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French leaders support EU monetary fund, stand by GreeceFrench Prime Minister Francois Fillon has called on for strong economic governance within the European Union (EU) to complement a possible IMF-style European Monetary Fund (EMF,) while President Nicolas Sarkozy said his country would stand Obama’s present to Papandreou: Greeks won’t need visas anymore While Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s mission to the White House last week was to meet United States President Barack Obama and brief him on Greece’s struggling economic woes, the Greek leader walked out with Yes to the European Monetary Fund It was Greece, more precisely its fiscal crisis, that triggered the discussion for the creation of a European Monetary Fund, a new Eurozone organization that will probably be annexed to the European Central Bank (ECB,) The long winter Last weekend the Global Agency Responsible for the Amusement of the Masses (or what some people call Hollywood) were hosting their Oscars. An annual event that comes down to one thing, who’s wearing the best Reluctant EU tailors tough bail-out deal for near-bankrupt Greece  After weeks of denying that Greece, struggling under the weight of 300 billion euros in debt and a 12.7% deficit would get any kind of a bail-out, the European Union has fashioned a package that Papandreou’s rivals united in opposition to his fiscal plan The consensus coalition that Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou thought he had forged earlier this year to get unanimity, even from his political opponents, in fighting the country’s record deficit has rapidly unraveled. After a Mr. Papandreou goes to Washington  Any visit of a Greek Prime Minister to Washington carries special weight and it is usually surrounded by extreme expectations and over-analysis of the smallest possible detail. The Prime Minister’s Washington visit has the appearance Mr. Papandreou goes to Washington  Any visit of a Greek Prime Minister to Washington carries special weight and it is usually surrounded by extreme expectations and over-analysis of the smallest possible detail. The Prime Minister’s Washington visit has the appearance Capital markets and war fleets Ollie Rehn, European Commissioner for the Economy and Finance, came to Athens last week and had an exhaustive day meeting the entire government. The next day George Papandreou, the Greek Prime Minister, addressed his country’s Near-bankrukpt Greece a culture of corruption, $1 billion a year in bribes  Even as Greeks face wage freezes and cuts, higher taxes and a longer wait for retirement to keep the country from going under in an ocean of debt, they have been hit with a new Nazi Gold starts a German-Greek war of words If there was anything the Nazis loved more than killing everyone who didn’t have blonde hairs and blue eyes, it was gold, and they plundered it from every bank they could find during World War Papandreou gets an update on the austerity measures Even as a few million public and private workers took to the streets to denounce his plan to freeze and cut wages and raise taxes to solve Greece’s economic crisis, Prime Minister George Papandreou got Where is the money?  Following the upheaval of media coverage that has come along with ‘speculators’ on the Greek economy and the high deficit the country is facing, new tensions arose in the last week after a New Europe What can Democracy do for the banks? One after the other, leaders of the western world are proposing each other should impose major controls on the completely uncontrolled international financial markets. Last week, the Prime Ministers of Spain and Greece, Luis Rodriguez Papandreou, Putin discuss economy, trade and energy Following their meeting in Moscow on 16 February, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou and Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin discussed a broad range of issues, from political, economic and trade cooperation to cooperation in energy The eye of the “Tiger” At some point around winter it all gets too much, the cold, the harsh environment, the two months still left until Easter and you start thinking of where you could possibly escape to. Just as you’d EU says ok to Greek deficit reduction plan, but some want more cuts to make it work  After the European Union once again delayed any decision on whether to bail out Greece as the country struggles to overcome a massive 12.7% deficit that threatened to undermine the entire 16-member Eurozone of countries Show me the rubles: Putin, Papandreou push pipelines When Greece and Russia were making plans for Burgas-Alexandroupolis they forgot to tell the Bulgarians. The Bulgarian government has repeatedly said it would not take position on the oil pipeline project at all until a February 18 - Today in History  Today's world could have been very different as, in 1685, a Frenchman established Fort St Louis, forming the basis of France's claim to Texas. Go on, imagine George Bush with a French accent.
The US Greek deficit reduction plan okayed  Greek workers hoping a plan by Prime Minister George Papandreou to cut the country’s massive deficit wouldn’t cut deeper into their pockets will have to wait until next month to see if the European Union United We Stand  A much-ballyhooed European Union Summit to decide whether to give Greece’s rapidly failing economy a financial boost produced only general offers that some kind of unspecified action would be taken if it looked like a Greece gets an EU reprieve – three years to solve budget woes  While Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou went on national television to dramatize his country’s failing economic state because of out-of-control debt – a dilemma he said requires 10% cuts in public workers wages and higher Fired-up Greek workers will take their anger to the streets to protest pay cuts  Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou’s call to his countrymen and women to be willing to accept public sector wage cuts and higher taxes for everyone to meet a European Union-forced economic standard and cut its PM: Efforts must be made on Greek-Turkish ties Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on 26 January in Strasbourg that Greek-Turkish relations are always difficult for one to judge and mentioned the example of 2004, since it had appeared then that some issues Greece successfully completes bond issue The Greek government enjoyed a much-needed boost on 25 January as it succeeded in selling €8 billion of bonds, although it paid a high price to do so. The government celebrated the success and economists PM hails Kallikratis plan’s reform potential Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on 18 January emphasized the critical importance of the Kallikratis plan for local government, saying this would bring about fundamental and much-needed reforms to public sector administrative structures. Today, 100 Christofias hails Greek response Cyprus President Demetris Christofias said his trip to Athens was completely successful. I wish to express my warm thanks to the Prime Minister and the Greek government for the complete and unreserved support, Christofias said, Papandreou sets Easter and June time limit Addressing the informal cabinet meeting on 20 January that focused on planning at each ministry with Easter and June being the time limit, Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou called for the collective definition of the Greece is only the beginning Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, whose country now holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, said last week that his fellow Socialist Greek counterpart George Papandreou is doing a good job curbing the infamous Greece says it can ride out the fiscal crisis without any EU help  While Greece’s image has been taking a battering as the country struggles to overcome a huge deficit and fiscal crisis, it will not need to be saved by the European Union or any other international |
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