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Greeces current account deficit contracts to USD1.65b in March CB
(MENAFN) The Bank of Greece announced that the country's current account balance posted a deficit of USD1.65 billion in March from a deficit of USD2.88 billion in 2012's same period, reported Reuters.The central bank added that the figure represents a plunge of 43 percent from a year before.It attributed the declining deficit to deep economic reduction and cost-competitiveness ...
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Is Greek yogurt hurting the environment
growth in sales over the past half decade — but it may be taking an unexpected toll on the environment. While it takes one cup of milk to produce one cup of traditional yogurt, it ...
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The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession: Spain, France, Italy, Finland, Netherlands, Portugal, Cyprus, Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German government of Angela Merkel is sinking Europe. Eurostat data was released on Wednesday (15th) and are relative to GDP in the euro area in the first ...
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People on the move Greek police beat a tortured Turkish woman
I understood that they were swearing at me. The female police officer was holding my hair.One of the male officers punched me in my face.My beating went on for approximately five minutes. Then the guard from the Exarheia police station heard my screams, entered the room and tried to take me away from [them]..I was then transferred again to the Exarheia police station where I spent ...
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Aldar selects Greek contractor for Bani Yas infra project
Abu Dhabi-based Aldar Properties has awarded Athena, a subsidiary of Greek firm J&P-AVAX, a €125m contract for the construction, operation and maintenance of marine works, along with roadworks, infrastructure and soft landscaping on Yas Island. The infrastructure works include excavations and earth-moving, roadworks, sanitary and storm water networks, pumping stations, tap water, ...
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CITI Good News We No Longer Think Greece Will Exit The Eurozone
Last summer, Citi's chief economist, Willem Buiter, introduced a bold call: he assigned a 90% probability that Greece would exit the euro on January 1, 2013. This assertion was made before European Central Bank President Mario Draghi introduced a new ECB bond-buying program, dubbed "OMT" (outright ...
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Playoffs begin in basketball with Rethymno upsetting PAOK
By George Georgakopoulos The league that in the last three years has produced the European basketball champion entered its playoffs on Tuesday and Wednesday with the first games of the quarterfinal round, with AGO Rethymnou producing the first upset.The side from Crete that had finished fifth in the regular season managed to defeat PAOK 75-71 at Thessaloniki on Tuesday and take a 1-0 lead in ...
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PAOK bounces back to win at Asteras
By George Georgakopoulos PAOK recovered some of the ground lost in the Super League playoffs by beating fellow Champions League-spot contender Asteras 2-1 at Tripoli on Wednesday, while PAS Giannina and Atromitos shared a 1-1 draw.The results have placed PAS Giannina and PAOK as joint leaders of the playoff table with seven points at the halfway point of the mini league, with Asteras on five ...
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Greek Yogurt Creates a Crazy Amount of Waste
you're eating — a lot of waste went into making it. Justin Elliott explains that to make the popular dairy product, yogurt makers have to create a lot of acidic whey, "a thin, runny waste product that can’t simply be dumped. Not only would that be illegal, but whey decomposition is toxic to the natural environment, robbing oxygen from streams and rivers. That could ...
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Greece Counting On Tourism To Spur Growth
(Photo/Andy Dabilis) STILL A WONDER - There are few jaw-dropping sites in the world and even after 2,500 years, The Acropolis one of them. Tourists stop to stare at the Parthenon even before going up. A CNN poll put the Acropolis as the second most beautiful World Heritage site, after only Angkor, Cambodia. Trust us: the Acropolis is better. As the crisis unfolds in Greece, the big question on ...
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- Greeces current account deficit contracts to USD1.65b in March CB
- Is Greek yogurt hurting the environment
- The euro zone economy is declining for six consecutive quarters. Nine of the 17 countries are in recession Spain France Italy Finland Netherlands Portugal Cyprus Greece and Slovenia. The austerity policy imposed by the troika and the German govern
- People on the move Greek police beat a tortured Turkish woman
- Aldar selects Greek contractor for Bani Yas infra project