Professor Alexander Kitroeff joins Thanos Davelis as we look beyond the White House Greek Independence Day event to the Greek-American experience as a whole, from the early immigrants who arrived looking for opportunity to the new challenges the community faces.
Greece came in first in a survey as the cheapest luxury country, followed by Spain in second and Germany in third.
The European Commission will assess US President Donald Trump’s announcement for tariffs of up to 25% on automotive imports, it said late on Wednesday, together with other measures the US is looking at in the next days.
The Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum is preparing tougher measures aimed at encouraging illegal migrants to return to their home countries.
The Hellenic Ports Association (ELIME) predicts that there will be a significant increase in cruise ship and passenger arrivals this year.
Turkey rejects “prejudiced” statements from the international community about the arrest of former Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the nationwide protests triggered by it, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said.
On Wednesday afternoon, the National Defense Ministry unveiled the Ark of National Memory, an art installation honoring the 121,692 fallen soldiers who fought in the country’s wars.
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has dismissed the antics of a group of Hellenic Navy cadets during Tuesday’s Independence Day parade as being part of an age-old and distinctly Greek (though certainly not exclusively) custom.”
Two separate races held in support of good causes will be closing down central thoroughfares in Athens’ northern suburbs on Sunday morning.
Education and Religious Affairs Minister Sofia Zacharaki is paying her first official visit to Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew in Istanbul on Thursday, in a move that is seen as significant from a symbolic and geopolitical perspective.