11/04/15

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A village plunged into mourning on Easter as two young men die in fireworks accident

A tragic accident on Good Friday at the village of Ano Amfeia (Thoiria) in Messinia, the Peloponnese,  resulted in the death of two young men, aged 23 and 26.

They died of electrocution while experimenting with fireworks at the village school’s yard, empty for the Easter break. The school is near Public Power Corporation cables that exploded as the two young men were testing fireworks explosives.

http://en.protothema.gr/easter-fireworks-testing-leaves-two-dead/

[Maik]

Two More Germans Pay their Share of Greek Loan to Germany in WWII

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/04/10/two-more-germans-pay-their-share-of-greek-loan-to-germany-in-wwii/

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ECB sees risks in Greece's planned home foreclosure law

Greece's draft law to protect primary residences from foreclosures goes beyond protecting low-income debtors and could encourage strategic defaults, the European Central Bank said in a legal opinion on Saturday in a potential setback to the plan.

Greece's Economy Ministry had asked for the ECB's views on the draft legislation, which seeks to protect indebted citizens from losing their primary homes -- and fulfills a pledge by the governing Syriza party to deal with a humanitarian crisis brought on by the country's debt crisis.

The draft law offers protection to primary homes valued up to 300,000 euros and requires that borrowers do not have an annual income of more than 50,000 euros to be eligible.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/04/11/us-ecb-greece-law-idUSKBN0N20BQ20150411