Greece
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Varoufakis: Greece must stop being ‘festering wound’ on eurozone
Greece’s finance minister Yanis Varoufakis says Greece also needs to end its “addiction” to overseas borrowing and go “cold turkey”.
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Greece assesses the damage
After high winds and flash flooding, Greek state officials get to work in assessing the damage.
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Lament for the two Greek pilots killed during F-16 crash
The two men were experienced pilots with more than 1,000 flying hours.
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Greek singer Demis Roussos dies, age 68
One of the biggest Greek pop music artists dies aged 68.
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Obama says Greece needs growth, not more austerity
“It’s very hard to initiate… changes if people’s standards of living are dropping by 25 percent,” says US President, Barack Obama.
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Venizelos opens leadership issue at PASOK
Party conference in May without the members that joined Papandreou’s movement. ‘Major defeat for PASOK and me personally,’ admits leader of the party.
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State liquidity concerns set to grow by the month
Balance of revenues and spending will soon revert to a deficit.
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Flash floods hit Greece, Albania, force evacuations
Floods around northwestern Greece have caused chaos and destroyed a famous 18th-century stone bridge.
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Tsipras won’t act unilaterally, EU’s Schulz says
The Greek premier, for his part, said that his government was aiming for “a comprehensive European and mutually beneficial solution on matters of common interest.”
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Fitch warns of a downgrade for Greece
If Athens and the eurozone do not reach an agreement soon or if a there is no program to secure funding for Greece.