The African Greeks of Avato
The village of Avato, in Xanthi, northeastern Greece, is home to a roughly 200-strong Afro-Greek community whose ancestors are believed to have come here from Sudan during Ottoman rule.
Tourist convicted after attacking disabled driver in Thessaloniki
A 26-year-old Spanish tourist was handed a suspended six month prison sentence on Tuesday by a three-member court in Thessaloniki for physically assaulting disabled 59-year-old Yiannis Kastouras when he berated him for parking in a space reserved for the handicapped in the center of the city.
Everyone’s business
One of the measures by which a society is judged whether it is civilized or not, is by the way it treats animals.
Winter has come early for our pockets
Headlines announced the bad news in early August in a tone that unsuccessfully tried to banish panic with sarcasm: Greece had the highest electricity rates in Europe.
Stournaras sees eurozone inflation peaking in 2022
Eurozone inflation could peak this year then decline in 2023 before moving toward the ECB’s 2% target the following year, Bank of Greece chief Yannis Stournaras said on Wednesday.
WWF: Single-use plastics reduction on paper only
The WWF Hellas environmental organization is lamenting delays in the implementation of European legislation on single-use plastics.
Mitsotakis meets Blair
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed global and regional developments, as well as the challenges posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the prime minister’s office.
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Wiretapping: Former spy chiefs asked to attend confidential hearing
Nine people, including four former intelligence chiefs, have been requested to attend a closed-door hearing in Parliament on the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the wiretapping of PASOK-Movement for Change leader Nikos Androulakis.
Erdogan: Greek ‘harassment’ of Turkish jets a ‘hostile act’
“Greece is not an equivalent or interlocutor, either politically, economically or militarily,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, describing the recent “harassment” of Turkish jets by Greek air defense systems as a “hostile act.”