WASHINGTON — Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano today announced the designation of Greece as a member of the Visa Waiver Program (VWP)—strengthening passenger information sharing and ensuring strict security standards while streamlining travel for Greek citizens visiting the United States. “Our efforts to guard agai

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama stood with Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou on Thursday and pledged that the United States would work with its ally, even as Greece's enormous debts sparked frenzied trading. Papandreou said he outlined European proposals in his White House meeting and Obama reacted positively to European ideas abo

WASHINGTON, March 9 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Tuesday he had received a positive response from U.S. President Barack Obama to calls for a global campaign to rein in market speculators. "We have found a very positive response from President Obama, which means that this issue will be on the agenda in the next G20 meeting," Papandreou told reporters after his meeting with Obama at the White House.
President Barack Obama pauses while speaking as Prime Minister George Papandreou of Greece, right, stands with Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church of America during a reception in the East Room of the White House in Washington Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Greece's Prime Minister George Papandreou met with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Treaty Room in the State Department in Washington DC on Monday evening, March 8, 2010. Below is the full text of their remarks following their meeting: SECRETARY CLINTON: It is such a pleasure to welcome the prime minister to the State Department. I hav
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou kicked off his U.S. visit on Monday with a speech to the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC on Mon. March 8, 2010. In his address, Mr. Papandreou urged the Group of 20 to take the lead in efforts to rein in market speculators, warning that failing to do so could trigger another global financial crisis.
NEW YORK -- Anastasi Calatzis' office at the Lexus of Queens auto dealership has remained empty ever since he took a leave in August 2009 to visit his ailing mother in Greece. The dealership's General Manager and other employees spoke to The National Herald about their grief over the tragic death of Calatzis, 38, in a suicidal plunge from the 25t
ATHENS (Reuters) - The Greek Sports Ministry is to launch an investigation into match-fixing after receiving a report from European football's governing body UEFA. "The Secretary General of Sports, Panos Bitsaxis, delivered to the District attorney's office of the Supreme Court a file from UEFA, which concerns five football matches from the se
TAMPA - Prosecutors will not pursue charges against a Marine reservist accused of beating a Greek Orthodox priest with a tire iron. Reservist Jasen Bruce, 28, said he was only defending himself from a man who propositioned him and grabbed his genitals. Mike Sinacore, head of the felony division of the Hillsborough County state attorney's off
Friends and brother clergy, led by Archbishop Demetrios of America, gathered at the Annunciation Church in Manhattan on Sat. March 6, 2010 to bid a loving farewell to Rev. James Moskovites.
A police officer investigates a grave where the body of former Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos was discovered at Strovolos cemetery, a suburb of capital Nicosia, Cyprus, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. A 31-year-old Indian man confessed to the crime, and also named a 48-year-old Cypriot and his 44-year-old brother — a convicted felon serving life in prison — as the men who recruited him to help exhume and conceal the body. The suspect told investigators that the convicted man had ordered the theft.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, center, and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, right, arrive for their meeting, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Washington. Prime Minister George A. Papandreou of Greece reiterated Monday in Washington that he would not rule out turning to the International Monetary Fund for help.
The worst of Greece’s financial crisis is over and other European nations won’t follow in its path, said former European Commission President Romano Prodi, left, seen here in a file photo with his successor current EC President Jose Manuel Barroso
PARIS — The German proposal to establish a European monetary fund ran into skepticism at home and abroad Tuesday, highlighting the political and legal hurdles that such an undertaking would face. In her first public reaction, the French economy minister, Christine Lagarde, described the idea as interesting, but not urgent. “It does not appear
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to allow the Church of Cyprus to carry out a long-awaited conservation and restoration project on the Apostolos Andreas monastery located on the Karpass Peninsula in north, it emerged yesterday. According to reports, Erdogan assured Archbishop Chrysostomos, that he will allow the project to
Europe moved ahead of the United States on Tuesday in advocating new measures to ban certain types of financial speculation after concerns surfaced that traders used complex financial instruments to push Greece deeper into a fiscal crisis and threaten the European economy. The European Commission said it would back a proposal to restrict trading
(Reuters) - Greece is ahead of schedule with plans to tame its budget deficit and there has been no slippage in moves to rein in spending, the government said in a report submitted to the European Union. The report, published on Wednesday, did identify risks, however, pointing to a deteriorating macroecnomic environment and stubbornly high yield
NEW YORK — Derivatives have become a dirty word. The complex financial products helped blow up the U.S. housing market. They all but sank AIG. Now European officials want to crack down on a derivative called a credit default swap. It's an insurance-like product that they say has worsened Europe's debt crisis and could bankrupt Greece. Hold on
(Reuters) - Greek leaders' overtures for far tougher curbs on credit default swaps fell largely on deaf ears in Washington, but they'll go back to Athens with some sage advice from local policy wonks: look in the mirror and don't blame market messengers for your debt woes. "It's fairly common for finance ministers and political leaders under
A 62-year-old Bulgarian businesswoman has been charged in connection with the murder of a 66-year-old Greek-American entrepreneur whose corpse was found bound and gagged in his sixth-floor apartment in the district of Neos Cosmos last December, police said yesterday after detaining the suspect. According to police the 62-year-old has admitted to
(Fortune) -- In the middle of the 2001 debt crisis, Argentines stormed their nation's banks to get their money out. To stop the stampede, the government imposed controls that allowed them to take out only $250 at a time and limited withdrawals for overseas trips to $1,000. Greece, in the middle of its own financial crisis, is teetering on the b
Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou meets with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi of Calif. on Capitol Hill in Washington, on Tuesday, March 9, 2010.
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, right, talks with Greek Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou, Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Washington.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou take part a joint news conference at the State Department in Washington, Monday, March 8, 2010.
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