News in Greece
Greek youth unemployment is close to hitting 75pc in some parts of the country, official data showed on Wednesday, highlighting a huge disparity between Europe’s northern and southern ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 10:13:06 -0400
Rendering homage to the prominent artist of the Greek Diaspora Constantine Manos, the Benaki Museum presents an exhibition / tribute to his renowned photographic series, A Greek Portfolio. With his exquisite images Manos invites us to travel with him to remote villages and islands of Greece in the 1960′s, where in a landscape of simple farm life and tranquility, poor yet proud people ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 10:10:54 -0400
This was the innovative idea of the MCH Training people when they started working on the ELA KI ESU (Come with us) project that takes place every Sunday in Athens. The project ELA KI ESU aims to offer free, outdoor workout accessible to everyone, in order to give people a chance not only to exercise and take care of their body and health, but also to share their feelings, passions and to have ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 10:10:53 -0400
Georgios Spyropoulos (L) appearing in court with his lawyer after being arrested on charges of plotting the murder of his uncle. He denied the charges against him. The manager of the Tick Tock Diner charged last month with plotting to kill his wife's uncle -- a co-owner of the landmark Clifton, N.J. restaurant -- walked out of the Passaic County Jail after posting $600,000 bail May 21. ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 10:06:12 -0400
03/10/2012 15:34 CET A member of the Greek parliament from the far right party Golden Dawn has urged desperate people in the country to "kill those who are responsible for their problems" rather than commit suicide. He defines "those who are responsible" as bankers. Ilias Panagiotaros made the comments during an interview for ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 10:04:53 -0400
Russian economy The Russian economy will not be able to grow faster than 2 percent per year in the coming decade and might become another Greece, says one of Russia's leading investment banking firms Renaissance Capital. This would mean the government increasing national debt just like it was in Greece.The slowing economic growth in Russia to 1.6 percent in the first quarter of 2013 has ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 09:01:09 -0400
Pete Skyllas on the World Poker Tour, where he had better luck than gambling in a New York City operation the FBI said was massive and included threats of violence. NEW YORK - In a scene right out of the TV mob show The Sopranos, one of the victims of a large-scale gambling operation broken by the FBI in New York City was a Greek-America who had to turn over his plumbing business because he ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 08:47:58 -0400
It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C.There are a lot of reasons that yogurt has been beloved since the time of the woolly mammoth. First of all, it tastes great.Then, of course, there are the health benefits of eating yogurt. Yogurt contains enzymes that help with absorbing nutrients. It also contains healthy bacteria linked ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 07:44:18 -0400
(Photo/Andy Dabilis) A man reads notes pinned to the so-called Martyr's Tree in Syntagma Square in central Athens where retired pensioner Dimitris Christoulas, shot himself in the head in April, 2012 to protest austerity measures he said pushed him to take his life. ATHENS - With social unrest calming, and as the government moves toward seeking foreign investors to help the economy recovery, ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 07:37:06 -0400
Tour operator Cosmos has announced the winner of its latest competition, giving one lucky blogger a luxury holiday in Crete for two. The ability of bloggers to start conversations and drive opinion on holiday destinations has never been more relevant, and the travel industry is naturally very receptive to the concept of crowd-sourcing and sharing information. So ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:36:06 -0400
After decades of leasing land to the government, the Greek Patriarchate's sale to a private, foreign buyer may signal inflated prices ahead for current ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:36:04 -0400
The local society of Agios Konstantinos of Agrinio is shocked by the news of a student who stabbed his mother because she told him to turn the TV off. The crime occurred at 2.20 after midnight when, according to preliminary information, the third grade senor high school student stabbed his mother to death. It all started when the 51-year old teacher reprimanded her son for staying up watching ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:34:02 -0400
It is amazing that people still get excited about yogurt, considering that it has been around since 6000 B.C., when Neolithic herdsmen discovered that storing milk in animal skin containers curdled the liquid, thickening it and giving it tart flavor. But judging from the supermarket shelf space and commercial airtime now devoted to the latest iteration -- thick and creamy Greek-style yogurt -- ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:29:27 -0400
A woman weeps during the deportation of the Jews of Ioannina on March 25, 1944. The deportation was enforced by the German army. Almost all of the people deported were murdered on or shortly after April 11, 1944 when their train reached the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Many others were saved by Greeks. ATHENS - During the Axis occupation of mainland Greece from 1941 to 1944, and the ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:29:27 -0400
The 2nd Annual Cypriot-Greek Oil & Gas 2013 was held successfully on 18th and 19th April at the Four Seasons Hotel in Limassol gathering 160 senior level delegates from international oil companies, governmental officials, university experts and service providers. The summit examined in depth the recent developments in the oil and gas industry in the two closely related countries with each of ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 06:20:57 -0400
Greek central government debt rose 3.8 billion euros or 1.3 percent to 168.6 percent of GDP in the first quarter of 2013, according to the Finance Ministry.Total debt stood at 309.4 billion euros at the end of the first quarter, compared to 305.6 billion at the end of 2012.The average maturity of ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 05:28:19 -0400
Greek media companies owe more than 50 million euros in unpaid social security contributions, which is roughly equivalent to the annual budget of the ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 05:28:18 -0400
A gambler at OPAP Greece Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said the sale of gambling monopoly OPAP shows that Greece is serious about making reforms as a condition of rescue aid. The deal, which will give Czech-Greek consortium Emma Delta a 33 percent stake in the gambling monopoly, will bring in 712 million euros, about $915.48 million. ';It is important as a signal to the international ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 05:26:22 -0400
Days after returning from a trip to China to woo business, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said the way out of the country’s crushing economic crisis is for foreign companies to invest in the country, which means overcoming its reputation s unfriendly to business and problems such as labyrinthine bureaucratic delays, and frequent bribery requests that have scared off many. Samaras has ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 05:26:21 -0400
The high current account deficit will persist as long as we live in a world of low growth - that hurts our exports - and easy global liquidity, which pumps up the oil import ...
Wed, 22 May 2013 05:17:19 -0400
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