First-quarter retail commerce turnover in Greece not only exceeded that of the previous year but also that of January-March 2019, according to figures released by the Hellenic Statistical Authority on Wednesday.
Not even PASOK’s warmest supporters had anticipated that the party’s congress would pan out so smoothly – without whining, clashes and personal stratagems.
Hailed for his contemporary take on classic rockabilly, garage rock, jazz and soul, American singer-songwriter Nick Waterhouse is stopping in Greece for two gigs.
“There was Antonis, a man who emigrated to America from Greece, who thought he was a ‘real Greek’ and that everyone from Alatsata [present-day Alacati] and Asia Minor were inferior. Antonis worked in a restaurant, and he made a point of letting people like my uncle and other ‘Ottoman Greeks,’ as he called them, in…
An amendment for the introduction of an emergency subsidy of up to 600 euros for energy consumers and an emergency levy on electricity producers was tabled in Parliament late on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met on Tuesday with several high-level officials of investing firms and large companies on the sidelines of the World Economic Forum at Davos, to discuss investing in Greece.
Referring to the remark by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that “Mitsotakis does not exist for me,” the Greek prime minister reiterated at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday that Athens wants the channels of communication with Ankara to remain open, but hastened to add that he will defend Greece’s sovereignty.
Greece’s population is expected to decline over the next 20 years while the economic crisis in the previous decade only made matters worse, mainly due to the emigration of 450,000 working age people.
After five years of operating direct flights linking Athens with New York, perhaps the time has come for Emirates to consider a similar service to northern Greece, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias proposed while speaking at an event organized by the airline to mark the anniversary.
The Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation is organizing a symposium in English titled “China and Greece: From Ancient Civilizations to Modern Partnership,” which is set to be held in Piraeus on Friday.