The five staff unions of the Culture Ministry said on Tuesday they intend to continue their labor action against a law altering the operation of Greece’s five major state-run museums (the National Archaeological Museum, Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, Archaeological Museum of Heraklion, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Museum of Byzantine Culture), and announced a work stoppage…
The funeral of one of Greece’s most influential composers of the 20th century, Yannis Markopoulos, will take place in Athens on Thursday, his family announced on Monday.
With the election looming, conservative New Democracy has a 21.7-percentage point lead over main opposition SYRIZA, according to a poll of voter intentions based on expected valid votes conducted by Alco on behalf of Alpha TV and presented on Monday evening.
In a one-day visit to the breakaway state in Turkish-occupied northern Cyprus on Monday, newly re-elected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan warned that “if there are those who want to prevent peace, then we will be forced to implement a different plan.”
The groundwork for the establishment of a specialized jurisdiction court in Cyprus, which will exclusively handle issues related to primary residence foreclosures, will be laid on Thursday
Athens Stock Exchange Group (HELEX) is organizing a series of international roadshows to promote listed medium-capitalization companies to European institutional investors for the first time.
The issue of the Turkish consulate’s intervention in the Rodopi constituency of Thrace continued to spark tension on Monday with acrimonious exchanges between New Democracy and SYRIZA.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias has spearheaded a law that made his state the first in the U.S. to effectively ban book bans.
New Democracy President Kyriakos Mitsotakis voiced his satisfaction with the current easing of tensions in Greek-Turkish ties, but insisted he had no illusions as to the possibility of changing long-term trends in foreign policy. Visiting the island of Leros, Mitsotakis reiterated that Greece is only discussing the dispute over the continental shelf, which means the…
Tom Ellis, the editor in chief of Kathimerini’s English Edition, joins Thanos with the latest analysis from Athens ahead of this second round of elections on June 25th.