Aristotelous Square, The Jewel of Thessaloniki
Aristotelous Square, The Jewel of Thessaloniki View of the Thermaic Gulf from Aristotelous Square in Thessaloniki. Credit: Eleni Deli/ CC-BY-NC-ND-2.0 Aristotelous Square is the main city square of Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city and the capital of Macedonia. Located along Nikis Avenue, near the city’s waterfront, or the paralia, Aristotelous is right in the center […]
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Mask use: Optional at airports and airplanes from today
Mask use: Optional at airports and airplanes from today The European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) recommend relaxation of sanitary measures and more specifically the use of masks, both at airports and in flight. In particular, the ECDC and EASA, in a joint statement, abolish the […]
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Iraklis went down from the Basket League
Iraklis went down from the Basket League Iraklis was relegated from the Basket League on Saturday, as it could not beat Panathinaikos, while Peristeri snatched the last play-off spot with its win over Lavrio. The last round of games in the regular season condemned Iraklis to its exit from the top flight, as despite its […]
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Kastoria furriers welcome Korean businessmen
Kastoria furriers welcome Korean businessmen A 25-member delegation from South Korea visited the city of Kastoria in northern Greece last week and held several business meetings with fur producers. This visit was co-organized by Enterprise Greece, the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Korea’s Office of Economic and Business Affairs, the Kastoria Fur Association and […]
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Turkey Further Away from EU Values, European Parliament Report Says
Turkey Further Away from EU Values, European Parliament Report Says European parliament. Credit: Europarl/ CC-BY-SA 2.0 Without clear and significant progress in EU-related reforms, the European Parliament cannot envisage resuming accession negotiations with Turkey, warn MEPs in a report adopted on Thursday. In a report adopted on Thursday by 54 votes in favour, 7 against, […]
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Scientists Grow Food Using Soil from Moon
Scientists Grow Food Using Soil from Moon Scientists grew thale cress seeds in moon dust brought back by three Apollo missions. Credit: University of Florida Food has been grown in soil collected from the Moon for the first time, paving the way for human colonization of the solar system. Scientists from the University of Florida […]
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Asia Minor refugees remembered in Technopolis show
Asia Minor refugees remembered in Technopolis show An archive photo from the US Library of Congress’ National Red Cross Photograph Collection shows refugees from the 1922-24 Asia Minor Disaster at an unidentified location in downtown Athens soon after their arrival, as the country grappled with the influx of millions of ethnic Greeks from Turkey. The […]
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Pytheas of Massalia: The First Greek to Reach Britain and the Arctic
Pytheas of Massalia: The First Greek to Reach Britain and the Arctic Sculpture of Pytheas from the 19th century. Credit: Rvalette /Wikimedia Commons/CC BY-SA 3.0 Pytheas of Massalia, a geographer from the Greek colony of Massalia, the modern-day city of Marseille in southern France, was the first-ever Mediterranean to reach and explore not only Great […]
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Ancient Greek Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds Curse Against 55 People
Ancient Greek Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds Curse Against 55 People The “Curse Jar” found at the Athens Agora in 2006 has only recently been deciphered. Credit: Facebook/American School of Classical Studies in Athens Archaeologists believe that a 2,300-year-old jar from Ancient Greece containing the bones of a dismembered chicken was likely used as […]
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Feng Boming resigns from OLP’s board
Feng Boming resigns from OLP’s board The resignation of a member of Piraeus Port Authority’s (OLP) board of directors, Feng Boming, was accepted by the company, OLP said on Tuesday. Feng’s position will not be allocated to another person for the remaining term of the current board of directors, it was noted. Source : Newsroom […]
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Group of Ukrainian athletes train in Albania, miss home
Group of Ukrainian athletes train in Albania, miss home After fleeing from a war zone, a group of young Ukrainian track and field athletes have made their way to safety in Albania. Their minds are still between the two countries. “I miss my mother’s food and grandmother’s advice,” said 17-year-old Maria Lariva, who throws the […]
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Bulgaria to receive US LNG deliveries from June
Bulgaria to receive US LNG deliveries from June Bulgaria will receive US liquefied natural gas (LNG) supplies from June to help it after Russia’s Gazprom cut off gas deliveries, the government said on Wednesday. The arrangement was agreed at a meeting between Prime Minister Kiril Petkov and US Vice President Kamala Harris in Washington, the […]
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Greece books place in Eurovision final
Greece books place in Eurovision final Amanda Georgiadi Tenfjord from Greece performs during the first semi-final of the 2022 Eurovision Song Contest in the Italian city of Turin, on Tuesday. The Greek-Norwegian singer and songwriter performed her ballad “Die Together” winning a place in Saturday’s Grand Final. [Reuters] Source : Newsroom Σύνδεσμος
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Greece and UAE Set Up $4.2 Billion Investment Initiative
Greece and UAE Set Up $4.2 Billion Investment Initiative Greece is keen to attract investment from the United Arab Emirates. Credit: PM Press Office Greece and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have agreed to create a €4 billion ($4.22bn) initiative to invest in the Greek economy during a visit by Greek premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis to […]
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Greece Expects Half a Million Tourists from the U.S. This Year
Greece Expects Half a Million Tourists from the U.S. This Year Credit: Greek Reporter Greece expects half a million tourists from the U.S. this year, more than any other time before, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Monday. “We have never had 500,000 travelers directly from the U.S. to Athens [in one year],” Kikilias said, […]
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Growth: Forecasts for Greece in 2022 downgraded
Growth: Forecasts for Greece in 2022 downgraded The average consensus of economists from international organizations, international ratings agencies and international banks may point to growth of 3.2% for Greece in 2022, but developments lead to an energy deficit in the eurozone, which will have an inflationary and recessionary impact, and the Greek economy will also […]
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Greece Reopens Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine
Greece Reopens Embassy in Kyiv, Ukraine A massive shipment of humanitarian aid was sent from Greece to Ukraine days before Greece announced the reopening of the embassy in Kyiv. Credit: AMNA Greece announced on Monday that has reopened its embassy in the capital of Ukraine Kyiv after it was forced to shut it down in […]
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Greece, UAE Strengthen Ties in PM Mitsotakis Visit
Greece, UAE Strengthen Ties in PM Mitsotakis Visit Greece is keen to attract investment from the UNited Arab Emirates. Credit: PM Press Office Greece and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) confirmed the strategic nature of the relations during the meeting of visiting Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with the heir to the throne of Abu Dhabi […]
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Tourism Min.: 63 direct flights per week from the USA
Tourism Min.: 63 direct flights per week from the USA “Tourism is – and rightly – the great economic powerhouse of the country”, noted the Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias in the interview given to the SKAI radio, adding that the Government expects significant revenues in 2022 from the sector. Mr. Kikilias referred extensively to […]
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A Bottle of Ouzo — and its Connection to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla
A Bottle of Ouzo — and its Connection to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla One of the ouzo bottles from the Jewish distillery in Thessaloniki. Credit: AMNA How does ouzo, the anise-flavored aperitif that is widely consumed in Greece and Cyprus, relate to Albert Bourla and the COVID vaccine? It has emerged that Albert Bourla’s ancestors […]
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Singer Recreates Grandfather’s Lost Music from 1930’s Greece
Singer Recreates Grandfather’s Lost Music from 1930’s Greece Greek singer Tony Rais and his granddaughter Lorrie Doriza, who has recreated his lost music from the 1930s. Illustration: Greek Reporter Lorrie Doriza, the talented Greek-American granddaughter of a popular singer from 1930’s Greece, recently released an album of songs she lovingly re-created from her grandfather Tony […]
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Parties can no longer hide from the young
Parties can no longer hide from the young Apart from the “much-beleaguered middle class” and “pensioners struggling to make ends meet,” Greece’s young people are also growing increasingly desperate and frustrated. We are talking about a generation who have already spent nearly half their lives experiencing a crisis and struggling with its effects. These are […]
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Subsidy platform from June
Subsidy platform from June Power consumers eligible for the retroactive subsidy of electricity bills the prime minister announced on Thursday will be able to submit their applications on an online platform that will open in early June, the government announced on Friday. The measure concerns bills issued from December 2021 to this month and will […]
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Athens Street Food Festival opens in Gazi
Athens Street Food Festival opens in Gazi From Friday, May 6, the Athens Street Food Festival is firing up its ovens again to welcome all foodies, protothema.gr reports. Bigger than ever, the Athens Street Food Festival this year will be held in four three days, ie all Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays of May (6-8, 13-15, […]
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Bulgaria will seek EU exemption from excise duties on power and gas
Bulgaria will seek EU exemption from excise duties on power and gas Bulgaria, faced with high power costs and a halt to its supply of Russian natural gas, will ask the European Commission next week to allow it to scrap excise duties on electricity and natural gas to safeguard its economy, the government said on […]
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Kalymnos: Investigation into claims police prevented rape victim from filing complaint
Kalymnos: Investigation into claims police prevented rape victim from filing complaint Police are expected to launch an internal investigation into the allegations of a 19-year-old student that police on the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos prevented her from making a complaint that she had been raped. The woman successfully filed a complaint the next day against […]
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Germany to charter FSRUs from Dynagas
Germany to charter FSRUs from Dynagas Germany will charter two large floating storage and regasification units (FSRUs) from Greece-based Dynagas, which can replace 30% of its current Russian gas imports, utility Uniper, which facilitated the deal, said on Thursday. The FSRUs Transgas Force and Transgas Power, built in 2021, each have a total natural gas-send-out […]
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Dynagas: Energy solutions for Germany from Giorgos Prokopiou’s Dynagas
Dynagas: Energy solutions for Germany from Giorgos Prokopiou’s Dynagas Two Floating Storage and Regasification Units (FSRU) for Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) were chartered from George Prokopiou’s Dynagas Ltd to the German Uniper, whose total capacity is equivalent to 30% of Russian gas imports to Germany. With this move, Uniper comes to diversify and strengthen the […]
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Tourism Min.: New deals for more tourists from Romania
Tourism Min.: New deals for more tourists from Romania The messages from the new agreements reached by the Minister of Tourism Vassilis Kikilias during the successive meetings he held in Bucharest with Romanian tour operators were optimistic and very promising. In a statement, Mr. Kikilias stressed that there is a large increase in the places […]
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Ukrainians flood village of Demydiv to keep Russians at bay
Ukrainians flood village of Demydiv to keep Russians at bay Ukraine released water from a hydroelectric dam to block the Russian military advance, flooding the village of Demydiv. [David Guttenfelder for The New York Times] Source : Newsroom Σύνδεσμος
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