Swing & More | Athens | June 16 & 17
It’s going to be a fun weekend at the Gazarte roof stage, with two uplifting shows by local staples on the live circuit.
It’s going to be a fun weekend at the Gazarte roof stage, with two uplifting shows by local staples on the live circuit.
There were many issues that needed to be discussed in Thursday’s television debate between the leaders of the five parties represented in the Parliament after the May 21 election: their plans for health, education, the economy and how much each policy can benefit the majority and not just the few.
Yiannis Markopoulos, one of Greece’s most influential composers, was laid to rest on Thursday after a funeral service held at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.
Greek tourism has all the requirements to develop into a sustainable source of national wealth that will stand out among the international competition.
Two separate protests were held in central Athens on Thursday evening protesting about the causes of the Pylos shipwreck tragedy.
Authorities in the port city of Kalamata have made nine arrests following the sinking of a fishing boat southwest of the Peloponnese that killed at least 78 migrants, a Shipping Ministry source has said.
The head of the EU border agency Frontex has said the Greek authorities “did their upmost to save lives” in Wednesday’s sinking of a ship crammed with migrants that went down off the coast of Pylos, in the Peloponnese.
A Greek coast guard spokesperson has said that had an attempt been made to forcefully intervene with the vessel carrying hundreds of migrants before it sank, “the coast guard could have caused the shipwreck of the fishing vessel.”
Relatives of passengers who were aboard a trawler crammed with migrants that went down in the Mediterranean Sea early Wednesday have begun arriving in Kalamata, where the survivors have been taken, in the search for their loved ones. People have come from Cyprus, the Netherlands and Germany.