Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday defended a bill allowing, under certain conditions, the establishment of branches of foreign universities in Greece for the first time, saying that reforms would have a positive knock-on effect on their public counterparts. Lawmakers are set to vote on the bill later in the day.
Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the general secretary of Greece’s Communist Party (KKE), has stood by his remarks suggesting that the imposition of university tuition fees in Scandinavian universities has led young female students there to date older men for money in order to cover their educational expenses.
Some of the proposals for the reconstruction of Thessaly in central Greece by a Dutch team tasked with drafting a master plan, are being met with objections by locals, in particular one to ditch cotton crops.
A top European Union official is in Cyprus on Friday to inspect preparations to send desperately needed aid to war-ravaged Gaza by sea, just hours after President Joe Biden announced that the US military will set up a temporary port off Gaza’s Mediterranean coast to support deliveries.
It took six decades, countless field surveys in the Greek countryside and thousands of man-hours in microbiological laboratories and on drawing boards to complete the first geological map of Greece.
Parliament on Friday is expected to approve the Education Ministry’s bill allowing, under conditions, the operation, for the first time in Greece, branches of foreign universities.
Greece’s entry for the upcoming Eurovision Song Contest, titled “Zari,” has been officially unveiled.
An Alco poll conducted on behalf of private broadcaster Alpha showed that citizens have lost faith in Tempe investigation, and that leftist SYRIZA fell behind socialist PASOK by one percentage point.
In her tiny Athens apartment, 93-year-old Ioanna Matsouka has knit thousands of brightly colored scarves for children in need from Greece to Ukraine – and she has no plans to quit just yet.
Revelers take part in traditional “Tskinopempti” (Smoky Thursday) celebrations in the northern port city of Thessaloniki.