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Aug 18, 2011

GREECE News, Aug 18, 2011


EU Morning Report- Focus now turns to Thursday's EU summit
IBTimes Canada
The euro edged lower against the dollar during yesterday's Asian session on fears of a Greek debt restructuring. Investors fear that the eurozone debt crisis could worsen and focus turns to an emergency meeting by EU leaders on Thursday to discuss a ...
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Greek Gloom Seen Dragging On
Wall Street Journal
In the latest predictions prepared by the IMF, the European Commission and the European Central Bank, Greece's €325-billion-a-year economy is seen growing at an annual pace of 0.6% in 2012, down from a previous 1.1% forecast. The Greekgovernment also ...
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Wall Street Journal
Finland and Greece agree on bailout terms
Helsingin Sanomat
The aim of the Greek support package is to help the seriously indebted country get back on its feet financially, and to prevent the crisis there from spreading to other countries. “The model that was put forward now is not efficient. ...
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Tara Reid beams in honeymoon photos after whirlwind wedding to Zack Kehayov
Daily Mail
The 35-year-old American Pie star beams with happiness in photographs she tweeted yesterday of she and Zack enjoying themselves on the Greek island of Santorini. Beside the caption 'love', the actress posted the photograph which shows her wearing what ...
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Daily Mail
ECB Daren't Blink First as It Stares Down Bond Market Yields: Euro Credit
Bloomberg
The success mirrors the initial benefit of the ECB's first program of buying Greek bonds in May 2010. Policy makers must avoid what came after that: a reluctance to extend the program with further purchases saw Greek 10-year yields reverse declines and ...
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Newt Gingrich to take his campaign to Hawaii
CBS News
Almost as outrageous as a vacation in Greece. by SandmanUSMC August 17, 2011 2:29 PM EDT Wait a minute, I thought Newt was campaigning in the Greek Isles! Now he's in Hawaii. If this is what it takes to run for president I want to be on his campaign ...
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Crisis? What Crisis? : Finding the New Normal
Sustainable Business Forum
In the latest edition of 'Business Ethics' we referred to the events of 2008 (Lehman, AIG, RBS etc.) as the 'financial crisis of the late 2000s'. Well, at the time we did not expect this to be useful for the reasons it now makes total (non-)sense: we ...
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Eurobonds could cost Germany up to €47bn per year in additional interest
FinFacts Ireland
Finland and Greece on Tuesday reached an agreement on collateral for Finland's participation in the latest Greek bailout, Jutta Urpilainen, Finnish finance minister, said Tuesday. "I am very pleased with the result of the negotiations," Urpilainen told ...
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FinFacts Ireland
Will the EU take its holistic medicine?
Business Spectator
Tough budgetary adjustment programmes are now in place in Greece (with GDP currently falling by 6 per cent), Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Spain – and even France is moving to tighten its budget. Structural reform has made progress in all distressed ...
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Why modern democracy is for idiots
Business Insider
Did you know that the word 'idiot' is actually derived from the origins of democracy in ancientGreece? Thousands of years ago, a Greek citizen who demonstrated disinterest in politics was labeled 'idiotes'; it literally meant 'private person,' which ...
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What is Philosophical Realism?
The Moral Liberal
For three reasons: This philosophy has been pursued and developed by great minds from the fifth century BC in ancient Greece throughout the whole of Western history down to the present day and it has stood the test of time. This philosophy of Realism ...
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Turkey: Christian Monastery Fights for Muslim Tenants
EurasiaNet
In an ironic twist, the Turkish government is now telling the low-income Muslim families to leave. With the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, Greece and the newly founded Turkish Republic declared a population exchange that led to an exodus of ...
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Greek Gov't In Perplexity Ahead Of Hot September
Capital.gr (press release)
The latter is expected to launch the assessment of Greece's progress next week, but its people have already arrived in Athens to audit commercial banks. It is estimated that a satisfying outcome of troika's review would not require additional measures, ...
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Swedish debt head sees budget surpluses, if smaller
Business Recorder
Lundgren was critical of euro zone leaders' handling of the bloc's debt crisis, adding that Greek debt, at least, should be more extensively restructured. "I can't see any scenario where Greece, even if they get a primary balance that is positive, ...
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Business Recorder
Local breweries looking to secure competitive edge
Kathimerini
By Dimitra Manifava The so-called hot market of home consumption has drawn the attention ofGreek breweries as the cold market (restaurants and hotels) is expected to shrink even further with the value-added tax increase that is set to come into force ...
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Globetrotting gardener ready to wow Sydney expo
Blayney Chronicle
While recent travels to the Greek Islands and Turkey highlighted the difference between their landscape and Australia's Mr Griffin said he also came across some "striking similarities" in their plant life. "In Greece and Turkey, like us, ...
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Where Does Religion Come From?
The Atlantic
Nietzsche pointed out--Nietzsche was crazy as can be but he was damn smart--that if you look at the beginning of Western drama, which is the Greek tragedies, the audience was in it. The chorus was the audience. The chorus represented the citizens of ...
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The Atlantic
THE DISTILLERY: Foster's twist
Business Spectator
And The Australian's Tim Boreham made a couple of good points in his comment on CSL yesterday on the paper's website: "Having provided life-saving drugs to Greece via its hospital system, CSL was forced to accept Greek bonds in lieu of payment. ...
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Is it time for the ECB to throw someone overboard?
gulfnews.com
It opted for delay in the hope that the Eurozone's most vulnerable members would reinforce their defences against Greek contagion. In that sense, the ECB may have been too trusting. It believed that the peripheral economies would deliver serious fiscal...
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gulfnews.com
A Tribute to Ads That Made an Impression and Then Wouldn't Leave
New York Times (blog)
The Halkiases, who grew up in Greece, said the ad had made them famous. Mrs. Halkias said she was regularly asked to recite her famous line, while Mr. Halkias finds himself replicating the gestures he makes in the ad. “I gestured like any Greek would...
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New York Times (blog)
Living the high life in Bulgaria
Evening Standard
Wrestle yourself away from crippled Greece across the border into the Thracian Rhodope mountains and you will find spectacular scenery, a fascinating mix of birds, butterflies, flora and fauna, and almost nobody but local farmworkers leading cows to ...
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Evening Standard
Former Manchester United Goalkeeper Roy Carroll Heads to Greece
Inside Futbol
Former Manchester United goalkeeper Roy Carroll has sealed a deal to join Greek Super League side OFI Crete. The 33-year-old had previously played for Danish side Odense after leaving English shores. Now the Northern Ireland shot-stopper will hope to ...
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PAOK vs. Karpaty Lviv
Sports betting previews
I had a few talks with some friend here in this thread and we talked about weather the greek team is looking down Karpaty or not,well it seems that PAOK crew is once again very disciplined and they keep low profile,at least those were the sayings of ...
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Austria: Greece-Finland Collateral Deal Makes No Sense | Greece ...
By Apostolos Papapostolou
The deal between Greece and Finland on collateral needed to secure the Nordic country΄s participation in Greece΄s bailout makes no sense, a spokesman for Austria΄s Finance Ministry told Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in a report ...
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