Electronica Festival | Athens | May 27-28
Athens’ biggest electronic music festival, ADD is taking place this year at the Pireos 260 venue, under the umbrella of the Athens & Epidaurus Festival.
American philhellenism and human rights
The Society for Hellenism and Philhellenism (SHP), organizes in collaboration with the Municipality of Athens at the Philhellenism Museum, an event entitled: “American philhellenism and human rights.”
Supermarkets brace for drop
Since the start of the year the supermarket sector has found itself in negative territory when compared with last year, both in turnover and in sales volume, as the wave of price hikes has suppressed consumption even of basic food commodities.
Greece sends letter to UN countering Turkish claims
The permanent representative of Greece to the United Nations delivered a letter addressed to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday rejecting claims contained in a letter delivered by Turkey to the same body in September 2021.
Sending arms to Ukraine
What Russia originally thought was going to be a 48-hour cakewalk with Ukraine has now dragged on for more than three months and the fact that the country has held out as long as it has is already a defeat for Moscow.
Clashes erupt over campus police in Thessaloniki
Clashes broke out again on Thursday between students and riot police at Thessaloniki’s Aristotle University. One student was transferred by ambulance to hospital after suffering injuries to his face. Clashes ensued when a group of some 50 students, protesting against the planned installation of university police outside the university, reached a barricade set up by…
Tsitsipas survives tough Kolar test to move into third round
Stefanos Tsitsipas was again made to work hard for victory, the Greek fourth seed overcoming Czech qualifier Zdenek Kolar 6-3 7-6(8) 6-7(3) 7-6(7) in a marathon match on Thursday to move into the French Open third round.
Climate law passed, ridding Greece of coal use for electricity
Greece passed its first climate law on Thursday, which sets out specific targets to fight climate change and wean itself off coal in power generation by 2028.
Putin showed his true hand. The West kept shaking it
It was a naive gamble: if we were nice to Putin, maybe he would be nice to us.
Slight rise in Cypriot economic sentiment
Economic sentiment in Cyprus improved slightly this May as the Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI-CypERC) increased by 1.1 points compared with April 2022.