With jerky determination, robots played soccer, wowed children with shadow-boxing skills and shot arrows on Monday at the birthplace of the Olympic Games. As they shuffled and occasionally froze for a battery change, their creators and futurologists debated the central question of when robots will be ready to tidy closets and wash dishes.
Italian billionaire Andrea Pignataro, who heads the technology and financial services ION Group, has invested two billion euros in the Ellinikon project.
The lawyer representing one of the victims of a hit-and-run accident last Friday in Thermi, Thessaloniki, argued that the driver responsible was traveling far beyond the speed limit.
Greece’s military leadership is preparing comprehensive operational plans to protect the resumption of the Greece-Cyprus electrical interconnection cable project this fall.
Government spokesman Pavlos Marinakis, admits to mistakes in communicating certain issues that “hurt the party’s base” in an interview with Kathimerini, and tones down his criticism of the legacy of two former New Democracy prime ministers, Kostas Karamanlis and Antonis Samaras.
Greece’s demographic decline constitutes a major threat, perhaps the biggest, to the future of the country. However, it is not a problem that can be addressed only with benefits, no matter how generous they may be.
On a sunny afternoon in a small Greek village, a ginger cat slinks between the tables of a seaside taverna, brushing against the legs of diners who drop scraps of fish. Tourists pause mid-bite, cameras ready. “Look at that little guy!” one whispers. In Greece, encounters like this are almost routine: stray cats roam streets,…
In Germany, his play for Commerzbank has met opposition from the government in Berlin. In Greece, UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel has found a friendlier investment environment.
Fourteen lives were lost and 474 people were injured in traffic collisions across Attica in August, the Attica Traffic Police has said, citing recklessness and lack of attention behind the wheel as the leading causes.
Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis accused former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, who is reportedly preparing a political comeback, of relying on populism.