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Samaras Meets More Business Leaders

In his meeting with Ginni Rometty (Chairwoman and CEO of IBM, and the first woman to head the company) and Spyros Poulidas, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras discussed the government’s intention to gradually promote the country as Technology and...

Unacceptable Detention Conditions for Immigrants

Overcrowded inflatable boats of questionable stability carry every day downtrodden citizens of other countries to countries which are considered to be the “Land of Promise.” Many of them get lost at sea and others arrive to some land. Everyone...

Europe Agrees on How to Deal With Failed Banks

The European Union (EU) has moved one step closer to forming a long-heralded banking union after finance ministers agreed on a new deal for bank bailouts. The deal came as European leaders meet in Brussels to hammer out Europe-wide...

Heraclion School Gets Platinum A' Design Award

The Platinum A' Design Award in the Architecture, Building and Structure Design Category was awarded to the project by the Bioclimatic European School Complex or Compass, designed by Office 25 Architects. Compass, located in Heraclion, Crete, has been constructed in...

Austrian Chancellor Can΄t Rule out Cyprus Euro Exit

Austria hopes Cyprus will find a way to stay in the euro zone but its fate is in the hands of its own government, Chancellor Werner Faymann said on Wednesday, Reuters reported. After an international rescue for the island was...

Economides: Rebranding Greece Changing Country's Image

ATHENS - Marketing specialist Peter Economides says his campaign “Give Greece a Chance” to promote positive feelings toward Greece globally is working. “We can already speak of success. More than 90 European journalists have already sent us e-mails asking...

New Greek Government Wins Confidence

Greece's coalition government breezed through a largely symbolic confidence vote late Sunday, winning the tough mandate of tackling a two-year-old crisis and keeping the country safely in the eurozone, AFP reports. After three days of tense parliamentary debate, 179 lawmakers...

Moni Ovadia: “Whoever Sits in European Institutions Should Learn Greek”

“Whoever sits European institutions should learn Greek and deliver their first ever speech in that language,” claimed Italian-based actor, director and author Moni Ovadia in the online edition of Italian daily newspaper Corriere Della Sera. “It would be a particularly...

A Crisis of Democracy: Greece

Since the elections of May 6, Greece has been in all media headlines in Europe, with the focus being on the Greek left party SYRIZA that on a platform of reversing austerity, won second place. As negotiations with the...

Greece and France: Blending of Politics

The French elections were eagerly awaited as a means to unity and hope. But while Hollande was winning the election and gathering the entire capital to the iconically republican Place de la Bastille, his prelude to change changed without his...