I oppose any wall anywhere, between any people. Period. I don’t know how you are actually going to build any kind of barrier that makes sense across such an incredible length. I don’t know how that’s going to help. And if you understand what border patrol does today and how they do it, they do a pretty good job. If you look at the facts of the people who are "sneaking across the border," "swimming across the Rio Grande," or "climbing over something," it’s such a small percentage of folks. The immigrant community is strong and alive. From Kennedy’s quotes, on we were built on immigrants to the fact that all of us in this room, somewhere, somehow, other than the American Indian, there aren’t a whole lot of people that own the United States as their own, even though we feel that way. ZHANG: Where do you see the wave of anti-immigrant sentiment fitting in historically? MUNOZ: I hope and I pray that history will prove itself, because if you're looking back on history with regard to immigration, we’ve always had this wave of nauseating concern of "not in my backyard." Whether it’s the Eastern Europeans, the Italians, the Irish, you have all these people being oppressed when they first arrive in this country. And the African-American community. Now they were already here because they were forced in, so to speak, if you think about slavery. But now it’s Latinos and Mexican-Americans in particular who get pointed out. Now the Muslim faith in total is being attacked. I hope that when you look back at history, all of that will hit a peak, and then as people got comfortable with it and they move on to the next round of immigrants that came. That’s the history of immigration. Some of it is to be expected because they feel like they are the only ones that should be here, which is silly, but at the same time, hopefully it passes. ZHANG: How will these policies affect the nation? MUNOZ: We start building walls, or even creating the concept of walls, it starts making it OK for you to build personal walls at work or with your neighbors. That’s damning and damaging to the country we all know is great because of that diversity and not despite of it. NOW WATCH: Boeing has a new fleet of robots that are transforming the way it builds planes

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Greek sororities host mayoral forum for Moss Point citizens to learn about their candidates

MOSS POINT, Miss. - With three weeks to go before the primary election, the Moss Point Alumni Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta and the Theta Zeta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha hosted a mayoral forum for citizens of Moss Point to learn more about the ...

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How to Cook a Greek Easter Meal at Home for Everyone (Even Vegans!)

The best place to enjoy Pascha (Greek Easter Sunday) is, of course, somewhere outside in the Greek countryside, with a lamb rotating on a spit and a table loaded with traditional dishes (and plenty of wine). But what if you can’t get away but still want ...

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TAP's Progress in GREECE is in line with project's schedule

The Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) AG is pleased to announce that construction in GREECE, the project's greatest geography, advances according to ...

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VINCI : Two large VINCI Concessions motorway projects open to traffic in GREECE

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras inaugurated the new section between Corinth and Patras today, extending the east-west corridor Athens-Corinth.

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In Kosovo, Kammenos touts GREECE'S growing significance as a regional power

Kammenos added that GREECE “is no longer a sidekick [in the region] but, after many years, it is gradually regaining a leading role in the creation of a ...

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Naxos Seeks to Play Leading Role in Sports Tourism

NAXOS, Greece (ANA) – The island of Naxos is expected to play a leading role in sports tourism ahead of the first Naxos Trail to […] The post Naxos Seeks to Play Leading Role in Sports Tourism appeared first on The National Herald.

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Tsipras Inaugurates Corinth-Patras Motorway

KORINTHOS, Greece (ANA) – “Today we are inaugurating a work that many believed would never be completed,” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday said at […] The post Tsipras Inaugurates Corinth-Patras Motorway appeared first on The National Herald.

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Greek Australians Told to Hide Crosses in Fear of Bias Attacks

SYDNEY – An attack on Australian Greeks while riding on a train through a predominantly Muslim section of Sydney was reported by the Sydney-based Daily […] The post Greek Australians Told to Hide Crosses in Fear of Bias Attacks appeared first on The National Herald.

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GREEK Sheet Pan Chicken

In a gallon size Ziploc bag, combine chicken, olive oil, garlic, lemon juice, red wine vinegar and oregano; season with salt and pepper, to taste.

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10 Things You Should Know About Greek Easter

1. It's actually called Orthodox Easter. First of all, it's technically called Orthodox Easter. It's when Orthodox Christians across the world celebrate Christ rising from the dead with a meal. The foods and traditions change by culture (Armenians and ...

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Greek main opposition party gains popularity as Greeks pessimistic about future: survey

ATHENS, April 11 (Xinhua) -- If national elections in Greece were to be called next weekend, 33 percent of respondents would vote for New Democracy (ND), while only 15.5 percent would vote for the ruling Syriza party, according to a survey carried out for ...

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OECD Taxing Wages 2017: Greece among the champions, most affected families with 2 children

The increase in income tax, the decrease of tax- free allowance and and increase in social security  contributions paid by employees and their employers have dramatically reduced the Greeks’ incomes. According to the latest report of the OECD “Taxing Wages 2017” Greece is among the champions of 35 members of the Organization. According to the … The post OECD Taxing Wages 2017: Greece among the champions, most affected families with 2 children appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.

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GREECE Agrees To Widen Tax Base

Under the plan, GREECE will lower the threshold at which personal income tax becomes payable in an attempt to increase tax revenues. It is expected ...

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OECD report: Greeks pay highest taxes

Country is at the top of the 35-member organisation

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With more violations, Penn State president warns of 'end of Greek life'

Susan Snyder has covered education for the Inquirer since 1998. She currently covers higher education. She was a member of the team that won the Pulitzer Prize for public service in 2012. Penn State President Eric Barron warned Tuesday that “the end of ...

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Germany’s Fraport Takes Over 14 Airports in Greece

ATHENS—Greece handed over control of 14 regional airports to German airport operator Fraport on Tuesday, receiving €1.2 billion, the biggest payment yet under the country’s privatization program. The German company took over the operation ...

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10 street artists from Greece and their murals

It was in the middle of 1960 that the art of graffiti started spreading, firstly at the political scene of America, where many political activists wanted to publicize their views and later in ghetto areas, as a territory mark between crews. Nowadays ...

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Greek state hands over control of 14 regional airports to German-Greek consortium

ATHENS, April 11 (Xinhua) -- The Greek state officially handed over the control of 14 regional airports to German-Greek consortium Fraport Greece, Greek national news agency AMNA reported on Tuesday. Under the contract Fraport signed with the Hellenic ...

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Greek destination management agency Vista Events is rebranding

Leading Destination management agency in Greece, Vista Events has decided to rebrand after 16 years. The full scale rebranding campaign includes the unveiling of a redesigned logo, website and corporate identity. Rena Gkini – Director of Sales says ...

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Fraport Frankfurt Arprt Svcs Wrldwde : Greece Begins 40-Year Concession at 14 Greek Regional Airports

Greek State receives EUR1.234 billion upfront payment - Fraport Greece will further invest about EUR400 million for improving and expanding the airports' infrastructure by 2021 - Focus on enhancing facilities, operational processes and the passenger ...

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Iliopoulos Announced to Greek Softball National Team

ATHENS, GREECE – Rutgers softball freshman Anyssa Iliopoulos has been named to the Greek Softball National Team, the Greek Softball Federation announced Monday. Iliopoulos is one of the first seven athletes selected to the team which will represent ...

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Eurostat: Greek Real Estate Declines as Compared to EU Counterparts

According to figures released by Eurostat on Monday, the Greek real estate market is on a steady year-on-year decline over the last quarter of 2016. Bank of Greece statistics reveal that property rates in Greece have decreased by 0.6 percent in Q4 last ...

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Penn State president asks ‘is there an hope’ for Greek life if rules continue to be ignored

Beta Theta Pi members called themselves ‘men of principle,’ and a Penn State administrator believed the fraternity to be “one of the three best” at Penn State. That was before pledge Timothy Piazza died Feb. 4, two days after an acceptance ceremony ...

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