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Yanis Varoufakis
Greece’s former finance minister.
An "epidemic" washing over other European countries after Brexit
may see the end of the EU,
with Italy the next to
fall foul of
Bruss...
Land on Milos, the undiscovered paradise, Vogue
The unique natural shaped rocks all around the coastline of Milos, and the beautiful white sandy beaches offer the feeling that you’ve landed on the moon..
Our So Special Greek's Lydia Venieris' this year's painting for Valentines Day, just full of Cuteness and Love
Find that on her Fb Page
The municipality of Lesvos, the Chamber of Commerce, the Trade Association of the island and the Union of hoteliers have invited for this yearr's Valentine's Day 2017, couples in Love from all around the world to marry in the "capital" city of solidarity and love as well as couples who celebrate their 25,30 and 50-year anniversary to participate in a competition. Guests are entitled to free travel tickets, three-night accommodation, food and guided tours.
Religious and cultural events have also been planned on the island for the celebration of St Valentine, among them a litany of St Valentine's relics that are kept in the Catholic Church downtown Mytilene, the capital of Lesvos
Protect from Flu in Greece
#Flu death toll in #Greece reached 51, but "is that only"?
The list of flu victims in Greece keeps growing after two months that seasonal influenza in Greece started reaching its peak . .. Full Post »
Greek Remedies to keep you healthy
The Olive Oil Thousand years Medicine
Avoid Greek Hospital
The Greek government alleged the recent article published by British media outlet “Guardian”, which outlined the conditions in Greek public hospitals, and HAI , saying it was more was more or less a fabricated piece of reporting....
All the updates and the precise published data about HAI in Greece, what is done and is not, on our fully updated page, January 3, 2017
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Gastroenteritis outbreaks
Gastroenteritis outbreaks
Spike in viral gastroenteritis cases in Greece
A spike of gastroenteritis cases has been recently noticed in Greece, the Greek CDC (Hellenic Cennter of Disease Control and Prevention ) said on a press release on Wedneday December 28.
According to the Greek CDC (HCDCP/ KEELPNO) epidemiological surveillance, there are sings of sporadic outbreaks...
Greek hotels are in the top 3 regarding online reviews, according to the results of the 2017 Global Hotel Reputation Benchmark Report. The far-reaching study, which is published on Revinate, analysed 70 million published online guest reviews worldwide over the last two years R...
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Hailing from a village in Ileia in the Peloponnese, Theodoros Masouras moved to Achaia some years ago and worked as a farmer, while in his spare time was known to write poetry.
Most significantly, during his long life he bore witness to some of the most significant events in the history of modern Greece, ...
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So Special Greece
The Explicit Beauty, 1800 years old,
that rose from sea after the storm in Crete A
marble sculpture of an ancient Roman noblewoman with a stunning
hairstyle was found on 4 January by a young farmer, who handed it to the Archaeological Service accor...
Greeks used GPS as we do today to navigate earth since ancient times
Professor Emeritus of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki Cartography Department Evangelos Livieratos revealed that ancient Greeks living off the coast of Ionia - known nowadays as Asia Minor - from the city of Melitus were the first to use stars and their relationship with the earth’s surface like a GPS system to aid them in navigating around the...
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Gucci's luxury brand offer to the Greek State of a million plus dollars to hold and film an international fash... Read Full Post »
... a wealth of fossils from the Aegean, including of mammals, as well as evidence of the primitive presence of hominids.
Trees from the present appear alongside petrified tree remains (including a 12 meter-long primitive tree trunk) from the famous petrified forest of Lesvos, Read Full Post »
Find More about historical evolution of the Aegean Sea over millennia in our Special Vatera Beach Page
#Grexit2017
that never went away
that never went away
And Why Not moving to US $
Brussels would be humiliated if Greece ditches
euro and chooses to be tied to the US dollar . Nick Gutteridge reported on Feb.13 from Brussels.MORE
A Greece has the 20th of Feb. deadline to deal with 'potentially disastrous' debt
Failure of Greece and the EU to reach compromise ‘would bring back Grexit with a vengeance’ observers have said
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has said he believed the country's drawn-out bailout review would be completed positively but said Athens would not accept "illogical" demands by its lenders. ...
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IMF -Eurozone set a united front to Greece
...a senior euro zone official said to Reuters,Friday noon Feb 10 ..
What Makes A Greek?
What Makes A Greek?
Greeks are the people that consider their religious faith, Orthodox Christianity, an integral part of their national identity more than anyone else , the recent Pew research showed. Despite that, one could notice, Greeks voted an officially declared atheist for Prime Minister,...
Greeks in the White House
My vision to see a US President “in the church in Istanbul.”
Shockingly #ProGrexit !
The odds are higher that #Greece itself will break out of the #euro, Malloch pro #Grexit
"I think it is interesting from the perspective of Greece, why is Greece again on the brink; it seems like a deja vu; will it ever end?
I think this time I would have to say that the odds are higher that Greece itself will break out of the euro."
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Photo Above Hay-Adams Hotel, located across the White House, Jan.22
White House Chief of Staff has been briefed about Greece and the Aegean Sea
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos informed about the situation in the Aegean Sea , and the issues relating to the "rough neighborhood" of Eastern Mediter.... Read Full Post »
More secure biometric cards
Greece will be issuing new IDs in compliance with an agreement on security and terrorism that it signed with the US.
Diplomatic Error with Turkey
Diplomatic Error with Turkey
Latest #Turkish provocation by gunshots on #Farmakonisi to be discussed at Munich Security Conference by #Greek Defense Minister
the Turkish gunboat “Kusadasi” violated Greek waters and fired live ammunition shots while carrying out a gunnery exercise two miles east of Greek islet Farmakonisi in Eastern Aegean Sea .... Read Full Post »
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras sent a message to Turkey on February 3, ...
Turkish sailor arrested for spying in Greece A
Turkish sailor has been arrested by the Hellenic Coast Guard while
photographing the Naval Base.of ..Full Post »
The Imia Epicenter
Turkish Army Chief sailed on Warship into Greek Waters Near Imia Islets, Athens talks of provocation
Greece's own armed forces were put on high alert over the development, but it seems the Greek Navy was on preparedness for such an incident, especially after the Turkish President's and Foreign Minister's rough statements on the two countries
"It was my obligation to be there ...
I won't ask for anyone's permission"
The trigger: Turkish Militants No extradition
Recep Tayyip Erdogan
President of Turkey
The Greek prime MInister Alexis Tsipras had promised me since July to have the soldiers extradited within "two to three weeks" go to article
The Greek Supreme Court denied the extradition of the soldiers, stating that their rights were at risk of “being violated or reduced regardless of the degree of guilt or the gravity of the crimes they are accused of.”
Mevlüt
Çavuşoğlu
Çavuşoğlu
Turkey's Foreign Mini.
"They're not just petty criminals" Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu said,
adding that the soldiers attempted to kill President
Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Is it elections?
Is it elections?
Alexis Tsipras
Greek PM
"... Could Tsipras decide that the only alternative to liberalising redundancy rules and pension reform would be to hold a “who runs Greece?” election. .."
German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Alexis Tsipras to cooperate with Greece’s bailout auditors, leaving the prime minister to face his country’s creditor institutions without political intervention by the government in Berlin, after their meeting at the Informal Summit of EU leaders in Valletta, Malta on Feb. 3, 2017.,,, Read Full Post »
DIEM25,Be
Greece has been stuck in an abusive marriage with its European partners. Of course, she has not been the perfect partner, but who has? No one deserves violence. No one deserves abuse. Everyone deserves hope, and not the delusional “you will be done by 2060, if you can maintain the hilariously unsustainable 3.5% primary budget surplus” kind of hope offered by Mr Schäuble. The painful hypocrisy and pseudo-morality of European lenders ,,,
Tsakalotos Has ObvIously begged to Creditors before the end of 2016
The "Yours Faithful" Letter
Greek Finance Minister officially declared the country's "adherence", "compliance" and "faithfulness" to Greece's creditors by his apology letter sent to promise that Tsipras' government will never give any relief to the poorest of the country without the creditors permission.
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Greek corruption on the rise
Greek corruption on the rise
Greece’s performance in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index worsened last year with the country rising to 69th place out of 167 countries, compared to 58th the year before.
US Justice Department in Greece for Novartis scandal
The more the US Justice and the FBI sheds light on the giant pharmaceutical scandal the more the leftist government in Greece gets the chance to triumph on fighting corruption ..
The Greek taxes paid in Gold
According to Bank of Greece data regarding the buying and selling of gold English pounds, Greeks sold twice as many coins in ...
The Extreme Greek Poverty 2017
One in three families in Greece has at least one unemployed member, while the middle class is dwindling, a new survey which also showed that one in four households live with the fear that their assets will evaporate under the new tax and security contribution burdens and high cost of living.... Read Full Post »
Two years Tsipras in gov
Two years Tsipras in gov
Epiphany for Bless, and Symbolism Alexis Tsipras was present this year at the Epiphany ceremony for the blessing of the waters , reminding to the Greeks the days before his election two years earlier, when he had released the dove, rising the hopes of the Greek people back then, symbolically , by his promises to release Greece from ... Read Full Post »
Before and After
Have a look on our 2014-2015 Austerity2Left gov
special Page when
Tsipras had maximized Hope and the Greek Expectations
In Just two years While Greek PM saw "light in the end of the tunnel", as said on his New Years Eve message, Greeks showed to be more pessimistic than ever for the country' s and their personal next days...Read Full Post »
This White Greek Winter
The Shocking picture of a Greek homeless who slept on the beach at Paleo Faliro region , close to Athens Downtown and chose the side next to the sea to escape the snowball, but woke up covered with snow. Indeed, he survived the conditions and the cold for the last 24 hours, nobody can guarantee his l...
Survival Guidelines
The freezing refugees shame reality
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We all agreed that the images we saw last week cannot be repeated." The recent unexpectedly harsh weather conditions have exposed the needs that have to be addressed as a matter of urgency
Dimitris Avramopoulos
European Commissioner
Winterized shelters, already funded by the European Commission, have to urgently be installed by the UNHCR. Solutions must be found today, not tomorrow, not next week, but now. January 18,2017
The bet that was lost
The Greek government, the UN refugee agency and the EU’s aid department have been accused by other aid groups of mismanaging a multi million-pound fund leaving thousands sleeping in freezing conditions in Greece.
Early Greek2m report before Greece was shammingly exposed to the eyes of the world.
Greece terribly exposed by the "Minister's bet "
Throughout a year at least, photo or video coverage at the Lesvos' camp in Moria have been strictly not allowed to the press or anyone else by the Ministry Of Migration. No wonder why .Two days after the minister's' reassurance that "he won the bet with winter" , the shaming photos were released on social media, by aid group, and became top story world round.
Greek2m published the photos by Mohamad Hadi Almadani
The Missing Migrants New Alert
The Missing Migrants New Alert
The U.N. says there are currently about 50,000 migrants and refugees stranded in Greece, about 13,000 fewer than previously thought, raising the question of whether many are either in hiding or have made their way farther north into Europe.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees said that, based on its counting for planning and accommodation purposes, its estimates now differ from the data published by th...Read Full Post »
CIA memo remarks on Syrian, Greek ties to terror groups Declassified document from 1987 , published by Anadolou, find that
Terror in the West
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Festive Christmas Spirit in Europe is gone, the NYT had written but not only from Europe, as it seems .
The West-hating militants have used Facebook before Christmas and messaging app Telegram ...
Terror in Greece
"We will be back, " claimed Athens terrorist group
The Conspiracy of the Cells of Fire claimed responsibility for six arson attacks on banks, embassies and diplomatic vehicles Read Full Post »
Blessing our Luck
Blessing our Luck
The pomegranate fruit has been used throughout history and in virtually every religion as a symbol of humanity’s central beliefs and ideals, namely, life and death, rebirth and eternal life, fertility and marriage, and abundance...
In Greece, people hang a pomegranate above the front door of their house. By the New Year, the fruit has dried, so the Greeks throw it on the ground of front door to break, and step into the house on right foot..
Blessing the waters
Epiphnay in Frozen Waters This Year in Greece
Undeterred by a cold front working its way across the country from the north and the generally unsettled weather, Greeks celebrated the feast of the Epiphany on Friday Jan.6th while many braved the freezing waters and dived after the cross
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