How the world sees Greece
This week, the Euranet Plus European press review is focusing on the surprisingly large victory of David Cameron in the UK general elections and on the first 100 days of the Greek government, headed by Alexis Tsipras, amid political turmoil with Greece’s EU creditors. The British newspaper The Telegraph highlighted in an article Cameron’s will to […]
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The United States is encouraging Greece to move forward with a pipeline bringing natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe via Greece, rather than setting its hopes on a different project that would pipe Russian gas through Turkey.
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The administration took decisive action — beginning in the fall, Baruch provost David Christy announced there would be a moratorium on Greek-letter ...
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Eurogroup chair Jeroen Dijsselbloem played down hopes of an imminent deal on Greece's debt, saying a meeting of finance ministers of the single ...
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Russia is willing to back a Greek company that will participate in the construction of a Russian pipeline carrying gas to Europe. The post Putin Offers Greece Pipeline Help appeared first on The National Herald.
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Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said there are no more technical reasons to withhold aid from Greece with his officials locked in talks in a bid to break a 100-day impasse with the country’s creditors.
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Six people were seriously injured, while two of them are in critical condition, when a fire broke out at the Hellenic Petroleum refinery tank in Aspropyrgos, Greece on Friday, May 8. The injured have been transferred to Thriasio and Attikon Hospital and the fire has been put out. In particular, three of the injured have been transferred to Thriasio Hospital, suffering from burns and the other three were transferred to Attikon Hospital. According to an official Ministry of Health statement one of the men is intubated and in critical condition while 70% of his body is covered in burns. The second patient bears partial thickness burns covering 20% of his body, and the third man in Thriasio Hospital is suffering from an inhalant burn and has been intubated. Furthermore, the three men who were transferred to Attikon University Hospital were severely injured, suffering from burns and experiencing respiratory distress. According to Greek news, the men were injured when an explosion occurred while maintenance work was underway in the tank. The refinery workers complained that they did not hear an alarm so they were not able to leave the premises in time. In an official announcement Hellenic Petroleum stressed that the maintenance work was performed by experienced professionals. The fire was put out by the refinery staff, while three fire department vehicles arrived at the scene to cool the tank.
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