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Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Greece's exit from the eurozone risks causing an "unpredictable" spread of the debt crisis, a scenario which France will work to avoid at all cost, French Finance Minister Pierre Moscovici said Tuesday.
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Greece
Greeks embrace some new myths about life with the euro (Yahoo! News: May. 22)
Ditch euro? Many Greeks already are (Associated Press: May. 21)
Greece tourism hit by euro crisis (AFP: May. 20)
Nightmare foretold if Greece heads for euro exit (Reuters India: May. 18)
Politics
Greece urged to honour rescue plan (The Press Association: May. 22)
Greek voters need to look beyond Syriza’s dangerous lies (Bloomberg: May. 22)
Bakoyannis returns to ND fold (eKathimerini: May. 21) 
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4 comments Greek Leftist Brings Message to Europe: 'Let's Talk (CNBC: May. 21)
World News
IMF supports Cameron plan to slow pace of austerity (AFP: May. 22)
MPs scared of News International - Watson (Reuters: May. 22)
Eurozone woes to dominate Franco-German talks (AFP: May. 21)
Mighty Merkel may be the odd woman out (Reuters: May. 21)
Dominique Strauss-Kahn may face gang rape allegations (CNN: May. 21)
Google completes purchase of Motorola Mobility (BBC: May. 22)
IAEA: Deal Reached with Iran (MSNBC: May. 22)
Eurozone biggest threat to global outlook, OECD says (BBC: May. 22)
Launch success for SpaceX mission (BBC: May. 22)
US-Pakistan rift hits Nato summit (BBC: May. 21)
Business & Economy
'Geuro' an Alternative to Greek Euro Exit: Deutsche Bank (CNBC: May. 22) 1 comment
1 comment How 100 iPads saved Greece $140 billion (Fortune: May. 22)
Credit Agricole renews Greek liquidity line request (Reuters: May. 22)
Pharmacists warn of drug shortage, call strike (eKathimerini: May. 21)
What's next for Greece (CNN Money: May. 21)
Sports
PAO beats AEK to top playoffs (eKathimerini: May. 21)
Vassily Berezutsky ruled out of Euros (AFP: May. 20)
Rosicky in injury scare for Czechs (AFP: May. 20)
Santos names experienced Greece provisional squad (Reuters: May. 17) 2 comments
2 comments Printezis, Papanikolaou lead Olympiakos to first win (eKathimerini: May. 21)
Violence halts basketball playoff (eKathimerini: May. 18)
Law unsung hero of Olympiakos success : Ivkovic (Reuters: May. 14)
Olympiakos reaches Euroleague final (eKathimerini: May. 13)
Top Stories - Picks
Ditch euro? Many Greeks already are (Associated Press: May. 21)
On Greek economy, who will blink first? (CNN: May. 20)
Bakoyannis returns to ND fold (eKathimerini: May. 21) 4 comments
4 comments Vassily Berezutsky ruled out of Euros (AFP: May. 20)
Greek Leftist Brings Message to Europe: 'Let's Talk (CNBC: May. 21)
Rosicky in injury scare for Czechs (AFP: May. 20)
PAO beats AEK to top playoffs (eKathimerini: May. 21)
Pharmacists warn of drug shortage, call strike (eKathimerini: May. 21)
Greeks embrace some new myths about life with the euro (Yahoo! News: May. 22)
The Greek run (The Economist: May. 17) 4 comments
4 comments Greeks withdraw money from banks as worries grow (BBC: May. 16) 2 comments
2 comments Greek Syriza leader Tsipras attacks EU and Merkel (BBC: May. 16) 2 comments
2 comments Santos names experienced Greece provisional squad (Reuters: May. 17) 2 comments
2 comments Nightmare foretold if Greece heads for euro exit (Reuters India: May. 18)
Athens in limbo as radical leftist waits in the wings (The Telegraph: May. 16) 2 comments
2 comments The trillion dollar question: Will Greece exit the euro? (CNN: May. 17)
Greek banks may be nearing complete collapse (CBS News: May. 16)
G8 summit: Obama to press Angela Merkel on eurozone growth package (Guardian: May. 16)
Merkel 'suggests Greek referendum on euro membership' (BBC: May. 18) 6 comments
6 comments Bakoyannis returns to ND fold (eKathimerini: May. 21) 4 comments
4 comments The Greek run (The Economist: May. 17) 4 comments
4 comments Wordpress suspends Chrysi Avgi's blog (May. 10) 4 comments
4 comments Thessaloniki mayor proposes ban on any 'Nazi parties' (May. 9) 4 comments
4 comments Greece stalls on cabinet as EU pressure mounts (AFP: May. 11) 3 comments
3 comments Greek coalition talks end in stalemate (May. 7) 3 comments
3 comments Greek party most extreme of Europe's far right (CBS News: May. 18) 2 comments
2 comments Threats against the country will be faced effectively, caretaker FM said (May. 18) 2 comments
2 comments Santos names experienced Greece provisional squad (Reuters: May. 17) 2 comments
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Bakoyannis returns to ND foldRe: Good (Jim Adams)
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Bakoyannis returns to ND foldRe: Good (Irlandos)
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'Geuro' an Alternative to Greek Euro Exit: Deutsche BankIt makes sense but... (Irlandos)
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Bakoyannis returns to ND foldGood (Jim Adams)
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Greece lurches towards new vote, hard left leadsOf course they are neo-Nazi (Jim Adams)
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Bakoyannis returns to ND foldShame on you! (Irlandos)
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Santos names experienced Greece provisional squadagreed!!! (canton67)
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Greece lurches towards new vote, hard left leadsDebate? (canton67)
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Merkel 'suggests Greek referendum on euro membership'Cameron echoes Merkel (Irlandos)
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Merkel 'suggests Greek referendum on euro membership'Re: I think Greece should take (Irlandos)
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On this Day
May 22
- 1453: Byzantines saw the lunar eclipse that occured while Constantinople was under siege as a bad omen. An old legend stated that Constantinople would never fall while the Moon was waxing in the sky.
- 1825: Laskarina Bouboulina was shot dead after a family dispute with in-laws.
- 1963: MP Grigoris Lambrakis was run down by a delivery truck driven by two right-wing extremists. He died five days later.
- 2006: The 19th century painting The Naughty Grandchild by Nikiforos Lytras became the most expensively piece of artwork by a Greek painter, going for 1.08 million euros at an auction at Sotheby's in London.
- Births: Ploutis Servas, Cypriot politician, founder of AKEL (1907), Fanis Christodoulou, basketball player (1965).
- Deaths: Laskarina Bouboulina (1825); Sir Herbert Richmond Palmer, colonial governor of Cyprus (1958).
Editor Picks
Fareed's Take: An ungrateful Greece? (CNN (blog): May. 21)
Insight: Greece party talks framed by unreality, punctuated by insults (Chicago Tribune: May. 21)
Apocalypse Fairly Soon (IHT: May. 19) 1 comment
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International Tobacco Contraband
Tobacco product smuggling and an emerging industry for the production of imitation and low-quality cigarettes are cash crops for organized crime syndicates.
Boycott Holland
Economic policy makers currently are like doctors who cannot find the right diagnosis because the knowledge has been suppressed.
USA
Greek Americans give ailing tourism another boost (eKathimerini: May. 18)
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