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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his North-Macedonian counterpart Zoran Zaev were awarded the Ewald-von-Kleist-Prize at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday. They were honored with the Award for their contribution to peace and conflict management. For almost one minute the audience applauded the two statesmen who managed to solve …

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel suggested on Saturday that the euro was too low for Germany but made clear that Berlin had no power to address this “problem” because monetary policy was set by the independent European Central Bank. Merkel made her remarks at the Munich Security Conference as U.S. Vice …

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Hussein Daitzik (or Huseyin Dayicik), a 18-year-old of Greek origin, was said to have been shot dead as he tried to protect his sister from the shots. The Daitzik family comes from the Muslim minority in Western Thrace, in north-eastern Greece. The family migrated to Germany in the late 80’s. …

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“Pigs, get out!” This is just one of the insults the Greek owners of Athos restaurant were exposed to in the last three weeks. E-mails, letters and phone calls by anonymous racists have been insulting Elsa Athanasiou and Pashalis Hatzopoulos as “liars, cheaters and tax evaders.” The threats and insults …

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A Greek Orthodox priest refused to baptize a 3-year-old girl after he asked her three times for her consent and she replied three times with “No”.  The obviously nervous priest took off his stole and refused to proceed with the holy baptizing procedure. He left despite the strong opposition by …

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Debt Restructure? Bankruptcy? Let the sterile technocrats worry about how to protect their own, virtual money.  Millions of Greek Zorbas defy the speculators’ misery and catastrophe scenarios. It sounds like a game anyway. That is a great video from the times when people had still something to say. In a rare moment,  Mr. …

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