Companies fined €610,000 for misleading Black Friday ads
The Development Ministry imposed fines Monday totaling €610,000 on four companies found to have engaged in misleading advertising in the run-up to Black Friday sales on November 29.
The auction, ‘Nino’ and the marble anthemion
It was October 1994 when a group of 12 police officers, including two Greeks, surrounded a white villa in a suburb of Munich. In the attic they found ancient vases, marble columns, statues and fragments of mosaics, as well as documents that recorded suspicious transactions in detail.
Greek film ‘Dodo’ wins audience prize at EUFF in Toronto
“Dodo”, a film by Greek filmmaker Panos H. Koutras, has won the Audience Choice Award at the 20th European Union Film Festival, staged in Toronto from November 14 to 28.
Workers of Thessaloniki metro to share 1 million euros bonus
A 1 million euros bonus will be distributed among Aktor employees who worked on the Thessaloniki metro project.
Suspended officer wanted for assaulting, robbing ex-partner
Police authorities are searching for a suspended fellow officer accused of domestic violence and theft by a former partner in the Athens port district Piraeus on Saturday night.
Prime ministerial intentions and Greek-Turkish ties
Most prime ministers in the post-dictatorship period have wanted to come to some form of agreement with Turkey. Konstantinos Karamanlis certainly did, Andreas Papandreou made a solid effort at Davos, Konstantinos Mitsotakis thought of it constantly and Kostas Simitis pursued it systematically.
German media: Thessaloniki metro among ‘world’s most beautiful’
Germany’s public broadcaster ZDF has hailed Thessaloniki’s newly inaugurated metro as “one of the most beautiful in the world.”
Short-term rentals’ new rules
Bills foresee strict management guidelines, more scrutiny from tax and tourism officials.
Shop owner arrested in underage drinking case, girls hospitalized
Two teenage girls, both under Greece’s legal drinking age of 18, were hospitalized in the provincial city Trikala, in mid-northern Greece, on Saturday night after consuming alcohol purchased from a local grocery store.
Zografeion Lyceon in Constantinople celebrates Apostle Andrew
A grand musical event was organized at the historic Zografeion Lyceum of Constantinople, in memory of Apostle Andrew of Asia Minor, the founder of the church of Constantinople, on the occasion of the Thronal Feast Day of the Ecumenical Patriarchate. The event, held on November 30th under the auspices of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, was a…