Tag Archives: Greece

European Central Bank confiscates Cypriot Economy

Flag of Cyprus* The Cypriot population will receive the necessary funds to live - Handelsblatt - Leading German Business Publication. If there’s unrest in Cyprus – it’s not Portugal. It’s [..]

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Cyprus formally asks for New Russian Loan

  Photo – (Wiki): Statue of Liberty Nicosia Cyprus.JPG – Statue of Liberty grTemplate:?????? ??? ?????????? is a statue situated within the Venetian Ancient walls of Nicosia and [..]

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Greek Finance Minister resigns before holding office

   Hellenic Parliament Photo (Wiki) – The Hellenic Parliament building in Athens, Author @ Gerard McGovern, 5th February 2007 – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hellenic_Parliament_from_high_above.jpg Ekathimerini.com – Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras [..]

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Analysis of Greek Election results by World Socialist Website

   Hellenic Parliament of Greece – Photo (Wiki), English: The Hellenic Parliament building in Athens. 5 February 2007, (originally posted to Flickr as Love the clouds over the [..]

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Ambrose Evans-Pritchard on the June Greek Election

   Parthenon, Athens – Photo: Wiki) – Author: Onkel Tuca! Address – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Parthenon.JPG Ambrose Evans-Pritchard makes the following points about the Greek election – The incoming government: “…. [..]

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Greek Pro-Memorandum parties begin talks

  Photo: (Wiki), Flag of Greece, Author (Code), cs:User:-xfi- (talk) – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_Greece.svg WSWS Report – The conservative New Democracy narrowly defeated SYRIZA in Greece’s general election yesterday. New [..]

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Harsh reality medicine from Germany

   Angela Merkel Photo: Wiki – Angela Merkel, Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, chairperson of the CDU by Armin Linnartz http://www.cducsu.de/WebUserControls/ShowPicture.aspx?picid=3512&type=3 image / http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AM_Juli_2010_-_3zu4.jpg Irish Times [..]

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Günter Grass Defends Greek Civilisation

   Temple of Hephaestus. Photo by Scott Ware. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Temple_of_Hephaestus.jpg World Socialist Website: “Under the title “Europe’s Shame,” the 84-year-old author devotes twelve stanzas, each with two verses, [..]

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The IMF’s Deserving and Undeserving Victims

  Bloomberg – International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde says she has more sympathy for deprived children in sub-Saharan Africa than for many of those facing poverty [..]

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Greek General Election for May 6th

  Greece is to hold an early general election next May 6th. The (unelected) Prime minister Lucas Papademos stated that he would formally request the election from President [..]

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