According to comments by the country's deputy prime minister, Hakan Cavusoglu, Erdogan is scheduled to pay a visit to GREECE on December 7 and 8. It will be the first visit by a Turkish president in 65 years. Athens has yet to confirm the details of the visit. [Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Palace/Handout via ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
Warehouses in GREECE: Major players bring the market back to life
The main advantages of the Greek warehousing property market are its location and transport infrastructure. Located in Southeast Europe the country is the gateway between Africa and Asia. GREECE has 46 airports, over 100 seaports and a vast network of motorways and railroads. Some experts believe ...
‘Ivanka Trump, Christos Marafatsos head to India to represent USA at GES Summit’
Greek American entrepreneur and President of Blue Sky Capital, Christos Marafatsos, is in route to Hyderabad, India, with the US delegation led by Ivanka Trump. The hand picked delegation was sent to represent the United States in Investment, trade and innovation at the worlds most prominent conference of over 170 nations, the Global Entrepreneurship Summit. […] The post ‘Ivanka Trump, Christos Marafatsos head to India to represent USA at GES Summit’ appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
Following Byzantine Footsteps: Interview with Father Nicola Madaro
By Catherine Tsounis, Contributor History is written by the victors. – Winston Churchill St. Nicholas Feast Day is approaching on December 6th, 2017. We had the honor of interviewing a Nicholas. Professor Father Nicola Madaro at St. San Giorgio dei (“Saint George of the Greeks”) Church in Castello, Venice, northern Italy gave us a glimpse of Byzantine civilization. The Church was […] The post Following Byzantine Footsteps: Interview with Father Nicola Madaro appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
OECD expects GREEK growth at just 1.4 pct in 2017
In its biannual “Economic Outlook” report published on Tuesday, the OECD said the GREEK economy will only expand by 1.4 percent this year, against Athens's downwardly revised projection for 1.6 percent. Similarly, the OECD puts next year's growth at 2.3 percent, compared to a 2.5 percent forecast by ...
Athens, creditors close to final deal on sale of lignite plants
Talks continued in Athens on Tuesday between the creditors mission heads and the Greek authorities on the prior actions related to the conclusion of the third review of Greeces b
Greek football hooligans’ brawl with Pakistanis ‘poorly managed’ by police: envoy
… ;ATHENS: Pakistan’s Ambassador to Greece Khalid Usman Qaiser Tuesday confirmed … working in Greece on Sunday, after scuffles erupted between Greek locals and … the rising far-right group in Greece the ‘Golden Dawn.’ The attack …
Concern Yourself with Why: Reflections from the Edges of Greece
Since 2009, a sizable part of the Greek population has been facing the consequences of a severe capitalist-financial crisis. In 2013, youth unemployment (15-24 years) reached an all-time high of 62%; it has subsequently dropped to 50%, still the highest in ...
Online Foreclosure Auctions in GREECE to Begin Wednesday
The first ten electronic foreclosure auctions will be held on Wednesday, following the decision of the General Assembly of the Athens-Piraeus Notaries to suspend their abstention from duty. Notaries had abstained from their duties for weeks, after receiving threats from individuals, anti-establishment ...
R&B singer-songwriter Khalid and country star Cole Swindell and are both headed to the Greek Theatre in 2018
R&B singer-songwriter Khalid, who was nominated for a total of five Grammys Tuesday morning including best new artist and song of the year for his contribution to Logic’s “1-800-273-8255,” also announced his 2018 Roxy North American Tour. The jaunt ...
Saudi Arabia witnesses resurgence in music as it welcomes GREEK maestro Yanni
Saudis are gearing up for what many are calling a historic series of concerts this weekend as the famed award-winning GREEK composer and maestro Yanni prepares for concerts in Riyadh and Jeddah. The excitement is so high that tickets to his four concerts - scheduled for Nov. 30 and Dec. 1 - were ...
Gameday: Coming Off Big Win in Oakland, Kings Face GREEK Freak at Golden 1
SACRAMENTO -- Play it out. 24 hours ago, the Sacramento Kings were looking at a pair of scheduling losses. After a stunner at Golden State, Sacramento hosts the Milwaukee Bucks Tuesday evening with nothing to lose. The victory over the Warriors was a team win. Skal Labissiere got the scoring ...
Letter to the Editor: Freshmen women, save yourselves, don’t go Greek
Sororities can initially seem attractive. They provide underclass women the opportunity to meet new people and socialize in traditionally collegiate ways — these spaces provide underclassmen with social experiences that cannot be replicated anywhere else ...
Greek police arrest nine Turks ahead of Erdogan visit
Greek police arrested eight men and one woman, all of them Turkish nationals. The authorities seized materials "available on the market that could potentially be used to make explosives," as well as travel documents and digital material, according to the ...
Public Debt, Bad Loans Threaten Tentative Greek Recovery
Greece received some relatively good economic news this week from the OECD, coming hot on the heels of recent revelations the struggling country was first among 35 nations for tax hikes in 2016. The OECD’s economic report for Greece on Monday claimed GDP ...
Greek Police Coy over Erdogan Link to DHKP-C Arrests
Speculation is swirling in Greek local media that Tuesday’s arrests of nine Turkish nationals in a series of police raids could be linked to an impending visit by Turkish leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Eight men and one woman, allegedly part of the far ...
EU Commissioner Hahn Sees FYROM Name Issue with Greece Resolved in 2018
EU enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn has said he hopes a political decision with Greece on the start of membership talks with FYROM will be taken in the first half of 2018, Austrian media reported. “We now have a window of opportunity until the ...
Michael Skibbe to Remain Greece’s Football Coach for Two More Years
German coach Michael Skibbe took over as Greece’s national football coach after a disastrous two years; when the team’s performance was at an all time low, and managed to reshape its fighting spirit. This fact was apparently recognised by the Greek ...
Staff Level Agreement for Greece to be Reached Before Dec. 4 Eurogroup
On Monday, the Euro Working Group expressed their belief that a staff level agreement on the third bailout program review between Greece and her creditors, would be reached before the December 4 Eurogroup. According to an Athens Macedonia News Agency ...
GREECE completes €30bn debt swap as it eyes return to bond market
GREECE has successfully completed a €30bn voluntary bond swap aimed at boosting market liquidity and attracting long-term investors, according to people involved in the transaction. “It went extremely well…Take-up exceeded 80 per cent,” one such person said, adding that details of the transaction ...
Indiana University suspends fraternity social events until next spring
Indiana University's student GREEK council has suspended the Bloomington campus' fraternities from hosting fraternity events until next spring. Monday's unanimous decision was made by IU's Interfraternity Council, a group of students involved in campus GREEK life. The decision affects fraternities' social ...
Twenty Greek Wineries Participate in Enterprise Greece Roadshow in Germany
Twenty Greek wineries participated in a wine roadshow in Germany organized by Enterprise Greece, a state body promoting investment and international trade in the country, […] The post Twenty Greek Wineries Participate in Enterprise Greece Roadshow in Germany appeared first on The National Herald.
Greek organizations mark 100 years on campus
Two Colorado State University sororities and one fraternity celebrated the 100 th birthday of their chapters this year. It’s part of the first wave of Greek centennials expected in the coming years, according to Lindsay Sell, director of Fraternity and ...
Four Seasons’ First Greek Property
Located in the picturesque Athenian Riviera, Four Seasons Astir Palace Hotel Athens will debut spring 2018. Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts and Greek hospitality company Astir Palace Vouliagmeni S.A. announced plans to upgrade the existing Astir Palace ...
For one more time, PASOK to change name into “Movement of Change”
For one more time, Greece’s socialist party PASOK is changing its name. I tiwll merge with small party To Potami and be named “Movement of Change”. For one more time, PASOK will change its tax number. Leader of Democratic Alignment (PASOK) Fofi Gennimata and the leader of To Potami, Stavros Theodorakis, agreed on Tuesday that … The post For one more time, PASOK to change name into “Movement of Change” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
UT-Austin Sorority Gives Muslim Students A Space In GREEK Life
A new sorority started up at the University of Texas at Austin this year. The members have GREEK letters, and their colors are teal, white and peach. All things that people associate with a typical sorority. But as Nadia Hamdan (@nadzhamz) of KUT reports, this is not a typical sorority. It's another in the ...
Chobani downplays 'Greek' yogurt in packaging redesign
Chobani is downplaying its Greek yogurt identity in a major packaging redesign as the company weighs a plan to diversify into other products. The new look drops the "Greek" from the labeling on Chobani packages, reflecting the company's ambition to go ...
Greece coach Skibbe given contract extension
Athens (AFP) - Greece coach Michael Skibbe has been offered a new two-year deal despite his team failing to qualify for the World Cup, the Greek football federation (HFF) announced on Tuesday. The HFF said that German Skibbe will be in Athens on Thursday ...
UPDATE 1-Greece's Piraeus Bank back in the red as it steps up bad loan provisions
ATHENS, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Piraeus Bank , Greece's largest lender by assets, swung back into the red in the third quarter as it increased provisions to cover bad loans. Greek banks have been struggling with problem loan portfolios after a protracted ...
Greece coach Skibbe extends contract
Greece coach Michael Skibbe has been offered a new two-year deal despite his team failing to qualify for the World Cup, the Greek football federation (HFF) announced on Tuesday. The HFF said that German Skibbe will be in Athens on Thursday to sign his new ...
Greek football hooligans brawl with Pakistanis; one injured
LAHORE/ATHENS: Pakistan’s Ambassador to Greece Khalid Usman Qaiser Tuesday confirmed to Pakistan Today that another attack has been made on the Pakistani community living and working in Greece on Sunday, after scuffles erupted between Greek locals and a ...
Greece Will Support India’s UN Security Council Membership Says Foreign Minister
Minister of Foreign Affairs for Greece Nikos Kotzias, who is on a four-day visit to India at present has assured to extend full support to India's bid for permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council. Kotzia’s reiterated that Greece fully ...
Greece shares higher at close of trade; Athens General Composite up 0.20%
Investing.com – Greece equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking, Retail and Technology sectors propelled shares higher. At the close in Athens, the Athens General Composite added 0.20%. Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ...
Principal Athena Kromidas to Retire from St. Nicholas School
FLUSHING – Principal Athena Kromidas of the William Spyropoulos Greek-American School of St. Nicholas Church in Flushing, Queens, will retire at the end of this academic semester, after a long and successful career […] The post Principal Athena Kromidas to Retire from St. Nicholas School appeared first on The National Herald.
Familiar faces return to Greek dining mainstay
The owners of Fountain Square stalwart Santorini Greek Kitchen are back managing the restaurant after turning daily operations over to an outside firm just two months ago. Taki and Jeanette Sawi in late September announced the management change, so they ...
GREECE to renew coach Michael Skibbe's deal despite World Cup failure
The Greek football federation has said it will renew national coach Michael Skibbe's contract for another two years despite failure to qualify for the World Cup. GREECE were eliminated by Croatia in a qualification playoff earlier this month. But the federation said Skibbe would be arriving in Athens to sign a ...
Removing 'the shroud of oblivion' from GREECE'S Jews
Devin E. Naar stopped speaking and turned his back on the audience to compose himself. The author of “Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern GREECE” (Stanford University Press, 2016), had just talked about a call he received from an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor from the ...
Greece's Piraeus Bank swings to loss in Q3, bad debt ratio improves
ATHENS, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Piraeus Bank turned loss-making in July-to-September, as higher provisions for impaired loans compared to the previous quarter offset an increase in net interest and commission income, Greece's largest lender by assets said on ...
Patmos revolts against Religion courses in schools as “against Orthodoxy and Constitution”
Parents associations at all levels of education and local clergy on the island of Patmos gathered together and decided to revolt against the Education Ministry in Athens. “We declare that we refuse to have our children taught the lesson of Religion according to the new directives of the Education Ministry,” they said in a resolution. … The post Patmos revolts against Religion courses in schools as “against Orthodoxy and Constitution” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
EU job-search aid for retail workers laid off in Finland and Greece
725 former employees laid off in Greece by nine companies are eligible to receive EU support. The aid worth €2,949,150 comes from the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund (EGF) and will help finance measures such as occupational guidance, training and ...
Chobani Shrinks “Greek Yogurt” From Its Label
… company that helped kick-start the Greek yogurt craze, is shrinking those … in supermarkets this week, removes “Greek Yogurt” from underneath the Chobani … as a less-tart alternative to Greek yogurt, gets a more colorful …
A Greek Professor in US Creates the 1st Web Atlas of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece
… of Ceramic Kilns in Ancient Greece is the first of its … database of kiln sites in Greece. Kiln sites cover almost five … well as other scholars of Greek antiquity to address questions of …
Zimbabwe: The IMF's GREECE on the Zambesi
That currency arrangement is the setting for alarming parallels with GREECE. Because in that context, the IMF suits are set not bring a cold shower but analysis which is all over the map—loudly echoeing the lamentable quality of its post-2009 Greek work. That incoherence is a direct threat to Zimbabwe's ...
Greek police arrest seven for alleged olive oil fraud
The investigation revealed the gang added a dye to make yellow sunflower seed oil simulate the green colour and appearance of olive oil from a base in the region of Larissa. The Hellenic Police said the organization had been active since at least the beginning of 2015 and adulterated oil was sold ...
The Real GREEK gives the classic Christmas sandwich a Mediterranean twist
As the temperature drops this winter, The Real GREEK is set to bring a taste of the Mediterranean to the UK with its version of the much-loved Christmas sandwich – the Turkey Souvlaki. Available from December 1, the Christmas Turkey Souvlaki special will feature succulent turkey skewers on a bed of ...
Global Leader in Musculoskeletal Care Hosts Training Seminar for GREEK Surgeons
The program aims to immerse visiting GREEK surgeons, with under 10 years of experience, in the high-volume joint replacement environment at HSS. "This year's knee seminar includes a comprehensive overview of complex issues in primary knee replacement surgery. The goal of the didactic lectures ...
Greek unions call general strike as bailout talks resume
Greece's biggest labor unions have called a new general strike next month against bailout-linked austerity policies, as the government launches new talks with its international rescue creditors. The ADEDY civil servants' union called the Dec. 14 strike, in ...
Skibbe to coach Greece for another 2 years
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's soccer federation says it is renewing national coach Michael Skibbe's contract for another two years, despite the team's failure to qualify for the World Cup. Greece was eliminated by Croatia in the playoffs this month.
GREECE prepares to do away with compulsory sharia in Western Thrace
Back in 1923, when GREECE and Turkey were negotiating a massive, compulsory swap of religious minorities, it was agreed that two communities would have an exceptional right to remain where they lived: the Greek community of Istanbul (defined rather narrowly) and the Muslims of Western Thrace, ...