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15 Nobel Prize Winners Urge Europe and the USA to Help Greece
Fifteen Nobel laureates have co-signed a petition urging European authorities as well as the United States to help Greece recover from the financial crisis and return to growth, in an activity initiated by Dr. Harald zur Hausen, who won...
Economy
Tsipras Believes IMF Should Be Out of Greece's 3rd Bailout
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says he believes the International Monetary Fund should not participate in Greece's third bailout, while he announced capital controls will be lifted by the end of March 2016.
Tsipras spoke to the Financial Times expressing...
Greece
Greek PM Sees Positive Outcome of European Union Summit for Greece
The two-day European Union leader's summit concluded on Friday evening with the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras expressing his satisfaction with the summit's events.
“These were two days with positive decisions for our country. Within a difficult field and I would say within negative European...
Greece
Tsipras and Merkel Discuss Refugee Hotspots and Frontex
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras met with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday, on the sidelines of the European Summit held in Brussels.
The meeting focused on Frontex and migrant hotspot issues and Tsipras briefed Merkel on the progress of the works at...
Greece
European Commission: Greece Lacks Plan to Tackle Migrant Inflow
Greece does not have a comprehensive strategy for the return of economic migrants to their country of origin and lacks sufficient detention centers in order to prevent their escape, says a European Commission report.
The report marks the progress on the response...
Europe
European Commission Proposes Scrapping Frontex for a More Active Border Force
The European Union is looking to take a decisive step in establishing a more proactive border control in light of rising concern's over the union's security.
Frontex, the EU's current border authority, could soon be in the past. The body largely has...
Europe
European Union to Reportedly Enforce Series of Measures for Refugee Crisis
The leaders of the European Union are set to unveil a number of measures its members states will have to enforce by February, in response to the refugee crisis and growing security concerns.
Amid the continuous influx of migrants and refugees,...
Greece
Is There Light at the End of the Tunnel for the Greek Crisis?
Ever since the Greek debt crisis erupted, back in late 2009, each successive government actively sought to defuse a sharp backlash against the bailout programs imposed on the country by the notorious trio of the International Monetary Fund (IMF),...
Economy
Significant Discrepancy Between Greek and European Third Quarter GDP Revealed by Eurostat
Eurostat released its second estimate for the European Union and the Eurozone's economic performance for the third quarter of 2015, in which Greece's downturn stands out.
While the Eurozone grew by 0.3% from the second quarter of 2015, and the...
Greece
New Greek IDs Could Soon Come With Microchips
Current Greek identification cards could soon be replaced by newer more modern ones that include a microchip, the Huffington Post reports.
The new IDs could be like those that are in effect in the other countries of the European Union. Each...