Uncertainty is the only certain thing in the new era we are entering, said Cyprus’ Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides addressing the 14th Congress of the island nation’s Free Trade Unions of Semi-Governmental Organizations last week.
The Institute of International Relations (IDIS) is hosting this year’s meeting of the Israeli-Hellenic Forum, themed “A World in Transition,” under the aegis of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
A good friend who has lived and read history noticed something while reading an old edition of Kathimerini. I confess that I could not believe it, no matter how many times I read it: August 30, 1921.
The Athens Open-Air Film Festival, a fun event that brings old favorites and new movies to public spaces and gardens across the Greek capital during the summer, is back.
Athens International Airport ranks high on the chart of Europe’s busiest airports for the week June 16-22: Eleftherios Venizelos Airport has seen its average figure of daily flights climb to 2,061, an increase of 6% on the previous week.
Greek health authorities announced 9,294 new cases of Covid-19 and 13 virus-related deaths during their daily briefing on the course of the pandemic on Sunday. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also announced 93 intubated patients being treated in Intensive Care Units.
Electricity regulators are seeking a solution to the overload of renewable energy projects, with investors not originating from the sector taking up capacity in the national grid.
Governments “need to help” the state take responsibility for the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC), which is still being propped up by emergency funding from the foundation even though the multi-million-euro facility was donated to the Greek state in 2017, SNF President Andreas Dracopoulos said in Athens on Friday.
A fire that broke out in an inaccessible forest area on Mount Athos on Friday is subsiding on Sunday. More than 100 firefighters and 35 vehicles from the Hellenic Fire Service remain on the scene, as well as two airplanes and a helicopter, but there is no active front at the moment.
Two people were detained after clashes between police officers and unknown assailants in central Athens left one police officer injured during the early hours of Sunday morning. Specifically, riot police units stationed around the neighborhood of Exarcheia were pelted with Molotov cocktails for approximately two hours.