2 speedboats carrying migrants stopped, suspected traffickers nabbed
The Greek Coast Guard says it stopped two speedboats carrying a total of 37 migrants off the island of Kos and arrested three alleged traffickers Thursday night.
Greek economy ‘improving despite successive crises’
Alternate Finance Minister Thodoros Skylakakis referred to the bright prospects of the Greek economy at an event for the National Recovery and Resilience Plan, Greece 2.0, held in Kozani.
Small and scrappy is the way for London’s galleries after Brexit
“I have no furniture. No toilet. Nothing,” said Freddie Powell, 29, a contemporary art dealer, standing in the bare, white-tiled box that has been his by-appointment showroom for the past 16 months. His tiny gallery, Ginny on Frederick, occupies a former sandwich bar in the Farringdon area of London and measures just 7 feet wide.
World Bank aids Akamas development
Cyprus’ Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Costas Kadis and Deputy Minister of Tourism Savvas Perdios met with representatives of the World Bank on Thursday in order to formulate a tourism strategy for Cape Akamas.
Sea Tourism Forum sails north
The appeal of Greece and the East Mediterranean as an ideal region for luxury cruising will be one of the main highlights of the 7th Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum (PSTF), scheduled to take place in Thessaloniki on April 25 and 26.
Drawing a line
Greece’s latest conviction by the European Court of Human Rights over the case of the former general secretary of public revenues draws a line for the country’s political system that it ought to have drawn on its own: looking for scandal in order to sully the reputation of your rival should never reach the point…
Anti-SYRIZA fundamentalism
If you walk into a tiger’s cage, a friend quipped, make sure you don’t touch the wild cat’s whiskers. Put differently, when you challenge a more intelligent person than yourself to a public debate, do not attempt to underestimate their intelligence; you only risk exposing yourself to ridicule. Some people appeared to shun this simple…
Antisemitism in Greece
Along with the rest of the world, Greece last week paid tribute to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust.
Cultural Capital Opening Ceremony | Elefsina | February 4 & 5
What else but the Eleusinian Mysteries could have inspired the opening ceremony of Elefsina’s year as a European Capital of Culture?
Tourism management plan
The Tourism Ministry this week presented the framework for the management of tourism destinations, known as Destination Management and Marketing Organization (DMMO). I