Endy Zemenides, HALC’s executive director, joins Thanos Davelis as we break down the recent stories of optimism around the potential re-opening of Halki Seminary in Turkey, and look at the broader attention the Orthodox Christian world is receiving in Washington, from the Ecumenical Patriarchate to the Russian church.
The government, employers, and labor unions have reached an agreement on collective labor contracts, with the Ministry of Labor describing the deal as ushering in a “new era” with benefits for all parties and ending the bailout-era restrictions that had limited collective bargaining.
Metro, electric train, and tram services in Athens will be suspended on Wednesday from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. following a fatal work accident at the Athens Urban Rail Transport Company (STASY) depot in Piraeus, the company said.
A 19-year-old professional soldier (EPOP) serving in a National Guard battalion on the eastern Aegean island of Rhodes was killed in an explosion on Wednesday, while another soldier was seriously injured, local media reported.
Turkish defense companies signed $6.5 billion worth of contracts to reinforce and develop Turkey’s integrated, multi-layered “Steel Dome” air defense system, the Turkish Defense Industries Presidency (SSB) said on Wednesday.
The torch for the Milano-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympics was lit on Wednesday in an indoor and scaled-down ceremony in ancient Olympia due to weather warnings, marking the final push for organizers for the event in February.
Pope Leo XIV is embarking on his first foreign trip, a pilgrimage to Turkey and Lebanon that would be delicate under any circumstances but is even more fraught given Mideast tensions and the media glare that will document history’s first American pope on the road.
Despite investigations and asset freezes, not a single euro has returned to the accounts of the national agency responsible for distributing EU aid to farmers (OPEKEPE), five months after authorities began efforts to reclaim falsely obtained agricultural subsidies.
After the release of Alexis Tsipras’ political memoir “Ithaki” (Ithaca), the pressing question is how parallel – and for how long – the paths of the former prime minister, his former party SYRIZA, and the splinter group New Left can remain. Party officials note that current SYRIZA leader Sokratis Famellos is not mentioned in the…
Greg Kinnear, the Oscar-nominated actor and one of ACS Athens’ most prominent alumni, returned to his former school on Friday while in Greece filming a new feature project.