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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[Struggling Cyprus should be able to lure tourist revenue with pristine bathing waters, ranked the European Union’s best in the latest EU bathing report published on Tuesday.
In contrast, Belgium, Britain and the Netherlands had the highest percentages of ... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/05/cyprusbeach.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Mavraganis: 218 offshore firms being probed</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_21/05/2013_499971</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 13:50:13 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[An aircraft that had been en route to Kiev from Iraklio was forced to return to the Cretan port's Nikos Kazantzakis airport on Tuesday morning due to a malfunction in the craft's engine.
All 162 passengers aboard the Aviatrans Airbus 320 were safe and wel... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/04/pm_jet.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Large rescue effort contains Patra hotel fire</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_21/05/2013_499952</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:47:34 +0200</pubDate>		<category>News</category>
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The fire broke out on a room on the fifth floor though the cause remained unclear.
Firef... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/05/patrafire.jpgedited.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Gazprom drives hard bargain as sole major bidder for DEPA</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_21/05/2013_499943</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:19:38 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[By Harry Papachristou
Gazprom is squeezing Athens for better terms to buy DEPA, Greece's sole retail gas distributor, a Greek official said, as the Russian gas export monopoly leverages its strength position as the only major player in the running.
Bindin... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2012/02/depa.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Troika inspectors to arrive in Athens on June 4</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_21/05/2013_499935</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:00:06 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[A delegation of technocrats of the troika of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund will arrive in Athens on June 4 to assess Greece's progress, reports said Tuesday.
However a senior official at the country... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://sup.kathimerini.gr/kath/engs/img/COMMENT/2011/07/drachma_390_0407.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Hellenic petroleum structured note draws bets on Greek recovery</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_21/05/2013_499917</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:29:45 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
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		<author>By Alastair Marsh</author>		<description><![CDATA[Bank of America Corp. sold the first structured notes tied to Greece’s largest refiner, Hellenic Petroleum SA, as investors bet on a recovery in the nation at the heart of Europe’s debt crisis.
The lender raised a total $8 million in the first securities ... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://sup.kathimerini.gr/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2011/12/oil_390_0612.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Greek bond yield curve disinverts</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_21/05/2013_499916</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 11:24:08 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[The Greek government bond yield curve returned to an uphill shape on Tuesday, as investors continued to price out default risks after last week's sovereign ratings upgrade by Fitch.
The difference between Greece's 30- and 10-year yields turned positive to... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2013/02/euros_390_1102.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>US State Department&#39;s religious freedom voices concern over Golden Dawn </title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_21/05/2013_499904</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 10:34:31 +0200</pubDate>		<category>News</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[The election of extreme right Golden Dawn members to Greece's Parliament led to an increased expression of anti-Semitism in Greece in 2012, according to the annual US State Department's report on international religious freedom released on May 20.
The rep... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/02/goldendawn_390_2702.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>PM to brief president on China, Azerbaijan visits, hold talks with Gazprom</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_21/05/2013_499901</link>		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 09:51:36 +0200</pubDate>		<category>News</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Antonis Samaras was expected to meet with President Karolos Papoulias on Tuesday in order to inform him of his recent visits to China and Azerbaijan where opportunities for investment and privatization in Greece where investigated.
The meet... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/05/samaras_papoulias.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>April meets revenue target from taxation</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_20/05/2013_499870</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:35:51 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
		<subcat>FINANCE</subcat>
		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[The Finance Ministry confirmed on Monday that April was the first month this year that the targets for both direct and indirect taxes were achieved, as the budget deficit is less than half of what had been forecast.
In the first four months of the year th... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2013/05/finance_ministry_390_1505.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>National Bank announces reverse split and recap details</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_20/05/2013_499869</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:30:12 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
		<subcat>BUSINESS</subcat>
		<author>By Yiannis Papadoyiannis</author>		<description><![CDATA[National Bank has announced a reverse stock split in the context of its recapitalization, whereby 10 old shares will be traded for a new one at a price of 4.29 euros each, from 0.429 euros before the reverse split.
The governing board of National decided ... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2013/05/national_bank_390_2005.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Greek shipowners choose Chinese shipyards</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_20/05/2013_499868</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:24:51 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
		<subcat>SHIPPING</subcat>
		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[Greek shipowners have chosen Chinese shipyards for the construction of at least 60 percent of the new vessels ordered in the last few years, Merchant Marine Minister Costis Mousouroulis told journalists in China in the context of Greek Prime Minister Anto... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2013/05/chinese_shipyard_390_2005.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Just 5 pct of tax fines cashed in</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_20/05/2013_499866</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 23:20:17 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
		<subcat>FINANCE</subcat>
		<author>By Prokopis Hatzinikolaou</author>		<description><![CDATA[Less than 5 percent of fines imposed on taxpayers by administrative courts in recent years have reached public coffers despite efforts being conducted through changes in tax legislation.
Finance Ministry data show that the fines imposed for tax cases add ... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2013/05/locked_money_390_2005.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Greece tries to win round Azeris to TAP gas pipeline</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_20/05/2013_499863</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:28:33 +0200</pubDate>		<category>News</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[Government officials appeared upbeat Monday that Azerbaijan will choose to transport its natural gas via the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), which will pass through Greece, following Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s visit to Baku on Sunday.
“We are in the ... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2011/11/gaspipe_390.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Arsonist in racially-motivated attack in Athens claims he&#39;s part of a citizens&#39; patrol </title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_20/05/2013_499862</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:14:05 +0200</pubDate>		<category>News</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[A 34-year-old man charged with setting fire to a store in central Athens last week has told police that he is part of a citizens’ patrol operating in downtown Kypseli and Aghios Panteleimonas, Kathimerini understands.
The suspect, who is accused of attack... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/04/police_car_new.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Anti-racism legislation divides coalition</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite1_1_20/05/2013_499860</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:07:08 +0200</pubDate>		<category>News</category>
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		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[A contentious anti-racism bill appeared to be causing an ever-widening rift within the fragile coalition government on Monday, as the two junior partners, PASOK and Democratic Left, pushed for it to be submitted to Parliament without delay, conservative N... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2013/04/coalition_390.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Dividing lines that never fade</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite3_1_20/05/2013_499859</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 22:06:03 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Comment</category>
		<subcat>COMMENTARY</subcat>
		<author>By Pantelis Boukalas</author>		<description><![CDATA[Dividing lines – less so between political parties and more so between political cultures and ideologies – do not go away as easily as some would like to think. In the case of Greece, political parties that used to be bitter enemies for decades may have a... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/NEWS/2012/07/hrw_390_1007.jpg</imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>After China, what next?</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite3_1_20/05/2013_499857</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:16:09 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Comment</category>
		<subcat>EDITORIAL</subcat>
		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[Prime Minister Antonis Samaras’s recent official visit to China aimed at attracting foreign investment and meeting with his Chinese counterpart proved to be highly successful.
The image of the country abroad, including the way it is perceived in global fi... ...]]></description>    <imageurl></imageurl>	</item>	<item>		<title>Piraeus Bank&#39;s one-off profit masks losses</title>		<link>http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite2_1_20/05/2013_499856</link>		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 21:08:57 +0200</pubDate>		<category>Business</category>
		<subcat>BUSINESS</subcat>
		<author></author>		<description><![CDATA[Piraeus Bank said on Monday day that profits surged in the first quarter, after a one-off gain on the book value of its Cypriot bank operations masked the effect of rising bad loans caused by the country’s deep recession.
With Greece’s economy in its sixt... ...]]></description>    <imageurl>http://photo.ekathimerini.com/kath/engs/img/BUSINESS/2012/12/piraeus_bank_390_2012.jpg</imageurl>	</item></channel></rss>