by Symela Touchtidou It has been more than six months since the Ryanair flight FR4978 was forced to change its route and land at the Minsk airport. The flight took off from Athens, on Sunday 23 May, heading to Vilnius, Lithuania. On board were Roman Protasevich, a Belarus dissent, blogger and political activist. With him, [...]
Having worked in various animal shelters in different countries as well as having a dog care company in the UK, dog trainer, Jon Garstang, arrived on Rhodes in 2016. After some nosy new friends had done a few Google searches on the new arrival he started getting requests for advice and training dogs. What struck [...]
The European priorities of Greece at an international setting – as per Kyriakos Mitsotakis in UNGA by Antonis D. Papagiannidis Speeches delivered by political leaders addressing the UN General Assembly /UNGA seldom stray off the beaten path of diplomatic language and international-relations political correctness. Still, if one takes the pain to dissect such texts, interesting [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
by Angelique Mouyis When Theodorakis set the poem Epitaphios by Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) to music, he ‘changed the course of Greek music forever.’ Not only did he create a new type of music that would in time become a symbol of Greece, but he redefined existing social and cultural identities. Epitaphios, a song cycle of [...]
