Premier Meets with TUI CEO
The prime minister Antonis Samaras met today with TUI TRAVEL CEO, Peter Long, with the participation of tourism minister Olga Kefaloyanni.
- Written by E.Tsiliopoulos
The prime minister Antonis Samaras met today with TUI TRAVEL CEO, Peter Long, with the participation of tourism minister Olga Kefaloyanni.
Translation By Lisa Darilis
Greek-American celebrities illuminated a Hollywood philanthropic gala hosted by the non for profit organization Praksis.
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The rhythms of famous Greek rock scene singer, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, will once again come to life in an exceptional concert at Queens College in Flushing, NY on Saturday, October 19th.
The second OpenWalkAthens (OWA) organized by urban enthusiast organization Atenistas invites all Athenians and visitors to a walk around the downtown area to discover unknown corners and savor delicacies, this coming Sunday.
The twitter is ablaze with comments on an interview of former Greek PM Giorgos Papandreou shown on Bloomberg TV live at 08.00 am EST.
The head of the National Intelligence Agency (EYP) has requested that service premises be thoroughly investigated.
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A woman attempted to pay an assassin to murder her daughter-in-law because she didn't feel she was a good mother to her grandchild. This reason was mistakingly described to police by Diana Reaves Costarakis of Middleburg, Florida, whose husband is of Greek descent. She was arrested by police as a result of her admission to this attempted crime.
A satirical poster has been put up around Athens by the federation of municipal employee unions POE-OTA mocking finance minister Yannis Stournaras.
Prime minister Antonis Samaras attended the final phase of armed forces exercise Pyrpolitis that took place on Dokos island near the island of Hydra.
Police are looking into the case of a container at the Ikonio area of the commercial part of Piraeus port that has been left unclaimed for months.
Parliament, almost unanimously, has decided to lift the immunity of six Golden dawn deputies: Efstathios Boukouras, Giorgos Germenis, Panayotis iliopoulos, Ilias Panayotaros, Ilias Kasidiaris, and Hrysovalantis Alexopoulos.
The passing of a twenty year sentence for laundering money from illicit gains for former PASOK minister Akis Tsohatzopoulos, last week, for some, had a tinge of the toppling of Saddam Hussein's statue in Baghdad; the end of an era.
More than100,000 applications have been turned in by people from families with no income for 10,000 temporary, five-month jobs at municipal and regional authorities, throughout Greece.
Pay under the programme, which is being run by state employment agency OAED, ranges from €427 a month for those under 25 years old and €490 for anyone else.
Harsh criticism for Greek agricultural policy was the theme which EU agriculture commissioner Dacian Ciolos harped on during a common meeting of the Greek parliament's standing committees of European Affairs and Productivity & Commerce.