Thousands of police have been deployed in Athens and the northern city of Thessaloniki on Thursday for commemorative marches to mark the anniversary of a 1973 student uprising that was brutally crushed by the military dictatorship then ruling Greece.
Eurocontrol data show the continued recovery of Greek air transport, as local airports had 7.7% more flights last month than a year earlier, led by Athens Airport, and by Aegean Airlines, which has the lion’s share in the Greek market.
Brinkmanship over the Aegean is something the Turkish military particularly likes and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan desperately needs the army, says Sinan Ciddi, a Turkish-born, British-educated associate professor of national security studies at the Marine Corps University.
Week after week, supermarket chains are competing to become the retailer with the most improved “household basket,” by employing tricks such as increasing private label products, replacing large packages with smaller and therefore cheaper ones, and with price reductions that in many cases are limited to just 1 cent.
A man who posed as a cancer specialist and convinced terminal patients to take his quack herbal remedies has been convicted of seven counts of murder and six attempted murders. He was also found guilty of peddling unlicensed drugs to minors, of fraud and multiple other crimes.
Much has been written in the past few years on the discrete role and influence of the US Congress. It is positive that, albeit belated, importance is now being placed on the decisions and interventions of the legislative bodies.
An international conference opened in Delphi on Thursday to address the challenges of protecting cultural landmarks from increased tourism and other forms of pressure on vulnerable sites and monuments.
Non-salary costs will remain 270 million euros lower in 2023, as the social security bill the government tabled in Parliament on Wednesday provides for the maintenance of the three-percentage point contributions rate reduction as originally introduced in 2021.
The 1973 Athens Polytechnic student uprising marked the “beginning of the end” of the seven-year military dictatorship that ruled Greece with an iron fist from 1967 to 1974 and was a “foundation stone” in the Metapolitefsi.
In her first show at the Skoufa Gallery, artist Lena Schmidt takes an interest in the environment and studies climate change and natural disasters.