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12:00 AM, Nov 12, 2011 • By IRWIN M. STELZERGreece is a far away country about which we know very little, as Neville Chamberlain described Czechoslovakia right before developments there brought the world closer to World War II.
Read more... 8:08 AM, Nov 3, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERFred Barnes, with Mara Liasson and Charles Krauthammer, last night on Fox News:
Read more... 12:00 AM, Oct 1, 2011 • By IRWIN M. STELZER
We are all Europeans now. Doubt that—and just try to get news about the American economy on the financial news networks on any morning. No luck.
Read more... At last, the votersAug 1, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 43 • By ANDREW STUTTAFORD
Billion by billion by billion, showdown by argument by ultimatum, Greece’s latest bailout is being put together by those who run the eurozone. The country’s finances are so bad, and its prospects so poor, that even the new $159 billion rescue package announced on Thursday will (assuming it comes into effect) probably only prove to be a reprieve.
Read more... The activists decline.10:37 AM, Jul 5, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERFlotilla organizers are always insistent that their mission to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza is strictly humanitarian. So although the latest flotilla has been prevented from leaving Athens by Greek authorities, one might think that the organizers would at least be willing to accept Greece's offer to deliver the supposed aid that would be on board to the Palestinians themselves. But that's not the case.
Read more... 12:52 PM, Jul 1, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERThe AP reports that the latest flotilla has been prevented from sailing to Gaza by Greek authorities:
Greece on Friday banned ships heading to the Gaza Strip from leaving Greek ports, and a vessel carrying several dozen American protesters which left port without permission was ordered to return.
Read more... 10:56 AM, Jun 29, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPERAs thousands protest in the streets, Greek lawmakers "approved a controversial package of tax hikes and spending cuts, helping clear the way for $17 billion in international emergency loans needed to stave off a possible default," the Washington Post reports.
Read more... 12:00 AM, Jun 25, 2011 • By IRWIN M. STELZER
President Barack Obama spent over a trillion dollars on projects he claimed were “shovel-ready” and would prevent the unemployment rate from reaching 8 percent.
Read more... 2:44 PM, Jun 22, 2011 • By DALIBOR ROHAC
Although Greek prime minister George Papandreou survived a vote of confidence last night, meeting the conditions required by the IMF for the disbursement of another tranche of aid to its ailing economy, parliament will have to pass another austerity package later this month.
Read more... Would he have to renounce his Greek citizenship in order to receive classified briefings?11:43 AM, Sep 3, 2010 • By DANIEL HALPER
Earlier this week, Big Government posed an interesting question that remains unanswered: If Illinois Senate candidate Alexi Giannoulias is a dual U.S.-Greek citizen, and lived in Greece for more than a year in the late 1990s, how did he get around Greece’s military service requirement?
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