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How the world sees Greece
Sunday, June 30, 2013
Greek fare at annual festival pronounced excellent by all
The homemade souvlaki, moussaka, gyros and baklava have many happily returning year after year.
Q & A with IMF director Christine Lagarde
In two years as managing director of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde has steered the agency beyond the arrest of her predecessor and helped engineer its largest and perhaps most controversial program — the rescue of the euro zone. Criticism has been intense, with the IMF blamed — and accepting partial responsibility — for pushing the region into recession with its recommended austerity measures and for not being forceful enough in securing early debt relief for Greece.
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Women Smuggle Gold Inside Themselves
Two women of Albanian descent who were traveling on a bus from Thessaloniki, Greece to Istanbul, Turkey on June 28 were arrested after police said they found two kilograms of gold inside their genital organs. The two women, who arrived in the Customs office of Kipi, located near Evros, Greece, were said to be acting suspiciously which led customs officers to first search their bags before ...
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Stournaras Wants Luxembourg?s Greek Depositors
Following revelations of Greeks with secret bank accounts in Switzerland and Lichtenstein that still haven’t been checked for possible tax cheats, Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said he wants similar information from Luxembourg, whose Prime Minister, Jean-Claude Juncker, was head of the Eurozone, one of Greece’s international lenders. Stournaras officially submitted a ...
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Tobacco Smuggling Soars In Greece
Tobacco Smuggling Soars In Greece Greek Reporter That occurred even as the rate of smoking in Greece, the highest in the European Union, has begun to fall off, even though Greece hasn't enforced five smoking bans in the last 10 years and most people light up wherever they want, including in public ... |
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International Media Say Greece TAP Winner
International Media Say Greece TAP Winner Greek Reporter tap_5 The signing of an agreement that will bring the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) through Greece, inked by Greek Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change, Makis Papageorgiou, and by TAP's Managing ... |
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Greek restaurant, U-District hub, closing for last time Sunday
The Continental Greek Restaurant and Pastry Shop has been a landmark on The Ave since the late 1960s.
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