Severe weather grips Greece with snow, storms, and temperature plunge
Greece is currently facing a severe weather front that is expected to persist throughout the day, bringing significant disruptions and dangerous conditions.
Greece and UK close to marbles deal
Greece and the British Museum are reportedly nearing a crucial agreement for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, with a potential resolution anticipated as soon as 2025.
Insurers decry inflated hospital bills
Greek health insurers report significant financial losses due to inflated charges by private hospitals, despite sharp increases in premiums.
Cyprus targets more tourism markets
Cyprus will be technically ready to join the Schengen area within 2025, Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides told a conference.
Youngster Kostoulas turns things around for Olympiakos
Olympiakos has extended its lead at the top of the Super League table through its come-from-behind win over Aris.
‘Trump is the best president in economics’
Revenues fall when taxes increase and extended tax cuts lead to lower revenues. This delicate balance between the two tax extremes and the ideal tax rate that maximizes government revenue is described in the famous theorem known as the “Laffer curve” by Ronald Reagan’s chief economic adviser, Dr Arthur Laffer.
Riding scooters in Athens
Electric scooters are back in force, but safety concerns and the sight of abandoned shared vehicles on sidewalks and crosswalks are causing growing concern.
The PM who queued for the cinema
Costas Simitis was the antidote to much that preceded him in Greek politics. He was the antithesis of the populism and the melodramatic conflicts that had sometimes gone before him.
‘This is Greece!,’ Costas Simitis’ rallying cry
One of the late Costas Simitis’s most memorable comments, “This is Greece!,” was made in Parliament a few days after the passenger ferry Express Samina sank off Paros, with the loss of 81 lives, on 26 September 2000.
Τhe United States at a crossroads
In a few days Donald Trump will become, again, president of the United States. As the elections revealed, about half of the voters are eager for that day to come, while the other half dread the occasion.