By Alan
Levin, Kartikay Mehrotra and Anurag Kotoky
Mar 14, 2014 5:37 AM GMT+0200
"Ό,τι η ψυχή επιθυμεί, αυτό και πιστεύει." Δημοσθένης (Whatever the soul wishes, thats what it believes, Demosthenes)
Friday, March 14, 2014
India Looking for Malaysian Jet as U.S. Sees Air Piracy
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Challenges Ahead in Crimea
Brookings
By: Steven
Pifer
Editor’s
Note from Lawfare: The Russian military occupation of the Crimea and Russian
president Vladimir Putin’s attempts to railroad a political settlement that
would separate Crimea from the rest of Ukraine is the latest, and perhaps
the most formidable, foreign policy test for the Obama administration. Events
on the ground are fast-moving and defy easy categorization, further
complicating policymaking. Steven Pifer, a senior fellow here at Brookings as
well as the U.S. ambassador
to Ukraine during several
pivotal years in the Clinton administration,
offers his perspective on the challenges ahead and the best approach for the United States
and its allies.
Greek journalist-turned-politician rides anti-establishment wave
BY DEEPA
BABINGTON AND RENEE MALTEZOU
ATHENS Thu Mar 13, 2014 8:11am EDT
(Reuters) -
A television journalist-turned-political crusader promising to shake up Greek
politics is winning unexpectedly strong support from voters in the run-up to
European elections in May.
Tapping
into the disgust felt by many Greeks against established politicians with a
call for a grassroots, youth-led movement to solve Greek problems, Stavros
Theodorakis has quickly snapped up followers from both the left and the right.
Irish Bonds Rise, Yields Drop to Record in Market Return
By Lucy
Meakin Mar 13, 2014 3:47 PM
GMT+0200 0 Comments Email
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Bloomberg
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Greece posts wider primary budget surplus in Jan-Feb
Reuters
(Reuters) -
Greece 's
central government posted a primary budget surplus, before interest payments,
of 2.1 billion euros ($2.91 billion) in the first two months of the year,
compared to a surplus of 487 million euros in the same period last year, deputy
finance minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday.
This is far
above an interim target for a surplus in Jan-Feb of 1.047 billion euros. The
figure excludes the budgets of social security organisations and local
administration.
Soros Says Europe Faces 25 Years of Stagnation Without Overhaul
By Jesse
Westbrook Mar 12, 2014 12:45 PM GMT+0200
Bloomberg
Billionaire
investor George Soros said Europe faces 25
years of Japanese-style stagnation unless politicians pursue further integration
of the currency bloc and change policies that have discouraged banks from
lending.
While the
immediate financial crisis that has plagued Europe since 2010 “is over,” it
still faces a political crisis that has divided the region between creditor and
debtor nations, Soros, 83, said in a Bloomberg Television interview in London today. At the same
time, banks have been encouraged to pass stress tests, rather than boost the
economy by providing capital to businesses, he said.
Why regulation — on yogurt and more — is blocking Greece’s recovery
By Peter Gumbel MARCH 11, 2014
Reuters
The news
that Greek-style yogurt maker Chobani is looking to sell a minority stake that
would value the company at around $2.5 billion should in theory be a big boost
for Greece ’s
beleaguered dairy industry.
Προσέλαβαν 80 εργαζόμενους στην ΟΣΥ με πλαστά ή παραποιημένα πτυχία
ΔΗΜΟΣΙΕΥΣΗ: 11/03/2014 23:14
TA NEA
Πλαστά πιστοποιητικά σπουδών φέρνουν στην επιφάνεια οι
εσωτερικοί έλεγχοι που γίνονται με εντολή του υπουργείου Διοικητικής
Μεταρρύθμισης στους φακέλους του προσωπικού της εταιρείας Οδικές Συγκοινωνίες
(ΟΣΥ).
Tuesday, March 11, 2014
Malaysia military tracked missing plane to west coast: source
BY EVELINE
DANUBRATA AND NILUKSI KOSWANAGE
Reuters
(Reuters) -
Malaysia's military believes it tracked a missing jetliner by radar over the
Strait of Malacca, far from where it last made contact with civilian air
traffic control off the country's east coast, a military source told Reuters.
In one of
the most baffling mysteries in recent aviation history, a massive search
operation for the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777-200ER, now in its fourth day,
has so far found no trace of the aircraft or the 239 passengers and crew.
Ukraine crisis: Russia preparing counter-offer to US demands
Kremlin
says Washington ’s
stance on negotiations unacceptable because it accepts ouster of Yanukovych as
fait accompli
Associated
Press in Kiev
theguardian.com,
Tuesday 11 March 2014 04.25 GMT
Beware Greeks Selling Gifts as EU Frets: Euro Credit
By Nikos
Chrysoloras and Marcus Bensasson Mar 10,
2014 1:35 PM GMT+0200
Bloomberg
The European Commission, the European Central
Bank and the International Monetary Fund have expressed a view that the Greek
government may repeat past mistakes if it manages to slip the shackles of its
bailout program
Why Mexican drug-traffickers started smuggling iron ore to China
The
Economist explains
Mar 9th
2014, 23:50 by H.T. | MEXICO CITY
http://www.economist.com/blogs/economist-explains/2014/03/economist-explains
The
Economist
IT IS big,
bulky, you can’t snort it, and it doesn’t get you high. Per tonne, it sells for
about $125, compared with cocaine, which fetches at least $50m wholesale. By
any reckoning, iron ore would seem like a daft thing to peddle if you were in
the drugs trade. Yet on March 3rd Mexican authorities seized nearly 120,000
tonnes of it near the port
of Lázaro Cárdenas on the
Pacific coast. Much of it they reckon was due to be smuggled to China by the
Knights Templar, a bloodthirsty drug-trafficking outfit. Officials say that the
business had become even better for the Templars than drugs.
Monday, March 10, 2014
Debt Exceeds $100 Trillion as Governments Binge
By John
Glover Mar 10, 2014 5:42 PM GMT+0200
Bloomberg
The amount
of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the
first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies
out of recession and companies took advantage of record low interest rates.
The $30
trillion increase from $70 trillion between mid-2007 and mid-2013 compares with
a $3.86 trillion decline in the value of equities to $53.8 trillion, according
to the Bank for International Settlements and data compiled by Bloomberg. The
jump in debt as measured by the Basel ,
Switzerland-based BIS in its quarterly review is almost twice the U.S. economy.
Greek Yields Drop to 4-Year Low, Stocks Rally Amid Troika Talks
By Neal
Armstrong and Christos Ziotis Feb 26,
2014 6:41 PM GMT+0200
Bloomberg
Russian Forces Gain in Ukraine as Separatist Vote Looms
By Kateryna
Choursina, Volodymyr Verbyany and Stepan Kravchenko Mar 10, 2014 9:58 AM GMT+0200
Bloomberg
Russian
forces advanced in Ukraine ’s
Crimean peninsula, ignoring Western calls to halt a military takeover before
the region’s separatist referendum.
Ukrainian
Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk said yesterday he’d travel to Washington this week as Russian President Vladimir Putin
defended Crimea’s local government, which may use the March 16 vote to leave Ukraine and
join the country’s Soviet-era master. Russian troops detained Ukrainian border
guards at a base a day after gunmen fired warning shots at international
observers and barred them from Crimea .
Sunday, March 9, 2014
ΣΔΟΕ: Στα δίχτυα 72 της λίστας Λαγκάρντ για φοροδιαφυγή, μιζαδόροι και οδοντίατρος
Αρχίζει η αξιοποίηση της λίστα Λαγκάρντ για την είσπραξη
εσόδων από το Δημόσιο. Στο αμέσως προσεχές διάστημα, σύμφωνα με πληροφορίες, 72
επιχειρηματίες, ιδιώτες και άλλα πρόσωπα που το όνομα τους υπάρχει στη λίστα
αναμένεται να παραπεμφθούν στις οικονομικές υπηρεσίες για να καταβάλουν δεκάδες
εκατομμύρια ευρώ για απόκρυψη εισοδήματος.
Το ΣΔΟΕ βρήκε «μαύρη τρύπα» άνω του 1,5 εκατ. ευρώ στο Μετσόβιο
«Μαύρη τρύπα» με αδικαιολόγητες δαπάνες άνω του 1,5 εκατ.
ευρώ στο Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο εντόπισαν οι ελεγκτές του Σώματος Δίωξης
Οικονομικού Εγκλήματος.
Η έρευνα του ΣΔΟΕ στα οικονομικά του Πολυτεχνείου της Αθήνας
βρίσκεται σε πλήρη εξέλιξη, όπου οι ελεγκτές κάνουν «φύλλο και φτερό» τιμολόγια
και άλλα παραστατικά για δαπάνες, ερευνητικά προγράμματα, αμοιβές κ.λπ.
Ισόβια σε εφοριακούς για παράνομες επιστροφές ΦΠΑ
ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ
Σύννεφο» πήγαν τα ισόβια από το Κακουργιοδικείο Θεσσαλονίκης
σε βάρος εφοριακών που κατηγορούνταν για την γνωστή υπόθεση των παράνομων
επιστροφών ΦΠΑ.
Μάλιστα, σύμφωνα με νομικούς, είναι η πρώτη φορά που ποινικό
δικαστήριο της πόλης επιβάλει την ποινή της ισόβιας κάθειρξης εναντίον
κατηγορούμενων εφοριακών σε δίκη που συνδέεται με το συγκεκριμένο σκάνδαλο, το
οποίο αποκαλύφθηκε πριν από περίπου 15χρονια, με τη συνολικά προκληθείσα ζημιά
για το ελληνικό δημόσιο να εκτιμάται σε δεκάδες εκατομμύρια ευρώ.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
Greece, lenders will miss March 10 deadline for rescue loan deal: sources
(Reuters) -
Greece and its international lenders will miss a self-imposed March 10 deadline
to clinch a deal that will release the next tranche of the country's rescue
loans, three senior Greek government sources said late on Friday.
Friday, March 7, 2014
Greece's top banks need $8.9 billion euros in extra capital: central bank
BY GEORGE GEORGIOPOULOS
ATHENS Thu Mar 6, 2014 1:44pm EST
(Reuters) -
Greece 's
major banks must raise an extra 6.4 billion euros ($8.9 billion) in capital to
make themselves strong enough to deal with the fallout from future crises, the
central bank said on Thursday.
A health
check was run to see whether last summer's 28-billion-euro recapitalization of
the four top banks had left them with enough cash to withstand rising loan
losses, a further economic slump and other potential shocks.
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