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Europe
Piraeus Gets 2015 Maritime Day
On July 1, in Belgium’s capital, Brussels, the Council of European Union announced the cities that will host European Maritime Day (EMD) every year until 2019.
For the year 2015, EMD will be hosted in Greece, in the city of...
Greece
Samaras Stripping Greeks' Civil Liberties
Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’ plans to repeal laws granting citizenship to second-generation immigrants who were born in Greece, speak Greek and go to Greek school, and his embarrassing double jeopardy re-trial of an investigative journalist who revealed the...
Greece
Tension in Greece Ahead of Nov. 17 Protests
With most Greeks concentrating on making ends meet during a crushing economic crisis, and social unrest still growing against harsh austerity measures, the annual commemoration of the Nov. 17 student uprising against the country’s military dictatorship in 1973 has...