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Greek-American matchmaker charges $5,000 a month to find love in New York

In an unexpected revival of old-fashioned matchmaking traditions, the art of arranging marriages, rebranded today as cosmopolitan “matchmaking”, is back in the spotlight thanks to a Greek-American based in the United States. Nearly 70 years after actress Georgia Vasileiadou immortalised the meddling matchmaker in the 1957 Finos Films comedy “The Aunt from Chicago” (a classic of Greek cinema), Maria Avgitidou has revived the character in her own way. Her business, agapematch.com (named after the Greek word “agape”, meaning love), is a fully modern, organised matchmaking agency based in New York with an exclusive clientele across the United States. “Matchmaker Maria”, as she calls herself, is proud of its track record, and so too are the New York Times, who profiled her in a lengthy feature.

  • Published in Diaspora

The iconic GREGY project at the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce Conference at the TIF

The importance of the Egypt-Greece GREGY electricity interconnection project for our country, the Eastern Mediterranean region, and the entire Europe, and its contribution to the emergence of Greece as an important energy hub in the SE Mediterranean, was presented at the 10th Southeast Europe Energy Forum – SEEF 2026 of the Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce by Mr. Yiannis Karydas, CEO of the Renewable Energy & Energy Storage Unit of the Copelouzos Group and CEO of the development and implementation body of the GREGY project.

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