‘Exemplary’ laws
‘Exemplary’ laws There are various crimes, big and small, which do not garner the necessary contempt among the public to eliminate them. The “traditional vendetta” was one of them. While murder was generally reprehensible, vendetta or so-called “honor crimes” were considered almost heroic. Violence against women was never seen as a heroic act, but there […]
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Doctors struggling to cope on islands
Doctors struggling to cope on islands The vast majority of public health units on the small Aegean islands are struggling to cope as the limited number of doctors are forced to be on call every day, without a day off and generally without the chance to rest in order to cope with the needs of […]
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REDS: Timetable for Alimos Marina, “Small Elliniko” and Cambas Project – Debt Restructuring
REDS: Timetable for Alimos Marina, “Small Elliniko” and Cambas Project – Debt Restructuring The necessary Joint Ministerial Decision will be issued for the utilization and upgrading of Alimos Marina in order to proceed with the issuance of building permits, within the next few days, said managing director Giorgos Konstantinidis, from the floor of the annual general […]
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Athens Chamber of Small and Medium Sized Industries (ACSMI): Inflation and energy costs are burdens for the industry
Athens Chamber of Small and Medium Sized Industries (ACSMI): Inflation and energy costs are burdens for the industry The problems caused by the rise of inflation and the energy crisis in the Greek craft industry were put at the center of the meeting of the president of the Athens Chamber of Small and Medium Sized […]
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Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck Wed in ‘Super Small’ Ceremony
Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck Wed in ‘Super Small’ Ceremony Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck tied the knot in Las Vegas. Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married in a Las Vegas drive-through chapel late on Saturday night, culminating a relationship that stretched over two decades. Lopez announced their marriage on Sunday in her newsletter for […]
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E-grocers shift to 24/7 service
E-grocers shift to 24/7 service The battle for market share in small retail is shifting to the field of extended business hours, where the entry of the two largest digital platforms for ordering deliveries at home has drastically changed the landscape. Remaining open 24 hours a day, seven days a week is now the new […]
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Cyprus improves IIP position
Cyprus improves IIP position Cyprus’ international investment position (IIP) recorded a small improvement at the end of first quarter of 2022, while its net external debt was down 2.23 billion euros, despite the deterioration in the current account balance. Provisional data for Q1 2022 compiled by the Statistics Department of the Central Bank of Cyprus […]
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Superfund: Tender for Greece’s 22 small airports to run as a cluster
Superfund: Tender for Greece’s 22 small airports to run as a cluster The exploitation of the country’s 22 small regional airports is in the pipeline. After the Kalamata airport process, the stage is set for the concession of 22 smaller airports within the next two months. As things seem, at this point, the country’s 22 […]
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Op-Ed: Beware of imitations
Op-Ed: Beware of imitations By Petros Tatsopoulos “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” or “One Step Forward, Two Steps Back”? Depending on whether we see the glass half-full or half-empty, we can quote Neil Armstrong or Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin). However we may view the glass, we must concede that […]
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Greece – Bulgaria NG pipeline undergoes last test
Greece – Bulgaria NG pipeline undergoes last test The small, in length, but strategically important IGB pipeline, which connects the Bulgarian system with the Greek natural gas transmission system and the Trans Adriatic Pipeline (TAP), will start commercial operation, next month, in July. Today (17 June) the pipeline will undergo final testing with the introduction […]
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42 small Greek islands allocated nearly 500 million euros for development
42 small Greek islands allocated nearly 500 million euros for development Forty-two mayors of some of Greece’s less populated islands met with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion on Wednesday, ANA reports. They discussed their cooperation with the government, as well as the implementation and progress of ongoing programs on these islands. Even though […]
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Mayors of 42 small islands meet with PM Mitsotakis on development outlook
Mayors of 42 small islands meet with PM Mitsotakis on development outlook Forty-two mayors of some of Greece’s less populated islands met with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at Maximos Mansion on Wednesday. They discussed their collaboration with the government, as well as the implementation and progress on ongoing programs at these islands. Although each of […]
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NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Hit by Small Meteoroid
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Hit by Small Meteoroid The construction of the James Webb Telescope. Credit: NASA/Chris Gunn, CC BY 2.0 NASA announced on Wednesday that the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) launched on Dec. 25, 2021, has sustained its first noticeable micrometeoroid impact. The American space agency said however that neither the observatory’s […]
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Greek SMEs: Limited investments in new technologies
Greek SMEs: Limited investments in new technologies The percentage of small and medium-sized enterprises that invest in new technologies with the vast majority of them, to finance investments with own funds, utilizing to a small extent even the available financial resources of tools (eg NSRF). This emerges from the upcoming research of the Institute of […]
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Small and Medium Enterprises: Extra tax bonus for green, digital and energy investments
Small and Medium Enterprises: Extra tax bonus for green, digital and energy investments Extra tax bonuses will be available for small and medium-sized enterprises that make green, digital and energy investments. Specifically, the expenses they incur in the green economy, energy and digitalization, will be deducted from their gross income increased by 100%, as a […]
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Only 24% of SMEs have e-store
Only 24% of SMEs have e-store Only one in four Greek small enterprises has an electronic store or is hosted on an online marketplace, even though that was the only way to make sales over long periods of time in the first couple of years of the pandemic. That rate is of course higher than […]
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A New Yorker bound to Hydra
A New Yorker bound to Hydra Brice Marden’s huge studio on the small Saronic island of Hydra is bathed in sunlight. The top floor of the elegant old townhouse has always been dedicated to work and was where sails were made for the building’s original shipbuilding owners, the Kriezis family. The American artist, who shares […]
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Spiralling costs could take Greek graviera cheese off the menu
Spiralling costs could take Greek graviera cheese off the menu NAXOS – In a small factory on the Greek island of Naxos, workers are busy churning out its famous graviera cheese. At least, they are for now. A crisis unfolding on the island’s farms is sparking fears that the locally-produced pale yellow wheels may soon […]
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Country’s first hydrogen station for small vehicles unveiled
Country’s first hydrogen station for small vehicles unveiled Greece’s first fueling station for small hydrogen-powered vehicles was inaugurated on Wednesday on the premises of the Demokritos National Center of Scientific Research in the northern Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi. The fuel station, which makes use of the sun, tap water and state-of-the-art technology, is seen […]
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Why Greek Statues Have Small Penises: A Woman’s Explanation Goes Viral
Why Greek Statues Have Small Penises: A Woman’s Explanation Goes Viral The Artemision Bronze represents either Zeus, the ancient Greek king of the gods of Mount Olympus, or possibly Poseidon, the god of the Sea. Credit: National Archaeological Museum, Athens A woman’s explanation of why ancient Greek statues have small penises has gone viral on […]
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Albanian company struggles to deliver ambulances for Ukraine
Albanian company struggles to deliver ambulances for Ukraine A small company in Albania is struggling to meet demand and produce the first batch of about 500 ambulances governments and agencies are planning to send to Ukraine. “We were given only two weeks to manufacture 11 ambulances and ship them to Ukraine,” a job that usually […]
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Tax relief: Bonus for mergers of small and medium enterprises, professionals and farmers
Tax relief: Bonus for mergers of small and medium enterprises, professionals and farmers Stronger tax incentives compared to the original plan are provided by the bill of the Ministry of Finance for the mergers and collaborations of small and medium enterprises, professionals and farmers. Specifically, the bill of the Ministry of Finance that was submitted […]
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Biden administration seeks Congress approval for small weapons deal to Turkey, say sources
Biden administration seeks Congress approval for small weapons deal to Turkey, say sources The Biden administration has informally reached out to the US Congress to seek approval for a proposed sale of missiles and equipment upgrades to NATO ally Turkey, sources familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. The weapons package was an existing request […]
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Greek president to visit trio of small eastern Aegean isles over weekend
Greek president to visit trio of small eastern Aegean isles over weekend Greek President of the Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou will visit a trio of small southern Dodecanese isles over the weekend, and specifically Halki, Tilos and Symi. On Symi, she will attend a municipal event to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the signing, held on […]
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Bucket list reimagined: Mindful return to the Greek islands
Bucket list reimagined: Mindful return to the Greek islands In a small bay flanked by thyme-covered hills and a medieval castle-topped village, I floated in perfect solitude on the shimmering Aegean Sea. Last summer was my fifth year traveling to different Greek islands like far-flung Astypalea. During the pandemic, the islands’ crystalline waters, white-and-blue villages, […]
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Small town burns effigy to mark Orthodox Good Friday
Small town burns effigy to mark Orthodox Good Friday People prepare an effigy of Barabbas – a figure in the Bible’s New Testament whom Pontius Pilate freed instead of Jesus Christ – for its customary burning, in the town of Nea Kios, in Argolida in the Peloponnese, which is re-enacted on Orthodox Christian Good Friday. […]
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2 Turks fly to Greece in small plane in apparent asylum bid
2 Turks fly to Greece in small plane in apparent asylum bid Two Turkish men who apparently flew right across the Aegean Sea in an ultralight aircraft to seek asylum in the European Union have been rescued after they ran out of fuel and ditched their small plane off the Greek island of Evia, officials […]
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Lignite production set to double
Lignite production set to double Amid soaring prices for electricity due to the small participation of lignite in the fuel mixture, Public Power Corporation (PPC) is reviewing the production capacity of its mines in the context of readiness to face the extreme scenario of a complete suspension of Russian gas imports. At the same time, […]
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Tsipras: 1821 proves that small nations can defeat great empires
Tsipras: 1821 proves that small nations can defeat great empires Greek Independence Day is an important lesson as it shows how a small nation can defeat a large empire, Alexis Tsipras said on Friday. The 1821 revolution serves as “a timeless example for all the peoples of the world” as it “teaches us that even […]
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Greeks in Panama: A Small But Thriving Community in Latin America
Greeks in Panama: A Small But Thriving Community in Latin America Panama City, Panama. Credit: Greek Reporter Greeks are indeed everywhere, even in the tiny Central American nation of Panama. The Greek community there is small, but active and vibrant. A community of no more than one thousand souls has already made its mark on […]
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