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Greece: EU's Third Worst in Education Spending

Negative data recorded in the report of the EU’s Observatory for Education and Training included: significant reduction in the dispenses for education, high rates of school dropouts for foreign students (outside EU); negative records of graduate employment; not...

Canadian Press Talks About Limitations on Cheese Names

Today the Canadian press talks about the limitations posed by the Canada-EU free-trade agreement on the use of the name “feta” and on cheeses like asiago, munster and gorgonzola. According to the article “Faux Feta? Trade deal to hit food...

Samaras, Venizelos Talk Troika Strategy

Fresh off reneging on promises not to impose more austerity measures, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, and his Deputy Prime Minister, PASOK Socialist chief  Evangelos Venizelos are scheduled for another powwow on Oct. 30...

Van Rompuy: EU Tackles Illegal Migration

The President of the European Commission Herman Van Rompuy stated today, that the European Union will take strict measures in order to battle illegal migration. According to him, the EU could make better use of its resources to prevent...

Greek Public Debt Reaches 169.1 percent of GDP

According to data released recently by Eurostat and the European statistics authority, the public debt in 24 countries of the European Union rose during the second semester of 2013. According to the same source, the public debt of Greece stood...

Olli Rehn: The Situation for Greek Citizens Remains Very Difficult

The fifth report of the EU 'task force' for Greece, a group of experts sent by Brussels to Athens to help the government deal with structural funds and work on scheduled projects, has been positive. 'While we are seeing encouraging...

Letta Meets Samaras, to Stand Firm on Issue at Eu Council

The EU must come up with answers that are equal to the questions raised by the fatal October 3 shipwreck off Lampedusa Island, Italian Premier Enrico Letta said Monday in Rome following his meeting with his Greek counterpart, Antonis...

Eurostat: Greece has the Highest Debt in the EU

Greece has the highest debt in the Eurozone, with 156% of GDP for 2012, while its deficit was the second highest both in Eurozone and the EU, at 9%. More specifically, according to the data published by the Statistical Office...

Malta, Greece Urge EU to Share Immigration ‘Burden’

Malta and Greece called Monday for Europe to take decisive action on illegal immigration at summit talks this week, insisting EU states follow up on promises to share the "burden". "Our borders are Europe's borders and human trafficking is knocking...

The Development of Greek Broadband Connection Speed

A recent evaluation of the download speed broadband subscriptions was made by the Greek Member of European Union Georgios Papanikolaou, and the Dutch Commissioner Neelie Kroes. This is based on parliamentary control, which is showing that Greek broadband subscriptions are...