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17Sep

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Greece, Russia, USA

Will the US Use Greece to Block Russia in the Black Sea?

By Paul Antonopoulos Global Research, The Trump administration last week made its first major step to create a Greek-centric NATO corridor following United States Ambassador to Greece, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, announcement that his country intends to acquire the strategic port of Alexandroupoli. If Athens is to accept such a proposal, the country would be contributing to a geopolitical escalation. The US is attempting to push Greece, a traditional rival to Turkey, closer to them at a time when Ankara continues to defy NATO by strengthening its relations with Russia. The port of Alexandroupoli is of particular importance to US policy in not only the Balkans, but especially to Russia. It is also an important energy route as the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) pipelin...

2Sep

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Greece

Nea Kavala Refugee Camp: Hell in Northern Greece

By Abshir Global Research I cried when I heard that the Greek government said that it is going to send 1000 refugees from Moiria camp on Lesbos to Nea Kavala on the mainland. They want to relieve the pressure on the camp with all its new arrivals. I heard that the refugees to be moved were all seen as ‘vulnerable’. I want to shout out “Don’t Go”, “please don’t go”. I was a ‘vulnerable’refugee on Samos and In March this year I was moved to the mainland with over 300 refugees from Samos. I was sent to the Nea Kavala Camp. I lived there for 4 months. It is HELL. It is CRUEL It is SH..IT If I had known what was waiting in this desolate camp in northern Greece I would not have moved. They would have had to carry me there by force. But I knew nothing of this...

26Aug

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Greece, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi regime, Greece to Build Radar on Crete Amid Rapprochement

The Long Horizon marine radar system will be built by Israel and Greece in eastern Crete, the Greek newspaper Kathimerini reports. The enhanced coverage of the radar will allow both countries to monitor the Eastern Mediterranean basin. The daily has not disclosed the cost of the project, saying only that it is “not insignificant,” especially taking into account Greece’s reduced military budget. According to the outlet, Athens and Tel Aviv have been drifting together recently, boosting their military ties among other things. Greece has recently agreed with Israel to share know-how for its navy, which has begun to develop. According to the outlet, 40 Israeli probationers will be carried by a Greek transport...

3Aug

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Greece, United Kingdom, ZIO-NAZI

After DNA tests, Cyprus police think 3 further gang rape suspects fled to Israel

Officers reportedly to fly to Israel to check travel agency lists of hotel guests at time of alleged attack on British tourist, request DNA samples Israeli suspects cover their faces with their shirts as they arrive at the Famagusta courthouse in Paralamni, Cyprus, July 26, 2019 (AP Photo/Petros Karadjias) Police in Cyprus believe three more individuals may have been involved in an alleged gang rape of a teenage British tourist in a hotel room last week, following analysis of DNA samples collected from the scene, Hebrew-language media reported Friday. The three new suspects may have fled to Israel, according to the reports. Cypriot police officers are expected to fly to Israel and request travel agencies hand over lists of tourists who stayed in the hotel at the time of the ...

25Sep

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Greece, Palestine Affairs

Ahed Tamimi Speaks at Greek Communist Party Event About Palestinian Resistance

NOVANEWS Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old resistance icon deliberated on various issues plaguing her country due to illegal Israeli occupation. Ahed Tamimi stands between her father Bassam and mother Nariman during a press conference on the outskirts of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh near the West Bank city of Ramallah, July 29, 2018. Majdi Mohammed | AP By teleSUR Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old face of Palestinian resistance, spoke about Palestine and its struggle on Saturday in Greece at a press conference organized by the Communist Youth of Greece (widely known by its Greek acronym KNE). KNE’s Culture and Youth Creation conference saw the participation of Ahed and Palestinian Ambassador to Greece Marwan Tubasi. The young activist spoke about the struggles of Palestinians, her...

24Aug

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Greece

Greece Exits its Bailout but Remains Shackled by Debt and Austerity

NOVANEWS Former Greek MP Costas Lapavitsas says Greece has been reduced to a ‘weak and marginal Balkan economy’ Story Transcript DIMITRI LASCARIS: This is Dimitri Lascaris, reporting from Montreal, Canada. Yesterday, the eurozone and the Syriza-led government of Greece’s Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announced with much fanfare that Greece had finally exited its bailout. The bailout amounted to 289 billion euros over an eight-year period commencing in 2010. The bailout has left Greece with a crushing debt amounting to approximately 180 percent of GDP. Moreover, and as The Real News has previously reported, the bailout loans were conditional upon the Greek government imposing extraordinarily onerous conditions of austerity on the Greek people...

30Jun

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EU’s Debt Deal Is “Kiss of Death” for Greece

NOVANEWS Prime Minister of Greece Alexis Tsipras (R) attends European Union Leaders' Summit in Brussels, Belgium on June 29, 2018.DURSUN AYDEMIR / ANADOLU AGENCY / GETTY IMAGES BY: C.J. Polychroniou Truthout After eight long and extremely painful years of austerity due to gigantic rescue packages that were accompanied by brutal neoliberal measures, in Athens, the “leftist” government of Alexis Tsipras has announced that the era of austerity is now over thanks to the conclusion of a debt agreement with European creditors. In the early hours of June 22, a so-called “historic” deal on debt relief was reached at a meeting of Eurozone finance ministers after it was assessed that Greece had successfully completed its European Stability Mechanism program, and that there was n...

12Mar

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Greece and the Syriza Government

NOVANEWS Greece and the Syriza Government: Varoufakis Surrounded Himself with Defenders of the Establishment Critical Review of Yanis Varoufakis' Book, "Adults in the Room: My Battle With Europe’s Deep Establishment" By Eric Toussaint Global Research If you haven’t yet read Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis, |1| order it from your bookseller. It has all the ingredients of a political thriller – suspense, plot twists and turns, betrayals and more. But what is interesting about the book is that it gives the author’s version of events that have influenced and are still having repercussions on the international situation – in particular in Europe, but also beyond, because the disappointment caused by the capitulation of Greece’s radical-Left government has left its mark on ...

26Jan

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EU and IMF Conditionalities: Fatal Blow to Greece’s Labour Rights

NOVANEWS By Leonidas Vatikiotis Defend Democracy Press The main question that prevailed in Greece till 2015, before the years of cynicism which started along with the rise of SYRIZA and the nationalistic right party of Independent Greeks in power, was whether the adjustment programs had succeeded or not. The “denials” characterized them as inefficient and aimless, judging their effectiveness by the achievement of their nominal aims; Looking for example at the size of the public debt, the Greek rescue should be taught in student amphitheatres as an epic failure. Greek sovereign debt was 115% of GDP before the rescuers landed on Greek soil in May 2010 and now, a few months before the third program ends in August 2018, it has reached 181% of GDP.[1] In the preliminary report of ...

31Oct

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Responding to Hysteria: Anti-Refugee Sentiment on Greece’s Samos Island

NOVANEWS By Chris Jones Global Research Recently on Samos we have been experiencing one of those periodic spasms of anti-refugee sentiment. These spasms feel orchestrated and even if not coordinated involve a diverse range of actors. This particular spasm has been sparked by both the high number of new arrivals especially in September and the lack of any preparation to meet the autumn weather. All the refugee authorities use these moments to demand additional resources and powers; local business interests demand VAT reductions and other economic interventions because as ‘we all know’ the refugees have been devastating for tourism, the Mayor calls for meetings with government ministers and on it goes. And at the same time beyond Samos, we see the head of UNCHR warning of the cal...