How the world sees Greece
BUCHAREST, March 12 (Xinhua) -- The meeting of foreign ministers of the Romania-Bulgaria-Greece trilateral cooperation format represented an opportunity to strengthen the European project, Romanian Foreign Minister Teodor Melescanu said on Monday.
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Greece has suspended indefinitely its Super League after the team owner of PAOK walked onto the pitch apparently carrying a gun in a holster to protest a referee's call in a match against AEK. It happened in the final few seconds of Sunday's game in the ...
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Euro zone creditors will disburse a new loan of 5.7bn euros to Greece in the second half of March after euro zone parliaments complete approval procedures Talks on linking future euro zone debt relief to the rate of Greek economic growth are ...
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… Mon., March 12, 2018 ATHENS, Greece—Greece indefinitely suspended its soccer league … . The match was eventually abandoned. Greece has faced an unusually volatile … Greece’s Deputy Culture and Sports Minister responsible for sports, said Greek …
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Emergency central bank funding to GREEK lenders dropped by 4.21 billion euros, or 19.4 percent, in January compared to December last year, Bank of ... GREEK banks have relied on emergency liquidity assistance (ELA) drawn from the GREEK central bank since February 2015 after being cut off from the ...
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The evacuation of three squats in Athens comes after a spate of far-right attacks on anarchist and left-wing spaces. by Patrick Strickland. 21 hours ago. Greece's government has been accused of a crack down on anarchists [File: Patrick Strickland/Al Jazeera]. Athens, Greece - GREEK police raided three ...
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According to the Greek Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research IOBE in February there was improvement of the business expectations in the industry field anewThe index
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The Eurogroup praised Greece for completing the 3rd evaluation said Eurogroupchairman Mario Centeno shortly after the Eurogroup meeting Monday afternoonHe noted that the f
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In January, the Turkish entrepreneur Murat Ö. signed a purchase agreement for two condominiums in Athens’ hip Gazi district. Now, the 55-year-old is not only the owner of Greek real estate, but also a residence permit for the sunny southern European ...
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Eurogroup ministers approved the third review of Greece’s bailout programme on Monday, putting the country on course to exit its bailout in June. Economic affairs commissioner Pierre Moscovici warned that the fourth programme remained difficult ...
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PAOK owner, businessman Ivan Savvidis, second from left, approaches AEK Athens' Manager Operation Department Vassilis Dimitriadis, center, as his bodyguard and PAOK's players Fernando Varela, second from right, and Djalma Campos, right, try to stop him during a GREEK League soccer match ...
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The GREEK soccer league Superleague has been suspended after the owner of PAOK FC brought a pistol in a hip holster onto the field while threatening a referee at the end of a match. Ivan Savvidis reportedly confronted the ref after a PAOK FC goal was called off for offsides in a match against AEK ...
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PAOK owner, businessman Ivan Savvidis, second from left, approaches AEK Athens' Manager Operation Department Vassilis Dimitriadis, center, during a Greek League soccer match between PAOK and AEK Athens in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, Sunday, March 11, 2018. (InTime Sports via ...
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Authorities announced all Super League games are suspended until further notice after Savvidis, one of GREECE'S richest men, entered the field of play with a gun in a holster and allegedly told the referee: "You're finished." PAOK had a late goal disallowed which sparked the chairman's fury. "Images of ...
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The finishing touches for the end of Greece’s bailout program should be agreed and completed in 100 days’ time — by June 21 — eurozone finance ministers and the European Commission said on Monday. Ministers also set a deadline for eurozone reform. Heads of state are expected to agree on a package of measures at […]
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Dramatic images showing the owner of PAOK FC striding onto the pitch at Toumba Stadium Sunday night with what looked like a holstered firearm have gone around the world, sparking a media feeding frenzy. Greek football rarely makes it to the sports pages of ...
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In the NBA, 25 years old is a kind of general cut-off point. Younger than that, you're seen as still developing. Older than that, you're more fully formed. For the last few years, Anthony Davis has been the clear-cut best under-25 player in the league, but Davis turned 25 on Sunday -- and celebrated with a ...
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"There were no threats made by Ivan Savvidis, especially not involving the use of a weapon, during yesterday's match," she said. "There was an emotional walk out onto the field, probably a breach of sporting regulations, and nothing more. Most of the headlines in the GREEK press exaggerate the facts.".
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As special counsel Robert Mueller continues his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election, we take a look back at Washington's record of meddling in elections across the globe. By one count, the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn't count US-backed coups and invasions. We speak to former New York Times reporter Stephen Kinzer, author of _Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq_. TRANSCRIPT JUAN GONZÁLEZ: As special counsel Robert Mueller continues his probe into Russian meddling into the 2016 election, we take a look back at Washington's record of meddling in elections across the globe. By one count, the United States has interfered in more than 80 foreign elections between 1946 and 2000. And that doesn't count US-backed coups and invasions. Former CIA Director James Woolsey recently joked about the US record of meddling overseas, during an interview with Laura Ingraham on Fox News. > LAURA INGRAHAM: Have we ever tried to meddle in other countries' > elections? > JAMES WOOLSEY: Oh, probably. But it was for the good of the system, > in order to avoid the communists from taking over. > LAURA INGRAHAM: Yeah. > JAMES WOOLSEY: For example, in Europe in '47, '48, '49, the Greeks > and the Italians, we -- CIA -- > LAURA INGRAHAM: We don't do that now, though? We don't mess around > in other people's elections, Jim? > JAMES WOOLSEY: Well, mmm, yum, yum, yum, never mind. Only for a very > good cause. > LAURA INGRAHAM: Can you do that -- let's do a vine video and -- as > former CIA director. I love it. > JAMES WOOLSEY: Only for very good cause -- > LAURA INGRAHAM: OK. > JAMES WOOLSEY: -- in the interests of democracy. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: The list of countries where the US has interfered is long. In 1893, the US helped overthrow the kingdom of Hawaii. Five years later, in 1898, the US invaded and occupied Cuba and Puerto Rico. A year later, it was the Philippines. Early 20th century interventions included Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, all in the 1910s. AMY GOODMAN: In 1953, the US helped overthrow the Iranian government. A year later, in 1954, US-backed coup in Guatemala, overthrowing the democratically elected leader of Guatemala, Jacobo Árbenz. Then, in the '60s, the list grew to include, once again, the Dominican Republic, Indonesia and the Congo. And that's just a partial list. Even with the end of the Cold War, US interference overseas did not end. Next week marks the 15th anniversary of the US invasion of Iraq to topple the government of Saddam Hussein. We now go to Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, who writes about world affairs for The Boston Globe. He's the author of a number of books, including _Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq_, _All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror_. He's written the book _Bitter Fruit_ about the coup in Guatemala. And his latest book is _The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire_. Stephen Kinzer, we welcome you back to Democracy Now! to talk, sadly, about the very same issue. I'm not quite sure where to begin, whether to go back to the beginning, but let's start, since it was 65 years ago, in Iran, in 1953, in March of 1953. The US was in full swing making plans for overthrowing the government of the democratically elected leader, Mohammad Mosaddegh. Can you talk about what the US did in Iran then? So well known throughout Iran, but most people in this country have no idea. STEPHEN KINZER: Early in the 20th century, the people of Iran began moving towards democracy. It was a very difficult struggle. It was back and forth. But finally, after the Second World War, democracy did emerge in Iran. It was the one parenthesis, the one period of real democracy that we've had in Iran over the last hundred years. So, the problem came when the Iranians chose the wrong leader. They did something that the United States never likes: They chose a leader who wanted to put the interests of his own country ahead of the interests of the United States. And that alarmed the West, and particularly the United States. Mosaddegh's first move was to nationalize Iranian oil. We thought this would be a terrible example for the rest of the world. We didn't want to start this process going in other countries. So, in order to set an example, the United States decided we would work with the British to overthrow the elected democratic government of Iran. We sent a senior CIA officer, who worked in the basement of the American Embassy in Iran organizing the coup. The coup finally succeeded in the summer of 1953. Mosaddegh was overthrown. And, more important, the democratic system in Iran was destroyed forever. This was not just an attack on one person, but an attack on democracy. And the reason why we attacked that democracy is the democracy produced the wrong person. So, we like elections and democratic processes, but they have to produce the candidates we like; otherwise, our approval disappears. AMY GOODMAN: And the person he sent -- that the US, the Dulles brothers, sent in to Iran with the suitcases of money to begin the process, Teddy Roosevelt's grandson? STEPHEN KINZER: That's right. Sometimes I wonder if there's something genetic in the Roosevelt family that predisposes them toward regime change. It is a kind of a quirk of history that the person who effectively projected the United States into the regime change era at the beginning of the 20th century, Teddy Roosevelt, had a grandson who went to Iran in the 1950s and carried out a regime change operation there. And there were similarities -- AMY GOODMAN: Well, I want to go -- STEPHEN KINZER: -- between the operations that they carried out. AMY GOODMAN: Before you go on, Stephen, I wanted to go to a part of a trailer from an upcoming documentary titled _Coup 53_ about the 1953 British-American coup in Iran and the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, directed by the Iranian physicist-turned-award-winning-documentary-filmmaker Taghi Amirani. > TAGHI AMIRANI: This man, Dr. Mohammad Mosaddegh, he was our first > democratically elected prime minister. > SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: Nobody knows who Mosaddegh was. Democratically > elected prime minister of Iran. > TAGHI AMIRANI: In 1952, Time magazine named him Man of the Year, > because he had nationalized Iranian oil and kicked the British out. > UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] Mosaddegh came along and threw them out. > They were gone. Gone! Gone!! > UNIDENTIFIED: [translated] The Iranian people had rejected the > Shah's rule with blood, with blood, and bare hands in front of > tanks. > INTERVIEWER: You had a million dollars in cash to run the coup, > right? > KERMIT ROOSEVELT: That's right. > DAVID TALBOT: Kermit Roosevelt was prepared to do whatever he had to > do, when he was given this mission by Allen Dulles to overthrow the > democratic government of Iran. > ALLEN DULLES: But may I say this? At no time has the CIA engaged in > any political activity or any intelligence activity that was not > approved at the highest level. AMY GOODMAN: That last voice, Allen Dulles, head of the CIA from 1952 to 1961. At the time, his brother -- his brother, Secretary of State Dulles, was secretary of state. We're talking about the overthrow of Iran for the British oil company that would later become British Petroleum. Is that right, Stephen Kinzer? STEPHEN KINZER: Yes. That company is now called BP. So, you're seeing long-term effects of these interventions, and what you're seeing in Iran today 100 percent ties back to what we did in 1953. We like to have this idea that these operations are discreet, they're not going to have any long-term effects. We'll remove one government, place another favorable government in power, and anything will go fine. Everybody will forget it, and it won't have any long-term effects. But if you look around the world, you can see that these kinds of operations to interfere in other countries' politics, what the CIA calls "influence operations," actually not only often wind up devastating the target country, but, in the end, undermine the security of the United States. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Stephen Kinzer, I'd like to move to another part of the world: Nicaragua. Most people are familiar, obviously, with the Reagan-era attempts to overthrow the Sandinista government or the period during the Roosevelt era of the attempts to get rid of Sandino as a force in Nicaragua. But, further back, José Santos Zelaya, at the beginning of the 20 century, could you talk about the efforts of the US government to overthrow Zelaya? STEPHEN KINZER: Zelaya was a fascinating figure, certainly the most formidable leader Nicaragua ever had. He was a slashing reformer. He was a liberal, a progressive. He built ports and roads, tried to build up a middle class in Nicaragua. He brought the first automobile into Nicaragua, the first streetlights. He organized the first baseball league. He was a true modernizer. But he had one characteristic the United States really didn't like. And that is, he wanted Nicaragua to have an independent foreign policy. When he needed to raise money for a planned railroad across Nicaragua, rather than seek loans from the Morgan bank in the United States as we wanted him to do, he floated the loan offers in London and in Paris. The United States tried to get those governments to forbid the offering of those loan agreements, but they refused. Sure enough, the money was raised. And America became very alarmed. Nicaragua was trying to diversify its international relations. It didn't want to be just under the power of the United States. And that was a fatal decision by Zelaya. Once he decided that he wanted to pull Nicaragua out from under the thumb of the United States, he became a target. And we did overthrow him in 1909. That was the beginning of a century of American interference in Nicaragua. I think you can argue that there's no country in the world where the cycle of American intervention -- imposition of a dictator, rebellion, repression, and a return of American power to impose another leader -- is so clear, over such a long period of time, the way it is in Nicaragua. AMY GOODMAN: We're talking to Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, now writes the world affairs column for The Boston Globe. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And I wanted to ask you about another invasion that is rarely talked about these days: the invasion of the Dominican Republic in 1965 by Lyndon Johnson and the efforts of the United States, again, to control the affairs of the Dominican Republic over many, many years, because, obviously, there were two invasions of the Dominican Republic. There was one at the early part of the century that led to the rise of Trujillo, and then there was one after the fall of Trujillo to attempt regime change against President Juan Bosch, who had been elected into office. STEPHEN KINZER: You have placed it very well, because if we remember this operation at all, we remember the American Marines landing on the beaches in the Dominican Republic. But the cause of that intervention was the foolish mistake of the Dominican people of electing a leader who was unpalatable to the United States. Juan Bosch was a figure a little bit like Zelaya had been half a century earlier in Nicaragua. He didn't want the Dominican Republic to be under the thumb of the United States. He wanted it to be an independent country. And this was something the US couldn't tolerate. All these movements in the Caribbean Basin have been -- have had, as a fundamental part of their political program, measures to limit the power of foreign corporations in their countries, and often measures to limit the amount of land that foreigners can own in their country. These are the kinds of measures that are hateful to the American corporations that have gotten so rich from taking the resources of the Caribbean Basin, and leaders who promote those policies always find themselves in Washington's crosshairs. This is not just ancient history. We had an episode in Honduras in 2009 where a president who was very much in this line, trying to pull Honduras away from subservience to the United States, was overthrown in a coup by the military, dragged out of his house in the middle of the night in his pajamas, sent into exile. The US was so happy, members of Congress even went to Honduras to congratulate the leader of the coup. And then, just last year, a new election was held to ratify the results of the coup. The election was so fraudulent that for the first time in the history of the Organization of American States, the OAS called for a new election. And the leader of the OAS, Almagro, had to do it, because he had been denouncing attacks on democracy in Venezuela and figured he couldn't just stand by while something even worse was done in Honduras. Unfortunately, the United States doesn't have that kind of shame, and we cheered that election. We refused the call for a new election. And Honduras today is under the rule of a regime that is the product of a coup, supported by the United States, against an elected government. So, this is not something that we used to do in ancient history. This is something that's happening right now. And that's why those of us familiar with this history roll our eyes a little bit when we hear these outraged allegations that Russia has been doing something so dastardly as to try to influence our politics. AMY GOODMAN: Stephen Kinzer, can you take us on a brief, kind of thumbnail journey from the overthrow of Hawaii, the Spanish-American War, Cuba, Puerto Rico and the Philippines -- all before the turn of the 20th century? STEPHEN KINZER: This was a fascinating period, and it really was the moment when the United States went from being what you could call a continental empire -- that is, inside North America -- to being an overseas empire, a crucial moment of decision for the United States. That was not inevitable, but that was the choice we made. So, in 1893, at the behest of sugar growers in Hawaii, the United States promoted the overthrow of the Hawaiian monarchy. The idea was that Hawaii would then immediately become part of the United States. That didn't happen, because there was a change of presidency in Washington, and the new president, Grover Cleveland, hated that intervention and didn't want to take Hawaii in. Then, five years later, in 1898, when Grover Cleveland was gone, the Spanish-American War broke out. The United States became interested in the Pacific, because we destroyed the Spanish fleet in the Philippines. Then we decided we should take the Philippines for ourselves. We became interested in the China market. This was a real, fantastic Fata Morgana out there for American business. The American press was full of stories about how many nails we could sell in China, if we could get the Chinese to use nails; how much cotton we could sell there; how much beef we could sell there, if we could get the Chinese to eat beef. So, we decided we needed stepping stones to China. And that was the moment when we decided, "Let's take Hawaii as we've taken the Philippines." So, that happened at the same time the United States was consolidating its rule over Cuba and Puerto Rico. In Cuba, we staged a presidential election, after we consolidated our power there in 1898. We found a candidate that we liked. We found him in upstate New York. He spoke good English, which is always essential for the people that we promote. We brought him back to Cuba. As soon as it became clear that the campaign was rigged, the other candidate dropped out. He became president of Cuba. Sure enough, six years later, the United States had to send troops back to Cuba to suppress protests against him. They occupied Cuba for three more years. Then they left. They had to come back again about six or seven years later, in 1917, because again the Cuban people had had the temerity to elect a leader who was unpalatable to the United States. So, this was a great model for an idea, a concept, that has reverberated through the whole period since then, which is: Have your elections, but you must elect someone we like; otherwise, we're going to go to Plan B. AMY GOODMAN: We're going to go to break, and then we're going to come back with Stephen Kinzer and talk about James Woolsey's latest comment. When asked on Fox if the US is still interfering with people's elections, he chuckles and says, "Only for a good cause." Yes, we're talking with Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, now writing a world affairs column for The Boston Globe, has written many books, one on the coup, US overthrow of Guatemalan democratically elected government, called _Bitter Fruit_, one called _Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq_, one specifically on Iran, _All the Shah's Men_, and his latest book, _The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire_. This is Democracy Now! Back in a minute. [break] AMY GOODMAN: "Nicaragua" by Bruce Cockburn, here on Democracy Now!. I'm Amy Goodman, with Juan González. Our guest is Stephen Kinzer, former New York Times foreign correspondent, now writes for The Boston Globe. He's author of a number of books, his latest, _The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire_. Juan? JUAN GONZÁLEZ: Yeah, I'd like to ask you, in terms of the Spanish-American War and, of course, of the bitter guerrilla war that developed in the Philippines in the 1899, 1900, the birth of the Anti-Imperialist League in the United States -- it was a widespread movement of Americans opposed to this overseas empire. Could you talk about some of the figures and the impact of the Anti-Imperialist League? Because we don't see that kind of organization these days, even though the US empire continues to grow and make itself felt around the world. STEPHEN KINZER: The story of the Anti-Imperialist League is a central part of my new book, _The True Flag_. And I like my books always to be voyages of discovery. I'm always looking for some really big story that shaped the world but that we don't know about. And this really is one. Here's a story that has almost completely dropped out of our history books. But the Anti-Imperialist League was a major force in American life in the period around 1898, 1900. It was based in Boston, later moved to Washington, had chapters all over the United States. Some of the leading figures in the United States were members. The leaders of the Anti-Imperialist League included billionaires like Andrew Carnegie and social activists like Jane Addams and Samuel Gompers, Booker T. Washington. Grover Cleveland was a member. It was really a remarkable group. It staged hundreds of rallies, published thousands of leaflets, intensely lobbied in Washington, and actually had quite an impact. This was a debate that seized the attention of the entire American people: Should we begin taking territories outside North America? Or should we now stop, now that we've consolidated our North American empire? Everybody in the United States realized this was a huge decision. It dominated newspaper coverage. When the treaty by which the United States took the Philippines and Guam and Puerto Rico was brought before the Senate, there was a 34-day debate. That's the center of my book. In this debate, you will see every argument, on both sides, that has ever been used, for the last 120 years. Every argument about why intervention is a good idea or a bad idea starts there. And the Anti-Imperialist League played a great role in that debate. And interestingly enough, that treaty, that set us off on the path of global empire, was passed in the Senate by a margin of one vote more than the required two-thirds majority. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, of course, the -- STEPHEN KINZER: And when it was challenged in the Supreme Court, it was five to four. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: And, of course, the most eloquent spokesman -- the most elegant spokesman for the Anti-Imperialist League was none other than Mark Twain, no? STEPHEN KINZER: This is another discovery I made while I was writing my book. I grew up with what I now realize was a partial, a kind of false, image of Mark Twain. I always thought of him as Mr. Nice Guy. He's a sweetheart. He's everybody's favorite old uncle, who has nice curly white hair and rocks on his porch and tells nice, funny stories that everybody laughs at. This is not correct! This is not the real Mark Twain. Mark Twain was an eviscerating anti-imperialist. He was militant. He was intent. He used to write that Americans fighting in foreign wars were carrying a polluted musket under a bandit's flag. And he even wanted to change the flag of the United States, to change the stars to skull-and-crossbones symbols. So, I now realize that we have sort of sanctified and bleached Mark Twain for public consumption. Many of the quotes I use from Twain in my book do not appear in many biographies or anthologies. That part of Twain has been dropped out of his legacy, and I'm trying to recovery it, because he speaks to us today. AMY GOODMAN: Makes me wonder if his books will start to be taken out of libraries around the country.
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League football in Greece suspended indefinitely The announcement was … football in Greece has been suspended indefinitely by the Greek prime minster … in third place in the Greek Super League, five points behind …
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… , March 12 (Reuters) - Eurobank, Greece’s third-largest lender by assets … loss in the third quarter. Greek lenders including Eurobank are bracing … potential shortage of capital before Greece leaves its 86 billion euro …
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… Kominos. The oligarch – one of Greece’s most controversial figures – is … professional leagues, like much of Greek football scarred by hooliganism and … Putin. His ever-extending reach in Greece has been cause for growing …
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… was ruled out for offsideThe Greek Super League has been indefinitely … under the jurisdiction of the Greek FA". Savvidis entered the … of Greece's richest men, was born in Georgia of Greek … . PAOK are third in the Greek top flight and could have …
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WASHINGTON – Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Wess Mitchell will travel to Athens, Greece; Nicosia, Cyprus; Pristina, Kosovo; Skopje, Macedonia and […] The post Assistant Secretary Mitchell to Travel to Athens, Nicosia, Pristina, Skopje and Belgrade appeared first on The National Herald.
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MIDLAND, Mich. (AP) — The longtime chief executive of Dow Chemical, who led the company through the financial crisis, a merger with rival DuPont and […] The post Greek-American Longtime Dow Chemical Chief Andrew Liveris to Depart appeared first on The National Herald.
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The upcoming Chick-fil-A restaurant in Greece is looking to fill 120 positions ahead of its projected grand opening in April. Franchise owner Alan Taylor says he filling full-time and part-time positions, including leadership development, hospitality ...
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Euro zone creditors will disburse new loans to Greece this month and are working on debt relief measures, the head of the Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers said on Monday, moves that should help strengthen the Greek recovery.
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N. KOTZIAS: I would like to thank my friend Teodor for the invitation and hospitality, for the kindness and wisdom with which he raised the issues we discussed. I would like to thank the interpreter/translator and the other translators, because without them we would not be able to do our work here. I would like to express my support for Bulgaria and Romania’s accession to the Schengen Area. In Europe we will feel much better with them in the Schengen Area. I would like to thank the Bulgarian Presidency and wish the best of luck to the Romanian Presidency. In my understanding, when we are talking about EU enlargement, we should also be thinking on ways to deepen European integration. And I understand the modern history of our states in the region in three periods. In the first period, with the collapse of the communist regimes, we focused on rebuilding our relations here in the Balkans, our investments, banking, human and family networks. For the first 15 years of the 21st century, everyone focused on preparing to become member states of the European Union. Our meeting today -and all the work being done- endeavour to combine these two periods. For the all states in the region to become member-states of the European Union, but also for us to develop the relations between us in a way that benefits everyone’s presence in the European Union. And this is why we underscored, each of us in turn, that enlargement and the “Eastern Neighbourhood” also interest us. This is why, on 11-12 May, we are holding an international conference on the future of Europe – the second we have held – together with the candidates for EU membership. Because we want to create the future together. We, the member states, and those who will be joining.In our view the ten years – ending next year – since the initiation of the Eastern Neighbourhood Policy play and important role, and we are very pleased to have agreed on a number of initiatives, especially to support the states that are next to us and belong to the “Eastern Neighbourhood”. I listened very carefully to and support the Romanian Minister of Foreign Affair’s thoughts, particularly regarding Moldova. I am also pleased that we will be discussing the Middle East issues. Greece has five trilateral cooperation schemes with countries of the Middle East, and we bring them together in Rhodes every year, where my friends the Ministers participate. All the Arab countries of the region and eight European countries. So, we have a lot of work ahead of us. We will meet often to implement our initiatives for the countries of the “Eastern Neighbourhood”, for the countries of the Western Balkans, in a three-state collaboration that comes from very far back in history and will go far into the future. Thank you very much. REPORTER: (off microphone) N. KOTZIAS: I agree with everything I heard. The matter of funding is linked to the kind of Europe we want. The model of Europe you want is discernible in the size of its budget. If you want a more federal Europe, you increase the budget. If you are moving backwards in Europe, you think about how to reduce funding. This is a separate matter from the good management of money. But sometimes people confuse the two. By good management they mean reduction. We have the issue that in the first two enlargements – from 10 to 12, with Spain and Portugal; and from 12 to 15, with Austria, Finland and Sweden – the money increased, at that time with the Mediterranean Programmes and with the Cohesion Fund, because wealthy countries joined. Now the wealthy countries don’t want to increase the funds the poorer countries receive. This is why I say ‘yes’ to the rule of law, but a rule of law implemented in a European Union that is evolving and not retreating. REPORTER: What are Greece’s next steps going to be following the tension Turkey is creating? N. KOTZIAS: We didn’t talk about third countries outside of Southeast Europe. This is understandable, since we must develop our initiatives in our immediate region. As Ms. Zaharieva rightly said, we talked about Turkey at the informal Council [of EU Ministers of Foreign Affairs] in Sofia. At that meeting I underscored that a further criterion should be added to the Copenhagen criteria. That a candidate state for membership in the European Union or a state that wants a Customs Union with the European Union needs to: First, follow a peaceful and not an aggressive policy – particularly foreign policy. Second, implement international law and accept it creatively. Third, implement the International Law of the Sea. It is up to Turkey itself whether it will stop violating international law, the Law of the Sea and the rules of peaceful foreign policy. My other comments aren’t for this meeting.
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ATHENS, Greece — Greece indefinitely suspended its soccer league on Monday, a day after the gun-toting owner of PAOK Thessaloniki marched onto the field following a disputed goal in a match. FIFA urged Greek authorities to take swift action against PAOK ...
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Ministers from Greece, Mongolia, India, and Turkey meet Qatar's deputy emir.
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War in Syria, domestic political strike has taken economy toll Lebanon’s cabinet approved a draft budget for 2018 that includes shutting some government agencies and cutting public spending by a fifth, weeks ahead of a planned donor conference to revive ...
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All fixtures in Greece's Super League have been suspended indefinitely, according to the government. The announcement comes the day after a match fell into chaos as team PAOK's owner — one of the country's richest men — came onto the pitch while apparently carrying a gun to protest a disallowed ...
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In front of the Polytechnic School of Athens is Maria Kalogero Poulou, an engineering student driving Pyrforos, a prototype electric car out of the school's laboratory which is considered an “icon” in Greece. American electric car company Tesla having heard of the exploits of the engineering students has ...
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone bailout fund will pay out the next, 5.7 billion euro loan tranche to Greece in the second half of March after national approval procedures are completed, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers Mario Centeno said on ...
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As the winds of Brexit uncertainty continue to play out in U.K. market, the Greek economy is expected to grow at 2.8% in 2018 beating the 2.3% average for the Eurozone, growing faster than the U.K. market and outperforming it in financial markets.
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The GREEK Super League has been suspended indefinitely after PAOK Salonika's president Ivan Savvidis invaded the pitch on Sunday during his side's match with AEK Athens to confront the referee, armed with a gun. Savvidis, a Russian-GREEK businessman, was restrained from reaching referee ...
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The first diving park complete with shipwrecks and 38 artificial reefs to operate on the island of Crete, was given the green light by the region’s Environment and Spatial Planning Committee. Under the supervision of the Apokoronas Municipality, Chania, the marine park is set to operate in the coastal area of Ormos Bros Gialos Bay, … The post Authorities give green light for the first Diving Park in Crete appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.
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Foreign Affairs Minister Teodor Melescanu stated on Monday, at the end of the meeting at foreign affairs ministers level of the Romania-Bulgaria-Greece Trilateral cooperation format, that this meeting represented an opportunity to assume the commitment regarding the strengthening of the European project. “The discussions focused on a couple of elements relevant to us, the Western […]
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ATHENS (Reuters) - A lawmaker from Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party was given a suspended prison sentence on Monday for trying to hit the mayor of Athens in a 2013 incident linked to the group’s anti-immigrant activities. A court handed down the ...
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A warrant of arrest has been issued for PAOK president Ivan Savviidis by Greek authorities, following the actions that led to him being suspended indefinitely by the Greek Super League. Savvidis attempted to approach the referee, along with two ...
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… Greek city of Thessaloniki. InTime Sports via AP On Monday afternoon, Greece … ," Vassiliadis told reporters in Greece. "We are expecting a … roll. PAOK are third in Greece's top division and …
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) - Greek police say they have arrested … and passers-by at knifepoint near Greece's top tourist attraction …
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… the Championship indefinitely," Greece's Deputy Culture … Georgios Vassiliadis told National Greek broadcaster ERT following a … the jurisdiction of the Greek Football Association." ' … the Greek title race's likely outcome. The Greek …
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… provisions for impaired loans rose, Greece’s third-largest lender by assets …
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… think that the craziness of Greek soccer has hit its limit … of the richest men in Greece confronts a referee while carrying …
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Greece indefinitely suspended its soccer league on Monday, a day after the gun-toting owner of PAOK Thessaloniki marched onto the field following a disputed goal at the end of a match.
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Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ioannis Amanatidis, discussed Greek-Turkish relations, the results of yesterday’s Summit Meeting, the Novartis case, and the course of the negotiations with fYROM on ERT’s ‘Epta’, with journalist Valia Petouri.Mr. Amanatidis called yesterday’s Summit a “positive development for Greece and Cyprus,” underscoring that “Turkey will think very carefully from here on in before proceeding to actions that violate international law, the International Law of the Sea and treaties, and before ignoring the fact that the borders of Greece and Cyprus are essentially the borders of Europe.”The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs noted that “this was the message sent not only by Prime Minister Tsipras, but by all of the institutional leaders present at the Summit Meeting: Mr. Juncker; Mr. Tusk; the current Presidency of the Council of the European Union, Bulgarian Prime Minister Borisov; the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Ms. Mogherini; and Ms. Merkel.”“We had a positive development for Greece and Cyprus at the Summit Meeting, which sent the message, and we will move ahead to the next step if necessary,” Mr. Amanatidis stressed, pointing to a “resounding European message of solidarity with Greece and Cyprus.”Regarding Turkish President Erdogan’s stance, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs argued that “there is a policy on the part of Turkey, which is unstable; that is, which can easily go from one side to the other. This points to the internal tensions and problems Turkey itself has.” Mr. Amanatidis made it clear that “Turkey has every interest in listening to the message that was sent.”Asked to comment on the recent incidents in the Cypriot EEZ, Mr. Amanatidis highlighted that “Prime Minister Tsipras himself and the EU have drawn the line,” stressing that “Europe will not change its energy policy. Europe is seeking alternative energy supply sources for Central Europe, and the Cypriot EEZ is among these alternative energy supply sources.”Asked about the Novartis case, he said that “as a Greek MP and as a Greek, I think the biggest scandal would be the Novartis case not to come before Parliament. The biggest scandal would be to conceal this from the Greek people, who suffered while this scandal was playing out. To me, that would be the biggest scandal,” Mr. Amanatidis said.He also noted that “some people believe they can use even this scandal – which they know to be a scandal – to mount opposition to the government. The opposition’s internal conflicts exposed them to the Greek people. This is sad for the main opposition party.”Mr. Amanatidis reiterated Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Kotzias’ intention to visit fYROM in early March to the Greek side’s views. “There is a draft agreement, which the fYROM leadership has been made aware of, and which is comprehensive and covers all of the pending issues,” Mr Amanatidis said. He also clarified that the draft is based on the stance that we have stated: a compound name for all uses (erga omnes), elimination of all traces of irredentism, constitutional amendments that must be made in our neighbouring country, and the development of confidence-building measures and all conditions that will produce a viable and mutually acceptable solution. And of course we have to deem that the agreement reached is in the national interest,” he concluded.
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ATHENS, March 12 (Reuters) - Emergency central bank funding to Greek lenders dropped by 4.21 billion euros, or 19.4 percent, in January compared to December last year, Bank of Greece data showed on Monday. Emergency funding, which is more costly than ...
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A top-of-the-table clash between PAOK and AEK Athens in GREEK'S Superleague was cut short after PAOK owner Ivan Savvidis ran onto the pitch to confront the referee while flanked with two body guards and with a holstered revolver on his waist. Here's video of this peculiar Idiot On The Field incident: ...
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(CNN) - A leading European league has been suspended after a key game ended in chaos Sunday when the president of a GREEK club entered the pitch during the match with a handgun holstered on his waist. The incident occurred in a GREEK Superleague match between rivals PAOK and AEK Athens, ...
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