Elections, fantasies and acceptance
“It is again confirmed that we do not know ourselves and that we take our fantasies for real,” a Turkish friend wrote to me on Monday.
“It is again confirmed that we do not know ourselves and that we take our fantasies for real,” a Turkish friend wrote to me on Monday.
The Greek stock market ended the last week before the general election with gains, which made it the third consecutive week of growth for the benchmark at Athinon Avenue.
Michalis Georgiou and Dimitris Stefanidis, the creative duo behind the Athens-based G Design Studio, have won the prestigious Boutique Design Studio of the Year accolade at the ADC Annual Awards in New York City, which this year celebrated 102 years of excellence in design and craft.
The Turkish presidential election result was a blow to Turkey, to Greece, to the broader region and to democracy as a whole. While the rule in democracy is that we respect the will of the people, democracy’s enduring weakness is that it contributes to its own undoing. So, despite the 21 years he’s already spent…
Olympiakos has reached the final of the Euroleague beating Monaco 76-62 in the first semi on Friday in Lithuania.
A moratorium on pre-election activities ahead of Sunday’s general election comes into force at midnight Friday. According to electoral law, on the day of a parliamentary election, as well as on the eve of one, all gatherings and other pre-election activity, must cease.
Energean announced on Thursday that by September 2023 it will submit a comprehensive program for the exploitation of the deposits of the “Olympus Area” of the Israeli exclusive economic zone to the Israeli government for approval, so as to begin its implementation in early 2024.
Ride-hailing company Uber announced on Wednesday in New York that it is about to launch water taxis in Greece, starting with Mykonos.
SYRIZA has said that Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis continues to “defame the country internationally, two days before the elections,” referring to recent reports in the international press.