How the world sees Greece
Greece’s central government debt went up in 2017, from 326,258 billion euros in December to 326,528 billion in March, according to data released on Friday by the Public Debt Management Agency. The Greek government cash reserves stood at 2,908 billion ...
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Thursday late night,18 May 2017, the Greek Parliament voted to accept another round of devastating troika (EC, IMF, ECB) conditions for an additional debt package of close to 5 billion euros. All of the 153 delegates of Alexis Tsipras’ Syriza-Anel ...
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ALBANY, N.Y. -- Everybody's Greek this weekend, for Saint Sophia's Greek Fest in Albany. People had a chance to listen to authentic Greek music, see art and of course enjoy all the food. They even have outdoor rides and games for the kids. "So its ...
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Deputy Foreign Minister Terens Quick had a working meeting with the Cypriot Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues and Overseas Cypriots, Fotis Fotiou.They discussed the two countries' actions programmes for diaspora issues, based on the Memorandum of Cooperation they signed in 2016.They also elaborated on aspects of the Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral meeting scheduled for 14-15 June, in Thessaloniki, within the framework of coordination of cooperation between the three countries' diasporas.As Mr. Quick stated: "With the Commissioner of the Republic of Cyprus, my friend Fotis Fotiou, we had another in-depth discussion of diaspora issues, maximising activation of the MoU we signed in Athens.Also very important is the exceptional cooperation of the General Secretariat for Greeks abroad, under Mihalis Kokkinos, with the corresponding team under the Cypriot Commissioner. The programmes they have planned have already gone into implementation on a bilateral level, but with a view to the Israelis' joining in, and I am very pleased that the Israelis, too, are submitting their own very important proposals.I would say, without hesitation, that the Greece-Cyprus-Israel trilateral cooperation on diaspora issues, as agreed upon by Messrs. Tsipras, Anastasiades and Netanyahu at the trilateral summit meeting in Israel last November, has started and is moving ahead on firm foundations, with very feasible goals. An impressive agenda – including interesting multifaceted actions – has already taken shape for June's trilateral meeting in Thessaloniki."
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Deputy Foreign Minister Terens Quick will represent Greece at the Ministerial Meeting of the Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC), in Istanbul. Subsequently, he will participate in the Greek delegation, under the President of the Hellenic Republic, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, to the special BSEC Summit Meeting, which is being held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Organization's establishment. While in Istanbul, Mr. Quick will be received by His All Holiness Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and visit the Holy Patriarchal and Stavropegial Monastery of Halki, where the Theological School of Halki is located.
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If you thought Odysseus had it bad, taking years to win his way back to Ithaca after the GREEK triumph in the Trojan War, at least he eventually gained a ...
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“We expect and we deserve, from next Monday's Eurogroup meeting, a decision on the regulation of GREEK public debt which corresponds to the ...
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According to local inhabitants, the locusts devoured all the vegetation, which are starving the sheep, which are bred on the island. For the control of ...
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Before her arrival at Cornell in 2006, Miller served as Coordinator for GREEK Affairs at the University of Miami for three years. At Cornell, she has served ...
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In a letter to his European Union counterparts, GREECE'S ambassador to Turkey, Kyriakos Loukakis, has asked them to abstain from attending the ...
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Foreign tourist arrivals in GREECE are expected to reach new heights this year. We need to be careful, however, because when it comes to such a ...
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“Until I see it, I cannot honestly say that I am in Athens, or in GREECE.” Indeed, similar to gazing at the Eiffel Tower in Paris, the Statue of Liberty in New ...
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MONESSEN, PA – Lou Mavrakis, the Greek American Mayor of the former steel city of Monessen, PA, near Pittsburgh, will soon be out of work […] The post Pro-Trump Democratic Mayor Lou Mavrakis Defeated in Party’s Primary appeared first on The National Herald.
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In comparison to many other countries of similar size, Greece is a country with a significant mineral resources background in terms of quality, quantity and variety. The Greek Mining/Metallurgical Industry (GMMI) constitutes an important sector of the ...
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The city's annual celebration of GREEK culture Paniyiri will be in step with ... Paniyiri GREEK Festival began in 1976 as Ekthisis, showcasing GREEK ...
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On either side of an otherwise abandoned street in the port city of Piraeus, two well-known GREEK street artists contemplate a pair of large garbage ...
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Last week a meeting was held between President Trump and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Lavrov, requested by President Putin, to discuss a new plan for ending the slaughter in Syria and dealing with Bashar al-Assad. A number of members of the foreign policy establishment were opposed to the meeting on the grounds that it was merely a PR ploy by Putin to show that he was as important as Trump in the global scheme of things. For these Kremlinologists and other foreign “experts,” it is difficult to imagine what might count as evidence that Putin might genuinely want a lasting peace. The negative spin makes sense only against a background of intense hostility to things Russian, as described, for example, by Steve Hall, former CIA Director of Russian Operations: Putin’s “major goal is to undermine Western liberal democracies.” The current hysteria about Russia from our Congress, pundits and standard media is not new: Russophobia has been the basic assumption underlying our dealings with that country ever since the Bolshevik Revolution a century ago, differing now only in its intensity and shrillness. Trump has been denounced far and wide for several statements implying President Putin is a full member of the human race, as are the Russian peoples he serves, and that it would be “nice if we all got along better with the Russians.” But how do people concerned with morality and justice negotiate with someone like Putin? He has variously been described as someone who “thinks like Hitler” at times (Hillary Clinton); or who “cannot be trusted” (Barack Obama); is a “thug” (ditto); who leads a nation whose citizens “are not our friends” (Mitch McConnell); who is very probably a “war criminal” (Marco Rubio and other senators); and who “poses a serious threat to our country’s democracy” (Patrick Leahy). These are strong condemnations, but we find relatively little evidence of evildoing on the part of Putin and his government to support them, or others of the same ilk. The standard media describes Russia’s entry into Crimea/Ukraine as an “invasion,” whereas the preponderance of the evidence gathered thus far seems to suggest nothing of the kind. Other evidence is conflicting, and still other evidence provides accounts of actions the U.S. has also engaged in with great frequency. If Putin and his minions are moral monsters, don’t we, too, have to suffer equally the wrath of the righteous? This latter question goes far beyond a charge of hypocrisy. The U.S. has interfered in the democratic affairs of other sovereign nations dozens of times just since World War II, beginning early on in Greece and Italy, thence to other areas of Europe and extending to the middle East, Asia and Latin America, continuing to the plotting of the Ukrainian coup in 2014 (as the now-public telephone call from the State Department’s Victoria Nuland makes clear). Thus, absent a great deal more evidence, it is not any sense of _Realpolitik _but ideology that insists the Russians are not just more or less tawdry versions of ourselves when it comes to foreign policy. We must believe Putin and his minions are up to no good, as is obvious from considering what we would think if the DNC was really hacked by the Germans; wouldn’t the whole affair fade from our screens fairly quickly? (Think also of U.S. support for Boris Yeltsin). The importance of this Russophobia must be emphasized. It underlies much of our sclerotic foreign policy. How much of it is due simply to a residual anti-communism, how much to justifying an obscene defense budget, and/or how much to the financial drooling that must accompany contemplating the vast natural resources of the world’s largest land mass, we do not know and perhaps never will. Probably some of the Russophobes really did mean well by their words and deeds. But whatever the reasons, this ideology does not serve our country well, and should be abandoned in favor of a more productive background for our negotiating efforts, with more attention given to trust-building. No longer should we _begin_ gathering, analyzing and evaluating Russian materials believing that they pose a major “threat to our democracy,” to quote Leahy again. Perhaps all of the charges raised against Putin by our establishment will turn out to be true, and we must therefore continue to take a hard line in our diplomacy. If so, so be it. But in the absence of such evidence, we might want to contemplate the advice of Henry Stimson, Secretary of War under Franklin Roosevelt during World War II. When writing his memoirs, he thought long and hard of how Roosevelt and Churchill had dealt with Stalin. Stimson had no illusions about the latter – claiming that he broke many of his promises made during the several summit negotiations – but also noted that Stalin had kept many of his promises, too, and following the recent horrors of the Nazi invasion had good reason to fear Western encroachment of any kind on or near the Motherland. In the end, Stimson went along with the two leaders and took a hard line on Stalin. But he later had regrets and the regrets remained, encapsulated in Stimson’s well-known quote qua folk wisdom: “The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him and show your distrust.” And the first Cold War began. -- This feed and its contents are the property of The Huffington Post, and use is subject to our terms. It may be used for personal consumption, but may not be distributed on a website.
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Greece will have to make the most of the huge opportunities presented by the major achievements of diaspora Greeks for the benefit of the local economy, according to a study by the Center of Planning and Economic Research (KEPE). Since the start of the ...
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The Cosco-managed Piraeus Port Authority (OLP) is ready to declare an international tender for an 80K-ton floating dock to dramatically boost its ship repair presence in the greater Piraeus area. Despite certain delays in OLP's planning to date, mostly ...
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Excellence and the Greek spirit should be defended in difficult times, President Prokopis Pavlopoulos said on Friday, welcoming prominent members of the World Hellenic Biomedical Association, a network of clinicians and biomedical scientists of Greek ...
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Nicosia will this autumn be hosting a tripartite meeting with Jordan and Greece, Deputy Government Spokesman Viktor Papadopoulos announced on Saturday. Papadopoulos, who is accompanying President Nicos Anastasiades on an official trip to Amman, said the ...
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Finance Ministry inspectors are about to start seeking out the owners of undeclared properties, while the law will be amended to allow for financial ...
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Greek Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura referred to the successful tourism policy and the target for tourism 365 days a year as well as to the strategic choice to develop the thematic tourism at the inauguration of the 1st exhibition Greek Travel Show that ...
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The western Egion junction of the Corinth-Patras motorway will be closed on Saturday and until Monday (May 22) to complete asphalt paving work. Traffic will be diverted to the Selianitika and eastern Egion junctions.
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“At the present time, Germany will not accept any Greek debt reduction,” said a spokesperson for German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, speaking to Bild. The German official also told the German newspaper that Berlin will not accept extending the ...
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Greece, NY (WHAM) - Residents in Greece woke up to heavy flooding along Edgemere Drive Saturday. Waves along Lake Ontario are causing the water to flood parts of the street, causing major issues for neighbors in the area. Some portions of the road are now ...
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Days of Our Lives fans know it is down to the wire for Brady. Without a heart transplant, he is going to die. As John, Tate and the rest of his loved ones gather, the group in Greece is facing more trouble as well. The following is Days of Our Lives spoilers.
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GREECE will have to make the most of the huge opportunities presented by the major achievements of diaspora Greeks for the benefit of the local ...
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CRETE, Greece – The ancient city of Aptera, one of the most important cities of Ancient Crete will be presented in an event that will […] The post The Ancient City of Aptera, Crete, to Be Revealed at Special Event in Athens appeared first on The National Herald.
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New Democracy (ND) leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis was visiting the island of Aegina on Saturday when he commented on the fourth memorandum. Two days ago the fourth memorandum was voted by SYRIZA and Independent Greeks’ deputies. A fourth memorandum which, unfortunately, brings very heavy burdens to the all the Greeks, mostly to pensioners and those with […]
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A preliminary report into the causes of the fatal train crash in the village of Adendro, near Thessaloniki, Greece, last week confirmed it was due to excessive speed, a preliminary report delivered to Infrastructure Minister Christos Spirtzis showed on Friday. The train served the Athens-Thessaloniki route. According to the findings of the committee investigating the […]
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Former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis said that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras warned him that if he doesn’t succumb to creditors’ demands in the summer of 2015 there is fear of a new Goudi Coup. “Alexis Tsipras, in the summer of 2015, told me I had to fear of a new Goudi,” the former minister […]
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Mexico Navy’s sail training tall ship “Cuauhtemoc” docked on Wednesday at Souda port, Crete, Greece. Cuauhtemoc that is carrying out an education trip was welcomed by the ambassador of Mexico to Greece Daniel Hernadez-Joseph and representatives of the local authorities. “The vessel acts as a Mexican ambassador of friendship to every port it moors and […]
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Enjoy the sunshine on Saturday, because the weather forecast sees rain, hail, clouds and very strong winds for Sunday and Monday. Greece’s National Meteorologist Service issued a warning for May 21-22 2017. The weather will start deteriorating on Sunday morning from the North-West and will slowly move to the South. Heavy rainfall and even hail … The post Weather forecast: Clouds, rainfalls, locally hailstorms, strong winds May 21-24/2017 appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) - An Iraq War veteran and sheriff's commander is set to assume command of a New York Army National Guard unit in Buffalo. A change of command ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, during which National Guard Lt. Col. Michael Fowler will ...
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The number of registered unemployed is reduced by almost 98,000 in April as the tourist season started in Greece, according to the Greek Statistical Authority (ELSTAT). Compared to March, the number of jobless Greeks registered in the unemployment office ...
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The strikes in Greece hit the news recently, so I thought I would create a guide to coping with Greece strikes when you travel. Here's some useful advice for planning your trip to Greece if strikes are happening. You might have heard in the news recently ...
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The chief financial officers of companies operating in GREECE are quite pessimistic about the course of the Greek economy and market according to a ...
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Back in August, Glenbrook South boys water polo coach Dave Lieberman caught wind that there was an exchange student from GREECE enrolled in ...
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Finance Ministry spokesperson respond to Bild question ion Greek debt
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Turkish team never won Euroleague title
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Church of Agia Varvara (St Barbara) in Egaleo
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“Almost 6,000 people have come through GREECE in 2017 – 5,200 through the end of April – which was a low number compared to the numbers in ...
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Fenerbahçe coach Zeljko Obradovic has called on the club fans to show hospitality to Olympiacos fans in Istanbul ahead of May 21’s clash between the two teams for the Turkish Airlines Euroleague trophy.
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ASK Tom Glouftsis how his daughter made it here, to AFL history maker, and this son of Greek immigrants talks ditches. Digging ditches and earning respect. Because, as Adelaide whistleblower Eleni Glouftsis prepares to become the first female central ...
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Hardly has the Greek government passed through the Parliament the new package of tough austerity 4.9 billion euros with the hope to finally get a debt relief, and Germany set out again to kill the disturbing Greek fly. There will be neither debt relief nor extension of debt repayment is the message Berlin sent to … The post Schaeuble: Germany cannot accept debt relief measures for Greece appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Chef Kody Harris speaks Greek, cooks Greek and feels the Greek in her soul. Her recently opened Fresko in Ahwatukee celebrates that with authentic Mediterranean cooking she learned as a child from her chef grandfather. Opened last November at 5033 E.
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The GREEK-Australian actor, best known for her role as Leah on the Aussie television soapie, said she was thrilled to finally get to Queensland for the ...
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A TINY Greek island has declared a state of emergency after being plagued by a swarm of locusts. Villagers and volunteers have been trying to spray pesticides all over the sleepy port island of Agios Efstratios in an attempt to fix the problem. But they ...
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Between January and April 2017, UNICEF supported the identification of a total of 6,206 children at risk through outreach activities in Turkey, GREECE, ...
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