Santiago Calatrava’s St Nicholas Church opens
St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, right, sits next to ground zero in New York, Tuesday, December 6.
St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, right, sits next to ground zero in New York, Tuesday, December 6.
Visitors from the United States are making up for the drop in tourists from China and Russia in terms of the amount of shopping they do while in Greece, and not only are they spending large amounts of money, they are also showing an interest in luxury items.
John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Athens and Al Jazeera’s southeast Europe correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to look at an oil pipeline project Greece and Bulgaria are looking to revive that would bring oil from Alexandroupoli to Bulgaria and possibly into Romania, bypassing the Bosporus Strait and effectively elevating Greece’s geopolitical status even further.
Disruptions in tanker traffic from Russia’s Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean are a result of a new Turkish insurance rule, not the price cap on Russian oil agreed by a coalition of G7 countries and Australia, an official with the group said on Tuesday.
Greece has made obvious leaps since 2015 in innovation, trying to close the gap with other pioneering countries. However, despite the improvement, its performance in various categories that make up the profile of an innovative country this year (funding and support, innovative businesses, intellectual property data, broadband penetration, human resources, etc) prove that Greece is…
Turkey has welcomed the removal of curbs on the sale of US F-16 fighter jets from the final text of the Fiscal 2023 National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA.
The state has done enough to help Greece’s credit sector, and it is now up to banks to take the initiative and reach out to debtors in need of support, before the specter of nonperforming loans returns to haunt local lenders, according to central banker Yannis Stournaras.
Germany-based travel booking company Holidu has found Greece to be the most economical destination for skiing in Europe, with the ski center at the resort of Vasilitsa, between Ioannina and Grevena, charging an average of just 36 euros per person per day (including a ski card and accommodation).
Cabinet ministers from Greece and the UK discussed Greece’s bid to get the Parthenon Sculptures returned from London but gave no sign the world’s thorniest cultural heritage issue was any closer to resolution Tuesday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed hope on Tuesday that Albania “will do its part” in order to proceed with the signing of the Athens-Tirana agreement for the referral of their dispute concerning the delimitation of the two countries’ exclusive economic zones (EEZ) to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.