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Greece
Greece, Victim of New Drugs
Shock has been caused by the new data released after drug-related investigations which actually demonstrate that every week some new narcotic substances come into circulation.
In 2011, the number of new and emerging drugs was ten times bigger than that...
Canada
AHEPA Upset Over Macedonia Reference
AHEPA-Canada, through its President George Vasilas, has sent a letter of protest to the National Post for its article about the leader of FYROM coming to the country and identifying him as the President of Macedonia. The piece stated...
Economy
UN Says Greek Austerity Hits Human Rights
A United Nations fact-finding team that visited Greece to investigate the toll that austerity measures are taking, said that relentless pay cuts, tax hikes and slashed pensions have helped undermine human rights and impoverished many.
A UN analyst, Cephas Lumina,...
Greece
UN Envoy Offers New FYROM Name
Officials from the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) said they expect United Nations mediator Matthew Nimetz on April 16 to put forward a compromise name solution that would be acceptable to Greece and end two decades of bickering,...
Energy
Turkey Disputes Greek Territorial Waters
Just a couple of weeks after Prime Minister Antonis Samaras met his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Ankara to try to settle differences over territorial waters and oil and gas exploration in the Aegean, the two countries are...
Greece
Greece, Turkey Can't Agree On Sea Deal
Only days after Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras went to Turkey to meet his counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan to try to resolve differences over gas and oil exploration in the sea between the countries, a further breach has developed....
Economy
Turkey, Greece Talks Focus on Aegean
Greece Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will visit Turkey Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in Ankara March 4-5 for a series of critical meetings, which are expected to include talks on the countries' differences on energy exploration in disputed territorial...
Greece
UN Monitors Detention Conditions in Greece
Independent experts selected by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to examine the allegations concerning arbitrary deprivation of liberty, visited various detention places including prisons, police stations and immigration detention facilities, from January 21 to 31, 2013.
The project...
Greece
UN Envoy, Samaras Talk FYROM Talk
The United Nations envoy on the FYROM name issue Matthew Nimetz, who has been stymied for nearly 14 years to get Greece and its northern neighbor to agree on a name to replace the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia,...
Greece
Hungary Switches From FYROM to Macedonia
Greece has lost another ally in its name game battle with its northern neighbor designated as the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) when Hungary decided to recognize the Republic of Macedonia under its constitutional name instead of FYROM,...