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• n  a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
• n  ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE

• Greece
• Hellenic Republic
• Ellas

News & Articles

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• Greece: Junior coalition party to withdraw ministers from government
  Greece: Junior coalition party to withdraw ministers from government.
  June 21, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Greece coalition partner pulls out ministers
  Greece's fragile coalition government was left reeling Friday after a junior party decided to pull its two cabinet ministers from the cabinet following a dispute over state broadcaster ERT. Democratic ...
  June 21, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Greece returns to jolt markets
  Greece returned to stalk the financial markets Friday at the end of a turbulent week that's been dominated by a signal from the U.S. Federal Reserve that it may be done with its monetary stimulus. Though ...
  June 21, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Jean-Claude Trichet in Reuters
  I would say that taking all the information I have, a default is not an issue for Greece,Trichet said. "We are responsible for 330 million people and for 100 percent of the GDP of the euro area. Greece represents 2.5 percent of the GDP of...
• Olli Rehn in EUobserver.com
  Greece is indeed a unique and particular case in the EU,Mr Rehn said. "Greece has had particularly precarious debt dynamics and Greece is the only member state that cheated with its statistics for years and years."
• Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Reuters Canada
  Today's strong action by the IMF to support Greece will contribute to the broad international effort underway to help bring stability to the euro area and secure recovery in the global economy,IMF Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn said...