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Unknown perpetrators have set on fire two cars belonging to members of the Turkish diplomatic mission in Thessaloniki, Northern Greece. The two attacks took place in neighboring areas the early morning hours of Monday and damaged also four other vehicles parked next to the targeted ones with Turkish diplomatic plates. …
Read More »Greece’s private diagnostic centers on indefinite strike as of June 10
Private diagnostic centers across Greece put a padlock as of Monday, June 10th 2019, due to disagreements with the Health Ministry. The strike is thought to be indefinite or until there is a solution between the centers’ owners and the government. The strike means that neither patients insured at the …
Read More »15. Athens Pride 2019 dedicated to murdered LGBT activist Zak Kostopoulos
With slogans in favor of “equality”, “respect to diversity” and “No to violence,” a colorful and vibrant crow of over 100,000 people celebrated the 15. Athens Pride on Saturday. Members of the LGBT community from Greece and abroad, supporters, families, politicians and representatives of local governments and several organizations gave …
Read More »Greece Weather: 38°C on Sunday, rain and storms on Monday
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. …
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