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Month: February 2017

Lagarde meets Merkel over Greek debt, announces Greece does not need a debt cut after all

23rd February 2017 Newsroom 0

DW — International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Christine Lagarde met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday to discuss Greece’s debt crisis. Lagarde said that Greece’s […]

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Schulz plots path to defeat Merkel, with a different attitude on Greece

23rd February 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — His only experience of governing in Germany is as a town mayor. She is Europe’s most powerful leader. Yet Martin Schulz wants to […]

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Dijsselbloem on Monday agreement over Greek program: ‘It’s to the IMF’s liking’

22nd February 2017 Newsroom 0

Naftemporiki — Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem confirmed  that creditors’ negotiators will head back to Athens next Tuesday to conclude a delayed second review of the […]

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10 amazing places to visit in Crete

22nd February 2017 Newsroom 0

Best of Greece 10. Samaria Gorge National Park Samaria Gorge is located in Chania and is the biggest and most beautiful National Park in Crete. The […]

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Chania authorities have another go at enforcing smoking ban

20th February 2017 Newsroom 0

The prefectural unit of Chania announced last week its decision to intensify checks on catering outlets and other public places with the view to ensure […]

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Greek efforts to escape bailout shackles at risk amid standoff

20th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg — As Greek efforts to conclude a year-old review of its rescue program stall, the government’s ability to regain access to the public debt […]

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Six in ten Greeks support Greece to stay in euro zone but reject further austerity

20th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Xinhua — Six in ten Greeks rejected the Grexit scenario and further austerity measures alike, the latest opinion poll conducted across Greece showed on Sunday. […]

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Greece to exceed its primary surplus target in 2018 – Commission

20th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters —  Greece will have a primary surplus in the budget of 3.7 percent of gross domestic product next year, exceeding the target of 3.5 […]

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7000 year old “enigma” statuette goes on display in Athens Archaeological Museum

19th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — A bird-like statuette dating back 7,000 years has mystified archaeologists in Greece who still do not know exactly what it is, or where […]

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Greece’s pensioners have barely enough to live on

19th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Greek Minister of Labour Effie Achtsioglou’s letter to The Financial Times written as an answer to the demands of the lenders for additional cuts in […]

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Human skeleton discovered in Malia close to where Brit tourist Steven Cook vanished 12 years ago

17th February 2017 Newsroom 0

A human skeleton has been found at the bottom of a well, while it was being cleared,  in the Greek resort of Malia, close to where British tourist […]

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Professor hospitalized after attack by taggers

17th February 2017 Newsroom 0

eKathimerini — A professor was hospitalized in Athens on Wednesday after being attacked a group of young men who had been tagging a wall at […]

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Dijsselbloem: Greece could default if IMF leaves bailout program

16th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Naftemporiki — Eurogroup chairman Jeroen Dijsselbloem went a step further this week in weighing in on the “IMF factor” entailed in the now tenuous Greek […]

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Dutch election: Wilders frontrunner as campaign begins

16th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Reuters — Campaigning for the Dutch election began on Wednesday with anti-Islam, Eurosceptic leader Geert Wilders frontrunner in a vote that will test the anti-establishment […]

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EU competition authorities raid Greek power utility’s offices in Athens

16th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Naftemporiki — An unprecedented raid of the main offices in Athens of state-run Public Power Corp. (PPC) and its affiliated transmission grid operator (ADMIE) was […]

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  • Ten year old mystery of the suspicious death of Jean Hanlon in Crete

    Following a UK Channel 5 documentary entitled ‘Murdered in Paradise : The Killing of Jean Hanlon’, new information has emerged which was  enough to lead […]

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  • PFPO’s stray animals meetings with German MEPs and the Authorities in Crete

    PFPO PRESS RELEASE – (repost) Last month MEPs Professor Klaus Buchner, animal activist Stefan Eck and Georgios Chatzimarkakis, who is from Crete, organized a congress […]

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  • Book club in Apokoronas

    NEW BOOK CLUB Kindle/ebook recommended Meets Monthly Read an entertaining, interesting book every month. Members take turns to propose a choice of books. Meet, discuss […]

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  • A new novel on wartime Crete by Phillip Duke, a former apokoronas resident

    A Cretan village confronts the Nazi juggernaut sweeping across Europe. A village matriarch tries to hold her family together…Her grieving son finds a new life […]

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  • A driver’s licence saga

    AN received a letter from a reader about problems with the renewal of a drivers licence. Name and email supplied. ‘Last autumn, the government introduced […]

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