Paradox in local labor market
Employers complain about a shortage in professionals, but they refrain from raising salaries.
Barren weekend for Super League leaders
PAOK and AEK shared a 0-0 draw in Sunday’s derby, but so did Levadiakos and Olympiakos on Saturday.
9 booze thieves nabbed; 4 still at large
Greek police announced Sunday the arrest of nine individuals who stole bottles of spirits from the same company’s liquor stores and then resold them. Four are still at large.
‘Translating’ our arguments
Every time I come into contact with foreign diplomats, academics or analysts I am shocked by their ignorance of the issues that lie at the heart of Greek-Turkish relations. In one sense it is completely logical.
When the salary lasts for 18 days
In 1984, with Margaret Thatcher as British prime minister, a newly elected Tory MP, Matthew Parris, conducted a Thatcherite-inspired experiment.
Returning home, left in limbo
Dimitrios Anastasakis returned to Greece with a master’s degree from Yale and experience as a postdoctoral researcher at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
Anna Benaki-Psarouda, first woman Speaker, dies ατ 91
Anna Benaki-Psarouda, 91, former Athens Law School Professor, longtime MP and the first woman elected Parliament Speaker, has died, her family announced Sunday.
Fast-food, fast profits
It is quite astonishing how the markets of overpriced fast food and, of course, of gambling, have not registered on anyone’s radar, since the former, at least, is not even included in the restaurant index.
Costa-Gavras: ‘We’ve entered a very difficult era’
Greek-French director Costa-Gavras celebrated his 93rd birthday in Thessaloniki, where the city honored him at the site of the 1963 assassination of politician Grigoris Lambrakis – the event that inspired his political thriller “Z.”
A satellite’s journey from Thrace to space
The first time I met Thracian entrepreneur Christos Giordamlis was while reporting on a major wildfire that tore through the Dadia Forest in northeastern Greece in the summer of 2023