IMF Asks Greece to Cut Pensions and to Raise VAT

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Greece intends to pay all of its commitments to lenders ad infinitum”, stated Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis after the crucial meeting he had with IMF director Christine Lagarde in Washington D.C, reports Crete Post.

Speaking to reporters, the Greek Finance Minister reiterated that the leftist government intends to push forward with “deep reforms for Greece”.

According to the German Press Agency, Lagarde asked for cuts in pensions, as well as a rise in VAT. According to DPA, the IMF is a particularly harsh negotiator, while “European lenders are much more flexible than the IMF”.


Lagarde was content with Varoufakis’s statement that Greece will meet all of its commitments to the Fund on April 9.

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Griechenland: Mehr als ein Fünftel lebt in absoluter Armut

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Während in den meisten EU-Ländern die Armut statistisch gesehen auf dem Rückzug ist, steigt sie in Griechenland unablässig an. Ganze 22 Prozent der Griechen gelten offiziell als "arm". Die Realität ist jedoch deutlich schlimmer, weil die Statistiken die Wahrheit verzerren. Auch wenn Griechenland in Sachen absoluter Armut nicht an bulgarische oder rumänische Verhältnisse herankommt, so ist die Entwicklung der letzten Jahre äußerst bedenklich. Sind es in diesen beiden anderen EU-Ländern nämlich vor allem die strukturellen Probleme, die seit dem Zusammenbruch der kommunistischen Regimes eine signifikante wirtschaftliche Verbesserung verhindert, ist es in Griechenland vor allem die massive Austeritätspolitik.
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UN Harshly Criticizes Greece for Treatment of Macedonian Minority

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Greek authorities were harshly criticized by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) for the treatment of the Macedonian minority, Telegraf.mk reports. Deputy Labor Minister Ourania Antonopoulou, while presenting the report on Greece in front of the Committee for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, pointed out that her country is trying to ensure the rights of minority groups, but said that it is clear that there is no Macedonian minority. "Greece firmly believes that the so-called 'Macedonian' minority has no relation to reality. There is a small group in northern Greece that speaks a Slavic dialect in addition to speaking Greek. The political group which represents this minority group won only 0,1 percent of the votes on the last elections. The use of the term 'Macedonian' has had a counter effect and the rights of over 2,5 million Greek Macedonians have been violated. Still, the group has freedom of expression and members can par...
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Stratfor's Languages and Dialects of Europe causes Anger in Yunanistan

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US think-tank Stratfor released a map of European languages spoken on the continent, and not surprisingly good portion of northern Yunanistan (Aegean Macedonia) was marked as place where the Macedonian language is spoken. This caused an uproard in Yunanistan and Athens in particular where internet goers flooded Stratfor's Facebook page with offensive comments. In Macedonia, a tiny portion in the Northwest part of the country was marked as place where Albanian is spoken. Athens and then some is marked as area where Albanian is widely spoken.
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THE GREEK HERACLES WAS A BLACK MAN AND THE AFRICAN INFLUENCE ON GREEK AESTHETICS

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By Samuel David Ewing It has occurred to me lately as I pondered about the next article for this section that the lineage, pedigree, or family tree of the Greek Heracles must be clarified once and for all. Diodorus Siculus and Herodotus recorded that it was the Egyptian Heracles who was the hero who performed the legendary 12 Labors, subdued the animals of the wild that had threatened the people, ushered in the building of cities, water systems, fortifications, and laws. Walter Burkert has estimated that this original Heracles was renowned as far back as 20,000 years ago. The Greek Heracles ended up receiving honors for the accomplishments of his predecessor, having the title of "Heracles", furthermore by the Bronze Age of Greece in which the Greek Heracles was said to have lived the taming of the wilderness had already been accomplished. The Greek Heracles was not likely to be wearing lion skin armor, wielding a club, with spear as weapons, and the danger of lions ru...
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Nikos Dimou: Greece has already lost in the name issue

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- Greece has already lost in the case of the name issue. Ninety – five percent of the countries in the world accept the name Macedonia, and we continue to discuss this, said Nikos Dimou, a member of the Greek political party “Potami” (River) when guesting the show on Sky television. Dimou, a renowned Greek writer with more than 60 published books , said he supports a solution based on a composite name with a geographical qualifier, but added that he agrees that Macedonia can be called whatever they want “Macedonia as well”. - The name issue was mismanaged by the Greek government from the very beginning. It is a question for which we have already lost, Dimou said. As MIA reports from Athens, he added that it is his personal view and not the party’s, as he said, ” it has not established a position on this issue”. Dimou’s statement met with strong reactions by some Greek media. The electronic edition of “Hellene Elisis” commented that “the new party discovered their g...
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Austerity Porn: Greek Terrorists Rape Ministers' Wives in Controversial Revenge Movie

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A picture from the porn movie (Screengrab) Greece’s biggest porn production company has released a controversial movie in which terrorists rape ministers’ wives and then blackmail the politicians threatening to publish video online if they do not stop austerity measures. The movie, entitled The People’s Revolution Upon the Ministers' Wives, has been produced by Sirina (Siren) Productions and can be included in the genre of “politicised or austerity porn”. “2012. The dominant emotion of impoverished Greece is disappointment. With the movement of the indignant being blown off course, people are looking to find ways in order to defuse the anger they feel towards the politicians that betrayed them,” reads a note on the company’s website. In the movie, a group of angry Greeks set up a terrorist cell and attack ministers’ houses. “They find their wives and give them a lesson they will never forget,” reads the publicity. “They also record their deeds and then blackmail t...
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