On May 18, the European Court rejected Greece’s appeal against an older decision of the European Committee, through which certain Greek expenses, made in the framework of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, were excluded from EU funding. The total amount rises to 260 million euros [...]
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Greek Immigrants To Germany Up 43%
The scale of Greece’s crushing economic crisis and unrelenting austerity measures is showing in how many people are fleeing the country in search of work and a better life elsewhere, particularly Germany. The number of Greek immigrants to Germany soared 43 percent in 2012, according to data from the Federal Statistical Office of Germany, which [...]
Eroglu Ired EU Orders Greek For TRNC
Turkish Cypriot President Dervis Eroglu has sent a letter of protest to the President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barosso saying Turkey is upset that the European Union has directed its officials to use the Greek version for the occupied northern part of the island which only Turkey recognizes as the Turkish Republic of [...]
MEP Vaidere: Extreme Wealth, Great Poverty in Greece
Inese Vaidere’s report on the impact of crisis on human and social rights was adopted by a large majority in the European Parliament. Vaidere, EPP Group Coordinator in the Human Rights Subcommittee of the European Parliament, in her report underlined that in Greece there coexist unimaginable wealth with abject poverty. Vaidere is a Latvian politician, [...]
Germans Say Greeks, Cypriots Hide Riches
Der Spiegel’s front-page of April 15 had the provocative title, The poverty lie. How the countries in crisis cover up their riches, showing on its cover a man on a donkey carrying big sacks of money under an EU umbrella. The article is based on a controversial ECB report which implies that German households are [...]
Troika Says Greek Tax Collection Flawed
The European Union and International Monetary Fund, who, along with the European Central Bank, make up Greece’s Troika of lenders of last resort, have issued a report damning the country’s tax collection system as broken. To indicate the size of the problem, the report takes the example of “big business tax collection office.” an office created [...]
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05 / 21 My Number One Is Now Eight
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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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05 / 20 Manitakis’ Interview to Der Spiegel
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05 / 20 Nikos Kazantzakis in Croatian
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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
