A reminder Americans should never take democracy for granted
I needed to get back to my city. The mood amongst all of my friends and family in Washington, with no exception, was one of fear, depression, and even panic.
I needed to get back to my city. The mood amongst all of my friends and family in Washington, with no exception, was one of fear, depression, and even panic.
The second “The Greeks Are Back” conference will be held in Athens next Wednesday, November 23, with the participation of Greek senior executives working for large multinational companies abroad.
Price hikes in products and services, as well as the large growth of tourism, boosted business turnover to record highs during the third quarter of this year.
The Greek stock market slipped further on Thursday, following Wednesday’s decline, in a session that started with buyers reacting to the previous day’s drop with selective moves and ended with sellers having the upper hand, with all indexes ending in the red.
A march through central Athens commemorating a 1973 student uprising against Greece’s then military regime concluded without major incident Thursday evening.
Omer Celik, spokesman of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling AK Party, recently went too far, comparing Greece to the Islamic State (ISIS).
An amendment which temporarily establishes the reimbursement of part of the windfall profits of electricity suppliers in Greece was approved in Parliament on Wednesday. The Environment and Energy Ministry’s bill was approved in the plenary session by the votes of ruling New Democracy alone.
Well-known children’s charity Ark of the World (Kivotos tou Kosmou) issued a statement on Thursday saying it had no knowledge of allegations of child sexual abuse in one of its structures but would assist in the investigation of them.
An international media NGO has called on the Greek authorities to investigate wiretapping allegations following reports that no fewer than 13 Greek journalists were targeted by the Predator spyware.