“Upset” is perhaps the most apt and mild description of the emotion evoked by Portuguese director Tiago Rodrigues’ play “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists: in the few days it has been staged in Athens by the Onassis Foundation.
A riot police officer is in hospital in critical condition after being attacked with a flare by Olympiakos fans at a volleyball game in Rentis, Piraeus on Thursday night.
Singer Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh and fiddler Dónal O’Connor, two prominent figures in Irish traditional music, will be among the Irish acts performing at the 6th Athens Celtic Music Festival, which takes place over three days at the Athina Live venue (3 Poseidonos Ave., Moschato).
Parliament has voted into law a Finance Ministry bill on measures to restrict tax evasion that introduces new regulations for freelancers and the self-employed. All 158 MPs from ruling New Democracy voted for the bill in principle, while 140 voted against it.
The door is now wide open for the entry of quality and long-term investors, who manage trillions of dollars, into the Greek bonds market.
Greece has among the highest antibiotics consumption among EU countries, ranking third in 2021 behind Romania and Bulgaria, with three times the consumption of Austria, which is last in the rankings.
The disinclination of many Greek businesses to exploit the financing tools that would allow them to expand and shift up a gear is a reflection of a structural weakness in the economy.
The benchmark of the market remained practically unchanged and banks suffered renewed pressure.
Several financial reporters are celebrating – some even more than the government – the “privatization” of Greece’s systemic banks – those whose rescue taxpayers are still paying for.
Costas Simitis, who headed Greece’s 1996-2004 socialist government as prime minister, is receiving an honorary fellowship from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) “for his exemplary contributions to society,” at a ceremony on Friday.