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  • 34 Years Since the Turkish Invasion 20 Jul 2008 10:16 GMT
    ... The Turkish-Cypriots abstained this year from celebrations in occupied ... an expostulation to the UN and the EU. Greek Interior Minister Prokopis Pavlopoulos stated that Erdogan’s ...

  • The Prosciutto police 20 Jul 2008 09:32 GMT
    ... REGGIO-EMILIA, Italy — Inspector Giorgio Capovani laid out ... Europe, dozens of food products — including Greek feta cheese and Britain's Jersey Royal potatoes ... and Britain's Jersey Royal potatoes — enjoy EU trademark protection. But in Italy, producers have ...

  • GRC signs agreement for research project supported by European Commission 20 Jul 2008 09:27 GMT
    ... will run under the name of the 'EU-GCC Al-Jisr Project for Public Diplomacy and Outreach ... Public Diplomacy and Outreach devoted to the European Union and EU-GCC relations. The project is financially ... (Germany), the National Technical University of Athens (Greece), the Istituto Affari Internazionale - IAI (Italy), ...

  • Support for Cyprus President's efforts 20 Jul 2008 04:30 GMT
    ... Saturday by the members of a visiting Greek parliamentary inter-party delegation. The delegation is representing ... 5th vice-president Vera Nikolaidou (Communist Party of Greece-KKE), said that all the parties in the ... a country which aspires to become an EU member still occupies 37% of the territory ...

  • PM rebuffs Gruevski claims 20 Jul 2008 04:26 GMT
    ... recognition of a supposed “Macedonian minority” in Greece and the granting of rights and compensation ... Strasbourg,” said Karamanlis in his letter. The Greek prime minister reminded his counterpart that the ... to the state joining NATO and the EU but it is coming up against “nationalistic ...

  • 'Motorway of the sea' sunk without EU aid 19 Jul 2008 23:56 GMT
    ... PLANS for a new ferry service between Scotland, Belgium ... y as November. A decision by the EU is expected "imminently", according to John White, ... boost to Scotland's transport sector. Attica, the Greek company which runs the Superfast freight and ...

  • Editorial: African farmers deserve help 19 Jul 2008 23:36 GMT
    ... The European Commission is quite right to want to give ... If lawyers do decide the payment contravenes EU rules, then the rules must be changed. The law was made ... For example, considerable latitude was given to Greece, which joined in 1981. That the EU ...

  • Book Essay: The Great Deception (Part 2) 19 Jul 2008 20:51 GMT
    ... is : If you want to understand EU, read this book. Now for the second ... Community powers, and (backed by Denmark and Greece) refused to set a date for such ... up trying to convince the British (Danes, Greeks), and took the interesting move of calling ...

  • Macedonia: Thousands attend rally to demand minority rights in Greece 19 Jul 2008 19:30 GMT
    ... IHT business editor Liz Alderman and Jean-Claude Trichet, ... Alderman and Jean-Claude Trichet, president of the ECB, on Europe's economic challenge... The IHT's managing editor, Alison Smale, ...

  • ARS, Somalia and their Enemies 19 Jul 2008 19:17 GMT
    ... people.´ Officials within the UN and the EU have expressed concerns about the commission of ... 15, modern and ancient, languages. He refuted Greek nationalism, supported Martin Bernal´s Black Athena, and ... Arvanitic, Latin Catholic, and Jewish minorities of Greece. Born Christian Orthodox, he adhered to Islam ...

  • Turkey backs Cyprus federation 19 Jul 2008 15:56 GMT
    ... NICOSIA - Turkey supports reunification of Cyprus as ... said on Saturday, ahead of talks between Greek and Turkish Cypriots on the divided island's ... accepted by Turkish Cypriots. Cyprus joined the EU shortly afterwards, its Greek Cypriot government gaining ...

  • Abandoned, derelict, covered in graffiti and rubbish: What is left of Athens' £9billion Olympic 'glory' 19 Jul 2008 14:31 GMT
    ... that attempts to glimpse Helliniko, one of Greece's Olympic 'glories', were strictly forbidden. 'You are ... broken only by the sound of tattered EU flags flapping in the wind. It was ... be visible to all, transforming the chaotic Greek capital as if Apollo, the god of ...

  • Papandreou's Harsh Criticism 19 Jul 2008 11:11 GMT
    ... said there was "only one issue" separating Greece and FYROM, that of the "name issue" ... can the doors of NATO and the European Union can open for the neighbouring country," Papandreou ... the neighbouring country," Papandreou underlined. Regarding the Greek stance on the issue, the main opposition ...

  • New war looms in Mideast 19 Jul 2008 10:32 GMT
    ... At the outset of his richly detailed history of ... in Sparta." In this account of the Greek city-states at war, Thucydides -- the greatest ... Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) control, with the EU-3 (Britain, France and Germany) offering economic benefits ...

  • Law of 'the Jungle' rules France's illegal refugees 19 Jul 2008 05:52 GMT
    ... across the Aegean in stowaway cabins to Greece, and then across Europe to France, a ... are cooling to refugees. This year the EU has managed to formulate only the Returns Directive, which allows its ...

  • Bribe linked to Pasok minister 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... apart the two biggest political parties in Greece as fresh evidence now implicates a former ... experts advised against it. "When all of Greek society cries out over the Siemens case, ... contract and losing 18 million euros in EU funding for the project. They said cancellation ...

  • Are high profits responsible for Greek inflation? 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... consumer OVER the last two months the Greek press has been full of accusations that ... the profits contribute to the inflation in Greece. So, are profits and profit growth "excessive" ... high (only last week it raised the ECB rate to 4.25 percent). Unfortunately, as most ...

  • Culture ministry scandal coverup? 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... Evi Tsekou walks out of Korydallos prison on July ... millions of euros in culture ministry and EU funding for political patronage. Zahopoulos, now recovering ... of the two together. A number of Greek legal experts had said that Tsekou's pretrial ...

  • France 'returns to Europe' 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... French Ambassador to Greece Christophe Farnaud speaks to an 'Ambassadors' Forum' ... Nicolas Sarkozy, Farnaud said that the French EU presidency marks the "the return of France ... proposed by France, will almost certainly enjoy Greek support. ATHENS NEWS , 11/07/2008 , page: ...

  • The unbearable lightness of being... these days in Greece 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... the Siemens logo flies, along with the Greek flag, outside the company's HQ in Athens. ... taken away from him and Pasok plus Greece's media ask for his head because he ... Greece was not a member of the EU and when the alleged "degradation of parliamentarism" ...

  • Last stop: Spetses 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... Independence, the two proud islands waged the Greek war at sea against the entire Ottoman ... of Spetses, in an interview. Hellenic Seaways, Greece's biggest coastal shipping company, stopped dispatching ferries ... government foot-dragging and regulatory pressure from the European Union. This should have brought more competition, more ...

  • Dying in Lake Koronia 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... richness and diversity of bird life in Greece and outlined some of the success stories ... by realising that for the most part Greek birds survive despite, rather than because of, ... place, with 27 million euros from the EU. But is anything happening? Actually, really happening ...

  • Greece, Spain want migrant pact, not fortress Europe 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... Athens on July 10 THE LEADERS of Greece and Spain backed proposals for a harmonised EU immigration policy and tougher border patrols on ... Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his Greek counterpart Costas Karamanlis told a news conference ...

  • Cyprus leaders to decide on talks July 25 19 Jul 2008 05:11 GMT
    ... Cyprus leaders to decide on talks July 25 GREEK - and Turkish-Cypriot leaders will decide on ... decades, troubling Turkey's bid to join the European Union. Christofias, the Greek-Cypriot leader, said he would ...

  • PM: 'There is no 'Macedonian minority' 19 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT
    ... to Gruevski's office by the head of Greece's liaison office in Skopje, the capital of ... to send the letter in question. The Greek premier stressed that Greece has, throughout this ... the Bucharest NATO Summit and in the EU European Council in Brussels respectively. Mr. Prime ...


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