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Old October 16th, 2015 #101
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Left-wing prime minister Alexis Tsipras today faces his first test in the Greek parliament since a bailout rebellion split his party and triggered a snap general election last month.

Politicians will vote on a new austerity reform package to penalise early retirement and expand a widely hated property tax, among other cost-cutting commitments made for a €2bn (1.47 billion) loan instalment.

The loan is part of a third major bailout agreement with the eurozone lenders, worth €86bn (63bn). That July deal saw Mr Tsipras abandon a pledge to end austerity and alienate a large section of his

Syriza party, forcing him to the polls for a second time in eight months.

Greece is now racing to overhaul its troubled pension system and impose a barrage of new cutbacks, struggling to keep pace with bailout targets as it seeks rescue funds for its banks. It also wants

improved bailout repayment terms as its massive national debt is set to exceed 190% of annual output next year.

The additional austerity measures are expected to keep the country in recession over the next two years and unemployment above 25%.
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Old October 21st, 2015 #102
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Mob of Afghans attack new arrivals at over-crowded Lesbos camp with sticks as Europe's worsening weather and tighter border controls force more migrants to head for Greece

Dozens of new arrivals to an over-crowded refugee camp in Lesbos were attacked with sticks by a mob of Afghans

Violence erupted as Greek authorities revealed the country had witnessed a surge in migrant arrivals in recent days

Fears about Europe's worsening weather and tighter border controls have caused more migrants to head for Greece

The UN refugee agency said it had registered a clear 'spike in arrivals' that left some 27,500 packed on Greek islands

Violence erupted at an over-crowded refugee camp in Lesbos today as dozens of new arrivals were attacked by a mob of Afghans wielding sticks.

Greece has witnessed a surge in migrant arrivals in recent days amid fears of worsening weather and closing borders inside Europe, the United Nations and Greek authorities said.

The UN refugee agency said it had registered a clear 'spike in arrivals' that left some 27,500 packed on Greek islands by Tuesday morning.

A high-ranking Greek police official told AFP that of the 8,000 people who landed in Greece on Monday, 5,000 crowded onto the already overwhelmed island of Lesbos.
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Old November 29th, 2015 #103
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Macedonian army starts building fence on Greek border

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Soldiers in Macedonia began erecting a metal fence on Saturday on the country's southern border with Greece, but the government said it had no plans to seal off access to refugees fleeing war and heading to western Europe

Soldiers drove metal poles around 3 metres high into the cold, muddy ground, building a barrier similar to that erected by Hungary on its southern border to keep out the hundreds of thousands of migrants who have crossed the Balkans this year.

Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis fleeing conflict are flowing largely unimpeded across Balkan borders having landed by boat in Greece from Turkey.

Chaotic buildup

But for the past two weeks, countries on the route including Macedonia have begun turning back migrants of other nationalities, leading to a chaotic buildup at the Macedonian-Greek border and days of protests by Iranians, Pakistanis, Moroccans and others.

Two days ago, protesters tried to storm police lines, breaking through a flimsy barrier into Macedonia, an impoverished former Yugoslav republic.

A government spokesman said the aim of the new fence was "to direct the inflow of people towards the controlled points for their registration and humane treatment."

'Border will remain open'

"We would like to underline that the border will remain open," said spokesman Aleksandar Gjorgjiev. "We will allow passage for the people who come from war-affected regions as we have done thus far."

European Union member Hungary in September and October sealed its own southern border to migrants, calling them a threat to the security, prosperity and "Christian values" of Europe.

That diverted them into Croatia and Slovenia en route mostly to Germany, which is struggling to cope. Germany expects roughly 1 million refugees and migrants to arrive this year alone.
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Greece's defense minister says the country's armed forces have been tasked to overcome delays in building screening centers for migrants and refugees reaching Greek islands from nearby Turkey.



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Old February 11th, 2016 #105
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ATHENS, Greece (JTA) A New York-based humanitarian organization, funded by several Jewish groups, has begun supplying a Greek island with desperately needed medical equipment to help cope with the influx of tens of thousands of refugees.

The Afya Foundation has already dispatched a container full of aid to hospitals and rescue organizations on the island of Lesbos, said the foundations executive director, Danielle Butin, who has just returned from a visit to the island to assess the needs.

The situation she found was dire: Hospital wings stand empty for of lack of equipment, doctors lack medicine to treat the ill and Greek Coast Guard boats that are pulling drowning refugees out of the sea, dont have basic resuscitation equipment like defibrillators.
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Greece's defense minister says the country's armed forces have been tasked to overcome delays in building screening centers for migrants and refugees reaching Greek islands from nearby Turkey.



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Instead of building rapeugee housing the Greek military should have another Colonel's Revolt and install Golden Dawn in power.
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Athens Mayor Giorgos Kaminis on Saturday signed up to a campaign launched by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) to fight anti-semitism.

Kaminis, who met with a 15-member delegation of the AJC, signed the declaration of Mayors United Against Anti-Semitism and stressed the commitment of the citys authorities to combat racism and xenophobia.

According to a statement by Athens municipal authorities, both the AJC and members of the Central Israeli Council of Greece lauded Kaminis for his determination to stamp out anti-semitism within Athens and the city council.
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Foolish Greece Now Joins NATO Gas War


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Only eighteen months ago prospects for a major southern Europe natural gas pipeline from Russian gas fields across the Black Sea, into Turkey and on to the Greek-Turkish border was in negotiation between Russian President Putin and Turkeys Erdogan. Turkish Stream as it was called, was proposed in talks in Ankara between Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in December 2014 after EU economic sabotage had forced Russia to cancel plans for its South Stream pipeline into Bulgaria and on to the states of South East and Southern Europe. Now Greece has foolishly decided to join NATOs gas war against Russia by signing a far more costly agreement to build the so-called Trans-Adriatic Pipeline to carry gas from Bakus offshore Shan Deniz II field across Greece, through Albania then under the Adriatic to Italy. European gas geopolitics are rapidly becoming as risky as its oil geopolitics.

On May 17, Alexis Tsipras, Greek opportunist-in-chief and Prime Minister, signed an agreement in Thessaloniki to inaugurate the start of construction for the 550 km Trans-Adriatic Pipeline (TAP) through Greece. Tsipras hyped the estimated $1.5 billion project to the media as one of the greatest direct foreign investment projects carried out in Greece. Present at the ceremony were European Union bureaucrats as well as high ranking officials from Greece, Turkey, Albania, Italy and Bulgaria.

Curiously enough, the US State Department was also present, although they are no direct party to EU internal energy agreements. Indirectly, ever since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, however, Washington has been in the middle of EU energy strategies, attempting sabotage of Russias Gazprom at every chance. The essence of the EU gas war is the US effort, directly via Washington pressure and by NATO pressure, and indirectly via friends in the EU Commission, to weaken or outright sabotage Russian Gazprom exports to EU markets.

Because of EU greenhouse gas regulations, and Germanys phasing out of nuclear power, the demand for natural gas to replace coal and other fuels in the countries of the European Union will rise dramatically as will its need to import the gas. In the next four years gas imports will rise from the present of 45% of total EU gas consumption to approximately 65% by 2020.

The Foolish TAP

The Trans-Adriatic Pipeline is a portion of a far more expensive and longer pipeline chain that should link the Azerbaijan Shah Deniz II offshore gas field to the EU, bypassing Russian gas options. TAP is to bring Azerbaijani gas from Shah Deniz-2 to EU markets through Greece and Albania. TAP shareholders include Azerbaijans state energy group, Socar (20%), BP (20%), Italys Snam (20%), Fluxys (19%), Enagas (16%) and Axpo (5%). Of the total length of TAP, 878 km, only 550 km will pass through the northern part of Greece, 215 km through Albania, 105 km through the Adriatic Sea and 8 km through Italy. The debt-strapped, economically depressed Greek government was forced to give the gas companies of TAP AG a 25-year tax break to TAP.

TAP will bring the Azeri gas by way of a far longer pipeline called Trans Anatolian pipeline (Tanap). Tanap is a 1,850-km pipeline that is supposed to carry 16 billion cubic meters annually from the BP-operated Shah Deniz II field in the Caspian Sea at an estimated cost of a whopping $10 billion. It would go from the Georgia-Turkey border to Turkeys border with Greece. There it would join TAP, which runs across Greece and Albania and under the Adriatic Sea, on to a gas hub in southern Italy.

TAP and Tanap are part of the EU Commissions so-called Southern Gas Corridor, the most complex gas value chain ever developed in the world according to the TAP AG consortium which now will build the Greek section. It stretches over 3,500 kilometres, crossing seven countries and involving more than a dozen major energy companies. If completed by 2020 it should deliver some 10 bcm/year of Azeri gas to the EU.

Gazproms Poseidon

This past February, 2016 the same Alexis Tsipras had been party to quite another signing ceremony. A Memorandum of Understanding was signed on February 24 to develop a gas pipeline project between Greece and Italy, enabling the potential realisation of a southern route for Russian gas supply to Europe. The agreement was signed by Alexey Miller, CEO of Gazprom, Italys Edison CEO Marc Benayoun and Theodoros Kitsakos, the CEO of Greeces DEPA public gas supplycorporation.

The Gazprom-Greek-Italian Poseidon was designed to present another option to bring Russian gas into southern EU states after Washington pressure on the Brussels EU Commission forced Bulgaria to abandon plans to land Russian gas in a project named South Stream, a vastly lower cost pipeline route than the TAP-Tanap-Southern Gas Corridor in December, 2014.

The South Stream pipeline was designed to carry 63 bcm/year of Russian gas across the Black Sea to Bulgaria, and via Serbia, Hungary and Slovenia, to Italy. By contrast, the TAP EU alternative would deliver a mere 10 bcm/year and even that is questionable. Thats strange economics for an EU that is in the midst of a severe economic crisis. The proposed Russian alternatives would have cost 15.5 billion to bring some 63 bcm/year and the US-backed TAP-Southern Gas Corridor, for construction costs of $45 billion will bring only 10 bcm/year.

The same month Russia announced abandoning South Stream, in December 2014, Putin and Erdoğan agreed to discuss another Gazprom alternative to solve the gas demands of South East Europe and Italy. It was dubbed Turkish Stream and would have brought Russian gas via a pipeline under the Black Sea through a short stretch in Turkey to the border of Greece. The shooting down by the Turkish Airforce of a Russian jet in Syrian airspace in November, 2015 led to a freeze in Russian relations with Turkey and the end at least for the time, of South Stream.

The estimated cost of Russias proposed South Stream, which Washington sabotaged, and of its alternative ,Turkish Stream, were both around 15.5 billion, one-third of the enormous $45 billion cost estimated for the TAP-Southern Gas Corridor. For Washingtons economic warfare strategists, including the State Departments neo-con-in-residence, Victoria Nuland, cost is no object so long as the EU countries must pay.

The February, 2016 Gazprom Poseidon project envisioned a new option for Russian gas into Greece and southern Europe. According to reports in the Russian press, Poseidon could link in a new agreement with Bulgaria to bring Gazprom gas via Bulgaria.

Sergei Pravosudov, director of the Russian Institute of National Energetics, said the Bulgarian route was the most advanced option for shipping Russian gas.

New Greek bailout to bloc Poseidon

Washington was quick to react to the new Russian gas import threat with its next round of gas wars. Behind the curtains of European politics, the place where most deals are done, Washington put enormous pressure on the Merkel government and other EU states to organize a new tranche of bailout money for Greece.

On May 25, Germany and other EU governments made public a decision to give Greece a new bailout tranche of 10.3 Billion. The Greek people, who under the Tsipras regime get only more austerity and cuts in their living standard, wont see a penny of the money. It will go to service Greek state debt to the European Central Bank and other foreign creditors. Washington pushed the EU to make the bailout to keep Greece from getting closer to Moscow with the Russian Poseidon gas project, according to German media reports.

It seems to have worked. The day after signing the US-backed TAP agreement, Tsipras announced it was freezing talks with Russia on its Poseidon alternative. Washington seems happy. US Secretary of State John Kerry, in a congratulation to Prime Minister Tsipras, called TAP a prime example of infrastructure that enhances European energy security. By that he means security from Russian gas. The only problem is that the gas from Azerbaijan offshore fields is not there. Acute shortages of gas supply offshore Azerbaijan are forcing the Azeri government and its state oil and gas group, Socar to look at possible gas imports fromRussias Gazprom. Azerbaijans main source of gas for export from the giant offshore BP-operated Shah Deniz field is already contracted for export to Turkey and Georgia. BP says gas production will be stagnant for the next several years. No gas for Greece and Italy.

http://journal-neo.org/2016/06/10/fo...-nato-gas-war/
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Old October 13th, 2016 #112
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Bomb in downtown Athens: Was the target a prosecutor?

Who was the target of the bomb that exploded on Wednesday night in Exarchia district of central Athens?A prosecutor, a policeman or a bookstore? Prior to the explosion, two warning phone calls were made to daily Efymerida ton Syntakton and to news website Zougla.gr.

According to Greek media, the bomb was placed in the private car of a high-ranking policeman doing service at the police station of Exarchia, the car was parked in front of the bookstore Free Thought selling books with extreme-right content.

http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/201...-a-prosecutor/
 
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Rampaging migrant mob storms asylum support offices on Greek island of Lesbos

RIOTS have broken out on the Greek island of Lesbos where migrants have stormed European Asylum Support Office (EASO) buildings.

Police said a mob of around 70 people, most from Pakistan and Bangladesh, threw rocks and burning blankets at EASO containers inside the Moria migrant camp.

EASO Spokesman Jean-Pierre Schembri said protesters had hurled petrol bombs while interviews with asylum-seekers were taking place.

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Old January 16th, 2017 #115
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Greece's second city to get German co-funded Holocaust museum

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Project to remember Greek Jews murdered by Nazi regime had stalled since being first announced three years ago

The Jewish community in Greece's second city Thessaloniki has finally got the go-ahead to build a Holocaust museum part funded by Germany, the group's president told AFP on Monday.

The project to remember Greek Jews murdered by the Nazi regime had stalled since being first announced three years ago by Thessaloniki mayor Yannis Boutaris.

"The museum's construction project has been adopted by the town hall and will be co-financed by the German government and the Greek Foundation of ship-builder (Stavros) Niarchos," Jewish community president David Saltiel told AFP.

Thessaloniki had a thriving 50,000-strong Jewish community before World War II but there now remains only around 1,000 Jews.

The 22 million euro ($23.3 million) project, for which Germany is contributing 10 million euros, is due to start by the end of 2017 and be completed within three years.

The 5,000 square meter museum will be located on a plot of land in the city's west donated by national railway management group Gaiose.

It is near the place from where trains would leave to carry Jews to concentration camps.

"That's where the start of the end of the Jewish population of Thessaloniki was written," said Greek daily Kathimerini.

Saltiel believes the museum will help "attract many tourists to learn about the 500-year-old Sephardic history of Thessaloniki".

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/intern...locaust-museum
 
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In an interview with a local newspaper, Turkish opposition leader Kemal Kilicdaroglu attacked president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for choosing to dispute the Lausanne treaty and not the 18 Aegean islands the Greeks have under occupation.

This is not the first time that the Republican Peoples Party (CHP) leader is talking about a Greek occupation of the islands; an issue which has turned into an obsession for the politician over the past year.

In an interview with Υenicag newspaper, Kilicdaroglu launched an attack against president Erdogan, saying show us your university degrees first, and then try to renegotiate the Lausanne Treaty.

The opposition leader was referring to the Turkish presidents comments during his official visit to Greece, where he said that the 1923 international treaty which rules the relations between the two countries, is obsolete and in need of renegotiation.

As for the reference to Erdogans university degrees, Kilicdarglu was mocking the president who told Greek PM Alexis Tsipras during the press conference that he has knowledge and experience of international law, unlike the young prime minister.

Kilicdaroglu has repeatedly mentioned in the past year that Greece is in violation of Articles 12 and 15 of the Lausanne treaty by illegally keeping a force of 5,000 soldiers on 18 Aegean islands.

In his interview, the Turkish leader blamed Erdogan for talking about the treaty, instead of chastising Greece for the 18 islands it has been occupying illegally.
 
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As a follow up:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017...nes-in-aegean/

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Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim challenged the sovereignty of Greek islands once again, by saying in parliament that 132 islets in the Aegean are in a grey zone.
 
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Turkey will seek a diplomatic solution, go to the International Court or go to war to take back some Aegean islands, said Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, while addressing the Turkish parliament.

Ant1 television correspondent to Turkey, Maria Zacharaki, said that there was a confrontation in Turkish parliament between the ruling party (AKP), and the main opposition regarding the issue of certain Greek islands in the Aegean, that Ankara claims belong to Turkey.

During his speech, Cavusoglu said that Turkey has three options: Try to work out a diplomatic solution with Greece, take the issue to the International Court, or send the Turkish army to claim said islands.

Referring to Imia, Cavusoglu said it is a national issue and that AKP is not responsible for what happened in 1996, because they were not the government then. The Turkish minister claimed that Imia was occupied by the Greeks, according to the report.

We continue our diplomatic talks with Greece. If we do not agree, the parliament will decide on the alternatives and we will apply them. But this is a national policy. This is not an issue that will be discussed in the corridors. We established a team of military personnel at the Ministry of National Defense. We discussed the problem and the steps we can take. Is it more beneficial to reduce tension or increase it? Cavusoglu said.
 
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The Wild Ancient Greek Drinking Game That Required Throwing Wine

Strategic flicking was the name of this game, known as kottabos.


Spilling red wine may be the ultimate party foul, especially if it lands on the hosts couch or carpet. But for the ancient Greeks, a party wasnt good unless the wine flowed freely. The Greeks didnt just fling their glasses of wine about willy-nilly, though. This game of wine-slingingknown as kottaboshad a discernible target, and both pride and prizes were on the line.

https://www.atlasobscura.com/article...-spilling-game
 
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