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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Very Mix on 17. May, 2013 | 8 Comments
EU-Absurd to ban olive oil jugs & dipping bowls from restaurants tables
Sometimes I sit there and I wonder what weird committees must be sitting in Brussels wasting the money of taxpayers for issuing absurd orders. An European Union Common Agricultural Policy directive “will ban olive oil jugs and dipping bowls from restaurant tables as of 1. January 2014 for reasons of
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy on 17. May, 2013 | No Comments
EU Commission Greece’s report: end of recession in 2014 and unemployment at 21% in 2016
Recession in Greece is likely to end in 2024 but unemployment will remain above 20 percent for another three years. That would be …ehm… let me count… in 2016! Nice perceptive for the more than 1.3 million jobless. In a report published on Friday, the European Commission predicted the possibility
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics on 17. May, 2013 | 3 Comments
UPD Greek Parliament: Neo-nazi MPs shout “Heil Hitler” after ejection of fellow MP for cursing?
An unprecedented incident occurred at the Greek Parliament on Friday morning with Golden Dawn MPs cursing “trash”, “gang” and “sheep” at other lawmakers and reportedly shouting “heil Hitler”, while leaving the plenary hall. The incident started when GD MP Panagiotis Iliopoulos spoke in disdain about a party leader (Tsipras) and
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society on 13. May, 2013 | 12 Comments
Fiction meets reality in surreal Greece: “Deemed Income” taxes also people without income
Are you alive and happen to live in Greece? You will be taxed even if your income is zero for the sole reason that you are alive. For the exclusive and amazing Greek air you are allowed to breath, so to say. The financial ministry has calculated that every person
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society on 30. Apr, 2013 | 1 Comment
That’s the real Greek anti-austerity protests.
Head of EU Task Force, Horst Reichenbach, expressed his surprise about the fact that Greeks do not demonstrate against austerity. He described the Greeks’ reaction as “very moderate” apparently watching only a few hundreds fro civil servants union protesting outside the Parliament last Sunday. When lawmakers were voting a multi-bills
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EU Commission report: Greece doing fine but would need new saving measures in 2015 & 2016
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
Economic recovery is at sight, Greek Finance Minister Yiannis Stournaras told us last week. He said, he believed and hoped that things would get much better by end of 2014 and that unemployment would start decreasing later. In short, Stournaras told us to have faith, be patience and try to
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How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part X)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Uncategorized
How does it feel to see the crisis hitting you and your family and you see your life turn upside down in just a couple of years? How does it feel to see your children without job or struggling for what I often call “bag of peanuts”? How does it
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May
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Skouries: 7 policemen injured, 3 women protesters in handcuffs over anti-gold mining protest
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Uncategorized
The gold mining site in Skouries turned into a boiling cauldron on Sunday as protesting residents moved to hinder the company’s vehicles form approaching the work site. The clash between residents and riot police ended with 7 policemen and one resident in the hospital and three women in handcuffs. Greek
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How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part IX)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
Three years Greece in the crisis do not frustrate only the Greeks. Expats who permanently or temporarily live here seem to be not shielded from the crisis, even when it comes just to develop a critical approach to Greeks who change under the new circumstances. Below the story submitted by Sian: “I
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May
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WSJ: a glorifying win-win portrait for Greek PM Antonis Samaras
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
There are moments in my life when the only comment that comes in my mind is “whatever…”. That’s what I also thought when I read this article at Wall Street Journal. Researcher and historian Stan Draenos glorifyies Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras with striking argumentation like “determination, effective governance and
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May
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tagged: abti-racism bill, fines, Greece, law, law against racism and xenophobia, lawmakers, new, penalties, political partiesNo comments
Greece’s new anti-racism law? It will take a while…
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
Just two days after announcing the new law against racism, Greek government decided to put it on hold. Officially some technical modifications are needed. Unofficially, it looks as if there was some disagreement within the coalition government partners. Odd enough, the prime minister apparently consulted with the deputy Justice minister
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May
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tagged: civil mobilization, education ministry, Greece, jobs, loss, secondary education, strike, strikes, teachers, trasfer, university entrance exams, work placesNo comments
Greek gov’t to issue 86,000 ‘civil mobilization’ orders for teachers …before the strike
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
Greek government is determined to have university entrance exams take place as scheduled. Starting date is the 17th of May 2013, not matter what. Therefore, after the teachers’ union announced on Friday that they would launch a strike, the education minister rushed to prime minister. Antonis Samaras signed a “civil
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tagged: education ministry, Greece, jobs, loss, secondary education, strike, strikes, teachers, trasfer, university entrance exams, work places1 Comment
Teachers – Gov’t conflict threatens university entrance exams for thousands of students
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
The union of secondary school teachers (OLME) announced on Friday its decision to launch two strikes that they will cause serious disruption of university entrance exams and affect thousands of high school students. OLME decide for a 24-hour strike on May 17th, the first day of exams, while it proposed
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May
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tagged: assassination, Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos, foiled, istanbul, other plots against Vartholomeos, plot, TurkeyNo comments
Alleged assassination plot against Ecumenical Partiarch Vartholomeos foiled
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Turkey-GR
An alleged assassination plot against Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos has been foiled by police in Turkey. According to Turkish media, one suspect has been arrested while police is searching for two others. The investigation was launched after a letter was sent from the Central Anatolia province of Kayseri, claiming that the
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May
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How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part VIII)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
The issue of negative stereotypes towards Greeks in the crisis and the lack of understanding from the side of people living abroad are been featured here in the story I received a couple of days ago. And I would say “yes”, it’s difficult to understand how the system works here
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"thanks. I read too about the 9 No-voters" - keeptalkinggreece
"EU is not a spiritual entity, this rule was asked by 15 countries interested in in..." - Anton
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"I consider also as most hygienic measure that restaurant visitors wear one-stop sh..." - keeptalkinggreece
"They are absolutely right!!! Let's put an end to those horrible practices of putti..." - AntonisX
"Let the restaurateurs of Europe say "No!" (ΟΧΙ!) to such an absurd measure!" - Jacques
"unconfirmed reports from Andalusia claim the big olive oil battle to start soon" - keeptalkinggreece
"This is typically EU-bullshit.
I hope that all tavernas in Greece will provide c..." - Ulf Wiman
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