Working together for wildfire season
Romanian and Greek firefighters conduct a drill at the 6th Athens Fire Station, in Acharnes, north of the capital, in a photograph released on Saturday.
Greece to file démarche with Serbia over Antonov cargo
Greece will lodge a demarche with Serbia to protest the country’s failure to brief Athens about the dangerous cargo carried by the Antonov plane that crashed in northern Greece last Saturday, killing its eight crew members.
Alexandra Athanassiades | Andros
In “Shaping the Intangible,” her career-spanning show at the Goulandris Museum of Contemporary Art, Alexandra Athanassiades presents milestones that shaped her vernacular.
Criteria set for sale of state assets to long-time squatters
A list of 70,000 state-owned land parcels and properties that are occupied by trespassers has been circulated to Greece’s ministries to identify assets that cannot be included in a scheme to sell them to the encroachers because they are intended for public interest.
Greece-Russia ties lack depth
There has been a marked strain in Greek-Russian relations ever since Athens signed the Prespes Agreement with North Macedonia in 2018. In the meantime, Russia came to terms with the fact that Greece belongs in the Western camp since the 2014 Crimean War and adjusted accordingly.
Panagiotopoulos in the US to meet Lloyd Austin, discuss F-35s
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos is on official visit to the United States where he will meet his American counterpart, Lloyd Austin, and other high-ranking Pentagon officials.
Managing a city’s historical legacy
Amid the controversy over the remodeling of Eleftherias (Freedom) Square in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, Giorgos Ioannou’s short story “The Elimination of the Jews,” from the collection “Our Own Blood” (Kedros Editions, 1980), is a must.
Greek lobby succeeds in US efforts
The recent passing by the US House of Representatives of an amendment sponsored by Representative Chris Pappas posing conditions to the sale of F-16 fighters and upgrade kits to Turkey was the latest in a string of successes for the Greek lobby in Washington.
German firefighters arrive in Greece for the summer season
German firefighters, who will reinforce Greece’s firefighters during the summer season following the devastating wildfires last year, arrived for a welcoming ceremony, in Tripoli, Greece, on Sunday.
Very high risk of fire in five Greek regions, including Attica
There was a very high risk of fire (risk category 4) in five Greek regions for Monday, according to the Fire Forecast Map issued by the Civil Protection secretariat of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry.