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- Greek PM accuses Spain, Portugal of anti-Athens 'axis'
- Greece debt: PM Alexis Tsipras rules out third bailout
- ERT bill will be possibly tabled in Parliament next week, State min Pappas says
- Greece runs out of funding options despite euro zone reprieve
- The agreement with the lenders needs to be ratified by the parliament, ND spokesman says
- German lawmakers approve Greek bailout extension
- Discord in Greek ruling party
- Prosecutor orders preliminary investigation into allegations over conditions in Amygdaleza detention center
Saturday, Feb. 28, 2015 |
Reuters: Saturday, February 28, 2015
Greece's leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Spain and Portugal on Saturday of leading a conservative conspiracy to topple his anti-austerity government, saying they feared their own radical forces before elections this year.
Greece
Greece struggles as citizens refuse to pay tax (The Australian: Feb. 25)
Thousands rally against austerity across Greece (The San Luis Obispo Tribune: Feb. 15)
Greece to move fast to close migrant centres (The Peninsula Qatar: Feb. 14)
Cartoon in Greek daily irks Germany (The Asian Age: Feb. 13)
Politics
Greek PM accuses Spain, Portugal of anti-Athens 'axis' (Reuters: Feb. 28)
Greece debt: PM Alexis Tsipras rules out third bailout (BBC: Feb. 27)
Greece runs out of funding options despite euro zone reprieve (Reuters: Feb. 27)
Discord in Greek ruling party (Bloomberg: Feb. 27)
5 Similarities Between Spain's Podemos Party and Greece's Syriza (Yahoo! Finance: Feb. 26)
UK to help train Ukrainian army (BBC: Feb. 24)
France moves to limit jihadi threat (Feb. 23)
Record-breaking cold descends on eastern US (BBC: Feb. 20)
Cyber bank robbers steal $1bn, says Kaspersky report (BBC: Feb. 17)
Chapel Hill murders: Turkish leader challenges Obama (BBC: Feb. 13)
Business
Greek bank deposits return after bailout extension (The Business Insider: Feb. 26)
US citizens in Greece and US taxes - A word to the wise (eKathimerini: Feb. 25)
Greece debt deal: Reforms will 'combat tax evasion' (BBC: Feb. 22)
Greece defiant as Germany tears up last-ditch EMU compromise on austerity (The Telegraph: Feb. 19)
ECB offers Greek banks extra €3.3bn emergency cash (BBC: Feb. 18)
Sports
Ten-man Olympiakos couldn't overcome Dnipro (eKathimerini: Feb. 27)
All soccer action suspended in a bid to combat violence (eKathimerini: Feb. 25)
Greek Super League board up in arms (eKathimerini: Feb. 24)
Panathinaikos wins derby to dispute Olympiakos's supremacy (eKathimerini: Feb. 22)
Top Stories - Picks
Ten-man Olympiakos couldn't overcome Dnipro (eKathimerini: Feb. 27)
Discord in Greek ruling party (Bloomberg: Feb. 27)
Greece runs out of funding options despite euro zone reprieve (Reuters: Feb. 27)
Greece debt: PM Alexis Tsipras rules out third bailout (BBC: Feb. 27)
Greek PM accuses Spain, Portugal of anti-Athens 'axis' (Reuters: Feb. 28)
Greece debt deal: Reforms will 'combat tax evasion' (BBC: Feb. 22)
Insight - No feel-good victory for Germany in debt clash with Greece (Reuters: Feb. 22)
Panathinaikos wins derby to dispute Olympiakos's supremacy (eKathimerini: Feb. 22)
France moves to limit jihadi threat (Feb. 23)
Greek Super League board up in arms (eKathimerini: Feb. 24)
Spain Said to Lead EU Push to Force Terms on Greece (Bloomberg: Feb. 23)
On this Day
February 28
- 380: Byzantine emperor Theodosius I issued an edict recognising Christianity as the official religion of the state.
- 1949: During the Greek Civil War, government forces discovered the secret location of the printing press of the communist newspaper "Morias".
- 1959: The Greek Parliament rejected by 170 to 117 the move to censure PM Constantine Karamanlis over his signing the Zurich and London agreements. ERE MPs applauded the result while Sophoklis Venizelos walked out of the chamber shouting "Long live Enosis!".
- Births: Fotis Pittas, EOKA fighter (1935)
- Deaths: Gregorios Staktopoulos, journalist convicted of the George Polk murder (1998).
Editor Picks
Greek compromise: How Syriza has had to change its plans (BBC: Feb. 24)
Syriza dumps Marx for Blair (BBC: Feb. 24)
Insight - No feel-good victory for Germany in debt clash with Greece (Reuters: Feb. 22)
Diaspora
US citizens in Greece and US taxes - A word to the wise (eKathimerini: Feb. 25)
Stopping the Islamic State
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