Alexander Payne, George Clooney Win 69th Golden Globe Awards with “The Descendants”

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Alexander Payne, George Clooney Win 69th Golden Globe Awards with “The Descendants”
Greek-American director, Alexander Payne, at the 69th Golden Globe Awards

Ricky Gervais giddily piled on the humiliation as the 69th annual Golden Globes went down at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills California. Alexander Payne’s “the Descendants” won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Drama while George Clooney, the star of the film, won a Golden Globe for Best Perfomance by an actor in a motion picture. Alexander Payne is a second generation Greek-American from Omaha, Nebraska.  Payne, answering Greek Reporter’s question about how his heritage might have shaped his movies stated that “sometimes it gives me a different perspective and my source of humor may be my Greek heritage.”

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Another Greek-American, Tina Fey, was nominated once more for ‘Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series-comedy’  for her role in 30 Rock but lost to Laura Dern. In the best comedy or musical category, one of the nominees is “50/50″, a comedy which includes two Greek actors in its cast: Peter Kelamis and Marie Avgeropoulos. Finally “Enlightened”, in which Greek-American actor Jason Mantzoukas plays Omar, was nominated in the category Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical but lost to “Modern family.”

BEST MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

THE DESCENDANTS

Ad Hominem Enterprises; Fox Searchlight Pictures

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A MOTION PICTURE – DRAMA

MERYL STREEP The Iron Lady

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GEORGE CLOONEY The Descendants

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THE ARTIST

a La Petite Reine – Studio 37 – La Classe Americaine – JD Prod- France3 Cinema –

Jouror Production-uFilms coproduction; The Weinstein Company

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MUSICAL

MICHELLE WILLIAMS My Week with Marilyn

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A MOTION PICTURE – COMEDY OR

MUSICAL

JEAN DUJARDIN The Artist

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN

Paramount Pictures/Columbia Pictures/ Hemisphere Capital/Amblin

Entertainment/Wingnut Films Production/ Kennedy/Marshall Production A Steven

Spielberg Film; Paramount Pictures and Columbia Pictures

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

A SEPARATION (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) – IRAN

Asghar Farhadi; Sony Pictures Classics

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PICTURE

OCTAVIA SPENCER The Help

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PICTURE

CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Beginners

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MARTIN SCORSESE Hugo

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WOODY ALLEN Midnight in Paris

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LUDOVIC BOURCE The Artist

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“MASTERPIECE” W.E.

Music & Lyrics by: Madonna, Julie Frost, and Jimmy Harry

HOMELAND

SHOWTIME Presents, Teakwood Lane Productions, Cherry Pie Productions, Keshet,

Fox 21; Showtime

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS IN A TELEVISION SERIES – DRAMA

CLAIRE DANES Homeland

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KELSEY GRAMMER Boss

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MODERN FAMILY

Levitan-Lloyd Productions in association with Twentieth Century Fox Television;

ABC

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MUSICAL

LAURA DERN Enlightened

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MUSICAL

MATT LEBLANC Episodes

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DOWNTON ABBEY (MASTERPIECE)

A Carnival/Masterpiece Co-production; PBS

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MADE FOR TELEVISION

KATE WINSLET Mildred Pierce

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MADE FOR TELEVISION

IDRIS ELBA Luther

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MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

JESSICA LANGE American Horror Story

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A SERIES,

MINI-SERIES OR MOTION PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

PETER DINKLAGE Game of Thrones

WINNERS BY MOTION PICTURE

AND TELEVISION SERIES OR PROGRAM

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The Help 1

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Boss 1

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Enlightened 1

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Game of Thrones 1

Luther 1

Mildred Pierce 1

Modern Family 1

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Fox Searchlight Pictures 2

Paramount Pictures 2

Sony Pictures Classics 2

Columbia Pictures 1

Focus Features 1

Touchstone Pictures 1

TELEVISION NETWORK

HBO 3

Showtime 3

ABC 1

BBC America 1

FX 1

PBS 1

Starz 1

Germans Remain Optimistic and Continue to Give Economic Advice to Greece

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Germans Remain Optimistic and Continue to Give Economic Advice to Greece

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle wants to reassure Greeks

ATHENS – As German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle arrived in Greece on Jan. 15 for talks with political leaders of the debt-crushed and cash-starved country, with a message of support from European officials, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Greece can rebuild itself, but only if it adopts structural reforms it has been refusing to make despite pressure from lenders who are providing the country with rescue loans to keep from defaulting, although it is already technically bankrupt.
Westerwelle met Greek Prime Minister Lucas Papademos on Sunday to discuss the financial crisis, ahead of more tough talks this week between debt-crippled Greece and the eurozone.
Germany is optimistic about the outcome of a bond swap deal aimed at slashing Greece’s towering debt pile, Germany’s foreign minister said.
“Discussions (on the bond swap) are difficult but with good faith they will reach a good result,” Westerwelle said, after a meeting with his Greek counterpart Stavros Dimas.
“It is very important that we give negotiations and packages a realistic chance,” he said.
Germany has repeatedly urged Greece to meet the fiscal conditions set out by its lenders – the European Union and the International Monetary Fund – but Westerwelle said Germany would stand ready to help.
“Germany will help so that there will be better days ahead,” Westerwelle said, speaking through an interpreter. “My visit brings a message of solidarity.”
Westerwelle also met with conservative leader Antonis Samaras, the head of the New Democracy party, who is leading in the polls to be the country’s next prime minister when elections are held, now expected sometime in April. They were slated for Feb. 19 but were pushed back because Papademos has been unable to secure a second bailout of $169 billion from the Troika of the European Union-International Monetary Fund-European Central Bank and a write down of 50 percent in Greek debt. A first round of $152 billion in loans has failed to slow the country’s slide towards bankruptcy, because it came with requirements for big pay cuts, tax hikes, slashed pensions and scores of thousands of layoffs that have created a deep recession of 18.2 percent unemployment and the closing of more than 100,000 businesses.
Despite that, the Troika wants more of the same and more austerity measures that many economic analysts said will bring certain doom, because the country is uncompetitive and political leaders have yet to go after tax evaders who owe more than $60 billion, nor have they privatized state-run enterprises or sold state-owned properties to raise an expected $70 billion. Merkel told Deutschlandfunk public radio that spending cuts alone were not enough but that structural reforms were needed as well, although will take time to show results and will have to be forcefully implemented. She said there were many examples in the world “where the IMF has arranged similar programs that, after a certain phase of recession, then come very strong phases of growth.” She added that while the Greek deficit is still at about 10 percent and the staggering debt of $460 billion hasn’t been lessened, that “Progress has been made in Greece,” although she said tax evasion remains a major problem.
Westerwelle’s visit comes as auditors from the Troika are due back at the same time to look at Greece’s books again, and as Papademos and Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos, a PASOK Socialist who wants to run for Prime Minister, hope to resume talks on the second bailout and debt write off this week and reach a deal sometime in February. They were suspended after some private investors refused to accept big losses on their loans although Venizelos has been insisting for weeks that everything was fine.
Sources told the Athens newspaper Kathimerini that talks stalled after Greek leaders and private investors failed to reach a consensus on the interest rate level for the new bonds, as well as the new law that will apply to them. It said private sector negotiators want the new bonds to pay an interest of around five percent, whereas Greek officials are only willing to agree on no more than four percent.
German authorities want an even lower rate of two to three percent while the IMF believes the interest rate must not surpass 3.8 percent for the Greek debt to be sustainable, the newspaper reported. “Under the circumstances, discussions with Greece and the official sector are paused for reflection on the benefits of a voluntary approach,” the Institute of International Finance (IIF), which heads negotiations for the banks, said, adding the talks had failed to produce a “constructive consolidated response by all parties.” Papademos warned that, “Until the (debt write-down talks) are complete and the new loan agreement is voted, the country continues to face acute economic dangers.”
Merkel said the aim of restructuring some of Greece’s debt was to bring it down to from a current 149 percent of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to 120 percent by 2020, with the goal that Greece would then be able to return to the market, Agence-France-Presse reported. “Already with this timeframe one sees how serious this problem is,” she said. The breakoff in talks with private investors has increased the chance of a disorderly default that could threaten the 17-member Eurozone of countries using the euro as a currency and consequently affect world markets.
German Foreign Ministry spokesman Andreas Peschke said that the financial crisis in Greece, which has the highest debt ratio in the EU bloc, would be at the top of the agenda of Westerwelle’s visit. “The foreign minister is travelling with a message of encouragement and expectation,” he said. “Encouragement because… we want to embolden the Greek government to implement the reform steps it has announced and expectation because we want them to implement them,” he said, reiterating previous optimistic predictions from the EU that have never materialized.
It could be a bad news week for Greeks as the Troika is now targeting reductions in private sector salaries, as well as ending the minimum wage and eliminating collective bargaining for workers who would be forced to take whatever pay companies offer. Reducing salaries and increasing productivity will help close the competitiveness gap between the Greek and European economy, Task Force head Horst Reichenbach said in a newspaper interview.  “The most effective way of making up lost ground is by containing salaries and increasing productivity,” Reichenbach said. “It is estimated that by the end of 2013, Greece can bridge most of the gap in competitiveness compared to its European counterparts,” he told told Typos Tis Kyriakis.

The Louvre Travels To Thessaloniki

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The Louvre Travels To Thessaloniki

In response to the successful exhibition entitled “In the kingdom of Alexander the Great – Ancient Macedonia” in France this year, the Louvre Museum will co-organize parallel exhibitions with 5 different museums in the town of Thessaloniki.
The Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki will host sculptures from the French Museum including three artworks of Enlightment Age sculptor Jean-Antoine Houdon (portraits of Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot) and one of Jacques-Nicolas Roettiers de la Tour (bronze medal of Louis XV). The above mentioned sculptures will be supplemented with sculptures of Macedonian philosophers, bearing reference to the extent to which the Age of Reason was molded by Greek philosophers, and how the French movement of the 18th century inspired the Modern Greek state in return.
The Museum of Byzantine Culture will present the Reliquary of the True Cross, which was given as a present to Charlemagne. Exhibits from the collection of the Byzantine Museum of Thessaloniki will also be presented in a thematic exhibition examining the Cross as a symbol of faith.
A large collection of 100 drawings created from 1600 to 1800 A.D., depicting different Greek myths, will be hosted at the Telloglion Arts Foundation. This collection belongs to the Graphic Arts department of the Louvre.
The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art will present an Auguste Benson painting from 1827 entitled “After the Samothraki massacre”, sized 2.74m x 3.42m.
Last but not least, the National Museum of Modern Art will host Auguste Leloir’s “Apotheosis of Homer” from 1841, 1.47m x 1.95m.

Dora Bakoyiannis Attacked With Yogurt And Stones In Iraklion

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Dora Bakoyiannis Attacked With Yogurt And Stones In Iraklion

A group of hooded young men hurled stones, eggs and yogurt at the chairman of the Democratic Alliance Dora Bakoyiannis, while she was attending an event at the restaurant “Lucullus” in Iraklion, Crete.
The attack took place around 10 PM on Saturday, with some of the protesters storming into the restaurant, while others remained outside “chanting” at Bakoyannis and causing some minor damage at the “Lucullus.”
Bakoyiannis remained calm during the attack, despite the fact that some yogurt had met its target and ran down her face.
The group fled before the police could arrive.

01/15/2012: Latest Greek Super League Results with Video

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01/15/2012: Latest Greek Super League Results with Video

Cleyton’s late goal from an overhead kick ensured Panathinaikos won 1-0 at Giannena on Sunday to stay within four points of leader Olympiakos in the Greek league.
Cleyton scored in the 85th minute of a match played in below-freezing conditions and which started 45 minutes late because of ice on the pitch.
In other action:
AEK Athens – Xanthi    1 – 1    (video)
OFI – Doxa Dramas    2 – 0   (video)
Olympiakos Piraeus – Levadiakos    3 – 1   (video)
Atromitos – Aris    0 – 0    (video)
Kerkyra – Asteras Tripolis    0 – 0   (video)
PAOK – Ergotelis    2 – 1   (video)
Panionios – Panaitolikos    1 – 0   (video)
Standings
1. Olympiakos Piraeus   40
2. Panathinaikos    36
3. AEK Athens    33
4. PAOK    29
5. Atromitos    27
6. Xanthi    26
7. OFI    23
8. Ergotelis    21
9. Panionios   19
10. Aris   18
11. Panaitolikos   16
12. Asteras Tripolis   16
13. PAS Giannina    11
14. Kerkyra    11
15. Levadiakos    9
16. Doxa Dramas    3

Tom Cruise Supports Search For Boy Gone Missing On Greek Island of Kos

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Tom Cruise Supports Search For Boy Gone Missing On Greek Island of Kos

Hollywood actor Tom Cruise has supported, through his Twitter page, the awareness campaign about the disappearance of 21-month-old Ben Needham on the Greek island of Kos 20 years ago.

A 24-hour Twitter marathon “Tweet 4 Ben” took place on Tuesday through an appeal post backed by Needham’s mother Kerry Grist, who hopes to get her missing child’s case back in the public eye.

Tom Cruise, as well as fellow actors Tom Arnold and Kym Marsh, have re-tweeted the post to millions of their fans, thus gathering attention to the family’s yearlong fight to find out what happened to their little boy back then.

Ben Needham from Sheffield went missing on the island of Kos on July 24, 1991, while his grandparents were renovating a house and his mother was at work.

The Greek police had reached a dead end with their investigations and ignored the family’s pleas for years before officially reopening the case some months ago. The South Yorkshire Police will be aiding them this time.

The boy’s family had conducted its own investigations in the past but none of them was rewarded with success. The new publicity the disappearance case is gaining, with the help of movie stars, is considered to be of help to the overall search, since it gives a new dynamic to the appeal of finding missing Ben.

Ben’s mother Kerry Grist believes her son is still alive and feels touched by the interest shown for her missing boy. She also told The Star that “The social networking site is an amazing tool. If we’d had this 20 years ago, who knows what would have happened?”

John Catsimatidis Picks Presidential Candidate; Discusses Greece and NYC Mayor Plans

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John Catsimatidis Picks Presidential Candidate; Discusses Greece and NYC Mayor Plans
CEO of Red Apple Group, John Catsimatidis, at his office in NYC. Credit: Heuichul Kim

John Catsimatidis, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Red Apple Group, sat down for an exclusive interview with Greek Reporter and spoke about US Politics, picked his favorite candidate for US President, discussed possibilities for investment in crisis-hit Greece, and admitted that he still might run for mayor of New York City in the next election.

The fortune of Mr. John Catsimatidis (who grew up in Harlem, the poorest borough of New York City) today exceeds the billion dollar mark. While he was studying at NYU, he was working as an employee of a super market, though he never managed to get his degree.  Despite the fact that he never finished, this University (which is one of top ten Universities in the US) granted him an honorary Doctorate.

Red Apple Group has holdings in oil refining, wholesale and retail petroleum distribution, convenience stores, supermarkets, real estate, and aviation. Red Apple Group posted revenues of over $4 billion in 2010.  Mr. Catsimatidis is a major employer in New York, Pennsylvania, and Ohio with over 8,000 employees, a global leader in the Greek Orthodox Church, in which he chairs the Religious Freedom Committee, bonding together Orthodox Christians, Catholics, and Jews in support of religious freedom around the world.

Read the interview with John Catsimatidis below:

What do you think should be done to fix Greece and do you think that Greece will exit the Euro?

I think it could hurt Greece a great deal if it goes out of the Euro. My recommendations to all the officials of Greece were that they should work out a deal with Germany and they should take the 360 billion in debt traded for 360 billion 30-year bonds at the European interest rate of 2, 5%. That way you take the problem and you put it away for 30 years and Greece could afford to pay 2,5%. And that would take a Euro guarantee. In that way it will take the pressure off and puts the problem out for 30 years. Unfortunately, I’m upset they weren’t able to do it that way.

I think it was the Germans who did not want to discuss this scenario.

You can say it as a joke or seriously, but the Germans might have started WWIII, but with economic bullets, not with gun powder bullets.

So do you think that Germany should give something to Greece?

I think that if the EU wants to survive as a community, it has to bond together and be all for one and one for all. But then it will take more restrictions, and the individual governments cannot do whatever they want and give retirement ages of 35 years old because numbers don’t really work. The European community has a time-line to fix the problem before it gets worse. I really wish they are smart enough to do so because this is an international problem.

Now, I know you are a very good businessman. You have made everything out of nothing. You have started alone and you know where opportunities are. Do you believe Greece is a good opportunity for businessmen like you, Greek-Americans or non Greek-Americans to go and maybe do business there, acquire some real estate or invest in the country now?

With the aura of instability that now exists, it’s hard to say or view opportunities. Everyone fears that something might go wrong.

You’re from Nisyros, so you probably know that although the Greek islands used to be expensive, now the real estate prices are down to half or less.

The real estate prices are half because everyone is afraid. I got an email yesterday that the big hotel Asteras is available for some months now. I said ok, we need to see what the overall condition in Europe is because banks in Greece tend to place extremely low value on their portfolio bonds. All Greeks who have money withdraw it from their accounts and send it off to banks abroad, in London, NY etc.

So would you and your company Red Apple Group be interested to buy Asteras, or invest in something similar.

We will look at the possibility of Asteras and explore the possibility. We will look at various things but we found it very difficult to do business in Greece given our previous experiences. They are now paying the price for all the difficulties we had to face in the past.

You have openly supported many politicians in the past. Would you support Barack Obama in the next US election?

I would not support Obama because when he first got elected we all looked at him and said “let’s give him a chance” but he has made so many mistakes. He has created a mind of “us against them”. He has started a civil war between those who work hard and those who don’t and still profit. This is wrong. The problem is that 30 years ago the amount of people that lived off the federal government was maybe 10% and now it’s 42%. The American Congress has been following the same tactics as the Greek parties have: “vote for us and we’ll give you more.” This is a bubble and will not work. Someone needs to break it.

President Obama criticizes all business people all the time. What did we do wrong? He says it’s the banks’ fault. If someone or the bank made something wrong, send him to court and then off to prison. If someone stole, they must go to prison. But if you constantly criticize the banking sector in general, the banks begin to fear for their own existence, just like it happened in Greece. And if banks feel insecure about their own existence, they will not give money to businesses to start new projects. Instead, they are afraid of losing their own company. That is the problem such politicians have brought upon us.

So you are saying there’s a terror amidst business people and banks?

They are terrorized and afraid for their own existence, for them to create loans to business people and new jobs.

So I suppose you will be supporting the Republican Party. But who exactly?

Yes I will, although I was a collective Democrat before. I think Romney is the best presidential candidate at the moment. He is a businessman, he is smart and honest. I really wish he gets nominated to run for President.

Let’s go to your own business Red Apple Group. Are there any new plans or developments?

Well, we are doing very well. The energy business is doing very well and there are food companies in NY that are also profitable. We are also busy building our real estate companies in Brooklyn. We are moving along with building on Coney Island. Brooklyn is only 20 minutes away from Manhattan, yet prices there are half way down compared to downtown.

You’ve been in this country for so many years and you have grown this company so much. You have seen the crisis, the good times and the bad times, as they say. Do you think that the present is the bottom or can it get worse?

I think this is the worst time ever and if we don’t change the political situation in November, the whole world will be in trouble.

But you believe that the economy will get better? Because some people think that it might get worse.

I think the current government will employ mirrors to twist around reality and cook the numbers until November. That happened in Greece too. And after the November elections, the truth will finally come to surface.

In the past you have expressed your interest to run for mayor of New York City. Is it something you maybe have in mind again?

They are pushing me to do it and I told them I would consider that. I haven’t pushed any buttons yet whatsoever. I had the nomination last time and I gave it back to Bloomberg. I will have made up my mind by summer since Bloomberg cannot run again for the fourth time in a row.

Would you like to add anything?

Greek-Greeks, American-Greeks or Greek-Americans, we all love Greece. We want to help in any way possible and Greece must promote its tourism. Imagine that NY had a record of 50 additional millions of tourists this year due to their campaign. What was Greece’s score? Whatever the number, Greece can do better. It can double the numbers of visitors to the country and it must pursue it.

The problem now is that the riots in Greece and the images of the country are scaring everyone.

The riots are nonsense. The people who cause the riots are those who are 54 and would retire at the age of 55. That is what I told everyone here when they asked me what was happening in Greece.

Have you visited Greece recently?

I travelled to Greece last August straight to Kos, without stopping in Athens, and made a cruise in the Dodecanese. We had a really good time.

Merkel: Greece Can Rebuild its Economy

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Merkel: Greece Can Rebuild its Economy

Greece can rebuild its economy by itself with structural reforms, despite the austerity measures that have been imposed on the country, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in a radio interview on Sunday.
Merkel told Deutschlandfunk public radio that spending cuts alone were not enough, but that structural reforms were also needed, although they will take time to show results, and will only be effective if strictly enforced.
She said there were many examples in the world “where the IMF has arranged similar programmes that, after a certain phase of recession, then come very strong phases of growth”, according to a transcript.
“Progress has been made in Greece,” Merkel said, adding however that tax collection was still a problem.
(source: AFP)

Greek Restaurants in Florida and Michigan Hold Special Charity Dinners

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Greek Restaurants in Florida and Michigan Hold Special Charity Dinners

Two Greek restaurants, one in Michigan and the other in Florida, organized charity dinners for people in need by offering Greek food specialties and raising funds and donations for their cause.

The Delhi Café in Michigan will be holding its third annual food bank fundraiser on January 22, and its owners John and Glekera Christofilis will keep their restaurant open from 1 to 4 pm that day. The donations raised during the event will go to Holt Food Bank, which offers food to the less privileged people of the local community.

The Spyro Grille in Tallahassee, Florida, has already held its own food bank in cooperation with the non-profit Dishing Out Hope organization, which offers about 9,000 free meals per month.

The restaurant’s 38-year-old owner, Dennis Flint, has been working for six months now as a volunteer at Dishing Out Hope, serving people in need with food on a daily basis.

On January 8, Dennis Flint and Dishing Out Hope celebrated the restaurant’s and non-profit’s first year of cooperation, offering Greek food to the needy for free.

Alexander The Great Exhibition At Louvre Attracts French Tourists To Greece

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The archaeological exhibition entitled “In the Kingdom of Alexander the Great-Ancient Macedonia”, hosted at the Louvre from October 13, 2011, until January 16, 2012, has become a major attraction for the French during the past months.

Many French have expressed their wish to travel to the homeland of the mighty military strategist after having visited the exhibition at the Louvre and walking among 600 exhibits from the era of Alexander the Great.

The Greek National Tourism Organization in Paris has been receiving hundreds of emails and phone calls asking for more information about tourist attractions and archaeological sites in Northern Greece.

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