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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society on 11. Apr, 2013 | 1 Comment
Αthens: crisis-hit jobless without home living in caves
Filopappoy hill lays opposite from Acropolis. A pice of wild nature in the middle of the city. With trees and bushes, and hidden paths and several caves. Small holes inside the hill, where Athens’ new poor have found shelter. Men and women who lost their job and home due to
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix on 11. Apr, 2013 | No Comments
Nikaia: state hospital doctors present the “austerity toilet paper roll”
Everybody who has visited a Greek state hospital or public health facility in the last three years of austerity and expenditure cuts has often stunned about the shortages. A friend for example told me, that there was not paper to clean himself from the gel after a heart triplex examination.
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Society on 11. Apr, 2013 | No Comments
27.2% Greece’s unemployment in new high; 59.3% among youth; 1.3mn people without work
A new high has been recorded in January 2013 with unemployment reaching 27.2%; among youth aged 15-24, the dramatic record is 59.3%. The total number of people without work is shocking 1,348,742. The data that makes one dive in depression was released on Thursday by the Greek Statistics Authority. In
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy on 09. Apr, 2013 | 6 Comments
Deflation shows up in Greece: Inflation at -0.2% in March 2013
Greece’s consumer inflation dropped. According to Greek Statistics authority ELSTAT, it eased to an annual -0.2 percent pace in March from 0.1 percent in the previous month. Herewith , it reached the lowest level after 46 years, since May 1968 when inflation hit -3 percent. Inflation eased in March 2013
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Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy, Politics on 08. Apr, 2013 | 12 Comments
Germany owes Greece €162 billion in WWII reparations
Greek government allegedly has finally collected all leads, evidence and legal arguments regarding the reparations from World War I and II Germany should pay in debts. A Finance Ministry committee assigned to investigate the matter got together the total amount of 162 billion euro in outstanding World War II debts
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tagged: disaster, earthquake, electronic items safety, food safety, Greece, Greeks, japan, nuclear ciris, radiation, Tokyo, tsunamiComments Off
No radiation in 14 Greeks coming from Japan – GR Food safety measures
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Society
Fourteen Greeks, among them a baby, arrived at Athens Eleftherios Venizelos airport Monday morning from Japan. Conducted tests by Greek scientists showed no evidence of radiation on them. State television NET showed a woman carrying her 3-month old baby on her arms saying that she left as a precaution measure
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tagged: A Libya, Crete, F-16, Greece, libya, military operations, Mirage 2000, odyssey dawn, Qatar, souda bay suda, UK, USAComments Off
Greece: Increased AF Landings & Take Offs at Souda Bay
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
There is an increasing action of coalition aircraft at the air base of Souda bay on the island of Crete. According to latest reports (12:00 noon, local time) by state television NET, fighter jets are landing and taking off after refuelling. NET reported said that in the last hours, six aircraft
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tagged: A Libya, Crete, Evaggelos Venizelos, Greece, libya, muammar gaddafi, national defense minister, range 300, range 500, scud balistic missilesComments Off
Defense Minister: Greece safe from Gaddafi’s Scuds missiles
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
Greek National Defense Minister Evaggelos Venizelos assured that Greece is safe from any retaliation by Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. In an interview to TA NEA daily Venizelos stressed that Gaddafi’s defense is unlikeley to affect Greek territory. Yesterday a Greek military news portal claimed that the Scud ballistic missiles have a range
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What’s Up in Greece on March 21?
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Very Mix
Officially “Spring” is up in Greece, unofficially there are clouds, rather chilly temperatures and it smells like rain. The coalition bombardments against Libya and the developments on the nuclear reactors in Japan are on the front line of media coverage and to tell you the truth I am unable to
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tagged: A Libya, Aktio, Andravida, Athens, Greece, involment, military buildup, military operation, Ministry of Defence, NATO, soudaComments Off
Greek Defence Ministry: No participation in operations outside the NATO
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
As the NATO is still struggling to take a decision for a participation of the No Fly Zone over Libya, Greece makes clear it is not participating in military operations outside the NATO and reiterates that it will do so only under the umbrella of the North Atlantic Alliance. Greek Ministry
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tagged: A Libya, Athens, Crete, Greece, Greek Communist Party KKE, libya, military operation, protest, Rally, souda bay suda, USS KearsargeComments Off
Greek Communist Party protests Greece’s facilitation against Libya
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
Some 1, 000 members Greek Communist Party (KKE) gathered Sunday morning at Chania and protested the presence of coalition vessels and aircraft at Souda Bay, Crete. Beginning of the month the same group protested the presence of USS Kearsarge at Souda Bay. In Athens the KKE has called for a protest rally
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tagged: A Libya, coalition buildup, Crete, George Papandreou, Greece, odyssey dawn, Souda bay air base naval baseComments Off
Greece – Libya: Coalition buildup at Souda Bay (video!)
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
Coalition aircraft land and take off, naval vessels waddle in the blue waters of Souda Bay at the island of Crete. Due to its geographical closeness to Libya the Souda bay is playing a key role in the Odyssey Dawn operations against Libya. Information leaked to the Greek press claim
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A bit of Confusion about Greece’s involvement to anti-Libya operations.
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
At the moment there is quite some confusion concerning Greece’s involvement to the military operations against Libya. The confusion refers to whether military bases on Greek soil are used as take off points for direct bombardments in Libya or only as ‘intermediate points ‘ (refuelling) of the coalition fighter jets.
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Greece – Libya : Massive landing of foreign Aircraft expected at Military Bases
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Politics
A “massive” landing of fighter aircraft from allies countries is expected to take place in major air bases of the Hellenic Air Forces in the next hours in order to participate in the air strikes against Libya. The fighter aircraft from foreign countries will use Greek air bases as ‘intermediate stops’
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Greece’s Libya participation to cost € 1 million per day
Posted by keeptalkinggreece in Economy
I knew that Greeks are grumpy by habit and now it has been confirmed. Hardly had the military operation against Libya started, some Greek television channel felt the need to report that the country’s war participation will cost one million euro per day! This spending refers to the participation of one frigate,
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