The mayors of Athens and Istanbul, Kostas Bakoyannis and Ekrem Imamoglu, in statements after their meeting at the Athens City Hall on Tuesday, expressed their belief that the two cities can build bridges of peace and work together to solve their problems, as well as those that go beyond the borders of the two countries. [...]
EUMed9: Trying to rebuild a “European South” by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Is the Athens meeting of leaders from EU South member countries, a forum already expanding from the original EUMed7 to EUMed9 (with the addition of Croatia and Slovenia) and able to ensure the participation of high-profile personalities like Emmanuel Macron or Mario Draghi (European [...]
by Marina Farmakidis-Markou, lawyer at Diotima Center* Marina Farmakidis-Markou To begin with, it is worth stating that parental responsibility could be entrusted by the court to both parents jointly also under the previous family law provisions, provided that parents were in agreement. On the contrary, the new family law number 4800/2021, by establishing [...]
Authorities in Greece on Tuesday opened an investigation into the crash of a private plane from Israel that killed a prosecution witness in the corruption trial of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Haim Geron, a former senior official at Israel’s ministry of communications, and his wife Esther, were killed in the crash late Monday [...]
Ιnterview by Pola Damianou, legal advisor of Active Dads N.P.C.S. Pola Damianou, legal advisor of Active Dads NGO “Active Dads for the Rights of the Child” was created in April 2020. “The desire of fathers to have a more active role in their children’s lives and the fact that for decades Courts gave [...]
Το φόρουμ με τίτλο «Δημιουργώντας την Επόμενη Μέρα», αποτελεί τη θεσμοθετημένη πλατφόρμα διαλόγου για όλα τα μεγάλα αναπτυξιακά και οικονομικά ζητήματα της χώρας. Θα φιλοξενήσει για 2η συνεχή χρονιά την πολιτική και επιχειρηματική ηγεσία του τόπου, θίγοντας όλα τα κρίσιμα θέματα που έχουν αναδειχτεί μέσα στην πανδημία, στο Συνεδριακό Κέντρο «Ι. ΒΕΛΛΙΔΗΣ». Στο πλαίσιο του [...]
This week a new set of emergency measures for the protection of public health from Covid -19 starts being implemented in Greece. The measures mostly concern unvaccinated citizens. Here are the main provisions: Work in the private and public sector The unvaccinated workforce must perform a PCR or a rapid test once a week. These [...]
Of privatisations, acquisitions – and investments By Antonis D. Papagiannidis The sale of a 49% participation in the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator/DEDDHE to Macquarie Group for 2.1 bn euros was heralded as a major move forward in the ongoing privatisations programme of Greece. The record sum fetched bye the sale of DEDDHE – with some [...]
by Dr. Giorgos Konstantopoulos president of the Greek Exporters Association (SEVE) SEVE, the Greek Exporters' Association, expressed its opposition to the new system of frontal nutritional labelling of Nutri-score for food products promoted at EU level. The Nutri-score nutritional labelling system is part of a proposal regarding the revision of EU rules on the information [...]
European Business Press (EBP) presented the "European Manager of the Year 2021 Award" to three leading scientists and co-founders of BioNTech, at its Annual Meeting in Ljubljana. European Business Press counts 34 leading European business newspapers and magazines in 22 countries, among them publications such as the Handelsblatt, The Wall Street Journal (Europe), Les Echos, [...]
