The Greek who gave $600 million to education
“My wife and I help students study without being shackled by debt on their chosen career path,” says Greek-American Roy Vagelos, 93, a prominent figure in the pharmaceutical industry.
“My wife and I help students study without being shackled by debt on their chosen career path,” says Greek-American Roy Vagelos, 93, a prominent figure in the pharmaceutical industry.
There are so many absurdities in Greece, and we have put up with them for so long that we think they are normal. When we see the world through a distorting lens, it is natural that we cannot identify the problem, nor solve it.
It went largely unnoticed. It was an amendment slipped into a piece of draft legislation on measures to support the families of the victims and the survivors of the Tempe rail crash, which essentially paves the way for a special new service – a “tourism development zoning office” if you will – that will be…
More than 99 pct of the services provided by the public sector will be digital in the next four years, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Friday.
Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Friday said he expects a moratorium with Greece in military and airforce exercises in the Aegean Sea between June 15 and Sept. 15, to accommodate tourism, as relations continued to thaw following the deadly earthquakes in Turkey last February.
The founder and former head of children’s charity “Kivotos tou Kosmou” (Ark of the World), Father Antonios Papanikolaou, on Friday was formally charged with sexual abuse of minors.
Small tax debtors are making use of the favorable provisions offered by the Finance Ministry, entering the 72- or 120-installment arrangements that have been instituted, or even the fixed arrangement.
Greece condemned on Friday a barrage of rocket attacks against Israel which Israeli military blamed on Palestinian militants and urged both sides to show “restraint”, citing the religious holidays.
A retired senior prosecutor in Greece was named Friday as the new leader of a far-right party as it seeks to sidestep a ban on its participation in an upcoming general election.