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Leading candidate for US envoy to EU: ‘Strong reason for Greece moving away from euro’

6th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Naftemporiki —  US President Donald Trump’s choice for America’s ambassador to the European Union told Bloomberg over the weekend that there’s a “very strong reason […]

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The IMF should get out of Greece

4th February 2017 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg View — The International Monetary Fund’s involvement in Greece has been an unmitigated disaster: Time and again, its failure to heed crucial lessons has […]

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Opposition blasts SYRIZA official for suggesting Grexit debate

3rd February 2017 Newsroom 0

Opposition parties reacted with alarm on Tuesday to comments by SYRIZA parliamentary spokesman Nikos Xydakis that MPs should hold a debate about Greece’s membership of […]

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Eurogroup statement following Thursday’s session

28th January 2017 Newsroom 0

“The institutions briefed the Eurogroup on the second review of the economic adjustment programme, following their review mission to Athens in December. The Eurogroup urged […]

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Can Greece cope with demands for additional austerity beyond the end of the current programme?

27th January 2017 Newsroom 0

The participation of the International Monetary Fund in the Greek bailout programme is “non-negotiable”, the head of euro zone finance ministers said on Thursday according […]

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The Telegraph – Why the crisis in Greece has no end in sight

28th December 2016 Newsroom 0

 The Telegraph — While Athens has largely stayed out of the headlines, the warnings in an International Monetary Fund report this month lay bare the […]

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Greece’s perpetual crisis

21st December 2016 Newsroom 0

 Yanis Varoufakis / www.project-syndicate.org –Since the summer of 2015, Greece has (mostly) dropped out of the news, but not because its economic condition has stabilized. A […]

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Express: Europe punishing Greece – “That’ll help their popularity!”

18th December 2016 Newsroom 0

  The Express — Greece angered its lenders this month by announcing it would spend about 600 million euros on a Christmas bonus for low […]

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Labour rights in Greece must rise to meet The European Standard

16th December 2016 Newsroom 0

Huffington Post — The results of the Italian referendum earlier this month confirms that the European Union is facing a perpetual stress test and that […]

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Tsipras refuses to back down, will put pensioner bonus to Greek parliament

15th December 2016 y xamonakis 0

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has refused to back down over his plans to give poor Greek pensioners a pre-Christmas bonus rather than pay back the […]

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In Greece, property is debt

2nd November 2016 Newsroom 0

The New York Times — At law courts throughout Greece, people are lining up to file papers renouncing their inheritance. Not necessarily because some feckless […]

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Die Welt: “A haircut for Athens – and then adieu!”

12th October 2016 Yannis X 0

In the aftermath of the Eurogroup meeting which agreed to release part of the bailout funds to Greece, sections of conservative German press revived the […]

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From the destruction of Greece to democracy in Europe

23rd August 2016 Newsroom 0

The Boston Globe / James K. Galbraith — In protesting  the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The policy . . . […]

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Stiglitz: Euro area should split up if it can’t reform

20th August 2016 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg — Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz said rather than continuing on its present “dismal” path the euro area should split up if it can’t undertake […]

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Varoufakis: IMF Confessing to the sin in order to repeat it

1st August 2016 Newsroom 0

Yanis Varoufakis — You have read about the most recent IMF confession over its immolation of Greece. The question is: Does it signal a change in policies? Do […]

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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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