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One year since the troika imposed capital controls on Greece, the struggle of the Greek people has become the struggle to save Europe

3rd July 2016 Newsroom 0

DIEM25 — A year has passed since the troika and the ECB closed the Greek banks and imposed capital controls. During the same time, the same […]

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Merkel’s brutal treatment of Greece means a peaceful and prosperous EU is a pipe dream

3rd June 2016 Newsroom 0

The Daily Mail — Amid the tumult over Brexit, an annual ritual is being played out which demolishes the notion that Angela Merkel’s Germany is […]

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The Guardian view on the new Greek bailout: more extend, but – please – no more pretend

28th May 2016 Newsroom 0

The Guardian — An agreement this week to release €10.3bn of bailout money to Greece was, in comparison with past negotiations, straightforward. The sole achievement […]

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Europe’s pointless ‘breakthrough’ on Greece

27th May 2016 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg View — The leader of Europe’s finance ministers called Wednesday’s agreement on Greek debt a “major breakthrough.” In a way, it was. The latest […]

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Assigning blame for Greece’s unbearable debt

21st May 2016 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg View / Mark Whitehouse — European leaders are belatedly coming to a crucial understanding: Greece’s debt burden is too much to bear. As they consider […]

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When a deal is not a deal  – Slow progress on new IMF demands puts doubt on reaching agreement on 9 May

6th May 2016 Yannis X 0

Less than a year ago, in August  2015, a seven month old left wing  Greek government surrendered to  the terms of  European lenders and signed […]

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EU politicians: ‘Hawks want to kill Greece & we can’t allow this blackmail’

29th April 2016 Newsroom 0

SputnikNews.com — To unlock the latest tranche of bailout money, Greece’s creditors — the European Central Bank, the European Commission and the International Monetary Fund — are in deadlock […]

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Tsipras faces new IMF curve ball to unlock aid: Scenarios

26th April 2016 Newsroom 0

Bloomberg — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has promised voters he’ll reject even one euro cent more of budget austerity than is needed under the […]

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Varoufakis’s assessment of what’s wrong with the Eurozone shouldn’t be dismissed

23rd April 2016 Newsroom 0

Varoufakis’s  critiques of Europe’s troubled monetary union and the questionable efforts to salvage it shouldn’t be dismissed, writes the Canadian current affairs magazine Macleans . […]

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Stand by for another euro crisis

22nd April 2016 Newsroom 0

BBC / Mark Mardell — The European Union is staggering in the ring, like a bloodied boxer, taking punch after punch, staying just about upright, […]

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As the negotiations drag on, is it time to reconsider Schaeubles offer?

11th April 2016 y xamonakis 0

Greece’s creditors have returned to Athens after their Easter break but no one except the most optimistic analysts and the Greek government expect that the […]

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Two of the European Union’s biggest risks may collide this summer

10th April 2016 Newsroom 0

Reuters —  Two of the European Union’s biggest risks – Greece’s bailout and the UK vote over EU membership – may collide this summer. Hellenic […]

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Why Greece won’t ever be able to pay off its debts with austerity

8th April 2016 Newsroom 0

This  article was published in Bloomberg  last year, but as the the lenders and the Greek government are still trying to agree on the size of […]

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The role of the IMF and Eurozone partners at the intersection of the economic and the migrant crises

15th March 2016 Yannis X 0

New Europe — The migrant crisis that began a few months ago and continues to date has put Greece at the cross-section of economics and […]

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Ex-Bank of England boss: Greece’s crisis is ‘almost a deliberate act of policy’

3rd March 2016 Newsroom 0

Former Bank of England Governor Lord Mervyn King is continuing his vocal criticism of Europe, claiming Greece’s current economic, social, and political crises have been […]

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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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