He spoke and he was gone
We needed the last words of Greece’s two-time Olympic tae kwon do silver medalist Alexandros Nikolaidis. Shortly before he died of a rare form of cancer, at the age of 42, he wanted to write a legacy text.
Educational populism
The worst consequence of populism when planning educational reforms is that it fosters false expectations, trapping young people in professional and educational impasses.
Cartoon (15/10/2022)
Post Content
Don Giovanni | Athens | October 21, 23, 25, 27 & 29
The Greek National Opera teams up with the Goteborg Opera of Sweden and the Royal Danish Opera to launch the season with a new production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni.”
Staikouras at IMF: Greek economy is resilient
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras sent a message on Thursday that the Greek economy is resilient to the shocks caused by an increasingly unfavorable international environment.
Covid-19 pandemic is subsiding, expert says
The emergency phase of the coronavirus pandemic is beginning to subside, according Professor of Pathology and Infectious Diseases Sotiris Tsiodras on Saturday during a scientific conference on the “Epidemics-Pandemics that Have Shaken Humanity” at Iaso Hospital in northern Athens.
Migrants in Serbia face winter chill, EU barriers
EU officials say they have recorded a sharp increase in migrants feeing poverty and conflict and trying to get into the bloc via the so-called Balkan route – mainly via Turkey, Bulgaria, North Macedonia and Serbia – as security tightens at other entry points.
Sakellaropoulou expresses condolences after Turkish coal mine explosion
President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has expressed her deepest condolences, as well as those of the Greek people, to the families of the victims of the deadly explosion in a coal mine in Turkey.
Clashes at march to shop of accused child rapist
A protest march on Saturday in the Athens district of Sepolia outside the shop of a man charged with raping and pimping a 12-year-old girl ended in clashes between some demonstrators and police.
Olympian laid to rest in Thessaloniki
The funeral of Alexandros Nikolaidis, a tae kwon do athlete who won two silver medals in the heavyweight division in the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games, was held on Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki.