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Car crash in northern Greece reveals migrant operation
Police say a car crash in northern Greece has revealed yet another migrant smuggling operation.
The toughest challenge
I keep hearing the following phrase: "these guys will never leave," over and over again. Greece is a democratic European state, so they (the government) are bound to leave, just like the ones who will succeed them, at one point. No one can tell exactly when this will happen or in what way. One thing we should have learned by now is that there is little point in making predictions.
Turkish F35 order underlines Greek constraints
Ankara's recent decision to order 24 Lockheed Martin F-35 aircraft has brought to the fore a discussion that has been taking place for some years within the Greek armed forces about how Greece can maintain its deterrent capabilities vis a vis Turkey without entering into an arms race with its neighbor.
Obama aiming to make lasting impression with Athens speech
US President Barack Obama is planning to deliver what American officials have described to Kathimerini as a "legacy speech" when he visits Athens on November 15.
It's wait and see for now
Cabinet reshuffles very rarely serve the purpose of solving significant political or practical problems dogging a government.
New Democracy vice-president: Tsipras reshuffles cabinet to give his cronies jobs
In a Corfu press conference Saturday, the vice-president of New Democracy, Adonis Georgiadis, said: “Yesterday’s reshuffle confirmed all of New Democracy’s fears. The same people were recycled,with very few changes; his ministers’ and deputy ministers’ responsibilities were increased precisely so Tsipras could help out his cronies and manage whatever remaining political time he has left with a
New cabinet faces grueling month ahead
With his new cabinet in place, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is expected next week to urge his ministers to move swiftly forward with economic reforms so that Greece and its European partners can launch talks on debt relief and he can signal that the country is turning the corner.
Marfin group founder Vgenopoulos dies
Andreas Vgenopoulos, the lawyer turned businessman who founded one of Greece's largest holding groups, died at the age of 63 early on Saturday following a heart attack.
Vgenopoulos was the founder of Marfin Investment Group, which owned a number of businesses in Greece and southeastern Europe.
Two priests sentenced for embezzling 930,000 euros from state
Two priests in Farsala, central Greece, have been sentenced to 18 and six years behind bars respectively, after they were found guilty of embezzling 930,000 euros from the Greek state through a scheme that involved forged salary lists for priests.
The fraud was discovered following an inspection carried out by a Finance Ministry unit in Thessaly in 2012.
Daily Mail: Refugees pay to return to Syria to avoid slow death in Greece
“Death’s quick in Syria – here, we are dying slowly. Give me the money to pay a smuggler and I’ll go back to Syria right now,” said Thaer Al Nahir, a 39-year-old Syrian refugee to British reporters yesterday, echoing the sentiment of many of over 60,000 refugees who have been trapped in Greece for several months while awaiting asylum in richer European countries like Germany.
DEPA pays price of government nod to US gas
The Public Gas Corporation (DEPA) is apparently paying the price for a Greek decision to facilitate business plans that pave the way for American liquefied natural gas (LNG) to head through Greece to the Balkans and Central Europe - as in the case of the LNG terminal off Alexandroupoli - and for its own handling of the extension of the Turkish Stream pipeline.
Greece ranks high in road, rail fatalities, EU data show
Greece was second to last in the 2016 edition of the European Union Transport scoreboard which compares the performance of 28 member-states in 30 transport-related categories.
Mothers of newborns in Greek refugee camps cope and hope
RITSONA - Ahmad, Farah and Mohamad drew their first breaths in their Syrian parents' promised land of Europe - or at least on the edge of it. Greece lies at the wrong end of the continent from where the families wanted to land, separated from the prosperous heartland by an array of high fences, razor wire and border checks.
Ugly politics
In the latest and final public opinion polls published by the New York Times/CBS News on Thursday ahead of the US elections on Tuesday, more than eight in 10 respondents claimed to be repulsed by the campaign. The majority also said they consider both of the leading candidates to be dishonest and hold an unfavorable general view of them.
Storm warning
As everyone in Greece has their attention focused on the cabinet reshuffle that was announced last night, not to mention the whole broadcasting license affair, our region is sinking deeper and deeper into uncertainty and chaos with every passing day.