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Thursday, February 22, 2018

GREEK lawmakers launch probe into 10 officials accused of taking Novartis bribes

GREEK lawmakers launch probe into 10 officials accused of taking Novartis bribes ... according to the news service. Even still, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said the situation was among the "biggest scandals in modern GREEK history," as quoted by Reuters, and that the allegations can't be ignored.


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Thousands of Turks Learn of Their GREEK, Armenian Heritage with New Government Genealogy ...

Millions of GREEKS, Armenians and Jews were forced to flee, while others were taken to other regions and sold into sex gangs or labor camps. As the dust settled, these people eventually integrated into Turkish society. Names were changed and mass conversions to Islam took place. The human chaos ...


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The Byzantine & Christian Museum of Athens (PHOTOS)

A museum through an amazing era of the Greek history


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Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, G. Katrougalos, informs competent EU Commissioners on Greece's decision to support fYROM's EUSAIR candidacy

Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs, Giorgos Katrougalos, in a letter addressed to Enlargement Commissioner, Johannes Hahn, and Regional Policy Commissioner, Corina CreČ›u, informed of Greece’s intention to support fYROM’s candidacy within the framework of the EU Strategy for the Adriatic and Ionian Region (EUSAIR).The countries already participating in the EUSAIR are Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Cooperation is carried out under the four thematic pillars of Blue Growth, Connecting the Region (transport and energy), Environmental Quality and Sustainable Tourism.


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Greece Approves Thessaloniki’s Port Sale

ATHENS (AP) — Lawmakers have approved the sale of a 67 percent stake of the Thessaloniki Port Authority in Greece’s second largest city, in a […] The post Greece Approves Thessaloniki’s Port Sale appeared first on The National Herald.


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Council of State approves Hellinikon Project, one of outstanding prior actions

Greece’s Council of State approved a presidential decree for the massive investment in Hellinikon, including provisions on construction of tall buildings, citing ‘public interest’. Approval of the plan fulfills one of the two outstanding prior actions in order for lenders to disburse the 5.7 billion euro tranche. The remaining condition is the electronic auctions that … The post Council of State approves Hellinikon Project, one of outstanding prior actions appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Eldorado's Pending Arbitration: The Achilles Heel Of Greek Regulatory Mercy

… to mine precious metals in Greece. The Greek Ministry of Environment rejected … and Olympias Phase 2 in Greece. Earnings Quality The company generated … related to development projects in Greece and limited mine diversity (only …


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Greece's Katrougalos supports fYROMacedonian AII

Alternate Minister for Foreign Affairs Giorgos Katrougalos in a letter to the EU Commissioners in charge of enlargement and regional policy announced Greeces intention to support


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Michael D Higgins criticises EU treatment of Greece during visit to Athens

Those responsible for mistaken economic policies that have had such a negative effect on the Greek people need to take responsibility for their actions, President Michael D Higgins has said, on the first day of his state visit. “It is a moral test of all ...


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‘No Negotiation over Greek Territory’ says Minister

A senior Greek minister on Thursday said there were no so-called ‘grey zones’ in the country’s territorial sovereignty. “We do not negotiate our territorial waters and we will do whatever possible to protect the lives of the people in the area of ...


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What can Ancient Greece teach us about public finance?

In most countries today, our elected representatives take the tough decisions about public finances behind closed doors, away from the public itself. In doing so, democratic politicians rely on the advice of financial bureaucrats, who, often, cater to the ...


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Revelations in Bishop Andonios’ Letter about Fr. Makris

BROOKLYN – Archimandrite Gerasimos Makris “had engaged at separate times in inappropriate relations with two women” Bishop Andonios of Phasiane, chancellor of the Greek Orthodox […] The post Revelations in Bishop Andonios’ Letter about Fr. Makris appeared first on The National Herald.


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Top GREEK Court Backs Key Bailout-Linked Development Project

Top GREEK Court Backs Key Bailout-Linked Development Project ... The plot was sold under Greece's creditor-mandated privatization program to a consortium led by GREEK Lamda Development, which is planning an 8-billion-euro ($9.4-billion) investment including a park, housing, shopping areas and ...


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The 9/11 Hijackers Were Iraqis, Right? Teaching in a Time of Wars

[Smoke spews from a tower of the World Trade Center September 11, 2001, after two hijacked airplanes hit the twin towers in a terrorist attack on New York City. (Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images)]Smoke spews from a tower of the World Trade Center September 11, 2001, after two hijacked airplanes hit the twin towers in a terrorist attack on New York City. (Photo: Mario Tama / Getty Images) Far more people read Truthout than will ever donate -- but we rely on donations to keep our publication running strong. Support independent journalism by making a contribution now! I was teaching the day the airplanes hit the World Trade Center. It was the second meeting of "The Communist Manifesto for Seminarians," a course for my fellow graduate students. By the time I got to class, both towers had collapsed. A few hours later, Building 7 came down as well. We dispensed with a planned discussion about what Marxists mean by "idealism" and "materialism" and talked instead about the meaning of this particular example of the "propaganda of the deed." We already sensed that, with George W. Bush and Dick Cheney in the White House, the attacks would mean war. But like the rest of the world, we didn't yet have the faintest idea how long that war would last. And 16 years on, we still don't know. A few years later, I found myself in front of 40 undergraduates on the first day of the first ethics course I would ever teach. You know how sometimes you have no idea what you're going to say until the words are out of your mouth? That day, I opened my mouth and this came out: "I was so excited about this class that I couldn't sleep last night." Eighty horrified eyes stared back at me. "I guess it wasn't like that for you," I added, and felt the blush creep up my face. Most of them had the grace to laugh. Thirteen years later, I still have trouble sleeping the night before a new semester begins. It's not exactly stage fright, but knowing that I'll only have a few chances to convince a new crop of students that they really do want to examine their deepest values -- the things they care most about -- and even talk about them in front of their peers. In fact, most of them do care deeply and about important things, too, like how they should treat their friends, their parents, and their sexual and/or romantic partners. They care about their friends who drink and drug too much and appreciate the friends who get them home safe when they do the same. They care about economic inequality, especially when they're trying to find a place they can afford to rent in this city of soaring prices, San Francisco, or when contemplating the massive debt most of them will be carrying for years, if not a lifetime, after they graduate. Some of them regularly turn out to be Milton Friedman-style economic libertarians. Almost invariably, more are reflexively anti-capitalist. More than half of them are young people of color. They and the majority of their white peers care deeply about racism. They don't think the police should shoot unarmed black men and they tend to believe that people of color face institutional barriers that white people never even see. Slavery, they know, was a terrible idea, but many of them are fuzzy about when it started in this country and how it ended. Quite a few of them are immigrants or the children of immigrants. Some are undocumented or DACA recipients, so not surprisingly they care about immigration laws and policies. Their fellow students would never turn them in to the authorities. They may not know exactly why, but they have the feeling it would be unethical. Some of them are in the Reserve Officer Training Corps, or ROTC. Some are veterans. US military adventures affect them directly. While the rest of the students do care about war and peace, most of their lives are touched more lightly by America's wars than were those of their peers a decade ago. EDUCATION IS CRUCIAL TO CITIZENSHIP IN A DEMOCRACY AND, FOR MANY YEARS, THOSE ON THE RIGHT IN THIS COUNTRY HAVE DONE THEIR BEST TO DEFUND AND DISMANTLE PUBLIC EDUCATION. They care about so much, but there's a lot they just don't know. DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT HISTORY... The first hint I got about the gaps in my students' background knowledge came early on in my teaching career. In a homework assignment a student wrote that Aristotle had quoted Shakespeare. Another thought that when that Greek philosopher mentioned a theater, he was talking about going to the movies. I wasn't surprised that those students knew little about ancient Athens; there's no reason to expect them to arrive at college versed in Greek philosophy. But something far more basic was missing: a sense of the sweep of what Americans call "western" history -- a chronological grid on which to pin the key movements and events that shape today's world. I soon found myself putting a giant timeline on the blackboard on which the students would try to place the authors we were reading. Then we'd fill it in with other world events. Even the relatively short history of the United States occupies a strangely flattened state in many of their imaginations. In their minds, for instance, all of the country's wars -- especially those of the twentieth century -- seem to run together, making it hard to understand how one war can lead to another. My pre-collegiate history education was not really much better than theirs, but it was somewhat different. I grew up in Washington, D.C., in the days when Congress ran the city directly, including defining the curriculum for elementary and secondary school students. We were required to take three cracks at American history (in fifth, eighth, and twelfth grade). Repeatedly, we spent so much time on the 13 original colonies that, by the day school let out for the year, we had barely reached World War I. I never did find out what happened after that, not in school anyway. Nowadays, schools have speeded things up a bit and the war they never get to happened in Vietnam. I'm certainly not the first person to discover that, for new generations, foundational events in her own life -- the Civil Rights movement, the Vietnam War, the women's liberation movement, even the first Gulf War -- are, to the young, history almost as ancient as the Civil War. Why should they know about such things? They weren't even born yet. But here's a surprising development -- surprising because this last decade and a half seems to have flown past so quickly. I'm now encountering students who have no memory of an event that has shaped their lives, this country, and much of the world for the last 16 years: the 9/11 attacks. THE EARLY YEARS The first undergraduates I taught were already in their teens on 9/11, which meant that those attacks formed a historic dividing point in their lives. For them, as for the coterie of men who would lead this country to the "dark side" (to use Vice President Dick Cheney's admonitory phrase), there was a "before 9/11 and an after 9/11." After 9/11, they lived in a nation "at war." The United States was suddenly fighting an enemy that, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told "Meet the Press" less than a month after the attacks, "is not just in Afghanistan. It is in 50 or 60 countries and," he added, "it simply has to be liquidated." Little did they -- or the rest of us -- know that the liquid this protean enemy most resembled was a blob of mercury, which multiplies into hundreds of separate droplets when you hit it. Recently, former CIA director and retired general David Petraeus admitted to Judy Woodruff of the PBS NewsHour that the war on terror's first battlefield, Afghanistan, has become the locus of a "generational struggle," one that more than a decade and a half later is not "going to be won in a few years." I've watched that generational struggle as it developed in the classroom. My first students had friends and relations fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq. One young woman's uncle, a man in his late forties, was a surgeon who had been "reactivated" and sent to Iraq years after completing his active service. In fact, it turns out that everyone who joins the military signs on for eight years, whether they know it or not. Any of those years not spent on active duty or in the "drilling" Reserves still leaves you in the "Individual Ready Reserves," as many were surprised to discover when the US Army ran short of personnel to fight two simultaneous land wars. A few students had partners fighting overseas and their worry was painful to observe. Soon enough, I had women students whose male partners were returning from those wars as changed -- and dangerous -- men. Several confided (either to me privately or to an entire class) that they'd had to move out because they feared for their safety. And soon one of our school's graduates, Jennifer Moreno, died in combat. Every September, the Army would appear on campus. Arriving in gleaming Hummers, they'd erect a portable climbing wall and pass out glossy recruitment literature, encouraging students to join ROTC. Once, I was stunned by the courage of four young women, who stood off to the side of the show holding up homemade antiwar signs. Then one fall, the recruiters didn't show up at all. I never knew whether it was because the wars had fallen out of favor with the board of my Jesuit university or because troop drawdowns had eased recruitment pressure. All I knew was that it probably wasn't thanks to those brave students with their hand-drawn signs. In the early years, more than one ROTC member admitted to me (or our class) that he or she doubted the Bush administration's rationale for the war in Iraq. One young man from Guam explained that, having accepted a scholarship ("my ticket off the island"), he was duty-bound to fight in Iraq despite his doubts. "I know that in basic training, they try to take you apart as a person and then put you back together as a soldier," he told me. "I want you to know that I'm not going to let that happen to me." I've often wondered what did happen to him. Here's another thing I remember from those early years. To my surprise, many of my students supported torture -- less as an interrogation method than as punishment for truly heinous crimes (torture, that is, as righteous vengeance). Terrorists should be tortured, some argued, as payback for 9/11, but perhaps because their own childhoods were still so near in time and memory, a number of them thought that those most deserving of torture were not political terrorists, but child abusers. Just about all of them were certain of one thing: the men who flew the planes on 9/11 were Iraqis. WHEN JOHNNY (AND JANIE) COME MARCHING HOME AGAIN... Eventually, of course, war veterans began to appear in my classes. They were older and in many cases more mature than the other students in ways that didn't just reflect their age. I often teach an ethics class in which students work with a community-based organization. One veteran chose to do this "service learning" with Swords to Plowshares, which provides services for vets. They'd helped him when he first got out, and he wanted to return the favor. "If anyone tells you they came back whole from Iraq or Afghanistan," he assured me, "they're either lying or they just don't know yet." He was right, I think. One thing I've noticed over the years: like many survivors of war, those vets never volunteer to talk about what they've seen. Nor do their fellow students show much curiosity about it, and I don't ask directly. But some, like the young man who'd served five years as a sniper in Iraq and Afghanistan, are clearly in pain. He'd suffered a broken back and brain trauma when an improvised explosive device blew up his Humvee. He was bitter about the war and his own role in it, certain that he'd been lied to by his government. Since leaving the military he had learned a lot of history. Now, he sat in the last row of the classroom, back to the wall, one leg bouncing uncontrollably up and down. Usually he left early. The anxiety of being in a room with that many people, he explained to me, was more than he could endure. Such veterans, however, are classroom oddities, rare exceptions to the general rule that the US can fight an endless war on terror without pain, sacrifice, or even, in recent years, much attention at all. These days, my students live in a country that has been at war almost since they were born, and yet, as is true with most of their fellow citizens, the fighting could be happening on Mars for all the impact it has on them. Most of them no longer know people directly affected. Their friends and family, of course, aren't among the tens of millions of Iraqis, Syrians, Afghans, or Yemenis made refugees by those American wars and their consequences. NOWADAYS, SCHOOLS HAVE SPEEDED THINGS UP A BIT AND THE WAR THEY NEVER GET TO HAPPENED IN VIETNAM. Most of them haven't yet realized that, if their government hadn't spent $5.6 trillion and counting on those very wars, there might have been federal money available to relieve them of the school debt they will carry for decades. THOSE WHO FAIL TO LEARN... It's not an accident that my students arrive at college with little understanding of US history or, for that matter, knowledge of how their government works. Nor is it their fault. Education is crucial to citizenship in a democracy and, for many years, those on the right in this country have done their best to defund and dismantle public education. Under President Trump we have a secretary of education who makes no secret of her belief that, like other public goods, education is best left in the tender hands of the market. The other day I asked my "Ethics: War, Torture, and Terrorism" class to name the countries where the United States is currently involved in some military action. They were able to come up with Iraq and Afghanistan. A veteran then added Djibouti, where US Africa Command has a key base. "Syria?" someone wondered. A ROTC member mentioned Yemen. No one even thought of Somalia or Libya. No one had heard of the West African country of Niger, where Sergeant LaDavid Johnson died in an ambush set by an ISIS affiliate. (If asked, some might have remembered that when Donald Trump called Johnson's widow, he made news by struggling to remember her husband's name and suggesting that Johnson had known "what he signed up for.") Nor could they name any of the other countries, 76 in all, affected in some fashion by their country's undeclared, never-ending "generational" war on terror. The good news is that they want to learn. The bad news: nowadays, they tend to think that the men who flew those planes on 9/11 were from Iran.


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Merkel welcomes FYROM’s Zaev as “Macedonian Prime Minister”

German Chancellor Angela Merkel welcomed FYROM’s Zoran Zaev as “the Macedonian” Prime Minister. Did she think that Zaev’s full name was Zaevopoulos, that Greece was a federal republic and Macedonia a federal state in Northern Greece? No. She did it on purpose, she welcomed Zaev as “Macedonia Prime Minister” at the begin of their joint … The post Merkel welcomes FYROM’s Zaev as “Macedonian Prime Minister” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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ENI is moving drill ship away from Cyprus amid dispute with Turkey

Italy’s Eni will probably have to move a drilling ship blocked by Turkey off Cyprus, but will not relinquish its interests in the area, the oil major’s CEO said on Thursday. “We’re used to having potential disputes … we did not pull out of Libya or other countries where there were complicated situations,” Claudio Descalzi … The post ENI is moving drill ship away from Cyprus amid dispute with Turkey appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Embassies in Romania, Greece, consulate in Istanbul mark Kuwait's Nat'l Days

… Kuwaiti embassies in Romania and Greece, and the Consulate in Istanbul …


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Is Greece on the Road to Recovery, or Will It Remain Trapped by Debt? An Interview With Economist Costas Lapavitsas

… prevailed in Greek society after the surrender of Syriza. Is Greece on … talk about "reforms." Greece continues to have a disproportionately … monitoring of Greece, beyond that of other indebted EU countries. Greece will …


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Greek top court approves plan for major tourism project

ATHENS, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Greece’s top administrative court gave … the decree does not violate Greek law. Progress on the project … delays, is being watched by Greece’s creditors as a test …


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Hollywood Game Night returns to Greece

Celebrity-led gameshow format Hollywood Game Night is returning to Greek TV this month with a new local version on a different network. Antenna Group has picked up the NBC format for its flagship channel ANT1. The show, under the local title Celebrity Game ...


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Greece votes to probe politicians in alleged drug bribery case

The Greek parliament voted on Thursday to investigate politicians, including former prime ministers, over allegations of bribery from the Swiss drugmaker Novartis. Kate King reports.


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Aegean Airlines plans new Balkan routes

Greeces Aegean Airlines continues to grow its network in the former Yugoslavia for a fourth consecutive year in 2018 with three new routes to be launched this summer while there


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Greece approves port sale in second-largest city

Lawmakers have approved the sale of a 67 percent stake of the Thessaloniki Port Authority in Greece's second largest city, in a deal worth 232 million euros ($285 million). Parliament ratified the concession agreement through 2051 which was signed in ...


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Rare exhibit in Athens features 7.000-year-old enigma (PHOTO)

The statue from the Neolithic period has continued to puzzle archaeologists, who are still uncertain of its origins in Greece or the sex of the figure


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GREEK government's steady steps to exit bailout programme

In February's Eurogroup Mario Senteno, Commissioner Pierre Moscovici and head of European Stability Mechanism (ESM) Klaus Regling reaffirmed the positive developments of the GREEK economic program towards the third bailout review. They all pointed out that a couple of technical issues should ...


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US Embassy Economic Officer Hoyt Îśeets Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce Chief Masoutis

ATHENS – US interest in strengthening US-Greek relations should be taken as a given, US Embassy Economic Officer Brian Hoyt said on Thursday in a meeting […] The post US Embassy Economic Officer Hoyt Îśeets Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce Chief Masoutis appeared first on The National Herald.


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Zaev extols Tsipras, declares FYROM has no irredentist claims against Greece

Zoran Zaev, the Prime Minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), extolled the earnestness of his Greek counterpart, Alexis Tsipras, in seeking a settlement with Skopje that he believes will be to the benefit of his country. “In these ...


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Zaev: Tsipras is honest and believes a name solution will be good for Greece

Replying to questions posed by the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA), FYROM's premier said that the most difficult problems that must be overcome by the two sides were those of building mutual trust and ensuring that a solution will be final and …


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Armenia cenbank chief off to Greece for BSTDB meeting

… Arthur Javadyan departed to Thessaloniki, Greece, to participate in the February …


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Kilicdaroglu promises to seize Greece once he wins elections

… Turkey threatened to seize “18 Greek islands in the Aegean sea … against Greece to seize the Aegean islands, because, according to him, Greece … “will have to take 18 Greek island in the Aegean Sea …


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Greek politicians launch bribery inquiry

… Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis. Under Greek law, only parliament can investigate … investigating. The EU rescue of Greece during its debt crisis involved … conservative New Democracy and socialist Pasok governments. Those named in the …


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Top Greek politicians to be investigated

… Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis. Under Greek law, only parliament can investigate … investigating. The EU rescue of Greece during its debt crisis involved … conservative New Democracy and socialist Pasok governments. Those named in the …


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Greece to investigate top politicians over Novartis bribery claims

MPs to look into accusations 10 senior officials accepted bribes from Swiss pharmaceutical firm The Greek parliament is to investigate ten of the country’s top politicians over accusations they accepted bribes from the Swiss pharmaceutical firm Novartis in return for patronage that resulted in huge losses for the nation. After a raucous 20-hour debate, MPs voted early on Thursday to form a parliamentary committee tasked solely with investigating two former prime ministers and eight other ministers in connection with the allegations. Continue reading...


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Turkey's Aegean bark worse than its bite, GREEK website says

Ankara's bellicose rhetoric and a spate of recent incidents in the Aegean have led to fears of war igniting between Turkey and Greece, journalist wrote John Smith on the news site GREEK Reporter.com. GREEK and Turkish naval vessels collided in waters off uninhabited islets that both sides claim on Feb.


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Meet Maria, the beautiful GF of Greek Arsenal-player Mavropanos (photos)

She is very supportive and proud of his move to London


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Greek Parliament Investigates Politicians in Novartis Bribery Probe

ATHENS—Greece’s parliament will investigate whether senior political leaders took bribes from Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG to fix drug prices and boost its sales to public hospitals. Early Thursday, lawmakers voted to investigate 10 current ...


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The Simple Greek offering $1 gyros for St. Petersburg grand opening

ST. PETERSBURG — The Simple Greek restaurant is celebrating the grand opening of its new downtown St. Petersburg location with a $1 lunch special on Thursday. To commemorate the opening, The Simple Greek will be offering $1 build your own gyro from 11 a ...


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GREEK Parliament to Probe 10 Senior Politicians Over Novartis Case

The GREEK government managed to get the votes needed to form a parliamentary committee to investigate witness testimonies that two former prime ministers and eight ministers were bribed by Novartis. The nine politicians who were present in the House stated their arguments, all of them saying that ...


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Formal and informal rules shape differences in GREEK life recruitment

While both councils aim to recruit new members in a safe environment, the differences between their processes shape two very different recruitment weeks. About 15 percent of students at BU are involved in GREEK life organizations across the seven councils, which include multicultural, professional and ...


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The tale of the Indian GREEK yoghurt

Before acquiring the sole position of being the first Indian GREEK yoghurt brand, Mirchandani started off by selling ice cream. For the US-born and bred entrepreneur, his association with Hokey Pokey Ice Creams as an investor was his introduction to India, which is why he also eventually decided to move ...


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Novartis case: GREEK MPs to probe alleged bribery

The GREEK parliament has voted to investigate 10 prominent politicians, including two ex-prime ministers, over allegations they allowed bribery by the Swiss pharmaceuticals company Novartis. Under GREEK law, only parliament can investigate its own members and lift their immunity. The vote followed a ...


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Santorini Day Trips to Explore the Greek Islands (Photos)

Oia, Santorini (Courtesy of The Tiny Book). Santorini and its Caldera are among some of the best-known images of Greece. Santorini sets a trend that never goes out of fashion, receiving thousands of visitors who choose to spend their holidays on the ...


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What to know about Arsenal's Greek prodigy

While Arsenal’s January transfer window will be remembered by the wider football world for the signings of Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Henrikh Mkhitaryan, the arrival of a 20-year-old Greek defender in north London sent shockwaves through his homeland.


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Ex FM Pangalos sued for saying “A good Turk is a dead Turk”

The chairman of a small political party based in Thrace, home of the Muslim minority in Greece, has reportedly filed a lawsuit against former Foreign Minister, Theodoros Pangalos for having said on a radio interview “A good Turk is a dead Turk.” On 13. February Theodoros Pangalos was invited to a Skai Radio program to … The post Ex FM Pangalos sued for saying “A good Turk is a dead Turk” appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Furious senior spills gasoline in PPC office and staff after power cut due to debts

A senior in outrage poured gasoline in the offices and employees of Greek Public Power Corporation (PPC/DEH) and would have set everyone and everything alight hadn’t the police manage to take him under control just moments before the disaster would break out. The 70-year-old pensioner went to the local branch of PPC in Kilkis, north … The post Furious senior spills gasoline in PPC office and staff after power cut due to debts appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Beijing Capital Airlines representative in Greece by TAL Aiation

… , Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy and Switzerland. The TAL …


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OTE to lower capex, boost shareholder returns as Greek market improves

Greek operator OTE reported higher results …


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Corruption in Greece Rose 12 Points Since 2012; Countries Move Too Slowly

… since 2012 were seen in Greece, which rose 12 points to … of 30 and 130th place. Greece stands 59th among 180 countries …


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Greek citizens of Turkish origin demand arresting ex-FM

… Hafizoglu – Trend: Greek citizens of Turkish origin demand arresting Greece’s former … dead Turk” statement. Leader of Greece’s Turkish party “Friendship, Equality … 150,000 Turks living in Greece. --- Follow the author on …


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Greek Festival 2018: Get a taste of Greece (for $2 admission) at St. Katherine in Melbourne

… ’s Greek Festival at St. Katherine Greek Orthodox Church. “I like the Greek … event. Greek goodies: The Greek Festival is known for its traditional Greek entrees … stuffed grape leaves, Greek macaronis, Greek syrups and traditional Greek cheeses — in addition …


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