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  • Commission withdraws ban on olive oil jugs in restaurants

    By Charlie Dunmore The European Commission has decided to tear up new rules on how restaurants should serve olive oil less than a week after unveiling them, following widespread ridicule and accusations of unwanted interference.Last week, the Commission said restaurants would be banned from serving oil to diners in refillable glass jugs or dipping bowls from next year. Instead, to protect ...

  • Ukrainians Flock to Crete

    After his participation in an economic-business forum in Kiev, Ukraine, Stavros Arnaoutakis, governor for the Crete Region, stated that the number of Ukrainian tourists to visit Crete will rise by 200 percent this summer. Arnaoutakis was invited by his Ukrainian counterpart, Anatolii Prysiazhniuk, to participate in the forum along with 30 regions in the EU, Russia and the rest of the world. ...

  • Samaras Ireland has shown us the way back to growth markets

    Ireland is an example of how Greece can overcome the ongoing debt crisis, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Thursday after a meeting with his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny in ...

  • Famed singer Georges Moustaki dies at 79

    French singer and composer Georges Moustaki, who sang in several languages and whose romantic ballads won him global fame, died on Thursday at the age of 79.Born on May 3, 1934 to a Jewish couple from the Greek island of Corfu who had settled in Alexandria, Egypt, Moustaki -- whose real name was Giuseppe Mustacchi -- penned some 300 songs including the 1958 hit "Milord" sung by Edith ...

  • Political Feud Holds Up Anti-Racism Bill

    Greece’s coalition government is sharply divided over an anti-racism bill that is aimed at controlling the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party by imposing stricter penalties for assaults, primarily on immigrants, of which the extremists have been accused but which it denies. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, reportedly is going to meet with his partners, PASOK ...


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  • UK Horror Over Machete Murder Of Soldier

    (AP Photo/The Sun) This image taken from video made available by The Sun newspaper shows what appears to be one of the attackers speaking to the camera after a brutal attack in broad daylight May 22, 2013 near a military barracks in a London neighborhood. LONDON (AP) -- The British government's emergency committee met May 23 after two attackers butchered a British soldier in a daylight ...

  • Russian boy stabbed during family vacation in Greece given treatment at German hospital

    BERLIN - A Russian boy who suffered extensive injuries when he was stabbed during a vacation on the Greek island of Crete is being treated at a hospital in Germany. Berlin's Charite hospital said Thursday that the 12-year-old arrived overnight and is being treated in its children's clinic. It said it could give no further information because of patient confidentiality rules. The ...

  • Greek Prostitution Soars By 150 As Youth Unempoyment Hits 75 In Some Areas

    NYT reports , in just the past two years, the numbers of Greeks engaging in prostitution as a last course source of income has more than doubled: according to the National Center for Social Research, the number of people selling sex has surged 150 percent in the last two ...

  • Irish premier in Athens for meeting with Samaras

    Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny was expected in Athens on Thursday for a meeting with Greece's government leader Antonis Samaras.The two are expected to discuss recent developments in the eurozone and the key priorities in the remaining weeks of ...

  • Velos Mutiny Honored in Special Ceremony

    A special event was held on May 23 at the Grove of Nautical Tradition, at Flisvos Marina, to honor the Naval Movement and the Mutiny of the destroyer Velos. The President of the Parliament, Evangelos Meimarakis, and the political and military leadership of the Ministry of Defense attended the event. All the speakers praised the personality of Admiral Nikos Pappas, the chief of Velos then, who ...

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