Red Arrows swish through dusty Athens sky
The Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, known as the Red Arrows, performed its first display over southern Athens on Saturday.
Diaspora startups dwarf Greece’s
Boston, London, New York and San Francisco are but a few of the technological hubs where one can find emerging tech companies with Greek DNA, from the biotechnology sector to artificial intelligence.
Atomico invests in startup Harbor Lab
Ben Blume, a partner at Atomico, has a long list of reasons to explain why the company that manages funds amounting to $4.5 billion is investing in Harbor Lab, the Greek startup that is attempting to digitize the shipping industry.
PM tours Kir-Yianni winery in northern Greece
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited the Kir-Yianni winery in Imathia, in a short break from his two-day campaigning in northern Greece.
Lanthimos’ ‘Kinds of Kindness’ premieres at Cannes
Still fresh off the great success of “Poor Things,” Greek film director Yorgos Lanthimos (second from right) and cast members Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Hong Chau, Jesse Plemons and Joe Alwyn pose on the red carpet during arrivals for the screening of the film “Kinds of Kindness” at the 77th Cannes Film Festival on Friday.
Erdogan puts his Hamas connection back in the limelight
This week kicked off with Turkish President Erdogan stating that 1000 Hamas members were being treated in Turkey, a comment that Turkish officials tried to walk back, saw The Times report that Hamas may have been planning to establish a base in Turkey, and culminated with the Turkish leader suggesting that Israel would “set its…
PM: North Macedonia should use constitutional name everywhere
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated on Saturday the obligation of North Macedonia’s officials to use the country’s constitutional name in every use, as dictated in a 2018 UN-brokered agreement between Athens and Skopje.
Affordable housing plan moving ahead
The government’s ambitious plan for affordable housing, dubbed the social compensation program, entails the construction of apartment blocks on public land with private funds and renting them out at low rates.
State-owned satellites on the cards
The construction of the first Greek state satellites out of a total of 13 for which an open tender was announced earlier in the year will reportedly begin in a month’s time.
European Parliament elections: Mirror and distorted image
The performance by the last batch of Greek members of the European Parliament was not a success, by any measure.