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Greece Expects Record Tourism Season

With constant images of protests, strikes and riots that kept tourists away in 2012 having faded away as Greeks have relented to austerity measures, the head of the Athens-Attica Hotels Association said he expects a banner year with as many as 17 million visitors, which would set a record. “We are facing a more stable [...]

Dimas, Lambrakis, Give Away Their Good Names to Politicians

ATHENS – Since it’s apparent that new PASOK Anti-Socialist leader Evangelos “Mr. Tax Man,” Venizelos, the World Heavyweight Bombast Champion, is leading his party to defeat in the May 6 election, and as the leading New Democracy Capitalists are bleeding support faster than close cousins in the French Royal Court, both ruling parties are casting [...]

Olympic Champ Dimas on PASOK Ticket, Lambrakis to New Democracy

ATHENS – Still lagging in the polls as the May 6 elections approach, the PASOK Socialist party has recruited former Olympic and World Champion weightlifter Pyrros Dimas, who had vowed he would never be involved in politics, to head its list of candidates to the Parliament. The New Democracy Conservatives countered with Theodoros Lambrakis to [...]