Many Athenians believed that this year - a year after the end of the memorandum and the crisis - the capital would be resplended for the Christmas holidays of 2019 and the streets would be filled with cheerful ornaments and lights, but alas it doesn't seem to be the case.

Athens Mayor Kostas Bakogiannis was a panelist at the 2019 Concordia summit, which dealt with building a resilient economy, at NYC. Mayor Bakogiannis said he would like to make living in a city easy through technology. He also said that a city that he models after is a small city in Germany, Frankenthal.

Athens Mayor Kostas Bakogiannis was a panelist at the 2019 Concordia summit, which dealt with building a resilient economy, at NYC. Mayor Bakogiannis said he would like to make living in a city easy through technology. He also said that a city that he models after is a small city in Germany, Frankenthal.