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  • Submission of online tax declarations begins

    The electronic system for the submission of annual income tax declarations was to open on Friday for the submission of income tax declarations.The Finance Ministry has completed technical changes to the Taxis Net system to allow for some changes to the details that need to be submitted this year.Taxpayers, for instance, will have to include any interest earned on savings in their returns this ...

  • ANN ARBOR Ya’ssoo Greek Festival returns next weekend

    Every year, thousands of guests experience the fun, sounds, aromas, and tastes of the Greek culture at the Ya’ssoo Greek Festival sponsored by St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church of Ann Arbor, 3109 Scio Church Road. This year’s festival is May 31, June 1 and 2 and features something new for guests of all ages."We are pleased to offer new raffle prizes this year valued from ...

  • Greece Is Up But Not Out Yet

    (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris) Sometimes violent protests in Greece have fizzled out even though the government is imposing more austerity as Greeks seem resigned to their fate. Even a protest of 10,000 people in downtown Athens on May 23 organized by a pro-Communist union failed to yield much excitement, leaving this man to be more anxious about what was in his wallet than the streets. The ...

  • Samaras Likes Irish Way Out Of Crisis

    (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) Greece's Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, (L) welcomes his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny at Maximos Mansion in Athens, May 23, 2013. Samaras said that Greece would follow the "same successful model" as Ireland both of the EU Presidency and to exit the crisis. Greece assumes the EU's rotating Presidency in January 2014. ATHENS - After meeting his ...

  • SYRIZA looks to overhaul of oligopolistic media

    The main leftist opposition SYRIZA aims to outline its vision of an overhaul of Greece's media industry, which it broadly condemns for following the line of the country's coalition government and the latter's austerity program, at a seminar on Monday.SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras is to set out his party's proposals ...


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The Invisible

The Invisible

It's been a bad month for American remakes of Nordic movies. First we had Marcus Nispel's murky and dreary medieval slugfest Pathfinder, a remake of the 1987 Norwegian film Ofelas, and now we have The Invisible, David S. Goyer's reworking of the ... ...

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  • IMF Heading Back To Athens

    The International Monetary Fund, one of Greece’s Troika of lenders, will send a team to Greece early in June for talks with Greek authorities and the bailout partners, the European Union and European Central Bank, following a meeting of the IMF executive board to discuss a review of Greece?s program. ';The executive board is expected to meet next week, Friday, May 31, to discussion ...

  • Court rejects Tsochatzopoulos appeal for ex-PM to testify

    The Athens Appeals Court which is hearing the trial of former Defense Minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos for money laundering on Friday rejected a request for the former members of the Government Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), including ex-Prime Minister Costas Simitis, to appear as witnesses in his money laundering trial.The court deemed that the testimony of Simitis, who co-signed ...

  • Papaconstantinou has huge responsibility publisher tells Lagarde list inquiry

    A parliamentary committee tasked with investigating former Finance Minister Giorgos Papaconstantinou over claims that he removed the names of three relatives from the Lagarde list of Greek depositors on Friday heard the testimony of publisher and reporter Makis Kouris who reportedly claimed that the ex minister ...

  • Greece Will Hire 75000 Young

    Greece’s young want jobs Desperately trying to slow the slide of record unemployment – now at 27 percent and with some analysts predicting it could hit 30 percent – Greece is planning to hire 75,000 young people, but not until January, 2014, Labor Minister Yiannis Vroutsis said. Nearly two-thirds of those under 25 are without a job during a crushing economic crisis. Vroutsis ...

  • Carnival of Loves Amazon Jungle For Charity

    ASTORIA, N.Y. - The annual fundraising party of the Carnival of Love Foundation once again filled the Astoria's Central Lounge with Greek-Americans and their friends who know philanthropy can be fun, especially when volunteers for a good cause get together. Every year the guests must guess from the theme - this year it is Amazonia, referring to the Amazon rain forest - what wildness awaits ...

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