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The local stock marketrebounded yesterday afternoon after five-and-ahalf sessions of decline, driven by positive corporate news from CocaCola HBC and OPAP, as well as talk of Russian support for Cypriot banks, which are listed on the Greek bourse. The… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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News Nearby: Athens Pub Named One of the Best Beer Pubs in America College town Athens gets a higher-level beer education at the orange-walled, craft-savvy Trappeze Pub. The beer list's mapped out by style, and with more than 200 bottles (plus 30 on tap) and the half-glass option, you can sip (and learn) like a [...]

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The main index of the Greek bourse registered another 16-month high yesterday, buoyed by news regarding a small increase in local bank deposits and corporate developments concerning Titan and Mytilineos. The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index… Full News here – Kathimerini English

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The main index of the Greek bourse registered another 16-month high on Thursday, buoyed by news regarding a small increase in local bank deposits and corporate developments concerning Titan and Mytilineos. The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed … … Full News here – Latest News

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BREAKING NEWS: Malakoff man killed at Corsicana landfill Janet Jacobs Corsicana Daily Sun The Athens Daily Review Wed Dec 26, 2012, 08:37 PM CST. CORSICANA — Kenneth Eugene Wheeler of Malakoff was accidentally killed Wednesday at the Corsicana Landfill when he reached into the back of a garbage … Full News here – Read more [...]

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Two Athens businesses burglarized » In the News » Athens Review, Athens, Texas ATHENS — The Athens Police Department is investigating burglaries reported less than an hour apart late Tuesday and early Wednesday. Assistant Chief of Police Rodney Williams said the first call came in at 11:58 p.m. from an alarm company alerting … Full [...]

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1. EUROGROUP TASK Eurozone countries will reach an agreement on covering Greece’s financing gap at the next Eurogroup meeting, German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble predicted at a Sueddeutsche Zeitung conference on Thursday. He said that the draft of the troika report did not include any recommendation on this issue. According to Schaeuble, this was now [...]

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1. EXTENSION APPROVED Greece received a two-year extension to its fiscal adjustment programme, but no decision was made on the disbursement of an outstanding 31.5 billion euro tranche of an EU/IMF bailout loan at Monday’s Eurogroup meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels. "Together with the Greek adjustment program the Eurogroup will further discuss (Greece’s) [...]

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1. BUDGET VOTE The parliament passed the 2013 state budget in the early hours of Monday, after a three-day debate in the plenary that wound up at midnight Sunday with a vote. The budget was passed by 167 votes for, 128 votes against and four blank votes, carried by the votes of MPs from New [...]

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1. STOURNARAS REASSURING There is no cause for concern over the disbursement of the next loan tranche, Finance Minister Yannis Stournaras said on Friday, following recent statements by European officials that spoke of a delay in the disbursement. Commenting on the disagreement that has broken out between the EU and the IMF over the Greek [...]

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1. NEW BEGINNING? The government had presented it as a new beginning, argued that the country had turned a page and a bright future loomed for all citizens – but less than a day after the watershed vote on the third austerity package, Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, dropped the bombshell that Monday’s meeting of [...]

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1. MORE AUSTERITY After a heated one-day debate in parliament, MPs in a midnight vote on Wednesday endorsed an austerity package worth 13.5bn euros. The bill, compressed into a single article, was backed by 153 MPs, with 128 voting against. Eighteen MPs 18 voted “present”, which is akin to a blank vote but not an [...]

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1. SECOND ROUND Following Wednesday night’s endorsement of the new austerity package, the parliamentary plenary will on Thursday begin debate on the 2013 budget, which they will vote on Sunday night. Democratic Left leader Fotis Kouvelis has urged his MPs to vote in favour of the budget draft while having abstained in Wednesday’s vote. Full [...]

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1. MIDNIGHT VOTE The debate on an omnibus draft law envisioning more than 13 billion euros in austerity measures – mostly pay and pension cuts, as well as tax hikes – began on Wednesday morning, with the crucial vote scheduled for midnight of the same day, after the bill was given the go-ahead Tuesday night [...]

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1. AUSTERITY BILL An omnibus draft law envisioning more than 13 billion euros in austerity measures – mostly pay and pension cuts, as well as tax hikes – will be voted on in the Parliament plenary on Wednesday night. The bill on "Approval of the Middle-Term Fiscal Strategy Framework 2013-2016 – Urgent Measures for Application [...]

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