Will the Metapolitefsi cycle come to a close?
Greece marks 50 years since the fall of the 1967-74 dictatorship and the restoration of democracy – a process known as the “Metapolitefsi” – next year.
The last Greek summer
The signs are there, everywhere. Athens is full of foreign tourists. You see them packed into the narrow city-center streets, but also unexpectedly wandering around the suburbs, smiling from ear to ear, slaloming between the cars parked on the sidewalks. Some of Greece’s most popular destinations are already packed – with foreigners. Others are getting…
Greeks abroad to cast their vote on Saturday, June 19
A total of 25,610 Greeks abroad have registered to vote from their place of residence on Saturday, one day ahead of the ballot in Greece on Sunday, the Interior Ministry said on Monday.
MEP Kaili files claim in EU Parliament that she was surveiled while on PEGA committee
European Parliament Deputy Eva Kaili has appealed to the European Parliament for violation of her parliamentary immunity, in a claim she was surveilled by intelligence services during her tenure on the PEGA committee (Committee of Inquiry to investigate the use of Pegasus and equivalent surveillance spyware), her lawyers Sven Mary and Michalis Dimitrakopoulos said on…
Greek army chief participates in military airdrop exercises
The Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff General Konstantinos Floros participated in airborne exercises on Monday. The general parachuted from a Chinook CH-47D before landing at sea near the town of Nea Peramos according to a release by the Greek military.
Man suspected of murdering woman on Kos to testify on Wednesday
A 32-year-old man suspected of the murder of a young woman working on the island of Kos was granted an extension and will testify on Wednesday.
Decision to amend the deadline for submission of the tender offers and the deadline for the electronic opening of the tender offers within the context of the Declaration of an open process for the construction of the project: «Renovation – upgrade of the Emergency Departments of the General Rhodes Hospital ‘Andreas Papandreou’»
For more information, see the attached document in Greek.
With scores missing from shipwreck, family members flock to Greek migrant camp
Inside a fenced migrant camp near Athens, relatives hugged survivors on Monday while others refused to abandon hope of finding loved ones who were among the scores missing after one of the Mediterranean’s deadliest shipping disasters last week.
Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center going fully digital
The Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center in southern Athens is on the brink of becoming the first fully digitized hospital in Greece and among the first in Europe, while also moving to the next stage with the latest generation of imaging systems and artificial intelligence.
Mediterraneo | Athens | June 20
In honor of World Refugee Day, the open-air Vox cinema in Exarchia will be hosting a free-entry screening of the multi-award-winning film “Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea.”