Greek team picks up 3 points away from home
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How the world sees Greece
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Unemployment in Greece Slides to 21.1% in Second Quarter
The jobless rate in Greece dropped to 21.1 percent in April-to-June from 23.3 percent in the first quarter, according to a Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTA) report released on Thursday. ELSTAT has started issuing monthly unemployment reports since they differ according to the season. For instance, in the summer months the job rate has an upward […]
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Survey: Athens is the Most Stressful City in the EU
Its inhabitants know this for a fact, but now it’s official – the Greek capital is the most stressful city in the EU, according to a survey conducted by international cleaning services, Zipjet. The survey examined the overall mental health in big cities, and then considered all of the major stress-inducing factors, including unemployment, debt […]
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Railways in Greece Immobilized After Rail Workers’ 24-hour Strike
Greek railway workers started a 24-hour strike and stopped the movement of all trains. They are protesting against the privatisation of the railway operator. The trade unions insist on terminating the transfer of the Greek railway company “Trainose” to the Italian state operator, which was approved by both the Greek government and the European Commission. […]
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Greek National Opera and Energy Group Initiative for Underprivileged Children
The Engie Foundation has signed an agreement with the Greek National Opera, to sponsor the access of opera productions to underprivileged children. The Foundation is a subsidiary of Engie Energy Group. Associated in this partnership with Heron, a Greek private energy producer in which ENGIE Group owns 50%, the Foundation will support the production and […]
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Greek Police Arrest Two Immigrants and a Smuggler in Border
Greek police announced the detainment of two Turkish men who crossed into the country illegally via FYROM, and arrested a FYROM man who was accused of smuggling them into Greece. The two Turkish men, aged 36 and 39, crossed into Greece on a small boat across Doirani Lake and were detained Wednesday night, police said […]
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Kali Greek Kitchen Takes Minimal to the Max
Kali Greek Kitchen is not the average gyro stand. That much is clear just upon setting foot in the cleverly designed space, which opened doors this past June on Palo Alto’s California Avenue. Boasting a minimalistic, Instagram-worthy aesthetic with a ...
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Four Seasons to operate its first hotel in Greece
Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts will reflag the two hotels that make up Greece's Astir Palace Resort after the property completes a $120 million renovation next year. The hotel will be Four Seasons' first in Greece. The Four Seasons Astir Palace Athens ...
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SCHOOLS NEWS: St Doms brings GREEK mythology to life
The school has put many hours into rehearsals and is now proud to present 'an exhilarating, vibrant and energetic version of the popular GREEK myth, ...
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FS completes acquisition of GREEK national operator Trainose
GREECE: Italian state railway group Ferrovie dello Stato Italiane completed its acquisition of GREEK national train operator Trainose on September 14, ...
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GREEK Festival brings food and fun to Cranston yet again
The Cranston GREEK Festival's popularity surfaced again – for the 32nd straight summer – on the jam-packed Church of the Annunciation grounds at ...
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Campbell's GREEK heritage shines in 'Bridge Brothers' documentary
CAMPBELL, Ohio (WKBN) – Campbell has long been known as a city of industrial painters, all of them GREEK. Even today, at least 12 painting ...
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Floating Tar, Dead Fish: Oil Spill Threatens Greek Beaches
The Agia Zoni II tanker sank on Sunday while anchored off Salamis Island, near Greece’s main port of Piraeus.
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Greek School of Plato to build community center
Hundreds gather at 92nd St. site to mark groundbreaking In a ceremony that demonstrated the size and strength of Bay Ridge’s vibrant Greek-American community, hundreds of people gathered at a construction site on Sunday to mark the groundbreaking for a ...
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After student feedback, GREECE Schools changes phys. ed. policy
GREECE, N.Y. (WHAM) - The GREECE Central School District has changed its policy for students who choose to change their clothing for physical ...
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GREECE convicted over poor waste management
The European Court of Justice on Thursday convicted GREECE of failing to meet European waste management and drainage standards in four towns in ...
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Ukrainian GREEK-Catholic Church gets a new eparchy, bishop
The Vatican on September 12 reported that Pope Francis approved the decision of the Synod of Bishops of the Ukrainian GREEK-Catholic Church to ...
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Watch: GREEK shores turned black following oil leak
At first, GREEK authorities claimed that the spill was under control, although the dangerous ecological disaster has reached populated coastal areas.
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Venus restaurant bringing GREEK & Egyptian to Maple Road
Souvlaki, falafel, and beef or chicken shawarma are popular dishes, along with GREEK fries, with feta, tomato, garlic sauce and onion. Wings, subs and ...
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Stanford Professor Josiah Ober’s Lecture at Event in Honor of Konstantinos Mitsotakis
ATHENS – Stanford professor and head of the Greek Studies Center, Josiah Ober spoke at an event in memory of former Prime Minister and President […] The post Stanford Professor Josiah Ober’s Lecture at Event in Honor of Konstantinos Mitsotakis appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greek protesters rally in support of jailed Turkish scholars
Hundreds of people rallied in downtown Athens Wednesday in support of two Turkish scholars. Academic Nuriye Gulmen and teacher Semih Ozakca were arrested in May for going on hunger strike after losing their jobs in July 2016 under an emergency Turkish decree.
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Romanian, Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian foreign ministers sign joint letter on Ukraine’s education law
Romania’s Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu, Bulgarian Foreign Minister Ekaterina Zakharieva, Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias and Hungary’s Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto have sent their Ukrainian counterpart Pavlo Klimkin, Council of Europe’s Secretary General Thorbjorn Jagland and OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities Lamberto Zannier a joint letter expressing “concern” and “deep regret” over the adoption […]
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Italian Ferrovie buys Greek TrainOSE, a day after €692mn debt is written off
Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane S.p.A. on Thursday signed an agreement to buy 100 percent of Greece’s railways TrainOSE for 45 million euros. The signature ended a four-year tender process and opening a new page in the Greek railways’ future. The signatures fell a day after TrainOSE’s 692-million-euro debt to state-owned to OSE was written off. … The post Italian Ferrovie buys Greek TrainOSE, a day after €692mn debt is written off appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Hellenic Register of Shipping: Sunken tanker does not hold seaworthiness certificate by HRS
Tanker “Agia Zoni II” had never been surveyed and does not hold any certificate of seaworthiness by the Hellenic Register of Shipping (HRS), the body said in a statement on Thursday. The HRS statement reads: “Concerning the dissemination of unsubstantiated rumors on the tanker ‘Agia Zoni II’, the HRS informs that the tanker in question … The post Hellenic Register of Shipping: Sunken tanker does not hold seaworthiness certificate by HRS appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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A Bachelorette Party on a Flower Farm in Greece!
Flowers + bachelorette parties — the two are intertwined + make one of the best combinations ever, right? So naturally, when we saw this bachelorette party that takes place on a FLOWER FARM in Greece, our jaws dropped. Genius? We certainly think so!
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Greece CSD changes PE policy, makes locker rooms available
Greece CSD announced on Thursday that locker rooms at all Greece Central secondary schools are available to students who choose to change for physical education (PE) classes. This year the district says they implemented a new option that gave students the ...
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Authentic GREEK Food at Kleos
kleos Saganaki Kleos (phyllo-wrapped kasseri and feta cheeses, topped with GREEK honey and sesame seeds); grilled braised octopus; dip tasting ...
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GREEK railways transferred to Italian railways: GREEK privatization fund
ATHENS, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- The sale and transfer of GREEK railway company TrainOSE to Italy's Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane for 45 million euros ...
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Colgate Engages in Conversation About GREEK Life
At the time of publication, the blog features testimonials from 15 students who disaffiliated from Colgate sororities and fraternities and three students ...
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Greek man charged by OPP
A Greek man has been charged by … limit. A 32-year-old man from Greece has been charged by police …
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Greek Jan-Aug govt budget surplus slightly below target on lower tax revenues
ATHENS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - Greece’s central government attained a … from the figure monitored by Greece’s EU/IMF lenders …
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Emergency central bank funding to Greek banks drops by 3.7 bln euros in August
… Emergency central bank funding to Greek lenders dropped by 3.7 … the previous month, Bank of Greece data showed on Thursday. Emergency … assistance (ELA) drawn from the Greek central bank since February 2015 …
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GREECE concludes sale of Trainose to FS
ITALIAN State Railways (FS) completed its acquisition of Greek national train operator Trainose on September 14, when the final documents ...
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GREECE kicks off arbitration process over Eldorado Gold's projects
GREECE kicks off arbitration process over Eldorado Gold's projects ... GREECE has sent Canada's Eldorado Gold (TSX:ELD)(NYSE:EGO) a long-awaited ...
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GREECE completes sale of railway operator to Italy's Ferrovie
ATHENS, Sept 14 (Reuters) - GREECE concluded on Thursday the sale of railway operator TRAINOSE to Italy's Ferrovie dello Stato and expects ...
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Greece Struggles to Mop up Oil Spill; Critics Demand More
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek authorities insisted Thursday they were doing everything they could to clean up the viscous, foul-smelling oil that has coated large parts of Athens' coastline following the sinking of a small oil tanker. The Agia Zoni II ...
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Gold Rushing Out?
It would certainly be a particularly negative development if the Canadian gold mining company in Chalkidiki, Eldorado, finally ends its operations in Greece, letting go […] The post Gold Rushing Out? appeared first on The National Herald.
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Greece: Police detain 2 Turks entering country illegally
Greek police say they have detained two Turkish men who crossed into the country illegally from Macedonia, and arrested a Macedonian man accused of smuggling them into Greece. The two Turkish men, aged 36 and 39, crossed into Greece on a small boat across ...
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EU Commission sends anti-pollution vessel to assist Greece in oil spill clean up
The European Commission has responded to Greece’s request for assistance and has sent an anti-pollution vessel to help with the clean up of the oil spill in the Saronic Gulf. According to a statement issued by the European Commission, Greece had activated the European Civil Protection Mechanism requesting the vessel. The statement: The European Commission … The post EU Commission sends anti-pollution vessel to assist Greece in oil spill clean up appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Shipping Minister blames water temperature for the oil spill
With five days delay and under the heavy attack by political parties of the Greek opposition Shipping Minister Panagiotis Kouroumblis inspected some areas affected by the oil spill in the Saronic Gulf. In a press conference he dismissed opposition claims that the state reacted with delay to the ecological disaster flooding the sea of the … The post Shipping Minister blames water temperature for the oil spill appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Eldorado Gold gets Greek arbitration notice on project
Canada's Eldorado Gold Corp (ELD.TO) said on Thursday it received formal notice of arbitration from Greece, another advance in a long-running permit tussle, but the miner repeated more progress is needed for it to reconsider investment plans. Eldorado (EGO ...
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Learn how to the famous chicken from the Birmingham Greek Food Festival
Each September, thousands of visitors crowd the banquet hall at Holy Trinity-Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Cathedral to eat and make merry at the annual Birmingham Greek Festival. Founded in 1972 by the Ladies Philoptochos Society, the festival celebrates a ...
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Greek Oil Spill Spreads Leading To Beach Closures And Concerns For Marine Life
An emergency campaign is currently being conducted to clean up an oil spill caused by a sunken tanker affecting popular beaches and bays in Athens’ Argo-Saronic gulf, according to The Guardian. Officials are describing the spill as an ecological disaster after thick tar and oil pollution moved towards the residential coastal regions, the report said. Mayors in suburbs south of Athens were forced to close beaches on Thursday because of health risks — four days after the 45-year-old Agia Zoni II sank off SalamÃna Island, the report said. “This is a major environmental disaster,” said the mayor of SalamÃna, Isidora Nannou-Papathanassiou. “Clearly the danger [of pollution] was not properly...
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A Supermarket for State Surveillance and Border Wars
It took Stephen* two years to get to the UK. The journey began in his home country of Sudan, crossing through Libya, Italy, France and Belgium before reaching the UK where he is applying to stay. Like thousands of others, he spent several months in France and Belgium before eventually crossing the UK border, earlier this year, in the back of a van. Stephen had been through several months of failed attempts before this: Being discovered in Calais after several hours cramped in the back of a van from Belgium with a group of four or five others, then being stuck in France, getting the money together to travel back to Belgium and try again. "If you have a good luck you can pass; if you don’t, the security check will take you out," he explains. "First they use dogs, and if the dogs indicate there’s something, they will check it for themselves… If they can’t find anything easily they have to take the truck to the computer scanner… It’s quite scary." He says police patrols in Calais and elsewhere operate day and night, with officers carrying tasers and pepper spray. "They are using it easy -- they don't care what is going to happen, it doesn't matter for them," he says. "They don’t care if you die, if you don’t, if you’re injured..." Borders are becoming increasingly militarised and unsafe places -- particularly for people like Stephen, who are trying to cross them undocumented. The security measures he describes are only the visible ones. As well as the X-ray machine, there’s a monitor that can detect heartbeats, and another to detect raised levels of carbon dioxide from people breathing inside the lorries. Migrants and smugglers go to great lengths to avoid detection by such machines -- such as travelling in airtight lorry containers and risking death by asphyxiation, as happened to 15 year old Masud from Afghanistan in early 2016; 71 men, women and children in 2015, and 58 people from China in 2000. The entire UK border zone at Calais is surrounded by floodlights, 2.5 miles of nine-feet high fencing, a "comprehensive network of surveillance cameras", and drones. As well as the tasers and pepper spray described by Stephen, border guards at Calais are now equipped with guns, batons and body armour. Private companies, producing and developing the technology used at borders are making money from the perceived threat of an 'invasion' of refugees in Europe and the very real suffering of people. Many of the companies developing and promoting equipment, surveillance technologies and the IT infrastructure to track people on the move are often among the world’s biggest arms companies. These defence giants not only profit from the wars and state oppression that cause people to flee their homes, but also from the high-tech surveillance equipment that tracks them, the violence that greets them, and the biometric systems that register them on arrival. The biannual Defence and Security Equipment International (DSEI) trade fair is a chance for these companies to showcase their work and products. From 12-15 September 2017, DSEI will host over 1,600 companies, from across the defence and security sector industries, at the ExCeL centre in London Docklands. It’s set to attract over 34,000 visitors, including Defence Ministers, international military representatives and private sector companies. Many of the companies who profit from borders will be represented -- part of a border security market estimated at €15 billion in 2015 and predicted to rise to €29 billion by 2022. All across Europe there has been an increasingly militarised response to migration by the European Union. Border Wars, a 2016 report from the Transnational Institute (TNI) and Stop Wapenhandel puts the total EU funding for member state border security measures at €4.5 billion between 2004 and 2020. Technologies used against migrants include monitoring towers, cameras, land radars and wireless telecommunication, infra-red surveillance, high-tech fences, identification systems, immigration databases, drones, even warships. The European border security industry is dominated by major arms companies, including DSEI exhibitors Thales, Safran and BAE Systems -- the third largest arms company in the world -- who in 2002 won a £7.6 million contract from Romania to supply equipment used in tightening the border, including Mobile Surveillance Vehicles (MSVs), hand-held thermal imagers and night vision binoculars. Increased surveillance technology at borders is forcing undocumented migrants everywhere to take greater and greater risks. This year over 2,400 people have already lost their lives in the Mediterranean trying to reach Europe. Over 5,000 people died in 2016. The numbers are growing, but the routes and causes of death have changed. Starting from the summer of 2015 -- the "long summer of migration" -- huge numbers of people crossed the Aegean Sea from Turkey to Greece, taking the Balkan Route through Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia or Hungary, then into Austria and Germany, or on to Nordic countries such as Sweden, where Syrian citizens were at one time almost guaranteed refugee status. During the first few weeks of January 2016, more than 30,000 peoplesuccessfully crossed the Aegean to Greece, in comparison to nearly 1,500 in the whole of January 2015. But one by one, countries along the Balkan Route began to shut their borders, even building physical walls in some cases, and criminalising migration in increasingly creative ways. After Turkey was given €3 billion to keep migrants away from EU borders, European border army FRONTEX were deployed to some of the Greek islands, and NATO warships began patrolling the Eastern Med, this stopped being the busiest route into Europe, and people began making their way to Libya instead. Libya is now an incredibly dangerous place as rival militias compete for power. Black Africans are commonly captured and put into makeshift camps by these gangs, often in starving, torturous, and extremely poor conditions. The gangs know that the European Union likes to export its border management to external "third countries", where monitoring of human rights conditions are harder, and trafficking people is increasingly lucrative. The European Union has been training the Libyan Coastguard and supplied it with €200 million, but rather than rescuing people, they are carrying out illegal push-backs and armed violence against migrants. Now ISIS is also active in Libya, the situation is even worse. In 2017, nearly all deaths of migrants in the Mediterranean have been people using the Central Mediterranean route, trying to cross between Libya and Italy. NATO has now also deployed warships there as part of 'Operation Sea Guardian'. The British government has thrown millions at the Calais border, which seems on its way to full privatisation. The death toll is rising along with the amount of money thrown at the border, with a growing number of deaths each year. An October 2016 report from the Calais Research Network documented 40 companies benefiting from this situation, many of whom will be exhibiting at DSEI: * Thales -- Described as, "one of the top-earning companies in the border industry", the French multinational was commissioned to supply a surveillance and access control system at Calais in 2010. In 2014 they were awarded a two year £3.8 million contract from the UK Home Office to provide a system to encrypt biometric and biographic data for Biometric Residence Permit (BRP) cards for non-EU foreigners. * The Chemring Group -- supplied PMMWI (Passive Millimeter-Wave Imaging) and vehicle scanning. Roke Manor Research, part of Chemring Group, developed the PandoraTM lorry scanning system, trialled in Calais. * FLIR Systems -- has supplied thermal imaging cameras for use in Calais during the night or in fog, rain or snow when CCTV cameras can’t provide a clear image. * L3 Technologies -- supplied x-ray scanning equipment at Calais. Opposing DSEI is one way to act in solidarity with migrants. During the ‘Free Movement for People, Not Weapons’ day of action against DSEI 2015, a member of Black Dissidents said as part of a rousing speech: "If countries are embroiled in a western-fuelled armed conflict, people will flee. They will flee to safer places. European governments have ensured that if they arrive here, they will not be safe. They will suffer the risk of deportations, detention centres, or raids. They will be scrutinised on the basis of their stories, or their age. While the privileged sell their weapons, and move freely, trans people are detained, queer people have to prove their sexuality, deaths in detention occur in parallel to deaths in custody, and privatisation of services by global security firms such as G4S, or Serco are left unaccountable with impunity."
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Greek and Turkish PMs are UN’s last trump card
14 September 2017 The Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers are …
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Greece struggles to clean up 'relatively small' oil spill as black slick spreads
The Greek opposition and Athens' local mayors have accused the government of allowing an oil spill to spread unchecked. But the government says everything is under control and all will be "forgotten in a few days."
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Greek minister defends 'improving' oil slick clean-up
Athens (AFP) - Greece's merchant marine minister defended on Thursday the government's response to an oil spill that has spread across beaches near Athens following criticism from environmentalists and calls for his resignation. Panagiotis Kouroublis said ...
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Italy, Greece guarded on Juncker's finance minister plan
A Sheriff’s Bind: Cross the White House, or the Courts Trump Contradicts Democrats, Says No Deal on 'Dreamers' Has Been Made Italy and Greece on Thursday gave a guarded response to EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker's call for a Euro-wide ...
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Announcement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the 18th anniversary of the passing of Giannos Kranidiotis
This day marks eighteen years from the tragic loss of Giannos Kranidiotis. Giannos Kranidiotis was a distinguished figure among Greeks worldwide. A pioneer with innovative ideas, as well as a dynamic politician, he remained committed to the promotion of the interests of Greece and Cyprus. Having been one of the visionaries who ushered in the European course of the Republic of Cyprus, he decisively contributed, with systematic and quiet effort, in its accession to the European Union. Today, at a critical juncture as regards the Cyprus issue, the diplomatic legacy of Giannos Kranidiotis continues to serve as a source of inspiration for Greek foreign policy. We shall continue, in close collaboration with the Republic of Cyprus, to faithfully serve his policy for a reunited Cyprus, free of occupation forces or intervention “rights”.
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Rick Ross Drops “Santorini Greece” Visual
Rick Ross just introduced a daughter into the world and put out a supreme body of work with “Rather You Than Me” this year. Safe to say he’s keeping busy. The boss takes the cut “Santorini Greece” and makes a visual.
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