How the world sees Greece
A young GREEK businessman has won a place in Forbes' list of the 30 most notable European entrepreneurs for 2017. Stavros Tsombanidis, based in Patra, is founder of PHEE, which manufactures gift boxes and iPhone cases from the dead leaves of the sea plant Posidonia Oceanica (aka Neptune ...
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Expanded cooperation between Greek and Bulgarian tax authorities, especially in terms of information exchange and combating tax evasion, dominated a meeting in Athens on Friday between the chief of GREECE'S independent Public Revenues Authority, Giorgos Pitsilis, and his Bulgarian counterpart, ...
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… and mobile capabilities and leave Greece with just three network operators … ,000 fixed broadband customers in Greece, giving it an 8% share … ,000 fixed broadband subscribers. Its Greek business made €440 million ($540 …
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… interest in Greece which is already evident. Pappas stressed that Greece is … in the long-standing relationship between Greece and the USA. Amongst people … Greece, Geoffrey R. Pyatt," Pappas said adding that Pyatt loves Greece …
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… a very good Eurogroup for Greece. As you will have already … . Even more significant for the Greek case is that people are … talk about the future and Greece’s exit from the programme … ; He said that overall the Greek government was "looking to …
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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 A man holds a placard reading “stop to (bailout) memorandum ...
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Despite the GREEK government's insistence that it will not be swayed off course in its bid to find a solution to the long-standing name dispute between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), the mass demonstration on Sunday in Thessaloniki against a compromise came to ...
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European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Managing Director Klaus Regling on Monday announced a pending loan tranche to GREECE - worth 6.7 billion euros - will be divided into two sub-tranches, with the first (5.7 billion euros) disbursed with the implementation of remaining “prior actions” demanded by ...
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2,700 people arrived by sea and land this month, and a total of 35,200 this year. The winter conditions, the overcrowding of reception centres and the inability of services to respond to the needs led to extremely poor hygiene, increased security and protection risks on the islands. The Government with ...
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Ultimately it turns out once again that the markets are at least one step ahead of the rating agencies Although the upgrading of the Greek economys credit last Friday by Standar
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The remains of two Greek soldiers have been found in Tepelena marking a successful start of searches for those who fought and fell in Albania during World War IIThe search ha
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Finance ministry sources on Tuesday dismissed several local press reports claiming that the Greek coalition government has promised creditors that 130,000 auctions of foreclosed property will be held by 2021. “There is no agreement with the creditors for 130,000 auctions within the next four years, such an agreement does not exit” sources of the Greek … The post Have Greece and Creditors agreed on 130,000 property auctions by 2021? appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Greece's Central Board of Jewish Communities (CBJCG) has condemned the desecration of Thessaloniki's Holocaust Monument which took place on Sunday. The words 'Golden Dawn' — the name of a GREEK far-right party — were daubed on the base of the sculpture which commemorates the 50,000 ...
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The rally over the name of FYROM that took place in Thessaloniki on Sunday will not influence the negotiations with FYROM, GREEK Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said in Brussels on Monday, according to ANA. The rally, around the main Aristotelous Square in the northern city, had an attendance of ...
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The development of a domestic medical cannabis industry in GREECE is good news for not only medical reformers but also those who are looking for ways to expand the influence of the flower into the broader economy. And GREECE is one place where such ideas could easily and quickly take root in ...
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The investors in the Elliniko development project take a favorable view of the parliamentary vote on the new casino operation framework that provides for the reduction of tax rates on casino games and increases GREECE'S allure for highrollers. Now it seems that GREECE'S Finance Ministry is preparing to ...
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Athens has pushed through controversial reforms which include restructuring family benefits, introducing a new process for foreclosures on overdue loans and making it more difficult to call a strike. But the Greek government will still have to adopt the ...
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The University of Pittsburgh's dean of students called it a “serious alcohol incident” involving a fraternity, disturbing enough that all campus fraternities and sororities are now on “modified interim social probation” until further notice. But Pitt officials Monday refused to say anything more about the ...
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After surging in 2017, the Global X MSCI GREECE ETF (NYSEArca: GREK) is off to another solid start this year. The lone exchange traded fund dedicate to Greek stocks is up more than 10% over the past month and nearly 8% since the start of 2018, but challenges linger for Greek equities. Eurozone and ...
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Vodafone Group agreed to acquire Greek telecoms operator Cyta Hellas in a deal worth €118 million, bolstering its convergence strategy in the country. In a statement issued by its Vodafone GREECE subsidiary, the operator said the deal provides “further scale and momentum” to its fixed-line and ...
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Analysis, A study of the history of the Greek-American community reveals that the first thing the early Greek immigrants did was something basic but essential: […] The post Hierarchs: You Didn’t Build the Parishes – the Laity Did appeared first on The National Herald.
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A 24-year-old GREEK innovator who devised a way to utilize washed-up seagrass has made it onto this year's prestigious Forbes list of 30 European entrepreneurs under the age of 30 who are shaking up their respective sectors in 2018. Stavros Tsompanidis is the founder of PHEE, a company based in ...
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“Concerns about Italy have died down, we've had the Spain upgrade, good news on Greece as well as a quite good economic environment, which is something that benefits the periphery,” said DZ Bank strategist Daniel Lenz. Eurozone finance ministers welcomed GREEK progress in delivering reforms ...
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NSU's annual GREEK Week will take place from Feb. 12-16. GREEK Week is a celebration of the values, traditions and unity of NSU's GREEK life through a series of events that demonstrate these principles as well as the chance for GREEK councils to work and hold an event together. GREEK Week is an ...
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It's sometimes fun for Wichitans to hop in the car and drive a town or two over to try a new restaurant. But it's always fun for small-towners, whose dining options tend to be limited, to get a new restaurant in their own city limits. Lately, people are buzzing about a couple of new restaurants in near-Wichita ...
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Udo Landbauer, leading candidate of Austria’s Freedom Party in the upcoming local elections in the state of Lower Austria, is said to have glorified the Holocaust and the Wehrmacht through songs of his fraternity group Germania. The FPÖ is a right-wing populist and national-conservative political party and is since the snap elections in 2017, junior partner of … The post Austrian politician Landbauer glorifies the Nazi Massacre on Crete and the Holocaust appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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BROOKSVILLE — What started eight years ago as a one-day indoor festival quickly grew and expanded to two, then three days. Its popularity most likely is the food and pastries, which often causes sudden outbursts of "Opa!" The three-day Hernando County ...
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Deputy Justice Minister Bilal Ucar reiterated Ankara's call for the men to be returned to Turkey for trial during a meeting with Greek Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis. Although the extradition issue was not on the agenda, the Turkish officials made sure to relay their country's demands. Kontonis, who ...
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The London-headquartered company said that the acquisition will help Vodafone GREECE expand its fixed-line network, increase its customer base and secure additional capabilities in the Greek market. CYTA Hellas has about 300,000 broadband customers--which is an about 8% market share--and ...
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The Greek chapter of the Anonymous hacker collective has claimed to have infiltrated state broadcaster ERT, but the channel has denied there was any attack at all. The bizarre incident allegedly occurred on Monday night when, according to Anonymous GREECE, ERT's databases were hacked in ...
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[An Afghan security force walks in front of the Intercontinental Hotel after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan January 23, 2018.REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail]Thomson Reuters KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Survivors of the Taliban attack on Kabul’s Intercontinental Hotel gave harrowing accounts on Monday of the 13-hour weekend standoff that claimed 18 lives, including 14 foreigners. The siege ended on Sunday with Afghan security forces saying they had killed the last of six Taliban militants who stormed the hotel in suicide vests late the previous night, looking for foreigners and Afghan officials to kill. More than 150 people were rescued or managed to escape, including 41 foreigners. Eleven of the 14 foreigners killed were pilots and employees of KamAir, a private Afghan airline. A statement by KamAir later said some of its flights were disrupted because of the attack. Six Ukrainians, two Venezuelan pilots for KamAir, and a citizen of Kazakhstan were among those killed in the attack. German Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr confirmed that a German was among those killed, without providing further details. Mohammad Humayun Shams, the telecommunications director of eastern Laghman province, who was visiting Kabul and staying at the hotel, said he was able to escape by jumping into a tree from a hotel window as the attackers roamed the hallways, killing people. “It was the worst night of my life,” Shams said, adding that as he ran, he couldn’t tell the attackers apart from the police because they were all wearing the same uniforms. [FILE PHOTO: The Intercontinental Hotel is seen burnt during an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan January 21, 2018. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail]Thomson Reuters Two Greek pilots who were in Afghanistan to train local airline pilots said they survived the attack by hiding in their rooms — one inside a hollow he had cut in his mattress and the other in his bathtub. Vassilis Vassiliou and Michalis Poulikakos were in the hotel restaurant when gunmen burst in through a kitchen service door. They dashed up to their rooms and hid, following emergency instructions they had been given. “We overturned the mattresses and messed up the rooms, then opened the balcony doors to make it look as if we had escaped that way,” Poulikakos told Greece’s private Skai TV on Monday. “I hid in the bathtub. Nobody entered my room, I was very lucky and it all ended after nine hours,” he said. “I was on the fourth floor. Vassilis was on the fifth and he was the only survivor on that floor, there were many more survivors on my floor.” Vassiliou said he spent 13 hours hidden under — and inside — his mattress, and managed to stay undiscovered even as gunmen used his balcony as a firing position. [Damaged burned corridor of the Intercontinental Hotel is seen a day after an attack in Kabul, Afghanistan January 22, 2018. REUTERS/Stringer NO RESALES. NO ARCHIVES.]Thomson Reuters “They broke down my door and burst in. I had managed to slip under the bed. There were three of them in the room, one went onto the balcony, the other shot at the other bed and lifted it up,” he said. When the gunmen had used up their ammunition they set fire to the fifth floor and disappeared for about an hour and a half. Vassiliou went out to the balcony and realized that there was no escape there — he even came under fire from forces besieging the hotel. “So I went back into the room and used a small pair of scissors to cut an opening for myself inside the mattress and remained there,” he said. That protected him from the heat and the smoke from the fire burning outside his room. “I don’t know why but I was very calm. It was as if something told me that I would live,” Vassiliou said. He said he had shut down both his mobile phones to avoid being betrayed by their ringing, which led authorities to believe he had been killed. He remained in the room from about 9 p.m. to noon the next day, when the gunmen finally ran out of ammunition and left. “I heard English being spoken and came out of my mattress,” he said. Vassiliou added that security forces took an inexplicably long time to reach his floor. “Between 6 and 9 (a.m.) on the fifth floor these four or five people were having fun, joking around,” he said, referring to the attackers. “They would open every door, I heard voices, a couple of shots, and then laughter. They were undisturbed, nobody tried to stop them, and I think that was a big mistake.” On Monday, Afghan security forces remained positioned on all the roads leading to the hotel, barring everyone from the area. Among Afghans killed in the attack was a telecommunications official from western Farah province, Afghanistan’s newly appointed consul general to the Pakistani city of Karachi and an employee of the High Peace Council, a commission created to facilitate peace talks. Friedhelm Kraemer, the head of the Marianne and Emil Lux Foundation, a German charitable group, confirmed in an email that the woman killed was the head of an aid project. German regional newspaper Boeblinger Bote named her as 65-year-old Brigitte Weiler. [FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of Kabul, Afghanistan January 1, 2017. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail ]Thomson Reuters In an email to AP, Kraemer said she was a former German navy officer and nurse who would travel to Kabul at her own expense to deliver medicine, food, and clothes to families in remote mountain villages in northern Afghanistan. “Her tragic death tears a hole in the humanitarian aid work for people whom nobody else is helping,” said Kraemer, whose organization supported the project. Along with Shams, five other hotel guests, including a foreigner, managed to jump into the tree. From there, they climbed down to the ground and Shams called the police with his mobile. They were told to stay put until the police came to take them away, hours later. “I am still in shock ... in fact can’t believe I am alive” he added. ___ Associated Press writers Amir Shah in Kabul, Afghanistan, Nicholas Paphitis in Athens, Greece, and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed to this report. NOW WATCH: Here are the territories of Afghanistan controlled by the Taliban and ISIS
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stir in the melted butter, 1/3 cup Parmesan cheese, 1/3 cup milk, and the egg into the macaroni and set aside. In a skillet or large saucepan, cook ground beef and onion until meat loses its pinkness and onion is soft. Drain excess fat. Stir in tomato sauce, salt, mint, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper and set ...
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Jan 23 (Reuters) - Vodafone said on Tuesday it had agreed to buy Athens-based CYTA Telecommunications Hellas S.A. for 118 million euros ($145 million) to expand its fixed line network in Greece. The purchase will add around 40,000 mobile customers and about 300,000 fixed broadband customers, ...
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Turkish Deputy Justice Minister Bilal Ucar met his GREEK Justice Minister Stavros Kontonis in Athens on Tuesday to discuss recent court decisions regarding eight Turkish ex-officers who fled to Greece after the 2016 defeated coup. In January 2017, the GREEK Supreme Court decided not to extradite the ...
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After the isolated regime fell, calls from Greece to reinter the soldiers' remains grew louder, but were delayed numerous times by fears of GREEK revanchist designs in the area and numerous scandals and public controversy. Athens and Tirana also disagree on the size of the GREEK minority in southern ...
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After the isolated regime fell, calls from Greece to reinter the soldiers' remains grew louder, but were delayed numerous times by fears of GREEK revanchist designs in the area and numerous scandals and public controversy. Athens and Tirana also disagree on the size of the GREEK minority in southern ...
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NEW YORK – In case you've ever wondered about the ancient GREEK statues and other artworks depicting the nude male form with the incredibly impressive musculature and proportion, except in terms of one particular aspect, you are not alone. A recent article on Artsy delved into the issue of “Why ...
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Monday's Eurogroup meeting concluded that the Greek government needs to implement 88 prior actions for its third bailout review to be completed, 15 of which remain outstanding. Among the most painful of the actions in the list presented to the government is the provision of a further cutback of the ...
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ATHENS (Reuters) - GREECE will not extradite eight Turkish soldiers who fled there after a failed 2016 coup attempt against President Tayyip ... The eight men - three majors, three captains and two sergeant majors - flew to GREECE by helicopter on July 16 in 2016, saying they feared for their lives.
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Wild nature, local traditions, history and the environment entwined — the famous mountain village of Samarina is one of GREECE'S gems. IT is located at an altitude of 1,600 meters (5,250 feet), on the slopes in of Mount Smolikas (2,637m), the highest peak of GREECE'S Pindos range, in West Macedonia.
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… girl was named Avgi - Greek for Dawn - because she …
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… new destinations from Geneva. The Greek city of Kalamata, Pula in …
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Manama: A Frenchman, a Greek and two Eritreans were arrested … while the French and the Greek have passports and the four … are the only French and Greek nationals to be under investigation …
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… through an MVNO with Vodafone Greece. Vodafone is buying Cyta Hellas … said: “Through this acquisition, Vodafone Greece will expand its fixed network … benefit of its customers and Greek consumers in general.” It added …
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Jan 23 (Reuters) - Vodafone Group Plc: * VODAFONE-PANAFON HELLENIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMPANY S.A. HAS AGREED TO ACQUIRE CYTA TELECOMMUNICATIONS HELLAS S.A. * DEAL FOR TOTAL ENTERPRISE VALUE OF EUR 118 MILLION Source text for Eikon: Further company …
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Kostas Martakis, one of Greece’s most sought after young artists has released his latest single Metra along with its official videoclip. ESCToday is growing and always looks for new members to join our team! Feel free to drop us a line if you're interested!
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As part of a push to reduce plastic waste, London’s mayor has announced that drinking fountains are to return. But is it as safe as water at home? And how do you avoid getting oral herpes? Wonderful news! Water fountains are coming back. In an attempt to tackle plastic waste, the old municipal staple will be installed in public places in London so we can have a free drink and top up refillable bottles. But can we be sure the water is clean? If your lips touch the spout, will you get herpes or some other orally transmissible infection? Should you wipe the spout before drinking? Or perhaps do a sneaky inspection of the person in front of you to establish if their oral hygiene is up to scratch? Water fountains have been a feature of cities since the ancient Greeks put them near temples and dedicated them to gods and heroes. Britain caught up in the mid-19th century, with the Metropolitan Free Drinking Fountain Association responsible for 800 drinking fountains in London alone. The technology used to help reduce the risk of infectious diseases has improved, including slanted jets of water, filters and better maintenance. But over the past 30 to 40 years, drinking fountains have been disappearing because of the marketing of bottled water, a lack of investment and maintenance by local authorities, and concern about health risks. So, how best to ensure a hygienic experience? Continue reading...
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Asked by reporters whether he is going to propose Athens to take a precautionary credit line after the August 2018 bailouts are over, Centeno explained that this decision “is up to the GREEK authorities,” adding that “what's most important for the GREEK authorities is to have ownership of the programme.”.
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The reconstructed face of 'Dawn', a young woman who lived around 7,000 BC in a cave in Greece, is displayed during a presentation at the Acropolis museum in Athens, Greece, January 19, 2018. REUTERS/Costas Baltas. 3 related media assets (image or videos) available. Click to see the gallery.
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BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — The Oscar nominees for best original score in a motion picture have been announced by the film academy. Among them […] The post Greek-French Composer Alexandre Desplat Receives 9th Oscar Nomination for Best Score appeared first on The National Herald.
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