Three US airlines are calling on new President Donald Trump to take action and put a stop to Emirates’ decision on Monday, to offer a daily year-round flight to New York’s Newark Liberty International Airport daily via Athens as of March 12.
The Greek government said it plans in the coming months to issue an invitation to all SMEs involved with tourism to apply for subsides amounting to 120 million euros in efforts to foster SMEs and entrepreneurship development.
The security aspects of the Cyprus issue were "complex," UN Special Adviser for Cyprus Espen Barth Eide repeated on Wednesday, since the two sides want different things. Interviewed by the correspondent of the Cyprus state broadcaster RIK at the UN, Eide noted that one side in the talks seeks the removal of the troops and the guarantees, while the other wants them to remain.
The European Commission on Wednesday announced a new UNICEF-EU joint project to help 6,000 refugee and migrant children across Greece, including unaccompanied minors.
It's official - The Battle of Greece and Crete in 1941 will be commemorated in this years Anzac Biscuit Tin.
"Not even one euro measures" is the title of the exclusive interview of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras with newspaper "Efimerida ton Syntakton."
Yorgos Lanthimos’s The Lobster is nominated for an Oscar in the category Writing - Original Screenplay. The Lobster is a science fiction romantic comedy-drama film.
Most hoteliers in northern Greece are extremely reluctant to rent their rooms to refugees, fearing that this will negatively impact their tourism business, according to UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials in Greece. Only a small number of hotels, chiefly those in mountain regions, have embraced the refugee hospitality programmes as a "life-raft" for their ailing businesses, they noted.
The city of Thessaloniki will celebrate the Chinese New Year and welcome the arrival of the year of the rooster with colors, aromas and flavors from China on February 11.
Informatics and telecoms should become the engine of the new growth in the country and a strategic vision is necessary for Greece to become a digital hub, said Digital Policy, Telecoms and Information Minister Nikos Pappas during his meeting with the rector of Western Macedonia University Antonis Tourlidakis and the dean of the technological institute Nikos Assimopoulos on Wednesday in Kozani.
"The contingent mechanism will not be activated nor will additional measures be taken," Alternate Minister for Social Solidarity on Wednesday said in an interview with SKAI TV.
Every euro spent on producing the Greek street magazine "Schedia," meaning 'raft' in Greek,creates 5.3 euros in value for the Greek economy, according to a Deloitte survey commissioned by the magazine investigating its impact on the sellers, readers and the economy.
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras discussed developments on Cyprus talks in phone calls to the Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres and the President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, his office said on Monday.
In an interview with the WSJ, the German FinMin advised once more against the disengagement of the IMF from the Greek program.