How the world sees Greece
ATHENS, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Greek authorities will speed up the auctions of foreclosed properties which are conducted only electronically as of Wednesday, according to the new law voted in parliament last month. Over 1,700 auctions had been scheduled until ...
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BATON ROUGE, La. - WVLA - Ernie Ballard, Media Relations Director for LSU said in a press release that, "during its Feb. 21 meeting, the President’s Task Force on Greek Life adopted the final task force report and recommendations." Ballard said, LSU ...
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There is not a lot of focus on developments in Greece lately. Its pretty much off the radar. Still, Moody's on the case! The agency says the risk of another default or restructuring on debt owed to private investors has materially declined, and the firm's ...
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1) Place the flour and a tbsp of GREEK seasoning in a deep dish and dredge the prepared chicken in the flour mixture. 2) Heat a large saute pan on the stove and add the olive oil. 3) Add the prepared chicken to to the sauté pan and fully cook through. 4) Add the sliced onions and peppers. Sauté until ...
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Next year, GREECE and Japan will be celebrating a relationship that started 120 years ago. Combined with the 2020 Olympic Games to be held in Tokyo, this is a unique opportunity for GREECE to promote itself in the country of the Rising Sun, according to Japanese Ambassador Yasuhiro Shimizu.
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GREECE is among the 17 most popular holiday destinations for 2018, according to consumer demand as presented by the Kuoni luxury holiday network based on its Worldwide Trends Report 2018. The data, which is exclusively published by Tornos News today revealed that GREECE had gained 8 spots ...
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The Hellenic American Academy (HAA) hosted its spectacular 2018 Annual Gala on Saturday, February 17th at the Loews Chicago O’Hare. This year’s Gala, themed “The Time is Now” celebrated the school’s evolution and its future. The Time is Now theme was appropriate as the Academy continues to set its sights on redefining Greek American education […] The post Hellenic American Academy Hosts 2018 Annual Gala “The Time is Now” Honoring George D. Behrakis and Peter Maroutsos appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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By Alex Aliferis Special to the Hellenic News of America The SYRIZA-ANEL coalition is conditioning the Greek people to sell out on the FYROM name issue. What is behind this rush? Historical Ancient Greek Macedonia is in Greece, not Skopje. The Ancient Greek Macedonian kingdom’s capital is Vergina. Vergina is in Greece. Do you realize […] The post Stop the Betrayal of FYROM Name Issue appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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We welcome today’s decision from the government of the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to rename Skopje’s airport “Skopje International Airport” and the highway linking Skopje and the Greek border “Friendship Highway”. Today’s decision is a positive step towards reversing what has happened in the past decade and created tensions in the relations between the two countries. This is an important development in the direction of dealing with irredentism, and we hope that it marks the start of a new chapter in the relations between our two countries and peoples.
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ATHENS, Greece — In a heated debate set to last more than 14 hours, Greek lawmakers were to decide on whether to launch an investigation into 10 senior politicians, including two former prime ministers, over allegations they were involved in a ...
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Over 27 million tourists visited Greece in 2017, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) figures. Tourist traffic increased by 9.7 percent, reaching 27,194 million visitors […] The post Over 27 Million Tourists Visited Greece in 2017 appeared first on The National Herald.
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MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- Giannis Antetokounmpo has registered "GREEK Freak" as a trademark with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The registration happened February 13. The filing says the trademark will be used for backpacks and clothing including shirts, t-shirts, sweatshirts, hooded ...
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… known as Greek Easter or Orthodox Easter. Why is Greek Easter on … , the dates for Greek Easter in 2018 are: Greek Orthodox Easter celebrates … well into the night. In Greece itself, the Eternal Flame arrives …
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Greece's powerful Communist Party has vowed to step up protests against online auctions of homes with defaulted mortgages, putting more pressure on the government which has promised bailout creditors it will speed up the auction process. More than 2,000 ...
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The environmental organisation Arcturos which is based in the northern Greek city of Florina has rescued a cub from an illegal internet sale with the immense help from an Albanian
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Over 27 million tourists visited Greece in 2017, according to Bank of Greece (BoG) figures. Tourist traffic increased by 9.7 percent, reaching 27.194 million visitors against 24.799 million visitors in 2016. Specifically, visitor flows through airports ...
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GREEK MPs have been locked in an overnight debate into whether to launch an investigation into 10 senior politicians over allegations they were involved in the Novartis pharmaceutical bribery scandal. A vote on whether to investigate the politicians - including two former prime ministers, the current ...
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ATHENS, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- European Ombudsman Emily O'Reilly on Wednesday called for more assistance to GREECE by other EU member states to deal with the refugee-migrant crisis. During a visit to Athens, the European official acknowledged that there is still a gap in solidarity shown within the ...
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Is there hope for our hopelessly self-centered souls?
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Lili Bita, our beloved friend and a cultural affairs correspondent for the Hellenic News of America, passed away on February 12 following a tragic accident. Lili joined the Hellenic News at its inception, grew with the paper, and taught and mentored members of its family. She was a prominent figure in the cultural life of […] The post Renowned Greek American Author and Actress Lili Bita has passed away appeared first on Hellenic News of America.
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Researchers from France found alcohol abuse is a major risk factor for all types of dementia. They studied one million patients diagnosed with dementia over a five year period. About eight-percent of all cases were linked to alcohol abuse. But alcohol played a role in more than half of patients with early ...
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Greece in April will present a reform-based growth plan to follow up on its expiring EU rescue bailout, the finance minister said in statements issued Wednesday. "We have promised to present the Greek growth programme (after April 8)," Finance Minister ...
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Today elected representatives take the tough decisions about public finances behind closed doors. In doing so, democratic politicians rely on the advice of financial bureaucrats, who, often, cater to the political needs of the elected government.
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The people from whom Puerto Rico was borrowing during the 10 years of economic decline prior to Hurricane Maria are now swooping in, wanting to "renew" Puerto Rico's infrastructure through privatization. But charter schools and private electrical grids don't necessarily improve outcomes for students and customers, says activist Julio López Varona, who helps lead a corporate accountability campaign. [An electric power tower at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Monacillo Station is seen in San Juan, Puerto Rico on February 11, 2018. (Photo: Pablo Pantoja / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images)]An electric power tower at the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, Monacillo Station is seen in San Juan, Puerto Rico on February 11, 2018. (Photo: Pablo Pantoja / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images) Truthout readers like you made this story possible. Show your support for independent news: Make a tax-deductible donation today! _Welcome to Interviews for Resistance. We're now more than a year into the Trump administration, and activists have scored some important victories in those months. Yet there is always more to be done, and for many people, the question of where to focus and how to help remains. In this series, we talk with organizers, agitators and educators not only about how to resist but also about how to build a better world. Today's interview is the 111th in the series. Click here for the most recent interview before this one._ Today we bring you a conversation with Julio López Varona, the director of Make the Road Connecticut, who also works as a consultant with the Center for Popular Democracy and helps lead the Hedge Clippers' corporate accountability campaign on Puerto Rico. SARAH JAFFE: LET'S TALK ABOUT PUERTO RICO. WHAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING PEOPLE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT WHAT IS GOING ON IN PUERTO RICO RIGHT NOW? I would say things are not getting better and they could potentially get worse. We are in a process of extreme austerity measures that are being imposed on the island, [including] the privatization of our school system and our electrical grid, while at the same time an exodus of people [is] fleeing ... because the island is not getting the resources it needs to rebuild. Companies and businesses are not being able to reopen and that is creating a spiral of economic decline that is making it very difficult for everyday Puerto Ricans to actually find jobs and to sustain themselves. LET'S TALK ABOUT THE ELECTRICAL GRID FIRST. THERE ARE STILL PLACES ON THE ISLAND THAT DON'T HAVE POWER, RIGHT? Yes, last I saw electricity was about 73 percent. That being said, about two days ago, there was a blackout that left most of the north part of the island without power for about 10 hours. We know that part of the problem is that the electrical grid is extremely unstable. It is running on generators. We know that it is going to take a long time to rebuild the system. One of the biggest concerns then is that it will get rebuilt with the same old antiquated and actually dirty energy that has been running the country for the last 50 years and that tends to be extremely expensive and bad for the environment. THE SOLUTION FOR ALL OF THAT IS, OBVIOUSLY, TO PRIVATIZE IT, RIGHT? Yes, for sure. You just privatize and magically everything becomes better. THAT IS NOT HOW THAT WORKS. [LAUGHS] No. It is a long story, but I would say over the last 70 years Puerto Rico's electrical grid hasn't been properly maintained. It is a crumbling infrastructure and it is an infrastructure that got worse and worse because over the last 10 years Puerto Rico was in economic decline after some tax extensions and other companies went out of the island. Puerto Rico started borrowing money, and the people that gave us money were hedge funds and companies that actually had been in place with Argentina and Greece. So, companies held our economy hostage and pushed for austerity. Part of those austerity measures meant firing workers from the electrical company. It was about not maintaining the electrical company. It was about not maintaining infrastructure. Then, Maria came and you have a failing infrastructure with 160 mile-an-hour winds. What you get is complete and utter destruction of the electrical grid. And for a lot of people that are in the government now that are interested in pushing capitalist neoliberal practices, it was also the perfect moment to make the argument that this was bad administration of government, this was greedy union members. So, the best option was to privatize and let another private entity take over our natural and Puerto Rican resources. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THEM TRYING TO PRIVATIZE PUERTO RICO'S INFRASTRUCTURE AT THE SAME TIME AS TRUMP HAS DROPPED THIS INFRASTRUCTURE PLAN FOR THE MAINLAND THAT HAS SOME OF THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS. Yes, what we are seeing is a trend. Puerto Rico is, in many ways a microcosm of what is happening in other places. We are seeing this move toward privatizing electricity, but at the same time, we are seeing this move to privatize education. In Puerto Rico, in particular, it is crazy because it is everywhere. The proposal is not like, "We will privatize some." They want to change or renew -- those are the keywords they are using -- the education system, and they are saying the only way they can do it is by providing charter schools and a private electric grid, which has not been proven necessarily to actually improve the outcomes [for] students or to actually be good for customers that receive those electrical services. WE SAW THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE ENTIRE SCHOOL DISTRICT IN NEW ORLEANS AFTER KATRINA. THAT, CERTAINLY, HAS NOT IMPROVED ANYTHING.... WHEN YOU HEAR IT YOU THINK, "WHAT DOES PRIVATIZING THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE TO DO WITH REBUILDING AFTER A HURRICANE?" A lot of people have been talking about disaster capitalism, and it is funny because you start sounding like a conspiracy theorist.... The government over two weeks has proven that the mass exodus of people is being countered by a mass injection of rich people that are just buying everything and privatization of the electric company and cutting union contracts.... Half of the things we thought were just going to happen in theory are now happening in Puerto Rico. TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EXODUS OF PEOPLE AND WHERE PEOPLE ARE GOING AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE PLACES WHERE YOU HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE SHOWING UP EITHER TEMPORARILY OR PERMANENTLY TO STAY WITH RELATIVES OR TO TRY TO FIND JOBS. It is important to give context. This has been happening for the last 10-plus years. Puerto Rico lost 10 percent of its population over the last 10 years, and it goes back to the economic conditions and the economic and humanitarian crisis that I was referring to. So, the exodus has been happening for a while. What happened is that Hurricane Maria made it just clear that people couldn't live here. If you go to Puerto Rico right now and you get on a plane, what you will see is blue tarps everywhere, and that is because half of the houses don't have roofs. People were without electricity, without water, without jobs. They were forced to leave. Many of them went to stay with their friends and their family, and actually some of them were offered hotels by FEMA. And because Puerto Rico had no hotels that were working, or the hotels that were working were used by FEMA, they ended up in places like Hartford and Pennsylvania and Connecticut and Orlando. What has been happening over the last couple of months is that many of those people that still don't have a home in Puerto Rico, that have no bases in those places, are now being told that their vouchers are going to be running out and they are just going to have to fend for themselves until they can figure it out. Those people are moving, as I said, to mainly Puerto Rican communities, although we have heard of some new communities that are not traditionally Puerto Rican (like Texas, Arizona, and other places that are interestingly enough, creating new bubbles of Puerto Rican communities). LET'S TALK ABOUT THE HEDGE CLIPPERS CONNECTION BECAUSE, AS YOU SAID, THERE HAVE BEEN RICH PEOPLE LOOTING PUERTO RICO FOR A WHILE. TALK ABOUT THE WORK THAT HEDGE CLIPPERS AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN DOING RESEARCHING AND ACTING AROUND THE PEOPLE WHO OWN PUERTO RICO'S DEBT. My role with Hedge Clippers started about two and a half years ago, give or take, after Alejandro García Padilla, who was the governor, announced on The New York Times, "We can't pay bondholders and bondholders won't negotiate with us." So, we started looking at who the bondholders were and, as I said earlier, they were very much the same bondholders that we had seen in places like Argentina and Greece. A lot of people thought that was interesting and we wanted to look at it. What we found was that the bond holders not only lent Puerto Rico money, but in many cases, they were lending on 30 cents on the dollar, which means that you are, in some cases, getting a credit card that has a 70 percent interest rate. So, 30 cents on the dollar, you pay a dollar for every 30 cents. I think that coalition of partners was really interested in the effects that this type of practice would have on US territory and how those practices could be replicated in the US. I, as a Puerto Rican, started working with them to somewhat guide the work and talk about how we talk about Puerto Rico and how we connect that to the US. We have been doing research and we started with hedge funds, but we have done some research on banks, we have done research on pension funds, we have done research on big companies. The idea, more than anything, is to hold accountable any corporation or hedge fund or whatever that is hurting Puerto Rico with the vision and the goal to change their practices. What we find is that the government is fairly difficult to move, but these companies actually care about their images, so they are able to be moved. I think Centro de Periodismo Investigativo and other groups have done a lot of research around those corporate players that actually came to Puerto Rico because they knew that Puerto Rico's condition, the fact that it couldn't go to bankruptcy, the fact that it was run by the US and the US had a lot of economic interest in Puerto Rico made Puerto Rico a really good place to go to buy for cheap, and actually to sequester the economy to a point where they could push these really bad measures that were very, very good for the rich while extremely bad for the poor. I WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO, BUT TO PREFACE THAT, WHEN WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WHAT PEOPLE CAN DO AND YOU CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE OR WHOEVER AND SAY, "WE NEED AID FOR PUERTO RICO" THEN THE QUESTION BECOMES "WHAT KIND OF AID IS THAT GOING TO BE AND IN WHOSE HANDS IS IT BEING PLACED?" And that is a hard question to answer. If you ask me, it is incredibly important for Congress to put money forward. What we have been saying is that money should not be conditioned to any more fiscal oversight, that it shouldn't come with more privatization and more austerity. But, your question is a valid one. Who manages the money? Is it the government that is imposing privatization and closing of schools and curtailing union jobs and everything? In many ways, it is. Some of us are thinking that there might be a need for us to lay an oversight board ... but it is difficult. I can't really tell you sincerely what is the way ... to make sure that the government is not using that money to build a Puerto Rico that is kind of like Cuba in the 1940s, where if you are white and you have money you come to Puerto Rico to play and to have big houses and the rest of us are just working for those people. A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, I TALKED TO JAVIER MORILLO ABOUT THIS AND HE WAS SAYING THE PLAYBOOK FOR WHAT CAPITAL IS GOING TO DO IN THESE SITUATIONS IS WRITTEN. WE KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO COME IN AND TRY TO PRIVATIZE EVERYTHING, BUT WE DON'T HAVE THE SHOCK DOCTRINE FROM THE LEFT. SO, WHEN TALKING ABOUT WHAT TO DO HERE, INSTEAD OF PRIVATIZING EVERYTHING, INSTEAD OF LETTING RICH PEOPLE MAKE PUERTO RICO INTO JUST A PLAYGROUND FOR RICH PEOPLE, WHAT ARE THE ARGUMENTS PEOPLE SHOULD BE MAKING? I would say the problem is right now when you look at the powers that be and the people that we are electing, they don't necessarily look different from each other. That creates an issue of "What is the left and what are we fighting for and do we have leaders that actually can push for those things in a moral and actually standoffish way?" And we don't. I agree we need to create some sort of a vision for the future from the left that actually puts forward these very clear principles that we should follow, but that is not here right now and we end up just choosing two or three, whoever is the best of those. But, yes, I agree, we need to figure that out. WHAT CAN PEOPLE DO? HOW CAN PEOPLE GET INVOLVED WITH THE WORK YOU ARE DOING; THE WORK OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING? There are many ways. The Hedge Clippers campaign, right now, we are working with students on divestment campaigns and trying to connect investments that universities are doing that are hurting Puerto Rico into student power. As a person that works with CPD, the Center for Popular Democracy, we have our partners, Make the Road and others, that actually are super invested and organizing from the ground up to get people activated. There are coalitions like the Power for PR coalition that actually brings together a very clumsy, but interesting group of organizations that are fighting for Puerto Rico. I would say if people have questions, I am happy to answer those questions for them and they can call me and I can direct them the right way. But, usually, if you are in a state that has a lot of Puerto Ricans there will be organizations that in some way or another are doing work. And it depends, do you want to do relief work, do you want to do activism work, do you want to take over a corporation and make them look bad? There are options. I think what people need to do is just get informed, look at ways in which they can get involved in their communities and reach out to people like me and we will be happy to connect them to whatever activism is happening. HOW CAN PEOPLE KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOU? If they go to Twitter, I am @Julopezva. That is my Twitter handle and they can reach out to me there. I am more than happy to provide direction on where to go depending on what people are excited about. If you have a voice, you should use it because, if not, Puerto Rico is going to be in even worse condition in the following years and months and our people on the island and outside of the island are going to suffer a lot. We need to do something now. _Interviews for Resistance is a project of Sarah Jaffe, with assistance from Laura Feuillebois and support from the Nation Institute. It is also available as a podcast on iTunes. Not to be reprinted without permission._
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Blasphemy laws are alive and kicking in Greece and the clergy uses them against theater groups daring the production of a 50-year-old rock opera, the famous Jesus Christ Superstar. The Metropolit of Kythera filed a lawsuit against the actors of an Athens-based theater production for “presenting our Lord Jesus Christ as a member of the … The post Metropolit sues actors of “Jesus Christ Superstar” for blasphemy appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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… refugees and migrants arrived in Greece by sea. The majority are …
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… the talks between Macedonia and Greece over Macedonia's name … held a telephone conversation with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, and … the unresolved dispute, in 2008, Greece blocked Macedonia’s NATO membership …
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The GREEK parliament is set to discuss today on whether to launch a probe into 10 former officials who are alleged to have taken bribes, according to multiple reports. The overpricing and bribery scandal has cost Greece an estimated $28.7 billion, according to Bloomberg, during a period when the ...
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The LSU Task Force on GREEK Life approved and submitted its final recommendations to prevent future hazing incidents in the fraternities and sororities to university President F. Scott Alexander during its final meeting Wednesday morning. LSU created the task force, made up of student and faculty ...
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Explosion occurred in Greek tourism last year as travel revenue skyrocketed to EUR 146 billion up by EUR 139 billion with a subsequent 97 increase in inbound traffic and a
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Makri is an indigenous Greek olive variety cultivated in Alexandroupoli in northeastern Greece close to the border with Turkey, a region located in the western part of the geographical and historical region known as Thrace. An application was submitted to ...
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In response to the death of a student who pledged a fraternity last fall, LSU is recommending widespread changes to the Greek Life system including prohibiting hard alcohol at all parties, putting guest limits on parties, adding adult supervision to pledge ...
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The “GREEK Freak” nickname may soon be coming to a backpack, hoodie or other gear linked to Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo. The U.S. Patent and Trademark office recently approved a trademark for “GREEK Freak,” the nickname for the Buck's All-Star forward. The federal notice of the ...
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Kate Kilbane and Dan Moses, of the Oakland rock band The Kilbanes, have created a new rock opera based on a segment of Ovid's “Metamorphoses.” By Lou Fancher, Correspondent |. February 21, 2018 at 8:30 am. Approaching a tiny garage in Oakland on the Berkeley border, there's a child's trike, ...
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The debate is scheduled to end at midnight
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Statement made on the occasion of the 105th anniversary of the liberation of the city of Ioannina from the Turkish yoke
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ATHENS – Bank of Greece (BoG) governor Yannis Stournaras rejected all allegations against him related to the Novartis case on Wednesday and said he is appearing […] The post BoG Governor Rejects all Allegations against Him in Novartis Case appeared first on The National Herald.
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BERLIN (ANA/ F. Karaviti) – At no other time in the past 10 years have Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia been closer […] The post Merkel: Greece, FYROM Closer to Solution appeared first on The National Herald.
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EDESSA, Greece – Work is proceeding at a fast rate to prepare the magnificent palace of Aigai in the region of Pella, northern Greece, for […] The post Philip II’s Palace at Aigai to Open to the Public in May appeared first on The National Herald.
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The Nordex Group has won a contract from Hellenic Capital Partners for the construction of two neighbouring windfarms in Greece. Nordex will install 16 wind turbines of its N117/2400 and N100/2500 series. The company has also secured a 15-year service deal.
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BATON ROUGE- After months of deliberation, the LSU Greek Life Task Force is submitting its final recommendations on how Greek culture should change. The task force has been focused on oversight of Greek life on campus as well as the current process of ...
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has supported Macedonia’s stance in its row with Greece about the country’s name. “We have made our stance clear by being the first country to recognize Macedonia with its constitutional name and national ...
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RS Sparch are the architects behind this grand home, which is based in the middle of a large garden. The home owner approached the firm about his idea for the project and how he wanted to keep certain aspects, such as the palm tree, intact. To do this they made the sure the space was relatively small ...
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ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's parliament started debate on Wednesday on whether to investigate 10 politicians, including former prime ministers, over allegations of bribery by the Swiss drugmaker Novartis. Court officials say staff at the firm are alleged to have bribed GREEK doctors and politicians.
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Who cares what the enemies of Greece say, claim, want or are up to? We live in a country full of creative and innovative people always with a good idea to defend our rights. A young baker in Giannista in West Macedonia made a 2-meter long Clean Monday bread, Lagana, and decorated it with all … The post Traditional Lagana bread with clear message: Macedonia is Greece! (pictures) appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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An impressive statue has been discovered during archaeological excavations at the construction work of Metro in Thessaloniki. Among the more than 300,000 findings is the headless statue of goddess Aphrodite. The statue was found at the construction works area of the metro station
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… in Greece, in 94 locations. UNHCR provides cash assistance in Greece, as … goods. UNHCR in Greece works with the Greece Cash Alliance partners the …
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Macedonia is closer than any time in the last decade to settling a long-standing dispute over its name with Greece which has dashed the Balkan country's hopes of joining NATO and the European Union, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on February 21.
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The consortium led by Spanish group Reganosa, which also includes Romanian gas transporter Transgaz, has submitted a binding offer for the purchase of a 66% stake in GREEK gas grid operator DESFA. The consortium also includes the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), ...
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GREEK Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades urged Turkey on Feb. 21 to lift its blockade of offshore gas exploration that would benefit both the GREEK and Turkish Cypriots if the island is reunited. “The rhetoric by Turkey and the Turkish Cypriots is unjustified and unfounded, and it does not serve the best ...
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