Facing pressure from his coalition partners to get behind an anti-racism bill aimed at curbing the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras will meet with them on May 27. PASOK Socialist chief Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who almost always yield to whatever Samaras [...]
UNICEF: 600,000 Children Below Poverty Line in Greece
The results of a report carried out jointly by UNICEF and Athens University under the ...
Simitis May Appear In Tsochatzopoulos Case
He hasn’t yet kept his warning to “name names” of the corrupt in Greece, but former defense minister Akis Tsochatzopoulos, on trial for money laundering and embezzlement charges, has asked for former premier Costis Simitis to be compelled to testify. The Athens Appeals Court is expected to rule on the request on May 24, which [...]
Big Pay For Alpha Bank Execs
Despite a law that says no private banker can be paid more than the head of the National Bank of Greece, eight executives at Alpha Bank, the country’s third largest lender, were paid above the legal maximum permissible for bankers, documents published by the lender suggest. According to the prospectus published to announce a share [...]
Crete Hosts Talks On Ancient Novels
The Department of Philology (Division of Classics) of the University of Crete in Greece is organizing the seventh Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN) on May 27-28. The conference includes four sessions and will be hosted in the Student Cultural Center Xenia in the city Rethymnon, Crete. The topic of RICAN 7 is [...]
Arrests Made In Ioannina Kidnapping
On January 31 in the Greek city Ioannina, a 59-year-old Greek was kidnapped by eight individuals, a Greek and seven Albanian, because of disputes between them, authorities said. The man was released on March 27 in Attica, without paying ransom. The case was solved and four of the perpetrators were arrested, police officials said. They [...]
Samaras Will Follow Ireland’s Lead
After meeting his Irish counterpart Enda Kenny in Athens on May 23, Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras said Greece could use the Irish model for getting out of an economic crisis. Like Greece, Ireland needed the help of international lenders and imposed hard austerity measures. But, unlike in Greece, the Irish didn’t protest, go on [...]
Turkish Combat Aircraft Over Agathonisi
The news for the May 23 flight of Turkish combat aircraft over Agathonisi does not mainly focus on the fact that the aircraft possibly recorded and photographed the establishments on the island, but on the fact that for some reason the two Turkish RF-4 and the two F-16 that accompanied them stayed in the FIR [...]
Earthquake Shakes Crete
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.1 Richter, hit off the southern sea on the Greek island of Crete at 7 am. According to the Euro-Med Seismological Center, the earthquake’s epicenter had a 10 kilometers depth which shook the island, as daily Kathimerini reports. Fortunately, there were no damage or injuries. Given that this [...]
Tsipouro Restaurants in Volos ISO Certified
Following an initiative of the Catering and Entertainment Association of Magnesia, which aims at promoting gastronomic tourism and protecting the reputation of the tsipouro restaurants in the region that are the reference point for both locals and visitors, Volos’ tsipouro restaurants will get ISO certification. As Apostolos Athanassos, President of the Catering and Entertainment Association [...]
Ukrainians Flock to Crete
After his participation in an economic-business forum in Kiev, Ukraine, Stavros Arnaoutakis, governor for the Crete Region, stated that the number of Ukrainian tourists to visit Crete will rise by 200 percent this summer. Arnaoutakis was invited by his Ukrainian counterpart, Anatolii Prysiazhniuk, to participate in the forum along with 30 regions in the EU, [...]
Political Feud Holds Up Anti-Racism Bill
Greece’s coalition government is sharply divided over an anti-racism bill that is aimed at controlling the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party by imposing stricter penalties for assaults, primarily on immigrants, of which the extremists have been accused but which it denies. Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, the New Democracy Conservative leader, reportedly is going to meet with [...]
Velos Mutiny Honored in Special Ceremony
A special event was held on May 23 at the Grove of Nautical Tradition, at Flisvos Marina, to honor the Naval Movement and the Mutiny of the destroyer Velos. The President of the Parliament, Evangelos Meimarakis, and the political and military leadership of the Ministry of Defense attended the event. All the speakers praised the [...]
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- Crete Hosts Talks On Ancient Novels May 23, 2013
- Velos Mutiny Honored in Special Ceremony May 23, 2013
- Contemporary Theatrical Adaptation of Homer’s Iliad May 22, 2013
- A Greek Portfolio at The Benaki Museum May 22, 2013
