The New Museum of Aigai in Vergina in northern Greece was inaugurated on Monday as a multipurpose space that incorporates and unites the new central building with the entire archaeological site, including the Palace of Philip, the Royal Tombs cluster and the Museum of the Royal Tomb.
Strongmen, it seems, never learn from the mistakes of others and, worse, do not even remember their own blunders. Istanbul’s mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, was convicted to more than two years in jail and will be banned from all political activity. The reason is simple: Turkey’s mercurial president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who faces a do-or-die election…
The government of Cyprus is weighing a proposal for a pipeline that would carry natural gas from Israel to the island nation, where it would be processed and exported by ship to Europe and elsewhere as Russia’s war in Ukraine compounds an energy crisis, the Cypriot energy minister said Monday.
Greece confirmed 150 deaths from Covid-19, or 14 deaths per 1 mln people (weekly change: +8%), in the week of December 12-18, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said in its weekly statistics report on Tuesday.
Greek basketball center Kostas Antetokounmpo, a brother of Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, has signed with Turkish club Fenerbahce a few days after parting ways with NBA giants the Chicago Bulls.
Greek MEP Eva Kaili has admitted under questioning in Belgium that she had asked her father to hide part of the money that was in her home, according to reports in the Belgian magazine Knack and newspaper Soir.
Ferry services from the Attica ports of Piraeus, Rafina and Lavrio to the Cyclades, the Dodecanese and Crete remained on hold for a second day on Tuesday due to strong winds on many maritime routes.
The European Court of Human Rights has unanimously ruled that the Greek Parliament’s refusal to lift the immunity of Panos Kammenos, when he was defense minister in 2018, “directly hindered” the right of foreign minister Dora Bakoyannis to a fair trial in defamation proceedings she brought against him.
The Greek government welcomed a long-awaited agreement reached on Monday by European Union ministers to impose a natural gas price ceiling, which they hope will help households and companies better withstand price spikes.
Two days after Eva Kaili’s speech on November 22 in the European Parliament, during which the Greek MEP described Qatar as a pioneer in labor rights, MEPs of the Socialists and Democrats group in the parliament received an email from Italian MEP Andrea Cozzolino urging them to vote against a paragraph of a resolution that…