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Thursday, December 6, 2012

Greek Debt Buyback Seen Likely to Reach Target


Greek Debt Buyback Seen Likely to Reach Target
NASDAQ
WASHINGTON--A bond buyback plan meant to shave roughly 20 billion euros off Greece's debt burden is likely to succeed, a circumstance that would pave the way for the International Monetary Fund to approve the next tranche of bailout financing, the ...


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Greek jobless rate hits record 26 percent

Workers are seen on a building under construction behind a sing with a Greek flag which reads "Greek Culture Ministry" in Athens on Thursday, Nov. 8, 2012. Figures Thursday showed unemployment figures up at 25.4 percent in August, increasing from 24.8 percent in July and 18.4 percent the year before. More than 1.2 million people in this country of barely 10 million are now unemployed, with 58 percent of all young people aged 15-24 are unemployed. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)Unemployment has surged to the highest since the 1960s as a result of harsh austerity measures imposed in return for vital international rescue loans.



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Greek jobless rate up to record 26 percent


Daily Mail

Greek jobless rate up to record 26 percent
The Associated Press
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece's unemployment rate rose to a new record of 26 percent in September, underscoring the economic plight in the country as it heads toward a sixth year of recession. The Greek Statistical Authority said Thursday that 1.295 ...
Greek jobless rate up to 26 percentHuffington Post
UPDATE 1-Record Greek jobless rate highest in euro zone in SeptReuters
Greek Unemployment Rate Climbed to Record 26% in SeptemberBusinessweek
Greek Reporter
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Greek police clash with youths over 2008 shooting

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greek police fired tear gas at youths hurling petrol bombs and stones in Athens on Thursday after a peaceful march to mark the 2008 police killing of a teenager that sparked the country's worst riots in decades.



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Revealed: African immigrants who went to Greece for a better life tortured at ...


Daily Mail

Revealed: African immigrants who went to Greece for a better life tortured at ...
Daily Mail
Almost nobody in Greece has been left untouched by the devastating economic crisis. But it is the country's migrants who now appear to have become the biggest victims of this troubling period in Greek history. Horrific: Migrants living in Greece have ...

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Greek Clashes at Protests Over 2008 Police Killing


ABC News

Greek Clashes at Protests Over 2008 Police Killing
ABC News
Greek riot police used tear gas Thursday to disperse youths throwing firebombs and stones during an Athens protest to mark the fourth anniversary of a deadly police shooting that triggered major disturbances. No injuries or arrests were reported from ...
Greek police clash with youths over 2008 shootingReuters
Students clash with police in AthensThe Voice of Russia

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Greek Banks to Decide Friday on Debt Buyback


Economic Times

Greek Banks to Decide Friday on Debt Buyback - Sources
Wall Street Journal
ATHENS--The management of Greece's leading banks will decide Friday whether to participate in an ambitious plan by the government to buy back billions of euros worth of outstanding bonds in an effort to cut Greece's growing debt burden, people familiar ...
IIF Bank Group: Greek Debt Buyback Likely To Reach TargetFox Business
Hedge funds face a Greek riddleFinancial Times
Greek Bonds Now Defaulted, Also Extra AttractiveDealBreaker
RIA Novosti -New York Times -Businessweek
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Greece to raise tax on businesses, middle incomes-finmin source


Economic Times

Greece to raise tax on businesses, middle incomes-finmin source
Reuters
ATHENS Dec 6 (Reuters) - Greece plans to tax businesses and middle incomes more in an effort to raise revenues from a tax reform bill it has long-promised its international lenders, a senior finance ministry official said on Thursday. The European ...
Greece sees no need for new debt 'haircut': SamarasEconomic Times
Greece can avoid haircut but needs growth, PM saysKathimerini
Greek jobless rate up to 26 percentWPXI Pittsburgh
Chicago Tribune
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IIF Bank Group: Greek Debt Buyback Likely To Reach Target


Economic Times

IIF Bank Group: Greek Debt Buyback Likely To Reach Target
Fox Business
"With the likely participation from the Greek banks, it appears likely that the buyback operation could reach the target of EUR14 billion or so of participation by foreign investors...so as to fully utilize the EUR10 billion set aside for buyback," the ...
Greek Banks to Decide Friday on Debt Buyback - SourcesWall Street Journal
Greek Bond Buyback Leads S&P to Cut to Selective DefaultBloomberg
Greek Bonds Now Defaulted, Also Extra AttractiveDealBreaker
RIA Novosti -Irish Times -Times of Malta
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Greek taxation


Greek taxation
The Economist
After many years of turning a blind eye to this illegal practice, a desperately broke Greek government is at last cracking down. The tax declarations of almost 2,000 Greeks with accounts at the Geneva branch of HSBC, a bank, are being scrutinised by ...


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Fatal North Sea collision said to be human error

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Human error was probably to blame for a collision that killed five crew and sank the Baltic Ace car carrier, its Greek manager said on Thursday, and Dutch rescuers said it was unlikely six missing seamen would be found alive.



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Greek clashes at protests over 2008 police killing


Kansas City Star

Greek clashes at protests over 2008 police killing
Boston.com
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek riot police used tear gas Thursday to disperse youths throwing firebombs and stones during an Athens protest to mark the fourth anniversary of a deadly police shooting that triggered major disturbances. No injuries or ...
Students clash with police in AthensThe Voice of Russia

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Insight: Tortured, detained and ordered out: a migrant's tale in Greece


Insight: Tortured, detained and ordered out: a migrant's tale in Greece
Chicago Tribune
SALAMINA, Greece (Reuters) - Egyptian immigrant Waleed Taleb says demanding his unpaid wages in Greece came at a heavy price; 18 hours chained and beaten by his boss, a stint in jail and orders to leave the country he calls home. One of hundreds of ...

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Does Berlusconi Want to Turn Italy Into Greece?


Does Berlusconi Want to Turn Italy Into Greece?
Bloomberg
You have got to ask: Wasn't former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi paying attention when Antonis Samaras toppled the technocratic government in Greece, forced early elections and triggered six months of political chaos and economic destruction?

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Afghanistan's Rock-bottom Global Corruption Ranking


Haaretz

Afghanistan's Rock-bottom Global Corruption Ranking
Huffington Post
The 2012 Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), published yesterday, finds Afghanistan at absolute rock bottom, sharing this dismal place with North Korea and Somalia. Despite the flow to Afghanistan over the last decade of ...
Greece takes bottom EU spot in global corruption indexReuters
Report: Corruption Remains Widespread Global ProblemVoice of America
Crisis-Hit Nations Seen Among Most Corrupt in EUWall Street Journal
Washington Post -Financial Times (blog) -The Daily Star
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Germany and the euro crisis: Slow, but popular





TWO duelling German metaphors capture the strategy of Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, in the euro crisis. The pejorative version is that she is using “salami tactics”, cutting off the thinnest possible slice of any rescue sausage being negotiated so as to make it more digestible for the German public. She has just done it again by belatedly accepting the latest support package for Greece and manoeuvring it through Germany’s parliament.As with votes on earlier packages, Mrs Merkel needed the backing of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and the Greens, the two opposition parties that hope jointly to defeat her in next September’s election. The two parties cannot risk appearing irresponsible, so they grudgingly support her policy. But they feel they must simultaneously attack her. So they accuse her of salami tactics to persuade voters that Mrs Merkel is not being forthcoming about how much sausage (ie, German commitment) remains to be sliced.The more positive metaphor is that Germany’s government is “driving by sight” (auf Sicht fahren). This is the term Germans use for safe driving in...


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Greek taxation: Doubts over competence

GREECE’S elite used to see stashing funds in Swiss bank accounts as an insurance policy. Until the country joined the euro zone, fears of a sudden devaluation or a freeze on capital movements loomed large. Then came a rush to transfer money made in the black economy to financial havens abroad.After many years of turning a blind eye to this illegal practice, a desperately broke Greek government is at last cracking down. The tax declarations of almost 2,000 Greeks with accounts at the Geneva branch of HSBC, a bank, are being scrutinised by officials at SDOE, the financial police. Their names were on a computer disk sent in 2010 by Christine Lagarde, then French finance minister, to her Greek counterpart, George Papaconstantinou.The “Lagarde list” went missing in mid-2011 but turned up again recently when Evangelos Venizelos, Mr Papaconstantinou’s successor as finance minister, sent a copy to the office of Antonis Samaras, who is now prime minister. Hot Doc, a Greek investigative magazine, then got hold of another copy and published all 2,000 names.Several politicians and their wives and many members of prominent business families appear on the list. Yet most attention has focused on Maria Panteli, an office manager whose account contained €550m ($719m), about one-third of the total in all the accounts. Ms Panteli was suspected at first of acting as a...


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Shopping in Greece: Bearing no gifts



Closed for ever?

NO ONE can accuse the Greeks of over-commercialising Christmas. Central Athens at the end of November had little of the seasonal sparkle you find in other European capitals. The economic crisis has broken the spirit of Greece’s normally enthusiastic shoppers. Private consumption has dropped by a fifth since 2008. The misery is compounded by incessant protests, which snarl traffic and halt public transport in the city centre. “Shops don’t expect anything from Christmas,” says a flower vendor in the posh Kolonaki district. “For Rent” is the fastest-growing retail chain, goes the bitter joke.The gloom is not evenly spread. Shopping malls, relatively new to Greece, do better than high streets. Sales of men’s clothes have collapsed; those of women’s have done a bit better and children’s best of all. The crisis has pummelled international brands but lifted local ones that trade on their Greekness. Carrefour, a French supermarket behemoth, sold its stake in its Greek operation in June. Alfa Beta, though, is a star in the 11-country network of its Belgian owner, Delhaize....


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Israel continues slide in corruption perception poll


Haaretz

Israel continues slide in corruption perception poll
Jerusalem Post
Israelis perceive their public sector as increasingly corrupt, according to a global index released Wednesday by the Peace Index. Israel ranked at number 39 in the world, continuing the country's slide, as Israeli confidence in the public sector fell to its lowest ...
Crisis-Hit Nations Seen Among Most Corrupt in EUWall Street Journal
Report: Fight Against Corruption Frustratingly SlowVoice of America
Greece takes bottom EU spot in global corruption indexReuters
CNN International -Fox News -Los Angeles Times
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