February 2014

Ryanair has announced that it will sell seats on its flights from Athens to Thessaloniki for only 9.99 euros, if they are booked by midnight Thursday 13 February.

Aris Spiliotopoulos announced his candidacy to run for Mayor of Athens, with the backing of ND, with just a few minutes difference from Nikitas Kaklamanis, who will run as an independent candidate.

Agricultural exports are continuing to rise, breaking the 5 billion euro barrier, despite the fact that Greek exports subsided marginally (for the first time since 2010) in 2013.

In a poll conducted by the University of Macedonia, asked which side of the political spectrum is in more need of a new party or coalition, 45% of respondents point to the center-left.

A proposal to create a school teaching the how-to of funerals was handed to relevant ministries by Michalis Panagiotou, the President of the Panhellenic Funeral Home Union.

Την απόφασή του να εγκαταλείψει την ενεργό δράση, μετά το πέρας της φετινής αγωνιστικής σεζόν, ανακοίνωσε την Τετάρτη ο αρχηγός των New York Yankees, Derek Jeter.

By Yanna Darilis

On a cold crisp night, I headed downtown to the quaint Cornelia café in the West Village to warm up with the readings of a compilation of poems written about Greece by Greeks, Greek–Americans and Philhellenes. This poetry reading event has been going on for the past few years. It was organized by The Greek -American Writers Association, and hosted by the known poet, Penelope Karageorge.

A hitman moonlighting at a bakery in order to raise the cash to save the man that saved him, is the premise on which “Little Fish,” by Yannis Economides assaults viewers in true film noir vernacular.

Σε κατάσταση έκτακτης ανάγκης έχουν κυρηχθεί περιοχές παραπλεύρως του Τάμεση, καθώς πλέον ο ποταμός ξεχείλισε από τα μεσάνυχτα με απρόβλεπτες συνέπειες για τις περιουσίες και την οικονομία της περιοχής. Οι κάτοικοι αναγκάστηκαν να εγκαταλείψουν τα σπίτια τους, και σταδιακά οι περιοχές εκκενώνονται καθώς η κατάσταση έχει ξεφύγει

German supermarket chain Lidl plans to build two huge warehouses for logistics infrastructure, one in Attica, the other in Thessaloniki.