The Boston College Hellenic Alumni Network and the undergraduate Hellenic Society will present an evening with former Ambassador Nicholas Burns ’78 on Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 7:00 p.m. in the BC Cadigan Alumni Center on the Brighton Campus. The event will focus on foreign policy challenges for the United States: The Crisis in Greece, [...]
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Greek Crisis Cuts Astoria Grocer’s Easter Supplies
Titan Foods is a giant Greek grocery store on 31st Street, Astoria, a NY neighborhood with a strong Greek Diaspora presence. The grocery store has been importing products and items from Greece for many years, but the financial crisis in the Mediterranean country is beginning to affect its smooth operation lately. Now, right before the [...]
Repower Greece Releases Findings of Academic US Tour
Repo(we)r Greece organized an academic US tour to spark a discussion across North America on rebuilding Greece and changing the world’s negative perceptions of its people. Below are the findings of the discussions as they were presented by Alexandros Costopoulos, one of the initiative’s organizers. Restoring the credibility of Greece – a prerequisite for the international [...]
Greek Journalist’s Unpaid Tale of Woe
Greek journalist Kostas Tsapogas, who used to work at the newspaper Eleftherotypial before being fired – after he went unpaid for months while the company’s owners weren’t – told the New York Times how badly the country’s crushing economic crisis and austerity measures are affecting his countrymen. “Since the newspaper where I worked for 23 [...]
NYT: Greek Tax Scandal Distracts from a Collection Shortfall
The tax scandal that reignited in Greece over the holidays had all the makings of a grade-B drama. A former finance minister, George Papaconstantinou, was accused of scrubbinghis relatives΄ names from a CD containing the identities of thousands of possible Greek tax dodgers. Within hours, his chief political rival tossed him from their party. Mr. [...]
US Stocks Fall Amid Doubts Over Greek Debt Deal
US stocks opened lower Tuesday after Greece secured a revised bailout deal that will help it again avert a default on its huge debt load. Doubts remained about the new deal, which allows Athens to trim its debt load through bond buybacks and reduced rates and promises new rescue loan installments of 43.7 billion euros [...]
Greek-American Groups Weigh Election Options
As the U.S. Presidential elections rapidly approach on Nov. 6, incumbent Barack Obama and his challenger, Republican nominee Mitt Romney – along with members of Congress – have been evaluated by the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA) on their stances concerning Greek issues, including the Greek crisis, Cyprus, and Turkish challenges in the Aegean. [...]
Obama Pushes For Greek Debt Review Delay until After Presidential Elections
Officials from the European Union and the International Monetary Fund are being asked to delay a critical report into the state of Greece’s public finances until after the US Presidential elections in November, according to a Reuters news agency report. The report, originally slated for early Summer, had been expected to be published during the [...]
NYT: U.S. Companies Brace for a Greek Exit from the Euro
Even as Greece desperately tries to avoid defaulting on its debt, American companies are preparing for what was once unthinkable: that Greece could soon be forced to leave the euro zone. Bank of America Merrill Lynch according to The New York Times has looked into filling trucks with cash and sending them over the Greek [...]
Obama Wants Greece in Eurozone – Until U.S. Election
Apparently anxious that a Greek default could harm his re-election chances, U.S. President Barack Obama is reportedly squeezing European leaders not to do anything that could force Greece out of the Eurozone before the American elections in November. The British newspaper The Independent wrote that British sources have said that the Obama Administration is fearful [...]
Geithner Speaks With Samaras by Phone
U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner spoke by phone with Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras on Friday to discuss the European country’s efforts to maintain financial stability, the Treasury said. “Secretary Geithner spoke by phone earlier today with Greek Prime Minister Samaras to discuss Greece’s continued efforts to reform in order to ensure economic recovery and [...]
Αri Vezene: A Greek-American Chef in Athens
His double nationality has helped him survive both in the US and Greece. Born to Greek parents, Ari Vezene is a Greek-American chef and restaurateur, who decided to take his chances and start his own business in Athens in 2011. Despite the ongoing recession tormenting Greece, small businesses and its people, Vezene opened the homonymous [...]
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