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In an unprecedented move for a prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, openly criticized the country’s unions that have launched a 24-hour strike on Wednesday, the second within a couple of days. “Once again, a few strike and many are in trouble!” Mitsotakis wrote on his private Facebook account taking an open …
Read More »National Meteo warning: Strong rainfalls, storms, wind, hail Oct 3-7
What if we, in Athens, have 30 degrees Celsius and a bright sunshine on Wednesday? The weather is going to rapidly change for the worse with rainfalls, thunderstorms, powerful winds and possible hail falls. The Greek National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a weather warning. The barometric low will start …
Read More »Academy of Athens honors outgoing ECB chief Mario Draghi
The Academy of Athens honored the outgoing President of the European Central Bank (ECB) Mario Draghi for his role in rescuing the European economic and monetary union and for his response and actions in dealing with the debt crisis in the Eurozone. “His contribution is significant and is universally recognized,” …
Read More »Goulandris Museum opens its gates to the public in Athens
A new museum opens its gates to the public in Athens on October 2, 2019: The Museum of Contemporary Art of the Basil and Elise Goulandris Foundation The museum’s mission, as envisioned by its founders, is for everyone to have access to unique works of art created by some of …
Read More »Air-raid sirens of Greek Civil Defense sound across the country (video)
The penetrating sound of the air-raid sirens of the Greek Civil Defense sounded across the country on Wednesday morning. They sounded twice using two different sound patterns. It was a test in the context of the military exercise PARMENION 2019 The sirens sounded twice and thus: • At 11:00, the …
Read More »Workers at Metro, Tram, Trains on work stoppage, 24h strike Oct 3 (UPD)
Workers at Athens Metro Lines 1, 2 and 3, and at the Tram have announced to launch work stoppages on Thursday, October 3, 2019. Train and Proastiakos workers have declared a 24-hour strike on the same day. Affected by the work stoppage are Metro Lines 2 and 3, Urban train …
Read More »IMF’s Thomsen “suffers from short-time memory loss,” says Tsakalotos
Head of IMF’s Europe department “Poul Thomsen suffers from short-time memory loss,” said Syriza MP and former finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos. He was commenting on Thomsen’s claims that the Greek government agreed to high primary surpluses targets during the negotiations in the first half of 2015. Greeks accepted the high …
Read More »Police, Coast Guard crack down traffickers transporting drugs from Albania to Turkey(videos)
Greek Police and Coast Guard have cracked down a criminal ring that was trafficking drugs from Albania to Turkey via Greece. The traffickers were using a cave on a Greek island as storage for their drugs. They would exchange the cannabis for heroin from Turkey and bring it back to …
Read More »Police arrests 3 people for looting ancient ship wrecks
Greek Police has arrested three men on the Aegean island of Kalymnos for plundering ancient shipwrecks and removing more than two dozen intact pottery vases. “The antiquities dated from the 4th Century B.C. to the late Middle Ages,” the police said in a statement on Monday. The artifacts, 24 in …
Read More »Thomas Cook: Revenue loss for Greek hotels at €315mn in 2019, over 1bn in 2020
The collapse of Thomas Cooks opened a big wound in Greece’ tourism sector. According to a survey conducted by the Greek Chamber of Hotels the financial damaged is worth 315 million euros for 2019. And it will reach over one billion euros in 2020. The survey was conducted by the …
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