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I slowly start to believe that European folks will most likely experience turbulent times, should French presidential candidate Francois Hollande wins the elections. He already started to criticize the policies of outgoing Sarkozy and attack German Chancellor Angela Merkel. On her side, the ruler over the European fates does not miss …

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When you google “Nikos Palyvos” the first website to pop up in your eyes is his wordpress-blog “npalyvos.wordpress.com“. First of all you will see the picture of a man is looking right into your eyes. On his blog, Palyvos  describes himself as “Researcher/Geologist” (Free lancer) – Lecturer at the Geology Department …

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Europeans in times of crisis. Of €uro Crisis. Of Debt Crisis. Of Survival Crisis. 1.7 million Spanish householda are without no income at all. Time to look right next to us and show solidarity. Then there are always real people with real destinies behind the figures. Show compassion, even if there …

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 “My country was the spark, but it merely exposed the inherent flaws within the eurozone. ” The Greek prime minister who took the country into the euro zone Costas Simitis published an article at the British The Guardian. He speaks about deficits and successful measures, but blames the the European Union for failing to …

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Popular search engine Google has Greek ‘colour’ today. Google logo displays a man behind a camera. The letters are in blue with a Greek ‘e’-‘ε’ at the end. If one clicks on the logo image,  it reads : “77th Birthday of Theodoros Angelopoulos. It the modest but very powerful honor …

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“I’m still convinced that Greece will never pay back even a single cent,” Chairman Board of management of BOSCH, Franz Fehrenbach said at the eve of the annual press conference on Thursday in Stuttgart. “They need a debt cut of 100 percent,” he stressed and called for a complete waiver of the billions …

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 Do you remember the case of journalist Manolis Kypraios who got seriously injured by a riot police stun-grenade and lost his hearing on both ears during protests in summer 2011? Eleven months later, the case will be investigated by a judge who is expected to personalize the charges and identify the …

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Austerity without growth is not a solution. The Socialist candidate in the French presidential election Francois Hollande have understood this and included solutions for Greece in his pre-election campaign. ” We need to lighten the burden on Greece, Hollande said adding that if he beats Nicholas Sarkozy, he would “convince Greeks …

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After an long silence and short before the elections of May 6th, former prime minister George Papandreou decided to make some statements and thus in a local newspaper. In an interview to daily “Peloponnese” Papandreou said that he “apologizes in the name of the whole political world for the cuts in …

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That’s the news of the day! Not the political uncertainty, not the pre-elections promises, not the impoverishment of Greeks. The so-called “absolute Greek star” Anna Vissi publicly admitted that she personally dislikes Greek super-star Giorgos Dalaras -not on the artistic level but on personal. In an interview to magazines Psychologies, …

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PASOK Leader Evangelos Venizelos set the lines about a coalition government after the parliamentary elections of May sixth. “Government cooperation will be possible only if we get together with [conservative] Nea Dimocratia more than 50%. I think that 50% of the citizens [votes] is the basic majority.” Speaking to news portal NewsIt.gr …

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Katerina Moutsatsou is a Greek actress who chose an original way to scream out her frustration. A video performance called “I’m Hellene!”. A bit her Hellenism,  a bit her copy of the Canadian beer commercial ” I am Canadian“, a bit her own performance and the bit of patriotic clichees sparked a …

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