Provides the latest RSS feeds for Athens News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Greek Herald.com http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/cat/b8183ea7b6d885f7/ en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:10:09 -0400 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 04:10:09 -0400 30 The Greek government's accession to EU and IMF demands to curtail public spending has left young researchers out in the cold. Photograph: AFP/Getty ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215319356/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:38:25 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215319356/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 ERT , but will continue talks later today. With Prime Minister Antonis Samaras at odds with the Socialist Pasok and Democratic Left parties, snap election remains a possibility. After a court ruling ordering the TV station back on air, the parties must agree on what form that will take. Reporting for euronews in Athens, Stamatis Giannisis said: ';This was the second in a row fruitless ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215319363/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 02:36:40 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215319363/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Contributed photo Dancers perform at the 2012 Ventura County Greek Festival in Camarillo. This year’s festival will run from Friday to ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215310966/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:31:50 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215310966/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 ATHENS ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215310877/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:28:23 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215310877/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Protesters demonstrate outside Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens last week. Prime minister Antonis Samaras was forced to climb down over his decision to close the state broadcaster. Photograph: ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215308407/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:02:44 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215308407/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 A banner hangs on the facade of the Greek state television ERT headquarters on June 16, 2013 in Athens. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU) asked Greece to re-open public broadcaster ERT after the government's surprise decision to pull it off the air in a bid to cut spending, sparking a nationwide strike. Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on June 14 offered to partially reinstate state ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215308813/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 18:57:06 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215308813/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 View Photo Reuters/Reuters - Employees stand by the windows inside the Greek state television ERT headquarters at Aghia Paraskevi suburb in Athens June 18, 2013. REUTERS/John ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215306011/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 16:43:38 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215306011/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Chris Marks and his son Matt Marks, 17, shave the meat used for gyros at the 2012 St. Nectarios Greek Orthodox Church's annual Greek Fest in ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215304700/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:35:09 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215304700/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 PASOK Socialist party leader Evangelos Venizelos (C), junior partner in Greece's ruling coalition, leaves the Prime Minister's office in Athens June 17, ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215304482/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:27:35 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215304482/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 THE TALKS: Greece's governing coalition parties met for the second time in three days to try and end a political crisis triggered by the closure of state broadcaster ERT.THE TRIGGER: Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras decided to switch off ERT's signal and fire its 2,700 employees as international pressure grows on Greece to speed up long-term cost cutting reforms.THE CRISIS: The ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215302983/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:43:34 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215302983/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Announced eight days ago, the shock closure will result in the loss of 2700 jobs and has sparked national and international uproar.Centre-left newspaper Ethnos warned that the coalition allies were "playing with fire" as failure to break the impasse could lead to early elections, the third in a year."No sane person can recommend elections when the country is still waging a fight ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215303462/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:23:04 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215303462/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Reuters © A protester wearing a Greek flag stands outside Greek state television ERT headquarters in Athens June 13, 2013. REUTERS/John ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215301491/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 13:41:58 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215301491/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 symposium on the topic averred, "All descriptions of hipsters are doomed to disappoint." Even so, everyone has the image of a hipster in their head: large sunglasses, stylized haircuts, old-timey barbs, skinny jeans, pastel shirts. Sure, that's reductive and it doesn't necessarily encompass the entire demographic, but you know you know someone (or several people) who fit the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215300055/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:57:53 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215300055/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Greece is in need of radical reforms to its pension system if it is to cease being a burden on longer-term fiscal sustainability, and to prevent a rise in pension costs that would otherwise see these accounting for more than 20 per cent of GDP by 2050, warns the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). In ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215299062/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:48:03 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215299062/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 , people, and I know I'm not the only one out there. You too are likely bordering on addiction yourself, and it's people like us who have grown the Greek yogurt industry to 2 billion dollars a ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215298247/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:19:29 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215298247/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Talks between the Greek government and officials from the country's so-called troika of international lenders -- the European Commission, International Monetary Fund and European Central Bank -- on Greece's economic program have made "important progress" but will now pause to allow the "completion of technical work," the EC, IMF and ECB said ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215296286/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 09:39:44 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215296286/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 President of European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso (R), President of European Council Herman Van Rompuy (C) and Greek Prime Minister Georgios Papandreou attend the press conference after the Eurozone Emergency Summit in Brussels, Capital of Belgium, July 21, 2011. Eurozone leaders Thursday agreed on a second bailout package for Greeece, with a total official financing of an estimated 109 ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215294718/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:14:37 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215294718/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 ATHENS (AFP) - Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras will on Wednesday make a last-ditch effort in talks with coalition allies to avert a crisis over his controversial shutdown of the state broadcaster which threatens to bring down his government.State-run television channels remained dead on Wednesday two days after Greece's top administrative court told government to restore public ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215293020/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:51:54 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215293020/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 We spoon up so much yogurt at breakfast, lunch and dinner that we spent $7.3 billion on the tart stuff in 2012. Its creamy texture and good-for-your-gut benefits are draws. So are the varieties: full fat, nonfat and low fat; organic and conventional; honey sweetened or plain; fruit on the bottom or swirled throughout. Among these cultured denizens of the dairy case, it's Greek yogurt ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215293254/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 07:29:26 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215293254/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd. is investing $244-million to become the largest shareholder of one of Greece's top real estate companies.The Toronto-based insurer and investment manager is increasing its position in Eurobank Properties S.A. - a subsidiary of one of Greece's top lenders, Eurobank Ergasias SA - which is focused on commercial real estate and privatizations in the country ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215291728/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:44:47 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215291728/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 ATHENS, June 19 | Wed Jun 19, 2013 6:35am EDT ATHENS, June 19 (Reuters) - Greece aims to sell its state lottery business by the end of June, clearing the way for debt-choked country to privatise its betting monopoly OPAP, a privatisation agency official said. Greece agreed last month to sell a 33 percent stake in OPAP to Greek-Czech fund Emma Delta for 712 million euros ($953.54 ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215293030/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:35:04 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215293030/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Privatization Having failed to woo Gazprom, Greece is to sell a 66 percent share in DESFA, a fully owned subsidiary of state-run natural gas company DEPA, for EUR400 million to Azeri state-owned SOCAR. Greece will receive approximately EUR188m from the sale, which it will use to pay off its massive debts. "The privatization agency is very pleased, it's basically a done deal," ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215291888/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:29:14 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215291888/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed Jun 19, 2013 4:55am EDT ATHENS, June 19 (Reuters) - Canadian investment firm Fairfax Financial Holdings will raise its stake in Greek real estate firm Eurobank Properties to 42 percent from 19, parent Eurobank said on Wednesday. Fairfax and Eurobank aim to strengthen their relationship as shareholders of Eurobank Properties and boost its resources to make it a leading player in the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215291039/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 04:55:14 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215291039/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Late Monday, a ruling by Greece's highest administrative court, the Council of State, cancelled the June 11 decision of the government to immediately close the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT), with the loss of 2,700 jobs.The provisional ruling is an attempt on behalf of the Greek ruling class to manage a crisis that has threatened to spiral out of control. It stated the decree last ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215288302/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:29:43 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215288302/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Greece is set to agree the sale of its natural gas grid operator DESFA to Azerbaijani state energy company SOCAR, a senior official directly involved in the talks said on Tuesday, APA reports quoting Reuters. SOCAR has improved its offer to buy a 66 percent stake in the company to 400 million euros ($536 million), a price that Greece's privatization agency HRADF finds satisfying, the ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215287332/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:19:39 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215287332/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 An employee of the Greece state broadcaster ERT gives instructions in front of monitors in the control room at the television station's headquarters in Athens, on Tuesday, June 18, 2013. State TV channels in Greece remained off-air Tuesday as the political storm over the future of public broadcaster ERT rages on despite a court ruling that the prime minister's decision to pull the plug ... http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215284713/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 22:07:32 -0400 http://www.greekherald.com/index.php/sid/215284713/scat/b8183ea7b6d885f7