Air passenger figures take off
Passenger traffic posted a major increase across the country’s airports during the year’s first five months, according to data from the Civil Aviation Authority.
Green light for absorption of ANEK by Attica Group
The competent agencies of the Competition Commission have recommended the approval of the merger, through absorption, of ANEK ferries by Attica Group.
Tax fairness and elegance
Greek second round elections are due, and tax policy and tax fairness have become (purposefully) a campaign issue. Sadly, divide-and-conquer is polarizing the people and setting up parties against each other as though the other side is not worth a vote.
Risk of mosquito-borne diseases rising in Europe, says health agency
Europe recorded almost as many locally caught cases of dengue in 2022 as it had over the previous 11 years, new figures from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) show.
Transformations: Gaia & Cthonia | Athens | June 22 – September 30
Opening at The Foundry Suites Athens at 7 p.m. on Thursday and running to the end of September, the group show “Transformations: Gaia & Cthonia”
What to look out for ahead of Greece’s upcoming elections
Political scientist and expert Panos Koliastasis, the author of the book “Permanent campaigning in Greece in times of crisis: the Samaras, Tsipras and Mitsotakis premierships,” joins Thanos Davelis to break down what we should be looking out for ahead of Greece’s upcoming elections this Sunday.
Borrowers will not share data
Two in every three borrowers who reached the penultimate step before the final submission of their application to join the mortgage installment subsidy program have canceled it on their own initiative.
Dozens rescued from Evros River islet
Dozens of children were among 145 asylum seekers who were rescued off an islet in the Evros River on the Greek-Turkish border on Thursday morning.
The unknown slum of Ilisia
In the 1940s, one bank of the Ilisos River in Athens was a large slum, with shacks set up there by refugees who arrived after the 1922 Asia Minor Catastrophe.
Kalamata Dance Festival is back, pondering ways of existence
The Kalamata International Dance Festival returns to the southern Greek city this summer, in a rich celebration of some of the most exhilarating Greek and international contemporary choreographies, for 10 days from July 14.