Personal diplomacy
The combination of hospitality and personal relationships has always been a powerful weapon in the arsenal of Greek diplomacy.
Church Organ Festival | Syros | August 21-26
An event celebrating a great musical instrument, the Church Organ Festival of Syros returns to the capital of the Cyclades.
Opposition with hard facts
Greece was not “cut in two” by the closure of a section of the national highway between Athens and Corinth because of a fire on a truck, as the pro-SYRIZA website Left.gr argued. The area of Kakia Skala is simply not the center of Greece – unless, of course, you listen to a few Peloponnesians…
2023: Sad days for ‘adoptable’ children in Greece
The year is 2023: a major adoption scandal has unfolded in Hania, Crete. The adoption traffic may have been going on for the past 10 years? Ten years? How about 70 years?
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Large wildfire ravages forest in northern Greece as eight villages are evacuated
Greek authorities on Saturday evacuated eight villages near the northeastern border with Turkey, where a large summer wildfire was burning out of control, whipped on by high winds.
Dream Machines | Hydra | To October 30
Investigating the repercussions of technology on the human imagination, “Dream Machines” is a group exhibition at the Hydra branch of the DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art.
Stern message to Tirana over Beleri
The decision by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to invite the president of Albania, Bajram Begaj, tο an informal dinner of Western Balkan leaders in Athens on Monday rather than the neighboring country’s premier, Edi Rama, is seen as a reflection of Greece’s dismay with Tirana over the ongoing detention of ethnic-Greek Fredi Beleri, who has…
Top court president urges courts to follow through with beach violations
The president of the Supreme Court, Ioanna Klapa, weighed in on Saturday on the issue of widespread zoning and environmental violations on the country’s beaches and coasts, calling on judicial authorities to see that justice is administered on an issue that has been at the forefront of the news this summer.
Cyclist killed after being hit by car in Tripoli
A cyclist aged 79 was killed on Saturday in southern Greece after being hit on a provincial road in Tripoli by a car driven by a 37-year-old man.