Greek tourism campaign sidelines local firms in favor of multinationals
The open tender to create Greece’s new tourism campaign has seen local firms brushed aside in favor of multinational groups without a local presence.
The open tender to create Greece’s new tourism campaign has seen local firms brushed aside in favor of multinational groups without a local presence.
Decades-old property disputes from Cyprus’ unresolved division are threatening UN-led reconciliation efforts, according to a Reuters report published Tuesday.
Authorities cordoned off a residential area in the southern Athens suburb of Palaio Faliro on Wednesday morning after an unexploded military shell, believed to date back to World War II, was discovered in a streambed.
Authorities on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes have detained 47 undocumented migrants after a sailing boat was spotted disembarking people near the coastal area of Lardos, officials said on Wednesday.
Turkey has arrested an LGBTQ+ youth activist over criticism he made abroad at Europe’s main rights body about the repression of opponents by President Tayyip Erdogan’s government.
Bookings from abroad for passenger ships from Piraeus to Santorini have declined 7% this year, while bookings for Mykonos are steady, but follow two years of significant decline.
A dispute between the Municipality of Naxos and the Cyclades Antiquities Authority escalated on Tuesday with the arrest of an archaeologist and two workers over a temporary fence erected around the ancient monument of Portara.
Lambis Englezos, a prominent member of Melbourne’s Greek-Australian community, has been honored by the northern French village of Fromelles for his decades-long efforts to recover the lost soldiers of one of Australia’s most tragic World War I battles, Neos Kosmos reported.
Turkish yacht designer Halit Yukay, owner of the high-end brand Mazu Yachts, has gone missing after his vessel was found wrecked in the Sea of Marmara while en route from the port of Yalova to the Greek island of Mykonos, Turkish media reported.
The Israeli embassy in Greece on Wednesday denied media reports claiming that its staff had evacuated their residences due to rising anti-Israel protests in the country.