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Saturday, February 24, 2018

Michail Vitopoulos, dead at 70, leaves a legacy in Toronto’s Greek community

Vitopoulos, a longtime York University professor, died last week at 70 years old. He’d spent decades mentoring Toronto students at York and in the TDSB — particularly young, first generation Greek-Canadians. Longtime York University professor Michail ...


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Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association Adopts Greek Islet

Kinaros, also known as Cinarus, is a small Greek island in the Aegean, located west of Kalymnos and Leros and east of Amorgos, and only 5.5 nautical miles west-southwest of Levitha. Kinaros, which is the second westernmost island of the Dodecanese after ...


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The 7th meeting on the confidence-building measures between Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (Skopje, 09.02.2017)

On 9 February 2018, in Skopje, Greece and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia held the Seventh round of the consultations on the confidence-building measures (CBMs). The meeting was a continuation of the friendly and constructive dialogue on different areas of common interest in support of our Governments’ efforts in creating a positive political climate in bilateral relations of the two countries. Experts from relevant national institutions also contributed to the fruitful and productive discussions. The agreed areas of cooperation included connectivity projects, police cooperation, European programs, culture, education, civil protection, public administration, health, Diplomatic Academies’ cooperation and launching business initiatives. Cooperation was initiated in the field of seismology, and on MoU on cooperation in civil protection was initialed. The next meeting will be held in Athens.


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Caesars Entertainment ‘Among Bidders’ for Elliniko Casino in Greece

US giant Caesars Entertainment is reportedly interested in bidding for a casino license at Elliniko, the site of the former Athens airport, as the Greek government is preparing to launch a tender. A Finance Ministry official told Reuters that an adviser ...


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'Alexander the Great' Sign Removed From Skopje Airport

Macedonia has removed an "Alexander the Great" sign from its main airport in another goodwill gesture to GREECE, as the two neighbors work to resolve a 27-year-old dispute over the name of the former Yugoslav republic. The 3-meter-long letters spelling out the name of the famed ruler of the ancient ...


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Tesla is preparing to invest in GREECE

Tesla's action plan in GREECE does not currently concern a production unit, but research and development, with the Greek government – in particular Deputy Minister for Research and Innovation, who has taken the initiative to bring in GREECE the company of Elon Musk – to seek to link the company to ...


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FinMin Tsakalotos: Greeks to see 3.5 bln euro tax reduction in the near future

… . "Up to 2009, rich Greeks paid taxes on a voluntary …


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Roundup: Macedonia starts work on changing names, signs, monuments contested by Greece

SKOPJE, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Macedonian authorities started Saturday removing the letters "Alexander the Great" from the sign of the recently-renamed "Skopje Airport" while they also removed signs on the national highway referred to it as highway "Alexander ...


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Greek police arrest 2 migrant traffickers, 14 Syrians

Greek police say they have arrested two migrant traffickers who were transporting 14 undocumented Syrians, eight of them children. The arrests of a 21-year-old Syrian and a 24-year-old Iraqi took place Friday near Greece's northeastern border with Turkey ...


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Tesla is building an electric motor R&D group in Greece to tap into strong local electrical engineering talent

Tesla’s engineering and design teams are primarily based in the US and especially in California, but the company has been expanding internationally over the last few years with teams in the UK and Germany. Now we learn that the automaker is also building ...


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Studying the insignificant

GREEK writers are predestined to write detective thrillers. As the splendidly iconoclastic Christos Chryssopoulos says, “The writer 'suspects' relationships between things, notions, people and ideas,” which an investigator into corrupt practices might be discouraged from seeing. So we find it in the recent ...


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Higgins urges EU states to fulfil refugee obligations

On the final day of his state visit to GREECE, Mr Higgins spent an hour inspecting Eleonas refugee camp, during which he spoke to some of the 1,400 people, mainly Afghans, Syrians and Iranians, who live there in prefabricated containers. Set up in 2015, the camp also has a section for unaccompanied ...


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No Comments of the week

From penguins in Antartica to a Greek village's "Flour War," we look back at some of the top videos from this week's No Comment section.


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GREEK banks must do more to cut non-performing loans: ECB's Nouy

“That is why the top priority for GREEK banks is to significantly reduce the production of new NPLs, by improving their credit underwriting criteria, and to clean up their balance sheets.” Banks have agreed with European Central Bank regulators to shrink NPEs by about 40 percent by end-2019. Cutting ...


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Greek PM Suggests Luxury Taxes to Compensate Payments to EU Budget Post-Brexit

… short URL ATHEN (Sputnik) - Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras proposed …


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Macedonia removes 'Alexander the Great' name from airport in gesture to Greece

… as a goodwill gesture to Greece. Turkish consortium TAV, which operates … Alexander in 2006. Macedonia and Greece are working to resolve a … dispute over the Macedonia name. Greece argues that Macedonia's …


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Alexander the Great pulled from Macedonia airport in gesture

Macedonia has begun the process of changing the name of its airport honoring the ancient warrior king Alexander the Great as a goodwill gesture to Greece


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Albania's Chams want Greek apology for wartime expulsion

TIRANA, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Albania's Cham community, expelled from Greece after World War Two, asked Greece on Saturday to apologise for what they called a genocide against them and permit them to return to the area in northern Greece from which they were ...


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TUI: €1.8 million from GREEK National Tourism Organization for ads in 12 markets

GREEK National Tourism Organization (EOT) has decided to launch a joint advertising program with TUI Group for 2018, as similar initiatives during previous years have paid off. The campaign's aim this year is to secure and even increase the number of incoming tourists recorded during 2017.


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4 Reasons Going GREEK Might Not Be For You

“Going GREEK” might be one of the most commonly heard phrases any incoming college freshman or two-year transfer student is going to hear upon stepping on campus. At many large universities across the United States, GREEK sororities and fraternities dominate the campus. Charity organizations are ...


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Inmates Hold Protest in GREEK Prison

GREEK authorities are locked into talks on Saturday with inmates at Korydallos maximum security prison to convince them to stop their protest and return to their cells. Inmates refused to return to their cells and remained in the common areas of the prison complaining about the transfer of an inmate to ...


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Europe Lends Support to GREECE, Cyprus Over Turkish Violations

The European Union came to the defense of GREECE and Cyprus on Friday following what President Donald Tusk described as “Turkey's illegal violations in the Eastern Mediterranean and in the Aegean.” “On behalf of all the EU leaders, I would like to express our solidarity with Cyprus and GREECE, and ...


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Greek Woman Killed in Flood Tragedy

The 27-year-old daughter was saved by grabbing a branch of a tree. GREECE is bracing itself for days of storms, heavy rain and snow over the weekend. Local authorities in many parts of GREECE have been on alert amid the heavy rainfall, which has overflown rivers and flooded farmland in central GREECE ...


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GREECE in 'No Hurry' to Solve FYROM Name Dispute

Resolving the name issue is a lot more urgent for FYROM and its European future, Tsipras noted. “For us it would be a positive development, but for FYROM (becoming an EU member) would be of vital importance,” and its European prospects “do not go through Ankara, they go through Athens; our ...


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      Hermes Expo Continues to Bridge Regional Businesses in the U.S., Greece, and Balkans  

The ties between American and Greek businesses have never been stronger. Bridging the two once again is the Hermes Expo International, now entering its 27th year. This year’s Expo takes place Tuesday, April 24, 2018 at St. Peter’s Church in New York with a “Taste of Hellas” Greek Networking Event and on Wednesday, April 25, […] The post       Hermes Expo Continues to Bridge Regional Businesses in the U.S., Greece, and Balkans   appeared first on Hellenic News of America.


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Woman dies amid rain floods in central Greece

(MENAFN) The local fire services declared the death of a woman aged 59 for the heavy rains in central Greece. The woman sank into raging water of the flash flood stream in a mountainous area in Evoia, 180 km north of Athens, while her daughter of the age ...


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Ekathimerini: ‘Greece is neither Iraq nor Syria,’ FM tells Turkey

Athens. “Turkey must think about what I have been saying for two years, that Greece is neither Syria nor Iraq,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias said on Saturday, referring to recent tension emanating from Turkey, Ekathimerini writes. “I honor ...


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“Turkey must stop provocations” against EU member-states, says Tsipras

“Turkey must stop provocations” against EU member states, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said during a press conference after the EU Summit in Brussels on Friday. The European Union should send Turkey a clear message that “EU-Turkish relations cannot move forward when member-states’ sovereign rights are violated,” he added. Turkey and Greece can collaborate on … The post “Turkey must stop provocations” against EU member-states, says Tsipras appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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EUCO President Tusk calls on Turkey to terminate activities in Greece’s Aegean and Cyprus EEZ

European Council President, Donald Tusk, expressed solidarity with Greece and Cyprus and called on Turkey to terminate activities in the Aegean Sea and the Exclusive Economic Zone of Cyprus. In a statement, Tusk said among others: This evening President Anastasiades and Prime Minister Tsipras informed us about the latest developments regarding Turkey’s illegal violations in … The post EUCO President Tusk calls on Turkey to terminate activities in Greece’s Aegean and Cyprus EEZ appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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The Greek death-metal band may have added clean strings, but their music remains as septic as ever

… hiatus between 2003 and 2007, Greek death-metal band Septic Flesh returned …


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Greek band records Minor Threat cover album in Greek

It has been said that Apollo speaks all languages, and to that end, a Greek band has just released a unique covers album . Πενιχρή Απειλή have just released Out of Greece where they cover the majority of Minor Threat's discography. Check it out below.


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Nearly 50 Syrian refugees arrive in Ireland from Greece

… have arrived in Ireland from Greece this week under the Government … a further 29 people from Greek refugee camps on Thursday. These … have arrived in Ireland from Greece under the Irish Refugee Protection …


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Privatization investments: Water utility stakes return to the GREEK state

The GREEK state is reclaiming its majority stakes in the Athens and Thessaloniki water companies, as the government has revoked the decision by the ministerial committee for privatizations offering its shares to sell-off fund TAIPED. A ministerial decision published in Thursday's Government Gazette ...


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Greek Foreign Minister Kotzias warns Turkey: “Greece is not Iraq”

The Greek Minister said Turley had repeatedly violated International law


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Rally in Melbourne to be held by Greek-Australians on “Macedonian issue”

Large crowd expected by organisers


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Inmates of GREECE'S maximum security prison hold protest

ATHENS, Feb. 24 ((Xinhua) -- A group of inmates at GREECE'S Korydallos Prison, which is housing maximum security inmates, held a sit-in on Saturday to protest against the transfer of an inmate to another prison complex, Greek national news agency AMNA reported. A representative of the Justice ...


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Torrential rains in central GREECE kill one

ATHENS, Feb. 24 ((Xinhua) -- The torrential rains in central GREECE killed a 59-year-old woman on Saturday, the local Fire Service said. The victim was drown in the rushing waters of an over flown stream in a mountainous area in Evoia, 180 km north of Athens. Her 27-year-old daughter was saved by ...


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These students ARE what they eat: 'Multicultural' lunch is a showcase of students' heritage

At another table nearby, eighth grader Angelina Alexandrou showcases the dishes her family brought in — all traditional GREEK dishes from Cyprus. There's a honey-and-nut pastry called baklava, tomatoes and haloumi cheese, and pita chips served with what she calls “zanziki” but is similar to tzatziki ...


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Romanian tourist inflows and imports from Greece soar in 2017

GREEK exports to Romania grew 14 pct in 2017, reaching more than 870 million euros from 760 million in 2016, and have positive prospects, but Greece needs to safeguard the high quality of its exports and to immediately put a brake on the practices of "opportunistic" traders, who are hurting the good ...


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Turkey navy forces back Italian drillship: Cyprus

On Wednesday, Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, the GREEK Cypriot leader, said Nicosia would continue its energy exploration regardless of Turkish threats. But Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned foreign energy companies not to "overstep the mark" in disputed waters off the ...


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Symposium GREEK restaurant opens in Wilmington

WILMINGTON — Not every restaurant can say they offer guests a recipe that is 400-years old, but the newly opened Symposium Restaurant and Bar can. Symposium is Wilmington's newest GREEK inspired restaurant located in Mayfaire and has plenty of uniquely European offerings for guests, including ...


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Public outcry forces PPC to reconnect power to lung-patient

It needed the media intervention for Greece’s Public Power Corporation to show a humane face. An exclusive report of local media Lamianow on Friday afternoon was reproduced by hundreds of local and national media, news websites and blogs and exposed the merciless power supply cut to a poor household thus putting at risk the life … The post Public outcry forces PPC to reconnect power to lung-patient appeared first on Keep Talking Greece.


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Dry Bulk Transportation Sector Is A Collapse Waiting To Happen

Earlier this month, the Greek Defense Ministry announced that Turkey had violated Greek airspace 138 times in one day. Tensions between both NATO members are mounting after Athens accused Ankara of agitating over historically disputed islets. In turn, Turkey accuses GREECE of harboring key July ...


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Greek-American Stories: The Donut Caper

It wasn’t often that Dimos arrived at Dixon’s to find that the others had not arrived as yet.Usually, they’d saunter in at about the same […] The post Greek-American Stories: The Donut Caper appeared first on The National Herald.


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Turkey’s Νext Step Isn’t Imia Crisis De-escalation

These days Turkey builds a watchtower with thermal cameras, a pier, and facilities to accommodate an armyone mile off Imia. By ramming a Greek coast […] The post Turkey’s Νext Step Isn’t Imia Crisis De-escalation appeared first on The National Herald.


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Our Everyday Greek: Do you Love Me? Say it in Greek!

Με αγαπάς; Do you love me? I love you is Σε αγαπάω or Σε αγαπώ. WHOM DO YOU LOVE?Ποιοναγαπάς; ΑγαπάωτονΚώστα. I love Kostas. Αγαπάω την […] The post Our Everyday Greek: Do you Love Me? Say it in Greek! appeared first on The National Herald.


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This Week in Greek History February 23 to March 2

February 23: On this day in 532, Byzantine Emperor Justinian I gave the order for a new basilica to be built in Constantinople- Hagia Sophia. […] The post This Week in Greek History February 23 to March 2 appeared first on The National Herald.


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A Toast to Family, Friends and Work: The Sourapas Family of Seattle

A Seattle Greek Immigrant Family’s Soft Drink Business, by Steve (Stavros) J. Sourapas with Rosanne Gostovich Royer, is a complex story that immediately catches the […] The post A Toast to Family, Friends and Work: The Sourapas Family of Seattle appeared first on The National Herald.


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EU leaders express solidarity with Cyprus in gas exploration standoff

The discovery of vast gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean has become a point of contention with both GREEKS and Turks laying claim to undersea territories where the gas is present. Various incidents have contributed to the tension over the past month, including a collision between Turkish and ...


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National Pan-Hellenic Council and its importance to WKU

Founded in 1906, Alpha Phi Alpha was the first African-American, intercollegiate GREEK-lettered fraternity founded in the United States. Green said he is proud to be a member of Alpha Phi Alpha at WKU. “It's really an honor to be a part of this fraternity because we had to set the foundation for those to ...


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