According to a research conducted within 2012, Greek consumers seem to have access to cheaper basic products at supermarkets than do other European citizens. According to a study conducted by the Institute of Retail Consumer Goods (IELKA), which was published on March 19, the average price of 20 basic products at Greek supermarkets is lower [...]
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Gracias Grecia! Spaniards Thank Greece
Some Spanish students and teachers are saluting Greece with a video Gracias Grecia Nuestra Herencia, a seven-minute long work thanking Greece for its achievements and contribution to the European culture, literature, arts and sciences. “Greece is being present in many aspects of our daily life,” stress the video’s protagonists, reminding of what Greece gave the [...]
Greek Products Featured in Lisbon and Porto
The Hellenic Foreign Trade Board is preparing a Greek products fortnight in the El Corte Ingles supermarket chain, both in Lisbon and Porto, and simultaneously a week of Greek gastronomy in a department store restaurant in Lisbon, from April 29 to May 12. HEPO, following the successful in store promotion of the KAUFHOF German chain, [...]
EU Lawmakers OK Podimata Tax
The European Parliament has voted for a proposal put forth by a PASOK Socialist lawmaker, Anni Podimata, for a tax on currency exchanges and financial transactions she said would deter speculators. The so-called Tobin Tax is named for Nobel Prize winner James Tobin, who first recommended the idea, to be 1 percent or less, in [...]
Chountis Questions Greek Jobless Benefits
Nikos Chountis, a Member of the European Parliament for the far-leftist SYRIZA party, pressed European Commission officials why international lenders insisted on reducing unemployment benefits as part of austerity measures attached to bailouts. Commission officials told Chountis that Greece’s unemployed receive less than those in other European Union. He said that last year only about [...]
El Mundo Features Greek Reporter’s “Hire a Greek” Initiative
The Spanish newspaper El Mundo published an extensive report on the innovative website HireaGreek.com, created last March by Greek Reporter. The idea for the initiative that aims to help jobless Greeks find jobs came from Anastasios Papapostolou, founder and Editor-in-Chief of Greek Reporter. The proposed site aims to offer unemployed Greeks the chance of communicating and [...]
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05 / 21 More Greek Clothes Made in Balkans
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05 / 20 Austrian Press Pays Tribute to Lefkada, Chios
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08 / 04 Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Reportedly Claims Olympic Flame is Turkish
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01 / 24 Intercultural Association Macedonia Cuts Vasilopita
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07 / 28 IOC President Jacques Rogge Calls London Home of The Olympics; Forgets Greece
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05 / 03 Skopje: Streets Renamed With Ancient Greek Names
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05 / 22 Philip II of Macedonia Statue in Skopje Defies NATO
