Germany is the honored country at the 88th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) and a former coach of the Greek national football team, Otto Rehhagel, who led Greece to triumph in Euro 2004, is promoting Germany’s participation.
They compete under the same flag but speak different languages and come from different parts of the world. After fleeing war and persecution at home, 37 athletes from 11 countries will compete in the Paris Games as part of the Refugee Olympic Team.
Thousands of Greeks gather at Syntagma Square to listen to prime minister Georgios Papandreou’s declaration of Athens’ liberation from the Nazi occupation, on October 18, 1944.
According to the National Observatory of Athens’ meteo.gr, Greece on Wednesday witnessed its tenth consecutive day of heatwave.
An airport employee assaulted by former minister Lefteris Avgenakis at Eleftherios Venizelos Airport has requested to withdraw his lawsuit, calling the incident “resolved.”
Victoria Hislop, a British author and novelist known for her works primarily set in Greece, was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature during a ceremony at the Garden Museum in London last week.
Six months after Washington’s green light for the modernization of Turkish F-16s, the program appears to have encountered roadblocks, it was reported on Wednesday.
The Lycabettus Municipal Theater is being transformed into a fantasy playground with a cast of characters including the likes of Daenerys Targaryen, Gandalf and Legolas.
The Hellenic Navy this week extended an advisory effectively banning ship traffic off the coast of the southeastern Peloponnese and further, in a bid to deter ship-to-ship transfers of Russian oil off Greece, three sources said.
The increased number of Turkish tourists using the express visa program for short visits to 10 Greek islands in the eastern Aegean has buoyed the Greek tourism sector.