How the world sees Greece
Soccer can be a powerful tool for bringing people together. Since 1996 Columbus Crew SC, have been doing that, but they were not the first organization to do so in central Ohio. Over 50 years ago the Greek Olympic Society formed in order to bring Columbus ...
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Oil is back in the spotlight. Crude fell to its lowest level in more than a month, and it wouldn't take much more of a decline for prices to reach levels last seen in November. Oil has been on a roller-coaster ride in recent months, going from $54 a barrel ...
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Tuesday's highest-flyers were Greece and Brazil stock exchange-traded funds. The Global X MSCI Greece ETF (GREK) gained 3.8% and the iShares MSCI Brazil Capped ETF (EWZ) 2.2%. Both the real and euro rose against the U.S. dollar. Markets cheered as Greece ...
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High unemployment and a steady decline of living standards for most GREEKS for seven consecutive years have left scars on the GREEK capital Picture: ...
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Austin Police Department released the mug shot of UT stabbing suspect Kendrix White after he was charged with murder, May 2, 2017 6. Kendrex White has a YouTube account where he posts footage of video games and one where he interviewed someone in Spanish.
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Enterprise Greece, an investment and trade-promoting body supervised by the ministry of economy, is planning two business events in May during which about 180 Greek food and beverage exporters will meet 40 foreign buyers from 10 countries. The events ...
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Adjusting to college life can be hard. I remember getting to Penn State nearly two years ago feeling like I had lost everything that I knew and traded it in for some far-away ideal of an independent life. While college mostly includes living on your own ...
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Almost 1.5 million Greeks live in extreme poverty, most of them unemployed and young, a recent study by the diaNEOsis non government organization says. Specifically, the study says, 1,488,714 Greeks, most of them young and unemployed live in extreme poverty, meaning that they are deprived of basic food items, telephone service, clothes and vacations. Extreme […]
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Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades has said that the Greek Cypriot and the Turkish Cypriot side have agreed on a definition as regards the issue of the legal domicile and exercising the four EU fundamental freedoms by the citizens of a future federal Cyprus. In statements to the press after his four-hour long meeting on Tuesday […]
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Despite an agreement reached Tuesday on a reform package, Europe still needs to provide "credible" debt relief to Greece before the International Monetary Fund can provide more financing, an IMF official said. Greece and its creditors closed a troubled ...
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Bank stocks led the GREEK bourse in a rare rally on Tuesday on news of a provisional agreement between the government and the country's creditors ...
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (News release) – The 33rd Annual International Greek Food Festival will officially kick off on Friday, May 19 with a brand-new food item, “My Big Fat Greek Platter,” and family-friendly entertainment options. This year, the festival ...
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The new track flips the sample used on Ross’ “Rather You Than Me” track. Fresh off their Filthy America.. It’s Beautiful tour across America, The LOX have returned today with a fresh freestyle over ‘Santorini Greece’, the standout track from ...
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… The International Monetary Fund welcomes Greece's deal with European … and tax breaks, would allow Greece to meet fiscal targets and … of the program based on Greece meeting the targets under the …
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His Eminence hosted the 102nd commemorative event and presided over the special prayer service, which was attended by clergy and faithful from throughout New England. His Eminence Archbishop Khajag Barsamian of the Eastern Diocese of the Armenian Church of ...
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Unemployment in Greece remained stable at 23.5% in January 2017, compared to December 2016, according to Eurostat data released today. Unemployment remained stable in the eurozone at 9.6% in March compared to February 2017. In EU-28, unemployment stood at ...
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The Greek government agreed Tuesday to more austerity to secure another 7 billion euros ($7.6 billion) in much-needed bailout funding from European creditors. The New York Times sums up the agreement, which is subject to approval by eurozone finance ...
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Businessman Ivan Savvidis praised Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and likened him to Russian President Vladimir Putin, while slamming main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis. In an interview to Proto Thema newspaper, the Greek-Russian businessman praised ...
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The ex-finance minister said it was a “veritable mystery” why some left-wing politicians were yet to endorse Mr Macron. Far-left Jean-Luc Melenchon, who crashed out in the first round, is yet to back a candidate with Ms Le Pen attempting to appeal to ...
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The Lox takes on Rick Ross. Fresh off the Ruff Ryders reunion stage, Jadakiss, Styles P, and Sheek Louch flip Renzel’s “Santorini Greece” standout off the Maybach boss’ Rather You Than Me LP. Vibing out to the soulful Bink! instrumental, Styles ...
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected to sign a three-year agreement with Chinese officials to attract investment to Greece, during his visit to Beijing this month for the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation (BRF) on May 14-15.
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The long road to Greece emerging from its worst financial crisis in modern times reached another milestone on Tuesday as the country concluded a crucial compliance review that will allow it to avert default in July. At the cost of yet more painful ...
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Contrary to many social media rumors yesterday afternoon, investigating authorities have found no evidence that the suspect in Monday afternoon's ...
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Meet “Pet of the Week” Baleraphon. This cat has one of the most unique names we've ever heard of. His namesake is a GREEK God called one of the ...
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WEST DES MOINES, Iowa-- A group that oversees fraternity and sorority life at the University of Iowa has indefinitely banned alcohol at all official events in response to the recent death of a student, CBS affiliate KCCI reports. According to the Camden ...
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Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of news and analysis of how Brexit will affect global business, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS Euclid Tsakalotos, Greece’s Minister of Finance, speaks during ...
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Shops located in tourism areas in Greece will be open on 30 Sundays this year, Economy Minister Dimitris Papadimitriou said on Tuesday. The operation of shops on Sundays is among the reforms brought to the table by Greece’s international lenders and that ...
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The Greek government is set to get further rescue funds from its international lenders ahead of a July deadline. It has done that by promising to cut pensions again in 2019 and by lowering the level at which people pay tax in 2020, by which time it hopes ...
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Greece’s Yanis Varoufakis has blasted French left-wingers’ “scandalous” reluctance to endorse Emmanuel Macron, recalling his lonely attempt to help the Greek government during its epic standoff with the “Troika”.
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Shops in Greece will be open 30 Sundays per year and not just eight as it became custom in the last years of bailout agreements. However, professional associations of workers and employers react to the measure claiming the big stores will swallow the small ones. Shops will be open in touristic areas such as the … The post Professional associations react to ‘open shops on 30 Sundays per year’ appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 9.5% in March 2017, stable compared to February 2017 and down from 10.2% in March 2016. This is the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since April 2009. The EU28 unemployment rate was 8.0% in March 2017, down from 8.1% in February 2017 and from 8.7% … The post Euro area unemployment 9% – Greece constantly high at 23.5%, youth 48% appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – The 33 rd Annual International Greek Food Festival will officially kick off on Friday, May 19th with a brand-new food item, “My Big Fat Greek Platter,” and family-friendly entertainment options. This year, the festival will also ...
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ATHENS — Pretty much everyone agrees that Greece needs debt relief; what they don't agree on is what debt relief means. Easing Greece's fiscal path forward is likely to be the next great struggle in the country's agonising, seven-year, three-package ...
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The GREEK government and lender institutions agreed a "preliminary technical agreement" on reforms under the bailout deal, GREEK Finance Minister ...
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I've done a lot of living at the GREEK Theatre, as I was reminded recently on a cool April evening when I was lucky enough to see Radiohead perform ...
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… Tues., May 2, 2017 ATHENS, GREECE—Greece and its rescue creditors have … get go-ahead to return to Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing … agreement and noted that “the Greek authorities have confirmed their intention …
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Some six million passengers passed through Greek airports during the first three months of the year, up 6.6 percent compared to the same period in 2016, according to data released on Tuesday by the Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA). According to the ...
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Watermelon Greek Salad kicks off my love of the Florida watermelon harvest. Grown in the western parts of the state, from north Collier to Columbia counties, watermelon is in season from late March through mid-July. Red watermelon is a good source of ...
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Remember that time when the Commission invented the term 'leakology'?
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It is with great satisfaction that I address the opening of the 'Ancient Civilizations Forum', which follows on the initiative taken in 2015 by Greece's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Nikos Kotzias, for the hosting of an International Conference on 'Religious and Cultural Pluralism and Peaceful Coexistence in the Middle East'. By way of introduction, I note the seemingly obvious: The current situation in the Middle East alone – which is anywhere from dire to devastating – suffices to fully justify Nikos Kotzias' important initiative. And this is because anyone can see that the resounding response of the coexistence and dialogue of Cultures can prove to be a powerful and effective antidote to the plagues of war and terrorist barbarity that have beset the Middle East for years now, with Syria tragically at centre stage. In this context, and with a sincere sense of duty and honour, Athens is hosting the 'Ancient Civilizations Forum', in the justifiable belief that it is fulfilling a critical mission that is intrinsically linked with Greece's iconic past and historical perspective. And I explain, briefly:1. The Mediterranean and the Countries on its shores have for millennia now been a cradle and crossroads of Cultures whose radiance and resonance continue their historical course, retaining their universal human dimensions.A. Greece, with Athens at its centre, was and remains a constant cradle of a radiant Civilization. Hellenic Civilization was and has always been marshalled by its Spirit, which, with its inherent extroversion and creativity, inspired Humanity and emblematically impacted Humankind's 'Sisyphean' course in their eternal struggle to understand the world around them. It was the Hellenic Spirit that allowed for the "disenchantment of the world" – to borrow a phrase from Max Weber – through the birth of Science and Philosophy, which made possible the incomparable method of the gradual transformation of information and experience into knowledge, and of knowledge into wisdom.B. Without a trace of ethnocentric conceit and in no way belittling – quite the opposite, as today's Forum shows – the greatness and contribution of the other Civilizations in the shared laboratory of human creation, I believe that, precisely due to the aforementioned extroversion of the Hellenic Spirit, here, in Athens and Greece, one has a stronger and better sense of the need for and catalytic importance of the coexistence and cooperation of Civilizations, particularly in our turbulent and trying times.II. Despite the historically unprecedented and stark 'warnings' of the 20th century – warnings that emerged like 'omens' from the howling weapons and rivers of blood brought by the two World Wars; wars that took humankind to the very precipice of extinction – Humanity does not seem to have got the message or understood precisely what is at stake: The ship of Humanity sailed indifferently into the unexplored waters of the 21st century, without charting a course, without an astrolabe for orientation, without even a compass to stay on course.A. So it is no wonder that, today, Humanity feels unprepared and shocked during its painful meeting with the 'Laestrygones' and 'Cyclops' of the horror of war and barbarity of terrorism. There were those who hastily attributed the global turmoil and deadly dangers to a kind of 'clash of civilizations'. But the sweepingness of such an assertion insults the very nature of Civilization. Why? Because if the sum of human creation is to carry the title of 'Civilization', it is unthinkable that it should be made up of elements that lead inexorably to conflict with other Civilizations and that, consequently, engineer their destruction. By virtue of its origin, true Civilization has Humanism and Peace as its archetypal characteristics. Thus, for true Civilization, conflict and war are a kind of 'contradictio in adjecto'.B. So the truth regarding the historical interrelation between today's global turmoil and its perils, on the one hand, and the course of individual Civilizations is at the other extreme: The global turmoil and its perils have their roots not so much in the clash of Civilizations, but in the fact that these Civilizations are declining at an alarming rate. And precisely because of this decline, they are no longer in a position to fulfil the natural pacifying mission dictated by their very essence, through their coexistence and cooperation on a global scale. What is behind this decline of Civilizations? The explanation was never simple, and it is not simple today.1. Some Civilizations – like ours, Western Civilization and, thus, European Civilization – decline because the 'fuel' for their course of historical 'becoming' is exhausted, as they are cut off, imperceptibly yet, unfortunately, steadily, from the roots that supported them. That is, essentially, from the principles and values on which they were founded, and without these they lose their basic cultural characteristics. Characteristics that, among other things, equipped them for smooth coexistence and cooperation with other Civilizations.2. Finally, other Civilizations – the examples are tangible – decline because, in the midst of the pandemonium of change brought on by globalisation in all its forms, technological, economic, social, etc., they lost their original orientation. And travelling 'blind', they have reached a dangerous impasse. This impasse is a kind of 'block' that makes it anywhere from extremely difficult to impossible for them to communicate with other Civilizations. Let's not forget that true Civilization is, by definition, destined to build bridges of communication with other true Civilizations, and not put up walls of alienation from those Civilizations.We, the European peoples, are determined not to let through the remnants of Nazism, those who would engineer the dissolution of Europe. This was borne out by the results of yesterday's elections in France.With these thoughts – necessarily brief and, thus, somewhat elliptical – I welcome you to Athens. And I hope that your proceedings, as well as the ones that I am certain will follow in the future, will prove to be a means, on the one hand, to rallying consciences to the defence of the history and future of Civilizations. And, on the other, to restoring the power of creation that still exists and 'smoulders' within them, and that can avert the total breakdown of global harmony and peace. Though it is morning, the owl of Athena, the sacred bird – a symbol of consensus, knowledge and wisdom – welcomes you to the Eternal City of the Goddess who thought while leaning on her spear. Thus showing, through a sublime allegory, that for Hellenic Civilization and the Hellenic Spirit, the spear always serves thought. The obverse has been unthinkable, totally foreign to the Greek mindset from ancient times to today. Testimony to this is the fact that the Greeks, from ancient times, never fought wars of expansion – only of defence. Even the campaigns they did mount were, at bottom, endeavours to spread civilization.
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PIRAEUS, Greece (ANA) – The luxury cruise ship Majestic Princess of Princess Cruises Fact Sheet, a subsidiary of the American Carnival Corporation & Plc, chose […] The post US Princess Cruises Fact Sheet Chooses Piraeus Port for Home Porting appeared first on The National Herald.
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CHICAGO – The rain held off for the Greek Independence Parade in Greektown, Chicago, organized by Enosis. His Eminence Metropolitan Iakovos of Chicago led the […] The post Metropolitan Iakovos Led Chicago Greek Parade (Photos) appeared first on The National Herald.
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HARTFORD, CT – The Greek community of Hartford celebrated the feast day of their patron saint at St. George Cathedral, the Orthodox cathedral of the […] The post St. George Cathedral in Hartford Celebrates Patron Saint appeared first on The National Herald.
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THESSALONIKI (ANA) – Greek-Russian business tycoon Ivan Savvidis on Tuesday sparked controversy with an interview appearing in the Greek news website protothema.gr, where among others […] The post Savvidis Causes Stir with Interview that Praises Tsipras, Pours Scorn on Mitsotakis appeared first on The National Herald.
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Producers, marketers, and exporters of this year's best GREEK olive oils share what their NYIOOC awards mean to them, how they manage to produce ...
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After months of wrangling GREECE and its international lenders agreed a deal today that unlocks fresh financial aid for the eurozone's weakest ...
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GREECE has paved the way for the next phase of its international bailout, it has agreed to implement controversial pension cuts and cuts in other social ...
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Greece will sell its coal-fired plants and coal mines equal to about 40% of its dominant power utility Public Power Corp's (PPC) coal-fired capacity, as part of a reform deal the government reached with its foreign creditors. Athens needs the funds ...
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A spokesman for German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Tuesday that the Greek deal of reforms concluded by Greece and its lenders is an important “intermediate step,” but work is still needed. The German Finance Ministry spokesman also said that additional issues include Greece’s primary surplus, adding that “The ongoing second review of the […]
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One is combative former GREEK Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis – a motorbike-riding academic and key figure of the radical left in Europe. The other ...
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