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EU Commissioner urges full investigation into alleged migrants’ pushback in Greece.

May 22, 2023 FEATURED, Greece, Politics 0

The European Commission has called on Greek authorities to conduct a thorough and impartial investigation into fresh allegations of illegal migrant deportations, stated Ylva Johansson, the EU’s Home Affairs Commissioner, on Monday. Video footage published by the New York Times on Friday shows the Greek Coast Guard rounding up asylum …

NYT Video: Greece’s authorities abandon asylum seekers in the sea

May 19, 2023 FEATURED, Politics, Refugees 1

Greece Says It Doesn’t Ditch Migrants at Sea. It Was Caught in the Act. Video evidence shows asylum seekers, among them young children, being rounded up, taken to sea and abandoned on a raft by the Greek Coast Guard. According to an exclusive report by New York Times: On the …

META Manager was hacked with spyware and wiretapped in Greece

March 22, 2023 Greece, Politics 1

U.S. and Greek national, Artemis Seaford, who worked on Meta’s security and trust team while based in Greece was placed under a yearlong wiretap by the Greek national intelligence service and hacked with a powerful cyberespionage tool, according to documents obtained by The New York Times and officials with knowledge …

Outcry forces gov’t spokesman to half-apologize for targeting Politico correspondent

August 25, 2022 FEATURED, Greece, Politics Comments Off on Outcry forces gov’t spokesman to half-apologize for targeting Politico correspondent

Greece’s government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou spoke out a halfhearted apology for having targeted and discredited the POLITICO correspondent in Greece, Nektaria Stamouli, who is also the president of the Foreign Press Association in the country. Oikonomou could not help but to correct his previous statements after an outcry by local …

German intelligence BND spied on Interpol offices in dozen countries like in Greece and USA

April 22, 2017 Politics, World 4

Germany’s BND foreign intelligence agency spied on the Interpol international police agency for years and on the group’s country liaison offices in dozens of countries such as Austria, Greece. Belgium, Spain, Denmark and the United States, German magazine Der Spiegel said. The BND spied also the Interpol headquarters in Lyon, …

FinMin Varoufakis: “We don’t need €7bn tranche, we need debt restructure”

January 30, 2015 Economy 2

“We don’t want the €7 billion. We want to sit down and rethink the whole program,” Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis told New York Times in an interview right after he assumed his new post. Out task “is to restructure the debt and the economy to get the money we …

Rasmussen: Greece ranks second in defense spending among NATO countries

January 9, 2013 Economy, Politics, World 12

One can hardly believe such a thing. Greece in deep recession and inhuman austerity is number 2 in military spending among the NATO countries. This was revealed by NATO’s general secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen. A very interesting report based on Rasmussen revelations is published by the New York Times. Military in …

NYT: Greece Abandons Euro, Military Takes Over

December 15, 2011 Economy 8

Slowly I have to start worrying that London is not a healthy place to live in. It’s maybe the notorious fog that makes people’s brains match or the smile of Kate Middleton [ Prince William’s wife] that blends people’s senses and clear thoughts. Not to mention the scary mysteries Sherlock …

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