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Sunshine and high temperatures of up to 38 degrees Celsius in the shade will prevail on Sunday, on the weekend with the first mini heat wave of summer 2019. According to weather forecast, the highest temperatures are expected in the midday hours in the plain of Thessaly, Central Greece, with …
Read More »First public opinion poll a month before Greece’s General elections
In the first public opinion poll after the European Elections on May 26 and a month before the general elections on July 7, main opposition party New Democracy leads in the citizens’ preference with 31.2%. Ruling party SYRIZA follows with 23.5% According to the poll conducted by Metron Analysis over …
Read More »Father carries son up to Acropolis due to damaged wheelchair lift
It needed the tears of a 12-year-old school boy to draw attention to a problem that again sheds bad light to Greece: The platform lift for the transfer of wheelchairs up to the Acropolis has been out of order for several months. The wheel-chair-bound school boy was shocked to realize …
Read More »Name an exoplanet for Greece: Global project NameExoWorlds by IAU100
Did you always want to name a planet? Here is your chance for an exoplanet. For Greece. The IAU Office for Astronomy Outreach (OAO) is running a global event, a competition to let every country name one exoplanet and its star! Greece is among the countries participating in global event …
Read More »Greek Parliament abolishes the broadening to tax-free basis
The plenary of the Greek Parliament voted to revoke the broadening of the tax-free basis on Friday, the last day of its operation due to the upcoming snap elections in July. The bill passed with the votes of ruling party SYRIZA. Communist KKE and To Potami voted “present”. New Democracy, …
Read More »FinMin Tsakalotos: Regling speaks “nonsense”, if he were my student….
Klaus Regling is speaking “nonsense” said Greek Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos adding that if the head of the European Stability Mechanism were his student, he would be flunked. In an interview with Open TV on Thursday, Tsakalotos referred among others to Regling’s claim that the time when Yanis Varoufakis was …
Read More »Finally Greek summer: Temperatures up to 37 C over the weekend
You know it’s summer when temperature in Athens at 8 o’ clock in the morning is above 24 degrees Celsius. The first quasi heat wave is striking Greece over the weekend with temperatures to reach up to 37° C in several regions across the country on Saturday, June 8, 2019. …
Read More »Greece’s Unemployment drops to 18.1%, the lowest since July 2011
Greece’s unemployment rate eased to 18.1% in March from a downwardly revised 18.4% in the previous month, data from the country’s statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday. The jobless rate in March was the lowest reading since July 2011. However, unemployment among youth remains high at 40.4%. Seasonally adjusted data …
Read More »PM Tsipras rejects Commission report as dictated by “ultra-conservatives in Brussels”
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras rebuffed the European Commission report over the recent “relief measures.” The Commission was taking a leaf out of his political opponents’ book before snap elections, Tsipras said. In statements outside the Maximos Mansion, Tsipras said the results of the European elections had whetted the appetite …
Read More »Women pressure enforces legal improvement of Greece’s “Rape Law”
Following an outcry by women’s groups, Amnesty International and even SYRIZA lawmakers about the “rape” definition and its punishment in the new Penal Code,, Justice Minister Mihalis Kalogirou submitted a legislative improvement early Thursday afternoon. “Anyone who attempts a sexual act without the victim’s consent is punished with imprisonment of …
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