Primer Festival | Athens | August 26-27
With a lineup including some of the greatest names on the DJ scene, Primer returns for a fourth end-of-summer party by the sea, at Plateia Nerou.
First skirmishes
In an op-ed article published on June 11, prior to this year’s second election in Greece, I argued that despite my reservations about New Democracy’s performance in its first term, I would vote for them because I wanted to safeguard the governability of Greece.
The elusive investment grade
Credit rating agency DBRS Morningstar, one of the “big four” agencies, along with Fitch, Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s whose ratings the European Central Bank takes into account, explained on Friday why it has not bestowed an investment grade on Greece.
Beer production jumped over 41% in 2022
Beer production in Greece increased significantly in 2022, with exports taking an increasingly important role, especially for the two biggest breweries, both foreign-owned.
Armed attack on taxi driver in Athens sparks police investigation
An armed attack on a 29-year-old taxi driver occurred shortly after 6 a.m. on Syngrou Avenue in Athens on Saturday.
Bulgarian man arrested for flag incident at Kavala harbor
Officers of the Kavala CentralPort Authority arrested a 35-year-old Bulgarian man after he lowered the Greek flag from a mast in the harbor of the northern Greek town while hoisting a Bulgarian flag and apparently yelling, “This is Bulgaria.”
Authorities meet on migration as arrivals by land and sea are increasing
Greece’s government met on Friday to try to improve coordination on migration as a group of 102 migrants crossed by land from Turkey and other parts of the Mediterranean country saw a spike in arrivals by sea.
Greece’s ‘beach towel movement’ gains popularity, raising questions about the country’s tourism model
Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder and editor of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the “beach towel movement” in Greece, which has seen citizens on a number of popular islands mobilize to reclaim their beaches from private businesses, and look at its broader impact.
Saving our forests, no matter the cost
The comparison between Greece and France is very telling: In France, writes the forester-environmentalist Lefteris Stamatopoulos in his study published by dasarxeio.com, there are 16 million hectares of forest, in Greece only 3.3 million
Magic Johnson has some ancient Greek kitschy fun in Kefalonia
Wearing ancient Greek chlamys, NBA legend Magic Johnson and his wife, Cookie, partied with their friends on his boat off the coast of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea.