Turkey is laying claim to oil exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, and Greece objects. Athens, Greece – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are set to hold a tense meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in London on Wednesday, following Ankara’s announcement that it had reached an agreement …
Vessel was awarded to first modern Olympic marathon winner before ending up in Göring’s collection The extraordinary story of an ancient wine cup that was awarded to the marathon winner of the first modern Olympics before being smuggled out of Greece by a notorious Nazi has been brought to light after its …
He will need to fix the banking system, loosen fiscal policy and cut red tape The airport at Hellinikon, a few miles south of Athens, closed in 2001. Planes belonging to Greece’s now-defunct national carrier still litter the runway. Nearby a stadium built for the Olympics in 2004 gently crumbles. In …
Travellers will soon be sent home, but hotels and tourism service providers are left out of pocket. Athens, Greece – Almost one in 10 of the 600,000 Thomas Cook travellers left stranded by the company’s collapse were in Greece on Monday. The government said 15 aircraft were en route to fly them home …
ATHENS — Greeks, banned from smoking in nearly all public places, smoke in most of those places nonetheless. They smoke inside police stations and government buildings. They smoke in sports arenas. They smoke in family restaurants and late-night bars. They smoke at the music venue where Maria Pavlopoulou — a cancer …
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece confirmed on Tuesday its readiness to loan treasures to the British Museum in return for being able to temporarily exhibit the Parthenon marbles but also said the proposal did not alter its long-standing demand for their permanent return. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Britain’s Observer newspaper …
The return of order is proving to be the return of the right. ATHENS — Last month, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, a Harvard-trained former banker, was elected prime minister of Greece. His victory — and that of his party, New Democracy — was widely greeted with a sigh of relief. The neo-Nazi Golden …
But its official creditors are nervous OVER THE past decade Greece has not been the easiest place for politicians who want to be liked by voters. The newly elected centre-right government is trying its best. In his first few weeks in office Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the prime minister, has announced tax …
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras conceded defeat Sunday after a partial vote count showed Greece’s opposition conservatives comfortably winning the first parliamentary election since the country emerged from its international bailouts. The conservative New Democracy party of Kyriakos Mitsotakis had 39.7% of the vote compared with Tsipras’ Syriza party with …
ATHENS — In 2015, Greece was on the forefront of a wave of populist revolutions around the world, voting into power a band of radical leftists who promised to reject economic austerity and revive the nation after a wipeout as big as the Great Depression. Now Greece is poised to bring …
ATHENS (Reuters) – In a barren Athens parking lot, young Pakistanis get in position for a game of cricket. On one end of the dust-covered concrete is a trash can; on the other, a pile of rocks. That is their pitch, and those are its wickets. A Pakistani man living …
ATHENS (Reuters) – Greece’s opposition conservatives are expected to ride a wave of anger over continuing austerity measures to seize power from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s leftists in next Sunday’s election. FILE PHOTO: Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras arrives for an European Council Summit in Brussels, Belgium, June 20, 2019. …
