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Kathimerini

http://www.kathimerini.gr

Athens
Language : Greek
Circulation : 26,246

http://www.kathimerini.gr
Language : Greek, English

Founded in 1919 and resolutely centre-right, “The Daily” is known as Greece’s most reliable newspaper. Its open attitude towards the country’s European neighbour contributes to an objective and global outlook. Current owners brothers Giannis and Aristide Alafouzos won Kathimerini international prestige by launching an English-language edition as a supplement to the International Herald Tribune.

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Immigration | Greece opts for forced repatriation

Greece, the point of entry for many an illegal immigrant to the EU, is also required to take back immigrants that other countries do not want to keep. However, pleading a lack of appropriate infrastructure, it has failed to honour this responsibility, and instead adopts a policy of forced repatriation, which rides roughshod over refugees' rights.

Published on 26 Oct 2009 | Kathimerini

Cultural heritage | Acropolis now

June 20, Athens inaugurates with great fanfare the New Acropolis Museum. This avant garde building has provoked controversy and has reignited the long running dispute between Greece and Britain about the ownership of the Elgin Marbles.

Published on 19 Jun 2009 | Kathimerini

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One of the most consistently informative and entertaining blogs about the European Union has to be Jean Quatremer’s Coulisses de Bruxelles.

Losing Angela in translation

When presseurop.eu was launched in May last year, one of its guiding mottos was Umberto Eco’s “The future of Europe is translation.” But sometimes I’m inclined to think that the future of Europe is lost in translation. I recently checked a statement by Angela Merkel concerning the CD-rom nabbed by HSBC supergrass Hervé Falciani containing data on Germans who have siphoned off their money to Switzerland in order to avoid taxes back home.

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