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To Kafeneion => Grapevine / News Briefs => Topic started by: Maik on Wednesday, 16 December, 2020 @ 03:24:29
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Seems there won't be any diving for the cross anywhere in Greece on 06 January, or any blessing of the waters, according to ekathimerini.com (https://www.ekathimerini.com/260323/article/ekathimerini/news/government-publishes-rules-for-holiday-gatherings-churches)
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Explainer: Why is the EU taking so long to OK vaccine?
https://www.ekathimerini.com/260314/article/ekathimerini/news/explainer-why-is-the-eu-taking-so-long-to-ok-vaccine
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Greece recently moved to 'click-and-collect' for some stores, purchases can be made by electronic devices, e.g, email or e-shop, and must be paid for in advance. Alternatively, items can be purchased by phone, after which the retailer must send by SMS the name, address and tax number of the business when the item is available for collection along with a two-hour window for collection. Telephone orders should not be paid for in advance but by card on collection. Cash is prohibited and customers must send a message to 13033 with the code 2 for their travel prior to departing for collection.
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Facebook to move all UK users onto US agreements
Facebook will shift its UK users onto agreements with the company’s corporate headquarters in California.
The move could put UK users out of reach of Europe's privacy laws.
But Facebook said there will be no change to the privacy controls or the services it offers UK customers.
Currently, UK users are governed by agreements with Facebook’s Irish headquarters, but this legal relationship will change following the UK's exit from the European Union (EU).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55328376
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Tory party urges activists to campaign like Trump by ‘weaponising fake news’ and ‘fighting wokeism’
‘There are lessons that we can learn from Trump….a lie can go round the world before the truth can get its boots on’
The newsletter says campaigners should view fake news as a technique that “crowds out genuine news” and allows “honest politicians” to be “pushed off the front pages”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-activists-trump-wellingborough-fake-news-b1774341.html
Not from Central Office but the Wellingborough constituency.
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London and parts of south east England enter Tier 3 as decision on Christmas looms
https://www.itv.com/news/2020-12-16/london-and-parts-of-south-east-england-enter-tier-3-as-decision-on-christmas-looms
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The last speakers of ancient Sparta
As you enter the mountainous village of Pera Melana in Greece’s southern Peloponnese peninsula, you’re likely to hear the roar of scooters zooming down narrow roads and the chirps of birds stealing ripe fruit from trees. But if you approach the village’s central cafe, you’ll hear a rather unusual sound. It’s the buzz of conversations among elders in a 3,000-year-old language called Tsakonika.
The speakers are the linguistic descendants of ancient Sparta, the iconic Greek city-state, and part of a rich cultural heritage and population called Tsakonian.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20201215-the-last-speakers-of-ancient-sparta
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Electric car manufacturer to announce 100mln euro investment in Greece
Electric car manufacturer Next.e.GO Mobile SE is expected to announce a 100-million-euro investment in Greece, according to reports.
Reports say CEO Ulrich Hermann will sign a memorandum of understanding with Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy Kostas Frangogiannis during an online event on Wednesday.
According to the same reports, the company, which makes the e.GO Life electric car, wants to set up a factory in Greece.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/260345/article/ekathimerini/business/electric-car-manufacturer-to-announce-100mln-euro-investment-in-greece
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Paris mayor mocks 'absurd' fine for hiring too many women
"Too feminist" - Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo's mocking response after being told she'd broken the law by hiring too many women for her management team.
Eleven women and five men had been given the jobs in 2018, breaching a national 2013 rule designed to bring about gender parity in employment.
The 2013 rule meant no more than 60% of appointments to management positions in public service should go to one sex. Ms Hidalgo's recruitment drive saw 69% of the jobs go to women.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-55330297
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Revealed: The story of the silk and gold clad woman buried in London’s Spitalfields 1,600 years ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/archaeology-london-spitalfields-woman-mola-b1774473.html
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Business Landlords in Greece Must Cut Rent 80% Over COVID-19
While apartment renters and homeowners struggling to make payments during the COVID-19 pandemic must pay the full amount, more than 200,000 businesses will get a two-month 80 percent rent cut.
https://www.thenationalherald.com/greece_economy/arthro/business_landlords_in_greece_must_cut_rent_80_over_covid_19-1413848/
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Greece expects to receive 300 thousand vaccines in first tranche
Greece expects to receive 300 thousand Covid-19 vaccine doses in the first tranche which means that 150,000 people will be vaccinated initially (vaccines will require two doses per patient), government spokesman Stelios Petsas told Parapolitika radio on Wednesday.
Petsas said that the immunisation program will be launched in December or January.
https://www.ekathimerini.com/260347/article/ekathimerini/news/greece-expects-to-receive-300-thousand-vaccines-in-first-tranche
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Unicef to feed hungry children in UK for first time in 70-year history
Unicef has launched a domestic emergency response in the UK for the first time in its more than 70-year history to help feed children hit by the Covid-19 crisis.
The UN agency, which is responsible for providing humanitarian aid to children worldwide, said the coronavirus pandemic was the most urgent crisis affecting children since the second world war.
A YouGov poll in May commissioned by the charity Food Foundation found 2.4 million children (17%) were living in food insecure households. By October, an extra 900,000 children had been registered for free school meals.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/dec/16/unicef-feed-hungry-children-uk-first-time-history
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Lourdas community have bucked the fashion to go European and erect a Christmas tree, instead remaining traditional Greek by decorating and illuminating a Christmas boat :)