A First Instance Court will decide on Tuesday (Feb. 7) whether to temporarily freeze the sale of any assets of the bankrupt DOL media group and whether it will exempt one bank account to allow for the payment of the group’s employees. DOL’s 500 employees have not been paid in seven months.
An event entitled "Ioannina: In The Court of Ali Pasha- Childe Harold Reconsidered" was held before a packed house on January 19 at the 3 West Club in New Yorkby the EMBCA (East Mediterranean Business Culture Alliance).
Developing the social economy in Greece could help stem the emigration of young Greek scientists and professionals abroad, putting the brakes on the so-called "brain drain," Alternate Labour Minister for fighting unemployment Rania Antonopoulou said in an interview released on Sunday, by AMNA.
Continuing the polemic rhetoric against Greece, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim warned Greece not to mistake the low key response by Turkey to the “provocations” by Greece as a weakness, according to newspaper Hurriyet.
The Turkish Foreign Ministry called on Greece to refrain from escalating tensions between the two countries in response to a military exercise on the Aegean island of Kos.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Friday will participate in the informal summit to take place in Malta.
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New York Times correspondent to Turkey, Patrick Kingsley writes a piece entitled “Turkey and Greece Trade Jabs in Island Dispute” where he lays out the recent escalation in tensions between the two countries over the rocky isles of Imia in the eastern region of the Aegean Sea
As the march of climate change continues and the spectre of drought looms large for Mediterranean countries like Greece, the problem of collecting water in areas of low rainfall will become increasingly acute.
“I don’t feel hatred for the Germans. But I feel great sadness because Nazis existed. Why did we allow as a society for Nazis to exist?” said Rosina Asser-Pardo, a Greek-Jew who survived the Second World War, during her speech at an event titled "Memories of the German occupation in Greece", which was part of the program collecting audiovisual witness accounts of the German occupation of Greece.
The education ministry rejected press reports on Thursday that the Institute of Educational Policy was planning to remove the teaching of Sophocles’ classic play “Antigone” from the high school curriculum.
Greece reported mass incursions by Turkish military aircraft on Wednesday, amid tensions over Athens’ failure to hand over Turkish soldiers Ankara accuses of involvement in a coup attempt.
Turkish Minister on Foreign Affairs Mevlut Cavusoglu warned Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos to “come to his senses” over the Imia isles, following the latter’s statements that Imia “was Greek territory and a visit to the region by any Greek citizen was similar to taking a stroll in his house.”
Greece’s second program review will conclude without making concessions on issues of principle, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in parliament on Wednesday, during a debate on a parliamentary committee report which looked into bank loans received by political parties and media in recent years.