More than 450 migrants reached Greece’s Aegean Sea islands in boats from Turkey in less than two days, Greek authorities said Thursday, including 51 people who made landfall on the high-end resort of Mykonos.
The hostile comments by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday marking Turkey’s “Victory Day,” the anniversary of the defeat of the Greek forces in Asia Minor in 1922, are indicative of the difficulties that exist by definition in Greek-Turkish relations.
As the large inferno in the Evros region of northeastern Greece entered its 13th day on Thursday, more firefighting personnel were dispatched as the fire flared up again, prompting authorities to warn inhabitants to prepare for possible evacuation.
This spring, Clive Kabatznik, an investor in Florida, called his local Bank of America representative to discuss a big money transfer he was planning to make. Then he called again.
The development of a short-term rental property market must be regulated in ways similar to those implemented by other European megacities, but not in the name of a nostalgic approach to city life.
My friend and Kathimerini commentator Takis Theodoropoulos has a point when he writes that “there is no racism in Greece, to the extent that the ‘noble souls’ want to present it.” Things are, in fact, even worse, if we look at the big picture. But let’s start from the beginning.
Corfu’s artistic allure takes center stage as the Solomos Museum, in collaboration with the Society of Corfiot Studies, presents an illuminating lecture series.
Greece has long been perceived as a civilization state. While well-meaning, this overambitious characterization based on fallacious reasoning cannot apply to the Hellenic Republic.
SYRIZA’s Parliamentary Group Chairman Sokratis Famellos denounced the government during Thursday’s Parliament debate on the wildfires, saying that despite the announcements, the country appeared unprepared for the danger.
In an often acrimonious mood, party leaders debated about the wildfire in Evros in Parliament on Thursday, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis noting that although the preparation was better than any other year, “we are faced with new facts.”