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10 hours ago
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Volunteerism sees significant rise

The crisis appears to have generated a new spirit of volunteerism in Greece

Kathimerini
52 mins ago
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Migrant workers stabbed in wages dispute facing deportation

Eleftherotypia
Antiracist group Keerfa alleges that men, stabbed on May 9 when they demanded 45 days’ backpay, are being deported in order
4 hours ago
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‘Wittgenstein’s Wrath’ at eurozone commentators

Kathimerini
Two false analogies have prevailed in the public dialogue regarding Europe: the first draws parallels between the present situatio
6 hours ago

BOC’s restructuring must be a priority, top businessmen say

Cyprus Mail
The Bank of Cyprus’ survival must be secured so that the economy and the financial sector can have a future despite the gloomy f
9 hours ago
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EU, IMF ask Greece for more checks on tax evasion suspects

Kathimerini
Greece’s creditors say that Athens needs to conduct more inspections on high-income self-employed groups (mainly doctors and law
10 hours ago
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The €400,000 golden boys at Alpha Bank

Eleftherotypia
Eight executives at Alpha Bank, the country’s third largest lender, were paid above the legal maximum permissible for banker
13 hours ago
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Muslim Association of Greece ups security after receiving threatening letter

Kathimerini
The Muslim Association of Greece (MAG) is going to step up security at its premises in Athens after receiving a threatening letter
14 hours ago
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Hellenic Petroleum structured note draws bets on Greek recovery

Bloomberg
Bank of America Corp. sold the first structured notes tied to Greece’s largest refiner, Hellenic Petroleum SA (ELPE), as inve
15 hours ago
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Greece to raise clean energy taxes to erase deficit in industry

Kathimerini
Greece, suffering its sixth year of a recession, will increase renewable-energy taxes next month as part of measures to eliminate
16 hours ago
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Little hope for Greece’s jobless youth

Deutsche Welle
Nearly two-thirds of young Greeks are currently jobless. The unemployment rate in the country has reached a record 27 percent. Exp
16 hours ago
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Greek PM pledges to contain unemployment

Kathimerini
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Tuesday pledged to battle unemployment by attracting outside investment in the debt-hit co
18 hours ago
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Gazprom drives hard bargain as sole major bidder for Greek DEPA

Reuters
Gazprom is squeezing Athens for better terms to buy DEPA, Greece’s sole retail gas distributor, a Greek official said, as
19 hours ago
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Greece’s big economic recovery – for investors

Globe and Mail
The improvement over the past 12 months is primarily in foreign investor sentiment, not in the real economy.
20 hours ago
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Number of suicides hits 50-year record

Eleftherotypia
The number of suicides in 2011 reached their highest level in 50 years, mental health experts have said based on data from the cou
20 hours ago
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Golden Dawn MP stopped from taking gun into parliament

Eleftherotypia
Amid growing concerns that Golden Dawn MPs are attending parliamentary sessions armed, the Eleftherotypia newspaper has reported t
21 hours ago
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Supreme Judicial Council appoints new financial prosecutors

Vima
The Supreme Judicial Council has announced that it has appointed the two new financial prosecutors Panagiotis Athanasiou and Galin
22 hours ago
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Extension to online submission of tax returns

Eleftherotypia
With everyone obliged to submit tax returns online this year, regardless of age or profession, the government has announced a dela
22 hours ago
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In defense of Cyprus

Project Syndicate
Greece is said not to have one. Cyprus does, but needs to change it. Luxembourg’s is similar to Cyprus’s, but apparently it is
23 hours ago
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Anti-racism legislation divides coalition

Kathimerini
The bill, the stated aim of which is to impose tougher penalties on individuals or groups inciting racial hatred but which is chie
24 hours ago
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Struggling Cyprus should be able to lure tourist revenue with pristine bathing waters, ranked the European Union’s best in the latest EU bathing report.

Reuters
1 day ago
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EU draft bank rescue law would not shield big deposits

Reuters
A group of lawmakers in the European Parliament’s economics committee overwhelmingly voted that, from 2016, large depositors
1 day ago
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New Greek cuisine is here to stay

The Huffington Post
When you think of Greek food, you usually think of chunky Greek salads, messy but delicious souvlaki, and pungent garlic sauces su
1 day ago
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Greece’s Piraeus Bank sees first-quarter takings drop

The Global Post
Piraeus Bank, one of the four main Greek lenders, on Monday said its first-quarter pre-tax profit had dropped to 170 million euros
1 day ago
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Turkish PM couldn’t get what he expected on Syria from US visit: NGO head

Hurriyet (Turkish Press)
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan did not get what he was hoping for on the Syria issue from his U.S. visit, according to the h
1 day ago
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Cyprus Defence Minister in Moscow for talks

Famagusta Gazette
Defence Minister Photos Photiou will meet with Russian government and Duma officials, during his visit to the Russian capital, to
1 day ago
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Troika delegation visits Cyprus for financial sector monitoring

Famagusta Gazette
A delegation of technocrats of the Troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fun
1 day ago
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Gazprom returns to Athens for DEPA

Vima
Gazprom’s Head of the International Business Department Pavel Oderov will be visiting Athens, for the third time in recent times
2 days ago
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Slovenian philospher Zizek proposes ‘gulag’ for those who do not support SYRIZA

Kathimerini
2 days ago
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State provides €4m for student grants

Cyprus Mail
The Education ministry has announced it would be granting €4 million in student grants for those studying at state-run and priva
2 days ago
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Meimarakis tells party representatives no MPs should carry guns in Parliament

Kathimerini
Parliamentary speaker Evangelos Meimarakis has spoken to the representatives of all parties to remind them that no MPs should carr
2 days ago
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Tsipras lashes out against New Democracy

Eleftherotypia
New Democracy kept equal distance from the main opposition and the ‘Hitler nostalgics’ during Friday’s clash bet
2 days ago
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OPINION: Politics remains the art of the unattainable

Cyprus Mail
Vacuous rhetoric and conspiracy theories have been constant features of our political life. The politicians may change but the tra
2 days ago
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Plan B to take Greece to drachma

Eleftherotypia
Plan B is Greece’s first pro-drachma party. Should it fare well in polls, it might reignite fears among Eurozone partners th
2 days ago
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Further raid on BoC possible

Cyprus Mail
The Bank of Cyprus, touted pillar of the economy, may yet stay afloat – but at what cost? If the lender’s consolidated bal
2 days ago
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OPINION: Greece Isn’t Turning the Corner

bloomberg
Judging from the markets and English-speaking news media this week, Greece’s damaged economy has finally turned the corner. I do
2 days ago
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OPINION: Our ‘heroic’ No’s have cost us dear

Cyprus Mail
We must not stumble once more. We should use natural gas as a catalyst in the effort to solve the problem of Cyprus and probably t
2 days ago
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Immigration Minister says negotiations continue for the long-awaited Working Holiday Visa

Neos Kosmos
2 days ago
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Revealed: the top performing funds in the world – and the real dogs

Irish Independent
Funds which invested in Greek shares were probably the last thing you would have put your money into at the time – yet, if you d
2 days ago
51 views

The 14 most endangered European heritage sites

Huffington Post
The former Royal Estate of Tatoi in Athens and the buffer zone in Nicosia make landmarks preservation group Europa Nostra’s
2 days ago
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OPINION: On a dangerous path

Kathimerini
If the current political system carries on playing along with Golden Dawn’s communication rules, we are doomed.
2 days ago
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Anastasiades calms concerns over UN document

Cyprus Mail
Anastasiades said although he was keen to re-launch peace talks as soon as possible, the government was now focused on tackling
3 days ago
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Clashes in Agrinio over laying of wreath by Golden Dawn MP

Eleftherotypia
Tensions rose in the western Greek city of Agrinio on Sunday when Golden Dawn MP Kostas Barbarousis attempted to lay a wreath at a
3 days ago
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Stock market rally built on perceptions

Kathimerini
If perceptions continue to improve, the country may move from a “bad” equilibrium of high interest rates to a “good” equil
3 days ago
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How Iran benefits from an illicit gold trade with Turkey

The Atlantic
Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has arrived in Washington, D.C. for a much-anticipated summit with President Barack O
3 days ago
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Greece enters sixth year of recession

Agence France Presse
Greece entered its sixth straight year of recession, but there is now cautious optimism about the economy’s prospects althou
3 days ago
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Greece to sell Postbank, Proton in July, stress-test big banks

Reuters
The recapitalisation of Greece’s four core banks – National, Alpha, Piraeus and Eurobank – is expected to be wra
3 days ago
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Cyprus: ‘Why did ministers not blame bankers?’

Cyprus Mail
Cyprus’ current predicament was caused by greedy bankers maximising their profits irrespective of risk, former finance Kikis Kaz
3 days ago
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It is becoming evident that a veiled agenda underpinned the recent Turkish willingness to consider a rapprochement with Israel.

Jerusalem Post
3 days ago
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Greece’s Piraeus hire banks to advise on share issue-sources

Reuters
Greece’s second-largest lender Piraeus Bank has hired four international investmentbanks as advisers on its 7.33 billion eu
3 days ago
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Samaras in Azerbaijan

Eleftherotypia
Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Sunday will hold talks in Azerbaijan in a bid to increase Greece’s chances of securing a d
3 days ago
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Thirteen injured in explosion in Salamina

Eleftherotypia
Authorities are looking into what may have caused a strong explosion in a closed tavern in downtown Salamina, which left thirteen
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