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Friday, February 10, 2017

Greek Farmers Say Friday’s Meeting Not Positive; Will Continue With Protests

Farmers confirmed their plans to rally this Tuesday during the multi-member delegation meeting of the Panhellenic Coordinating Committee for farmers and the Ministry of Rural Development. Present at the meeting was Deputy of Labor Tasos Petropoulos, Deputy ...


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Stella's Starts GREEK Brunch This Weekend

RADCLIFFEBOUROUGH — If weekends were missing sliced leg of lamb with fried eggs or GREEK Easter bread French toast with sour cherries and ...


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Greek Alternate Finance Minister warns against further delay in deal with creditors

  Further delaying the agreement with Greece’s international creditors on concluding the second review of the current bailout programme would get the country in “serious trouble”, the Alternate Finance Minister George Chouliarakis told an audience at the London School of Economics on Thursday evening. “If we leave time pass until May or June uncertainty will […]


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Greek Bailout Negotiations Stall

Talks between Greece’s international creditors and the country’s finance minister, Euclid Tsakalotos, on Friday failed to bring a breakthrough in ongoing bailout negotiations ahead of a series of elections in the eurozone’s core countries.


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GREECE – Greek Schools To Dump Greek Literature For Gender Studies

Sabba – Europe was never — repeat: NEVER — built on ‘judeo-Christian’ foundation. It was built on helleno-Christian foundations so much so that we owe Greece the very name ‘EUROPA’. This is the same as the US bombing all the Sumerian and ...


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GREECE to evacuate 75000 to defuse WWII bomb

Authorities in GREECE'S second-largest city on Sunday are planning to evacuate up to 60,000 residents from their homes so experts can safely dispose ...


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Shift toward five-star hotel units in GREECE

Investment interest in Greek tourism has shifted over the last 25 years toward the creation of luxury hotels, a survey by the Institute of the Greek ...


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Eurogroup President: Substantial Progress for Return of Institutions to Athens

 “There has been substantial progress and we are close to a common ground for the return of institutions in Athens next week,” said President of the Eurogroup Jeroen Dijsselbloem in a statement after Friday’s meeting with Greece’s finance minister Euclid Tsakalatos and representatives of the institutions. The Dutch finance minister spoke of the meeting as […]


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Refugee Center in Kordelio Bomb Evacuation Zone

The refugee center set up within the former Softex factory is among those that are to be temporarily evacuated on Sunday. The evacuation, covering a roughly 2-kilometre radius, was decided as a safety precaution during an operation to dispose of a WWII bomb, found buried beneath a petrol station in Kordelio, Thessaloniki, Greece. The evacuation […]


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Brussels talks fail to end Greece bailout impasse

[Earlier this week, Greece's Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said the IMF's pessimistic forecast for the Greek economy "fails to do justice" to the sacrifices made by Greece by underestimating growth and progress made]Talks between Greece and its creditors ended with no breakthrough Friday as months of feuding with the International Monetary Fund raised fears of a new debt crisis.


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Greece faces creditors in Brussels in bid to salvage talks

… the most likely scenario, the Greek “government is divided,” Teneo Intelligence … soften their position.” Talks between Greece and its international creditors have … push we can achieve it.” greece Keywords: GREECE


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500-pound WWII bomb found under gas station; thousands evacuated in Greek city

THESSALONIKI, Greece — Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki distributed fliers … like this is happening in Greece," Patoulidou said. "The … , he said. Nazi Germany occupied Greece from 1941 until October 1944 …


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Greece, creditors narrow their differences in bailout talks

BRUSSELS (AP) — Greece's finance minister and international creditors made "substantial progress" Friday in narrowing their differences over the bailout program keeping the Greek economy afloat, amid renewed tensions about the country's future in the euro.


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GREECE Raises Renewed Economic and political Concerned

New reports raise concerns that GREECE, once again, may cause financial and economic instability in the European region. GREECE and its creditors ...


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GREECE man sentenced in stabbing

A GREECE man who admitted stabbing his girlfriend last spring was sentenced to 12 years in state prison on Friday. According to the Monroe County ...


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Greece, lenders make 'substantial progress' to sign off on bailout reforms: statement

BRUSSELS Greece and its international lenders made substantial progress in talks on Friday to bridge differences over reforms that would ensure Athens' agreed fiscal path, the chairman of euro zone finance ministers Jeroen Dijsselbloem said in a statement.


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EU migration commissioner meets with GREEK PM on refugee crisis, Ukraine visit

In televised comments ahead of his talks with Tsipras, Avramopoulos said he was keen to brief the GREEK premier on “a series of interesting ...


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GREEK military observing Turkish research ship amid tensions

Turkish fighter jets violated GREEK air space on Friday, according to GREEK officials who said two Turkish F-16s got involved in a mock dogfight with ...


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Third Eye Blind celebrate 20 years at The Greek in July

'90s alternative rockers Third Eye Blind are not ready to put on the brakes yet. With a tour starting in Florida in early June and closing out with a hometown throwdown at The Greek Theater in Berkeley on July 23, it appears they have plenty of drive left.


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GREECE evacuating city in order to defuse a WWII bomb

Up to 72,000 people will be evacuated from their homes in GREECE'S second-biggest city of Thessaloniki on Sunday so experts can defuse and remove ...


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Pressure on GREECE eases after debt partners meet

GREECE and creditors are grappling over how to keep Athens on track to make a €7bn debt repayment in July, which it will not be able to do without the ...


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Tales of new GREEK crisis 'exaggerated': Dijsselbloem

Dijsselbloem will now meet GREEK Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos, together with Klaus Regling of the European Stability Mechanism and IMF and ...


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Greece Returns Twenty Migrants to Turkey

Twenty migrants were sent back to Turkey’s Dikeli port, in compliance with the EU-Turkey deal. The migrants were all male: eight Pakistani nationals, five Nigerians, three Algerians, one Palestinian and one Turk. In all cases, their asylum applications had been rejected or had been withdrawn. (source: ana-mpa)


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Greeks Not Able to Purchase Items Beyond Daily Needs, GfK Survey Reveals

A survey conducted by GfK was released on Thursday revealed that Greeks can not afford to purchase items beyond their daily needs. There was also a notable gap between consumer sentiment in Greece and other EU countries in 2016, according to the data which revealed that consumer sentiment in other EU countries recorded a nine-year […]


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Greeks Place Their Hopes on Lottery Tickets

Hundreds of thousands of Greeks have placed their hopes on Sunday’s Joker lottery, where the lucky winner would get at least 14 million euros. There was no winner after Thursday night’s draw for 12 million euros. Now the lottery company (OPAP) is announcing that Sunday’s Joker earnings would be at least 14 million euros, making […]


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Weekend Platter: St. Stefanos Super Greek Festival, Pucker Up and more

Greek cuisine, latte art and craft beer, plus other ways to spend the weekend with food and drink. The Ybor City Food Truck Rally, a Generation Food Truck-produced event, will have Dave's Jukebox Diner, Jaffa Street, Craving Donuts, Around the World ...


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Lenders agree on more austerity for GREECE to avoid default

But the Fund concluded that GREECE would reach only 1.5% of GDP of primary surplus by 2018. Moreover, according to its updated debt sustainability ...


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ECB's Nowotny: We don't need the IMF, GREECE is a European problem

ECB's Nowotny: We don't need the IMF, GREECE is a European problem. Fri 10 Feb 2017 16:32:29 GMT. Author: Ryan Littlestone | Category: Central ...


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Greek schools welcome 10,000 migrant children

… an announcement by Greece's Education Ministry. The Greek government, which … with the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE), and universities in … Metron Analysis on behalf of Greek television channel Antenna, which said …


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Greeks plan 31.8MW odyssey

Greek outfit PPC Renewables has issued … farms totalling 31.8MW in Greece. One tender is for the …


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Business Live: Greece bailout talks

Archbishop Justin Welby worked in the energy industry for many years, he was treasurer of Enterprise Oil, so he knows business from the inside too. "Yes," he says. "I think it's an area, particularly since the Big Bang in the late 1980s …


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Brexit & Beyond: Greece Creditors’ United Front, Le Pen Shakes Bonds, ECB’s Mersch Dashes German Hopes

Brexit & Beyond: Europe in Flux is The Wall Street Journal’s round-up of news and analysis of how Brexit will affect global business, economies and finance. You can sign up here. MUST READS Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, right, and Finance ...


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Greece seeks energy deals in Expo Astana, Kazakhstan

KAZAKHSTAN. Greece seeks to achieve a radical transformation of the energy sector with a strong social focus, cross-border partnership and security, diversification of energy supply and mostly a change in... The post Greece seeks energy deals in Expo Astana, Kazakhstan appeared first on The National Herald.


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Eurostat: Minimum wage 684 euros in Greece

ATHENS. The minimum wage in Greece was 684 euros as of January 1, 2017, Eurostat said on Friday. In an announcement, the EU executive’s statistics service, said that 22 out... The post Eurostat: Minimum wage 684 euros in Greece appeared first on The National Herald.


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Greece’s National Library prepares for historic move to SNFCC

ATHENS. The National Library of Greece is making a bet on its future. From the historic neoclassical building in the centre of Athens, one of an iconic ‘triplet’ of imposing... The post Greece’s National Library prepares for historic move to SNFCC appeared first on The National Herald.


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Cyprus at Stake in Renewed Turkey-Greece Tensions

Historical tensions between Turkey and Greece erupted again recently over disputed territory in the Aegean Sea. This latest dispute centers on uninhabited islands, which 21 years ago brought the countries to the brink of war. Although few are predicting a ...


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20 billion euros to be released for Greek farming sector in next 4 years

Commissioner responds to Greek Prefect of Thessaly


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Mini-EuroGroup in progress in Brussels on Greece

Nothing extra-ordinary expected to come out of meeting


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Of Greek Gods and Data Breaches

The sorry story of Chris Correa, the St. Louis Cardinal executive convicted of hacking into the Houston Astros computer system expanded last month when Federal Judge Lynn Hughes unsealed details about the extent of the illegal conduct. As reported by David ...


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European press round-up: EU’s existential crisis, Greek bailout woes and Romanian corruption crisis

As the 60th anniversary of the EU’s Rome Treaty draws near, the bloc is struggling to redefine itself and move forward from a succession of crises, from banking, to migration, to Brexit. Meanwhile anti-corruption campaigners took to the streets in Romania. The EU’s struggle to find itself intensifies ahead of its 60th anniversary in March, […]


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Unusual suspects: TV’s new criminal women

Hot on the heels of Apple Tree Yard come The Replacement and Big Little Lies, featuring murderous school gate mothers and sinister maternity covers ‘Fear, that’s what makes animals of us all. Before I met you, I was civilised.” So said Dr Yvonne Carmichael in the BBC’s Sunday night drama _Apple Tree Yard_, contemplating her vertiginous descent from ordinary middle-aged working mother to adulterer, then rape victim, and finally murder suspect. But what the series, adapted from a 2013 novel by Louise Doughty, was asking us to consider is whether civilisation is only ever a thin veneer; whether the animal inside could be unleashed more easily than we might imagine, given the right circumstances. The idea of something primal, violent even, bubbling beneath maternal surfaces is hardly new, being a staple of everything from Greek tragedy to Shakespeare. Goading her husband into regicide, Lady Macbeth reaches for one of the few transgressions even more shocking to an Elizabethan audience, the idea of a mother murdering her own children: Continue reading...


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Lord Dubs calls on home secretary to accept more child refugees

Peer criticises decision to axe scheme he fought to set up and says local authorities are still willing to accept more children Alf Dubs, who led the fight to secure sanctuary in the UK for refugee children, which resulted in the amendment in his name, has issued a direct appeal to the home secretary to reinstate the measure. Lord Dubs said the decision to axe the policy must be reversed to take in more children stranded in Europe. “The secretary of state’s announcement is a very bad letdown for some very vulnerable children in France, Greece and Italy,” he said. “Before this announcement was made they had a little bit of hope.” Continue reading...


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Which EU country pays the most generous minimum wage?

Debt-hit Greece is the only country in the EU that has seen its minimum wage fall over the last decade, new figures have revealed.


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Brexit, Grexit and the future of the EU

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis on the EU's disintegration, and we discuss the future of cyberwarfare.


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Commentary: GREECE stirs eurozone

The eurozone may be lurching towards another crisis of confidence as GREECE edges closer, once again, to a confrontation over progress towards ...


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Disposal of WWII bomb to trigger biggest peacetime evacuation in Greece

[Preview] Around 72,000 residents of Greece’s second-biggest city, Thessaloniki, are set to be evacuated as authorities plan the removal of an unexploded World War II bomb. Read Full Article at RT.com


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Greeks get ready for big evacuation to defuse WWII bomb

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Authorities in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki were distributing fliers and putting up informational posters Wednesday as part of preparations to evacuate about 75,000 people in order to defuse a 500-pound unexploded World War II bomb.


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No justification for IMF to be part of Greek rescue: ECB's Nowotny

VIENNA, Feb 10 (Reuters) - There is no economic or political justification for the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to be part of the Greek rescue programme, European Central Bank (ECB) Governing Council member Ewald Nowotny told an Austrian newspaper on ...


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3 ‘Grexit’ battlelines emerge

As Europe's crucial election season nears, EU creditors are racing to prevent a renewed Greek debt crisis.


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Long-Buried World War II Bomb Prompts Massive Evacuation In Greece

To make matters worse, the unexploded bomb rests next to a gas station in Thessaloniki. Up to 72,000 people will be evacuated from the country's second-largest city on Sunday during defusal efforts.


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