Fifty years later
The 50-year anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising is an opportunity for some reflection. The transition from the dictatorship to democracy was defined by the “Polytechnic generation” and its legacy.
The 50-year anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic Uprising is an opportunity for some reflection. The transition from the dictatorship to democracy was defined by the “Polytechnic generation” and its legacy.
The sale of the 22% stake in National Bank that went through the stock market on Friday sent turnover soaring above 1 billion euros for the first time in over 15 years.
Fifty years after the student uprising at the Athens Polytechnic, the anniversary’s meaning has been whittled down to what it will remain in history – an act of self-sacrifice, a spontaneous collision of youth with tyranny.
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake occurred off Rhodes on Friday, according to a revised assessment by the National Observatory of Athens’ Geodynamic Institute.
Three people were arrested on Thursday on suspicion of illegally harvesting and stealing almost €11,000-worth of olives from a grove in the northwestern Peloponnese. They stand accused of working with five more unidentified accomplices of harvesting 10,500 tons of olives from groves owned by two people.
Sinan Ciddi and Endy Zemenides join Thanos Davelis to break down how Turkey’s latest decision to continue holding up of Sweden’s NATO bid, its support for Hamas, and its lambasting of the West is playing out in Washington.
Nine months after the Tempe railway crash that claimed the lives of 57 people, the black box of the Intercity train involved in the head-on collision with a freight train has been located.
A Greek-managed merchant ship transporting grains was lightly damaged off the coast of Ukraine and was likely to have been hit by a floating sea mine, according to maritime specialists and a Ukrainian government source.
Trust in public television and radio stations as a source of news is lower in Greece than in the rest of the European Union, according to a Eurobarometer survey published by the European Parliament. While 48% of European citizens trust most public TV and radio stations as a source of news, only 39% of Greeks…
Talks on opening a humanitarian aid corridor into north Gaza could yield results soon, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis has said, a day after meeting his Israeli and Palestinian counterparts.