by Kerin Hope Financial TimesJanuary 13, 2020 Greece plans to use its cultural and historical riches to lure Chinese and other foreign students to its universities as part of an overhaul of the state-run higher education system. Niki Kerameus, the education minister, said in an interview that by 2024, she hoped about 40,000 to 50,000 […]
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by Harriet Grant GuardianJanuary 11, 2020 Outside the Moria refugee camp in Lesbos, a shanty town made of tarpaulin strung between olive trees is getting bigger every week. There are now 18,000 people living in this second camp, designed for just over 2,000. Ahmed (not his real name), 17, and his friend Musa wind their
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by Ben Hall & Kerin Hope Financial TimesJanuary 8, 2020 Odos Lekka, a narrow street in the commercial heart of Athens, has not been this bustling in a decade. Workers are busy refurbishing a drab warehouse left unoccupied during Greece’s prolonged recession. A clutch of new cafés and a smart boutique hotel, one of scores
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by Ilan Ben Zion & Ayla Jean Yackley Financial TimesJanuary 2, 2020 Israel, Greece and Cyprus are set to sign a trilateral agreement that will lay the groundwork for a planned gas pipeline connecting Israel’s offshore fields with Europe but which risks raising tensions with Turkey over what Ankara sees as its exclusion from the
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by Florence Fabricant New York TimesDecember 24, 2019 The landscape of the Macedonian region in northern Greece is tapestried with vineyards. They supply wineries that are producing some of the best red wines Greece has to offer. The Alpha Estate here in the northwestern corner of Macedonia is a fine example. In a tasting of
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by Sarah Chaney & Soo Oh Wall Street JournalDecember 22, 2019 Just a few years ago, Greece stood out from the rest of the developed world for its devastated economy. Its unemployment rate was 25% and its high debt levels had brought on default and crisis. Today, it stands out for a more upbeat reason.
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by Paul Taylor PoliticoOctober 21, 2019 A little-noticed semi-miracle has occurred in Greece. After a devastating decade of depression and three wrenching austerity programs, the ancestral home of European democracy has emerged with its democratic institutions intact, social cohesion improbably resilient, its budget in surplus and extremists of both the far left and far right
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by Kerin Hope Financial TimesOctober 7, 2019 Greece revealed an ambitious budget for next year that assumes growth will accelerate to 2.8 per cent from a projected 2.0 per cent this year, driven by higher investment inflows and cuts in corporate and personal income tax. Theodoros Skylakakis, deputy finance minister, said on Monday the centre-right
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by Jules Montague GuardianOctober 6, 2019 Ayesha is nine years old. As her father lays her down gently on a mattress at the clinic, the only perceptible sign of life is the slow movement of her ribcage as she breathes in and out. She otherwise remains almost motionless, in stark contrast to the other children
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EconomistOctober 3, 2019 The airport at Hellinikon, a few miles south of Athens, closed in 2001. Planes belonging to Greece’s now-defunct national carrier still litter the runway. Nearby a stadium built for the Olympics in 2004 gently crumbles. In the distance, a marina borders the glistening Aegean. In 2011, when Greece was in the throes
Can Kyriakos Mitsotakis ensure the Greek economy starts growing again? Read More »