ATHEX: Late rally takes index over 1,400 pts
A late rally at Athinon Avenue gave the benchmark of the Greek bourse fresh momentum on Thursday.
A late rally at Athinon Avenue gave the benchmark of the Greek bourse fresh momentum on Thursday.
Thousands of students gathered in Athens on Thursday to protest against newly enacted legislation allowing the establishment of private universities in the country.
Health authorities in the western port of Patra on Thursday sought to assure the public that a small cluster of meningitis cases at the city’s university is being dealt with and should not put off revelers hoping to join the country’s biggest Carnival festivities this weekend.
Banks are the economy’s lungs and they are now healthy enough to pump oxygen on their own, without help from the state. The days of bankruptcy, however, should not be forgotten, because Greece’s lenders would not have survived without the significant life support they received.
Two out of three teenagers think that if they used their mobile phones less they would perform better at school, according to the finds of a survey of 2,291 high school students and graduates by the Poukamisas Educational Center, seeking to assess their relationship with their devices and the impact in and out of school.
Thousands rallied in downtown Athens on Thursday evening over judicial developments in the Kolonos child sexual abuse and pimping case.
Minister of Labor and Social Security Domna Michailidou spoke about the government’s decision to proceed with the fourth consecutive increase of the minimum wage on radio station Parapolitika on Wednesday.
Renewed efforts at cooperation between Athens and Ankara have had a marked effect on reducing refugee flows along the Eastern Mediterranean Corridor, Greek Migration Minister Dimitris Kairidis said on Thursday.
Blank Wall Gallery (55 Fokionos Negri, blankwallgallery.com) presents a group photography exhibition “Moments of Color,” curated by Markos Dolopikos.
The prosecutor’s recommendations for the chief suspect in the case of an Athens girl who was sexually abused and forced into prostitution when she was 12 years old spurred tension in Parliament on Thursday, as a public protest rally was also being planned in the city center.