They knew the easy way. They could have effortlessly sent their oil in bulk to Italy. But they didn’t choose that path. Instead, they decided to bottle their extra-virgin olive oil locally and export almost all of it abroad. And their decision is paying off.
Marc Pierini joins Thanos Davelis to break down his latest piece for Carnegie Europe, “Turkey’s dwindling international role,” and look at how multiple crises over the last year and Ankara’s contradictory foreign policy ambitions and rule of law deficiencies have impacted President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s international standing.
Excitement over the recent reopening of Cine Paris in downtown Plaka has been tempered by news that another historic Athens cinema may be converted into a supermarket.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has indicated potential measures to tighten regulations on short-term rentals, including considering a cap on rental days.
The European Union’s diplomacy chief Josep Borell said on Tuesday that the joint Greek-Polish proposal for a joint air defense shield makes sense but expressed concerns on how it will work and how it will be financed.
A veil of mystery continued on Monday to shroud the case of the beating and knife attack on two volunteers in the Parnitha forest area north of Athens after Friday midnight, seriously injuring one of them.
The quality of bathing water at 95.8% of bathing sites in Greece is of excellent quality.
Greece will go ahead with plans to create a marine park in the Aegean Sea despite objections from Turkey, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Wednesday in an interview, during which he also addressed lingering diplomatic tensions with Balkan neighbors Albania and North Macedonia.
Dozens of schools across Attica received bomb threats via email on Wednesday morning, police say.
Turkey’s Ministry of Education is also including the Turkey-Libyan maritime memorandum in the new educational program for school students, along with the “Blue Homeland” dogma that expresses Ankara’s claims in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.