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DAVOS PARTICIPANTS GIVE THEIR REACTION TO MAY'S BREXIT POLICY SPEECH
Of that, 70 percent of that comes from banks - UK banks or overseas banks that take advantage of London as a base... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES MISTREATING REFUGEES IN COLD WEATHER, SAYS UN
The UNHCR said at least five refugees had died from the cold weather since the start of the year, as temperatures dropped as low as... READ MORE›
GERMANY TO RETURN REFUGEES TO GREECE STARTING IN MARCH
Under the European Union's so-called Dublin rules, would-be refugees must file for asylum in the first member-state of the bloc they enter... READ MORE›
WINTRY BLAST IN GREECE IMPERILS REFUGEES IN CROWDED CAMPS
That is partly because the European Union has sent just a fraction of the assistance it pledged to Greece last year to help clear the backlog... READ MORE›
CHINESE FOREIGN INVESTMENTS UP 40 PERCENT TO RECORD IN 2016
At the same time, European investments in China totaled just 8 billion euros, dropping for a fourth straight year, the report said... READ MORE›
GERMANY WELCOMED 280,000 MIGRANTS LAST YEAR, FAR LOWER THAN 2015
Then came a deal between the European Union and Turkey that reduced arrivals crossing the Aegean Sea... READ MORE›
FADING FRENCH TOWN OFFERS CHANCE FOR SYRIAN FAMILY AFTER ISLAMIC STATE OCEAN ORDEAL
The Alahamads were assigned to France, a country neither the Russian-trained doctor nor his wife, a 33-year-old nutritionist and beautician, had ever visited... READ MORE›
TSPIRAS, MERKEL DIFFER OVER GREEK CHRISTMAS GIVEAWAY
Greek PM Alexis Tspiras has met with Angela Merkel in Berlin after his government passed a planned Christmas giveaway for pensions in defiance of its international..... READ MORE›
BRAZIL SAYS GREEK AMBASSADOR MURDERED BY WIFE'S POLICEMAN LOVER
Ambassador Kyriakos Amiridis, 59, was missing since Monday night... READ MORE›
GREECE PENSIONERS RECEIVE CONTROVERSIAL CHRISTMAS BONUS PAYMENT
Greek MPs approved the one-off payment, which is for the lowest-earning pensioners - in defiance of the European creditors providing Greece with bailout funding... READ MORE›
'NO ONE CHOOSES TO BE A REFUGEE'
Reem carries her child over the train tracks in the Idomeni refugee camp, where she lived for four months after leaving Deir ez-Zor in Syria... READ MORE›
EURO ZONE LENDERS CONFIDENT ON QUICK SOLUTION ON GREEK DEBT SPAT
"We are working constructively together with the institutions and the Greek authorities towards finding a solution as regards the implementation of short term debt measures," the euro zone source said... READ MORE›
GREECE'S ANTI-AUSTERITY MEASURES INCUR CREDITORS' WRATH
Meanwhile, in the capital Athens pensioners were furious that the government's planned handout to them is a relatively small amount... READ MORE›
GREECE'S EUROPEAN CREDITORS SUSPEND DEBT RELIEF MEASURES
European creditors have pulled a recently announced debt relief package for Greece in protest at subsequent budget spending measures by Athens... READ MORE›
GREECE PM TSIPRAS IN NEW ANTI-AUSTERITY RHETORIC
Greece is the only country in the European Union without a recognition of island status... READ MORE›
GREEK PARLIAMENT APPROVES 2017 BUDGET PROJECTING RETURN TO STRONG GROWTH
Greece says it achieved a primary surplus equal to 1.1 percent of economic output in 2016, outperforming its 0.5 percent target... READ MORE›
HELP REFUGEES: 'WE WILL NEVER ABANDON THEM'
A call goes out to Filoxenia, a housing project funded by Help Refugees, to see if it can take in the pregnant woman... READ MORE›
SYRIAN AND IRAQI REFUGEES FLEEING IS FACE NEGLECT AND DEATH IN GREECE'S CAMPS
There are thousands of refugees and migrants that live in tents and warehouses and army barracks and their conditions don't necessarily meet humanitarian standards, she said... READ MORE›
ATHENS' PROTESTERS MARK ANNIVERSARY OF POLICE STUDENT-SLAYING BY GOING AFTER 'EU FINANCIAL ELITE'
Athens' protesters mark anniversary of police student-slaying by going after 'EU financial elite'... READ MORE›
CHRISTMAS SPIRIT LACKING IN GREEK BAILOUT WRANGLES
Athens has been hoping fellow euro zone governments will approve a second review of its third bailout, granted in August last year, before year's end... READ MORE›
EU CONFIDENT IN ITALY STABILITY
It's a domestic constitutional amendment in Italy which has not managed to get through... READ MORE›
GREECE MUST REFORM OR LEAVE EUROZONE, SAYS GERMAN MINISTER
Wolfgang Schauble rules out debt relief for Greece before meeting of eurozone's finance ministers... READ MORE›
EURO ZONE SEEKS COMPROMISE ON GREEK DEBT AHEAD OF IMF DEADLINE
The IMF considers Berlin's demands unrealistic unless Greece gets significant debt relief or adopts new budget cuts... READ MORE›
GREECE TARGETS TRIAL RETURN TO MARKETS IN 2017, FULL RETURN IN 2018
Greece targets trial return to markets in 2017, full return in 2018 Deputy PM... READ MORE›
GREECE NEEDS DEBT RELIEF, EUROZONE CENTRAL BANKER SAYS
Most of Greece's debt is now made up of bailout loans from other eurozone states and the International Monetary Fund... READ MORE›
A FORMER TOILET PAPER FACTORY THAT 1,574 REFUGEES CALL HOME
Greece struggles to care for refugees while its economy is in the gutter... READ MORE›
A FORMER TOILET PAPER FACTORY THAT 1,574 REFUGEES CALL HOME
Refugees rarely know how and where their lives will unfold... READ MORE›
GREEK PM EXPRESSES SHOCK AT REFUGEE DEATHS IN CAMP BLAZE
Alexis Tsipras said Friday he was shocked, as is the entire Greek nation, by the tragic event on Lesbos overnight... READ MORE›
GREECE AMONG BEST PERFORMERS IN EMISSION REDUCTIONS
The country's energy plan for 2030 aims to reduce emissions by 55 percent vs 2005 including a 62 percent reduction in lignite emissions ... READ MORE›
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GERMANYS DEBT HISTORY ECHOED IN GREECE
Greece's creditors were not prepared to take a hit from a Greek debt write-down and then explicitly bail out their own banking system... READ MORE›
GREECE WANTS GERMANY TO REPAY A??279BN IT WAS FORCED TO LOAN THE NAZI AUTHORITIES DURING WWII
Mr Mardas was speaking at a committee set up by the country's left-wing Syriza government to calculate how much money Germany owed Greece... READ MORE›
IN EUROPE OBAMA WARNS OF CRUDE SORT OF NATIONALISM
Mr. Trump has questioned the value of NATO, the bedrock Western military alliance between Europe and the United States... READ MORE›
GOLDMAN SACHS COULD BE SUED FOR HELPING HIDE DEBTS WHEN IT JOINED EURO
Eurostat has said Greece did not report the Goldman Sachs transactions in 2008, when it and other countries were told to restate their accounts... READ MORE›
GREEKS REJECT BAILOUT TERMS IN REBUFF TO EUROPEAN LEADERS
Even before the voting was over, some European leaders began trying to contain the potential damage... READ MORE›
ANTI-AUSTERITY PARTY WINS GREEK POLL
Angola press greece election anti-austerity syriza leader tsipras vows to end pain 5 hrs ago... READ MORE›
GREEK THEATRE HOSTS PLAY FOR REFUGEES AFTER 2,100 YEARS
Famed ancient monument in Delos, Greece, reopens with performance raising awareness about the plight of refugees... READ MORE›
EUROPEANS TRIED TO BLOCK IMF DEBT REPORT ON GREECE
Exclusive Europeans tried to block IMF debt report on Greece sources... READ MORE›
AYLAN'S LIFE WAS FULL OF FEAR A?? IN DEATH, HE IS PART OF 'HUMANITY WASHED ASHORE'
Eventually the time came for him to cross two short miles on the Aegean Sea Istanbul There are no beaches in Kobani just bombs... READ MORE›
GERMANY SAID TO PLAN EMERGENCY BORDER MEASURES
A total of 12 200 migrants came to Munich on Saturday according to the German police The Associated Press reported... READ MORE›
MY FAMILY KNOWS GREECE'S PROBLEMS FIRSTHAND
In 2001 when Greece adopted the euro, we were excited, though we thought the currency exchange wasn't equal... READ MORE›
KRUGMAN GREECES ECONOMY IS A LESSON FOR THE US
Greece is a faraway country with an economy roughly the size of greater Miami so America has very little direct stake in its ongoing disaster... READ MORE›
'WHO WILL TRUST GERMANY AFTER THIS?' NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING ECONOMIST PAUL KRUGMAN MAKES HIS FEELINGS KNOWN
'Who will trust Germany after this?' Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman makes his feelings known... READ MORE›
GREECE VOTES NO: THE EUROPEAN UNION IS DYING BEFORE OUR EYES
An outdated European Union has been found out and rejected emphatically by young Greeks in the 21st century... READ MORE›
A DEAD BABY BECOMES THE MOST TRAGIC SYMBOL OF THE EUROPEAN REFUGEE CRISIS
Aid agencies estimate that, in August, around 2,000 people attempted the tricky crossing to Greece's eastern islands every day... READ MORE›
CASH WITHDRAWALS AND HOARDING AS DEFAULT LOOMS
For many people in Athens it was time to prepare for an approaching storm... READ MORE›
EUROPEAN LEADERS REACH DEAL ON GREEK DEBT CRISIS
If the deal is a political earthquake for Greece, it also puts the country on course for a major economic shake-up... READ MORE›
RIFT EMERGES AS EUROPE GEARS UP FOR NEW TALKS ON GREECE BAILOUT
The European Central Bank would have little choice but to stop providing emergency loans that have been keeping the banking system afloat... READ MORE›
GREECE DEBT CRISIS TSIPRAS ANNOUNCES BAILOUT REFERENDUM
Eurozone finance ministers are meeting to discuss the crisis and to decide whether to give Greece an extension of the bailout until after the vote... READ MORE›
BANKS TO STAY SHUT, CAPITAL CONTROLS IMPOSED
Speaking after the European Central Bank ECB said it was not increasing emergency funding to Greek banks Mr Tsipras said Greek deposits were safe... READ MORE›
COMPARING GREECE TO THE GREAT DEPRESSION
It sounds a lot like the Great Depression in the United States... READ MORE›
CONDITIONS OF GREECE AGREEMENT WITH EUROPEAN UNION REVEALED
Real Conditions Of Greece Staying In The Eurozone Revealed!... READ MORE›
POORER THAN GREECE: THE EU COUNTRIES THAT REJECT A NEW ATHENS BAILOUT
In Latvia and Lithuania, pensioners and other poor people wonder why they are being asked to pay to bail out their far richer Greek counterparts... READ MORE›
ELEVEN MIGRANTS DROWN HEADING FROM TURKEY TO GREEK ISLAND
It said a boat carrying 16 Syrian migrants had sunk after leaving the Akyarlar area of the Bodrum peninsula and seven people had died... READ MORE›
GREECE FINANCIAL CRISIS HITS POOREST AND HUNGRIEST THE HARDEST
Mayor George Kaminis of Athens issued a statement Thursday saying that the city was helping support 20,000 people a day with groceries, hot meals and other basics... READ MORE›
MACEDONIAN POLICE FIRE TEAR GAS AT MIGRANTS TRYING TO CROSS THE GREECE BORDER
Clashes erupted a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe... READ MORE›
EXCLUSIVE: GREECE NEEDS DEBT RELIEF FAR BEYOND EU PLANS - SECRET IMF REPORT
Exclusive Greece needs debt relief far beyond EU plans - Secret IMF report... READ MORE›
EUROZONE SETS 'FINAL DEADLINE' FOR NEW PLAN
Earlier there was anger among some eurozone members at the lack of new written proposals from Greece... READ MORE›
EUROZONE SUMMIT RESUMES SEARCH FOR DEAL
A draft of the package suggests Greece could temporarily leave the eurozone if no agreement on a bailout is reached... READ MORE›
NO, THE GREEK AGREEMENT IS NOT A COUP AND IF YOU THINK IT IS, YOU'RE AN IDIOT
And are the negotiations slanted against Greece, because Germany has more money and political clout within the EU than Greece?... READ MORE›
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BORIS JOHNSON WON'T RUN FOR LEADERSHIP OF CONSERVATIVE PARTY
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