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Sunday, July 21, 2013

Taki: A fascist takeover of Greece? We should be so lucky


Spectator.co.uk

Taki: A fascist takeover of Greece? We should be so lucky
Spectator.co.uk
ERT embodied where Greece went wrong. Lifetime jobs for people who hadn't bothered to show up for years, pensions ditto, and other such outrages handed out by successive governments in return for votes. The two parties now in power were the ones that ...


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Papapetrou leads Greece to Fifth-Place Finish at U20 European Championship


Papapetrou leads Greece to Fifth-Place Finish at U20 European Championship
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TALLIN, Estonia - University of Texas sophomore forward Ioannis Papapetrou posted a game-high 21 points and seven rebounds to lead Greece to a 74-60 victory against Turkey on Sunday in the fifth-place contest at the Sportland Under-20 European ...
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Wrestling tournament at Olympic birthplace as part of bid to keep ancient sport in games



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Wrestlers at Ancient Olympia with survival in mind


Associated Press - 21 July 2013 15:25-04:00



ATHENS, Greece (AP) — More than 100 wrestlers from 12 countries came back to the sport's roots in Ancient Olympia as part of a campaign to keep wrestling in the Olympics.


The 2nd Olympia tournament finished Sunday at the birthplace of the ancient games and is being used by wrestling's international federation FILA to push the sport's case for inclusion in the 2020 Olympics.


The International Olympic Committee in February voted to exclude wrestling after the 2016 Rio Games. Wrestling is now competing against baseball/softball and squash for one opening on the 2020 program, with the IOC to vote in September in Buenos Aires, Argentina.


Ancient Olympia, 320 kilometers (200 miles) southwest of Athens, is used for the Olympic flame lighting ceremony and is normally off limits to such competitions.


A ceremony and relay race held Sunday will be part of a video sent by FILA to the IOC to plead its case.





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Greece is the word: Discovering Mykonos and Santorini


Greece is the word: Discovering Mykonos and Santorini
hellomagazine.com
21 JULY 2013 Since the Kardashians island hopped through Greece in April during their annual family holiday, they have made the Greek islands the hottest destination for this summer. It was in Santorini and Mykonos where pregnant Kim Kardashian ...
A peep into old world charmDaily News & Analysis

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The heavy price of Greek gold

Shadowed by security guards who film his every move, Giannis Verginis gazes out over the slope of Mt Kakavos, listening to the whining of chainsaws in the valley below.



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U.S. Treasury Chief Lew Backs Greece

Meeting with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras in Athens on July 21, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew gave America’s support for the crushing austerity measures that have impoverished the lives of many but which political leaders said are necessary to save the country from years of wild overspending by the ruling parties. Lew first met with Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras and soon ...

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The Five Best Books Set in Greece

Based on a WWII-set novel by Glenway Wescott, 1945's Apartment in Athens, Ruggero Dipaola's debut feature Appartamento ad Atene, tells the story of the Helenios family, forced to board a Nazi Captain in their tiny Athens apartment. If you're hankering for the Greek isles but can't manage an Aegean vacation this summer, why not go there through fiction instead? Greece may not ...

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Chania?s Beach Loses 20 Acres A Year

Twenty acres of beach are being lost each year in Chania on Crete, according to TUC Professor Costas Synolakis who presented the course of the study so far over the causes of the coastal erosion in the northern part of the Gulf of Chania, from Kolympari until Nea Kidonia. Within the framework of the study jointly conducted by the Greek Center for Marine Research with the Technical University of ...

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US praises Greece over economic reforms

ATHENS (AFP) - US Treasury Secretary Jack Lew praised the "hard work" of Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Sunday and urged his government to continue with economic reform.Lew publicly declared his confidence in the conservative administration of Samaras following a meeting in Athens."Greece has gone through a difficult period of adjustment and reform," said ...

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U.S. Treasury Secy Lew Gives Samaras Support

ATHENS (Bloomberg) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew said the U.S. recognizes the difficult choices and sacrifices Greece has made and urged the country to continue with reforms. "We know that Greece has passed through a very difficult period of adjustment and reform," Lew said today in Athens after meeting Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, according to e- mailed comments from the ...

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Police kill Trikala Prison fugitive in Greece

Police in Greece Sunday shot and killed one a man who escaped from the Trikala Prison earlier this year, officials said. Marian Kola was killed during an exchange of gunfire with police officers near Greece's border with Albania, Ekathimerini reported. Ilir Koupa, another fugitive traveling with Kola, evaded arrest. A police officer was injured during the attempt to capture the two men. ...

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Home porting still elusive in Greece


Kathimerini

Home porting still elusive in Greece
Kathimerini
Grandiose cruise ships sailing in from aboard have become something of a regular fixture at Piraeus, yet their use of the country's biggest port has yet to translate into revenues for the cash-starved economy, as Greece is not being used to its full ...


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Greeks plan protests against Sunday trading

Conservative-dominated government argues that deregulation of trading hours will help combat recession and cut unemployment

It has been called a sin by the church, a human rights violation by unions and "totally nonsensical" by shop owners themselves.

Now, to show they mean business, this unlikely triumverate has pledged to put thousands of people on to the streets as opposition mounts in Greece to government efforts to further liberalise the market by allowing shops to open on Sundays.

"This is a casus belli for the Orthodox Church of Greece," said Bishop Seraphim of Pireaus. "Any MPs who support this will … have stepped on the law of God."

Under pressure from international creditors propping up the debt-crippled country, prime minister Antonis Samaras's ruling coalition has drafted legislation lifting the ban on Sunday shopping – to date perhaps the clearest sign of one of Europe's most closed economies.

The conservative-dominated administration has argued that deregulation of trading hours will help combat recession and record levels of unemployment – at nearly 27 % the highest in the eurozone.

"It will help boost competition and create 30,000 new jobs," said the development minister, Costis Hatzidakis, unveiling the new law ultimately giving local authorities the ability to decide whether to allow Sunday shopping.

With the exception of big chains, most Greek stores follow a sporadic schedule of working three late shifts a week and a half-day on Saturday. Shops are also permitted to open two Sundays a year in the run-up to Christmas – a timetable that to the bewilderment of many, consumer groups have long supported.

Greece's powerful church has played a major role keeping it that way.

Politicians contemplating extending shop trading hours have been leaned on to abandon their plans in what has become a classic case of resistance to reform.

Small shop owners – until the crisis, the lifeblood of the Greek economy and an important interest group – insist that liberalisation will only favour bigger stores at a time when few can afford to hire extra personnel. More than a third of store staff have not been paid in months, according to the association of private employees, citing the country's sixth straight year of recession and chronic lack of liquidity.

"Keeping shops open 52 Sundays a year makes no sense at all," said Kostas Hanzarides, head of the trade association of Thessaloniki, which has called for mass demonstrations on Tuesday.

In Athens, where protests are also planned, retailers say the law will mean the end of family-run businesses already hard hit by higher utility bills and a barrage of new taxes.

"You want to be done with us," quipped Giorgos Kavvathas who presides over the general association of Greek artisans. "Are 120,000 store closures over the last three years not enough?"

The militant communist-backed union Pame, which is capable of mobilising thousands on to the streets, has denounced the move, saying it will benefit major business groups "who want to increase their profits and the exploitation of workers".


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U.S. Treasury Secretary Lew urges Greece to stick with reforms

ATHENS (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew urged Greece on Sunday to persevere with tough economic reforms during a one-day trip to Athens designed to demonstrate Washington's support for the crisis-plagued country.




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Chobani Yogurt may land spot in $11B. federal lunches

Chobani Yogurt was definitely not Greek to New York’s two U.S. senators — as millions of American kids may soon learn. Chobani is the upstart, upstate Greek yogurt firm that has come out of nowhere to make its Turkish immigrant founder a billionaire. And due to lightning-fast work by Sens. Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, it may find a lucrative spot in the $11 billion federal school-lunch program that serves meals in 100,000 schools nationwide.
    



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Greeks Want Firings Favor ND-PASOK

Good news for Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras swinging the axe on public workers: some 60% of Greeks agree that the bloated public sector has to be cut, just as the government is readying plans for involuntary transfers and firings that could see 40,000 of them shed in the next two years. The finding came in a poll for To Vima by Kapa Research, which also showed that Samaras’ New ...

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Most Greeks favour civil service job cuts survey

ATHENS (AFP) - Most Greeks agree that it is necessary to slash jobs in the civil service, a survey published on Sunday showed, just days after parliament approved a bitterly contested bill to radically reform the administration.Some 60.6 percent of 1,002 Greeks surveyed on Tuesday and Wednesday -- the peak of protests against the reforms -- were in favour of job cuts in the civil service, while ...

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Greece Loses Chinese Business Champion

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras (C) was glad to have the hand of China Cosco Holdings Chairman Wei Jiafu when they signed a deal in Piraeus in June. It is now official. The board of China Cosco Holdings (Cosco) has confirmed the retirement of Captain Wei Jiafu as its Chairman is for "reasons of age." The directors retired Wei, 63, with effect from July 16, some three weeks after ...

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Greeks Aren?t Going to Crete

With Greece expecting a record tourist season with 17 million visitors, there’s a big drop in Greeks visiting destinations in their own country with Crete, one of the favorite draws, seeing a large fall in domestic tourism. Crete used to be one of the most preferred destinations not only for foreigners but for Greek tourists as well. But with a lingering recession now in its sixth year, ...

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Greece may have to leave eurozone


Press TV

Greece may have to leave eurozone
Press TV
This is while, in order to receive the approved rescue funds, Greece must stick to the agenda of either transferring or laying off thousands of civil servants, including Athens municipal police, teachers and school security personnel, by the end of ...
Fed-up Greeks fight Sunday shopping plansGlobalPost

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European Broadcasting Union asks Greece to reopen public TV


European Broadcasting Union asks Greece to reopen public TV
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Athens: The European Broadcasting Union on Friday asked Greece to reopen state broadcaster ERT after the government sparked protests with a surprise decision to pull it off the air in a bid to cut state spending. “We ask the government to reverse this ...
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Samaras Turkish Invasion Against Cyprus Biggest National Tragedy in Modern Greek History

Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has described the Turkish invasion against Cyprus in the summer of 1974 as the biggest national tragedy in the modern Greek History. In a message on the occasion of the completion of 39 years since Turkish troops invaded and since then occupy 37% of Cyprus territory, Samaras noted that the 20th of July is a day to outline the real dimension of the Cyprus ...

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People need proof of change

Antonis Samaras and Evangelos Venizelos have a duty to ensure the survival of their coalition government. The responsibilities that lie before them are too serious for anything less.The people of Greece are very close to reaching the limits of their tolerance and they are now bracing for a new round of heavy taxes in the fall. However, they also support the ...

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Greek Worker Fear Spreads Over Firings

(AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) A Municipal Police officer draped with a Greek flag sits outside the Greek parliament during an anti- austerity protest in central Athens, on, July 17, 2013 as lawmakers approved measures to fire up to 40,000 workers, mostly in lower-paid sectors. ATHENS- After three years of austerity measures that created a record 27.4 percent unemployment rate and put 1.3 million ...

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