Ankara and Athens have initiated efforts to build a new bridge between Turkey and Greece to ease traffic, Anatolia news agency reported quoting Turkish Deputy Minister of Customs and Trade, Fatih Metin. Metin examined the border gate of Ipsala on May 23 and said that they have started renewing the border gates in order to [...]
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Greece Won’t Get Back on its Feet
German author Günter Gras, awarded with the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature, highly criticized Angela Merkel and her government for their position regarding the European crisis. In his interview to the German TV station Phoenix, Gras said, “I consider it a disgrace, when Germany, as a heavily indebted country forces other countries to follow a [...]
Bulgarian Tourists Go Greek on Easter Holidays
More than 120 000 Bulgarian residents plan to spend the Easter holidays in Greece, obviously undisturbed by the economic turmoil in the neighboring country. Traffic through Bulgaria-Greece border checkpoints increased sharply on Wednesday morning, the most intensive being at the Kulata, the Bulgarian Border Police announced. The checkpoints are working at full capacity and manage [...]
Bundesbank’s Confidential Document Revealed
The German daily newspaper Handelsblatt revealed on April 26, a confidential internal legal document of the German Federal Bank or Deutsche Bundesbank that accompanied the appeal of the German Central Bank to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany against the European Central Bank (ECB). According to the 29-page document, ECB has taken a great risk [...]
Greek Children Not Well Off, But Happy
The United Nations Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, conducted a research among the 29 wealthier countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) that shows Greek children rank 25th in well-being, but 5th in a happiness index. The result showed that children in The Netherlands was the leader in treating children, followed by four [...]
Greek-German Allies In Tech Research
The Federal Ministry for Research and Technology in Germany, along with the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT) in Greece will offer €5 million ($6.5 million) to support Greek-German cooperation in applied research and technology. As the advisor for Economic and Commercial Matters in the Consulate General of Greece in Munich, Christina Stefanidou reported [...]
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05 / 24 Lemnos Fava Beans Win Monte Carlo
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05 / 24 Greek Actress Favourite At Cannes
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05 / 23 New Bridge Between Turkey and Greece
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05 / 23 Post-Byzantine Art At Budapest University
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05 / 23 EU Withdraws Ban On Olive Oil Bottles
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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
