Archbishop Justin Welby hopes for fixed Easter date
BBC — The Archbishop of Canterbury is working with other Christian churches to agree on a fixed date for Easter. Justin Welby made the announcement […]
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Seven House staff lose jobs over fake qualifications
eKathimerini — Seven more parliamentary employees were removed from their positions on Friday after an investigation revealed that they had either used forged qualifications to […]
Ministry blocks school’s bid to evaluate staff
eKathimerini — The Education Ministry is in dispute with a private school in Athens after stepping in to prevent it bringing in evaluators who have […]
Court rejects extradition claim for four students
eKathimerini — A council of appeals court judges has rejected a request to extradite two Greek students to Italy to be tried for alleged offenses […]
Greece accused of breaking slavery and forced labour law
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) will examine a complaint by 42 Bangladeshi workers against Greece over the violation of Article 4 of the […]
Greek and Danish archaeologists excavate the ancient Greek harbour town Lechaion
In Greece, underwater excavations of Lechaion, ancient Corinth’s partially submerged harbour town, reveal the infrastructure of more than a thousand years of flourishing maritime trade. […]
Rhodes reconstruction project will be a colossal gamble for Greece – but it might well pay off
The Guardian — The Colossus of Rhodes is one of the most short-lived great statues in history – and certainly had the briefest existence of […]
Big freeze reaches northwest Greece
ANA- MPA — The temperature in the mountainous region of Epirus fell to -7 degrees Celsius during the night of 22 Dec. The river Voidomatis […]
Plaka attracts great interest from hotel developers
eKathimerini — The part of central Athens to the south and west of Syntagma Square has drawn the attention of investors seeking to open new […]
Suddeutsche Zeitung: Greece deserves help
Several German newspapers reported last week that Greeks are facing “poor” Christmas holidays, noting that the Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has voted for another […]
What can we learn from the Greek defeat? The struggle against austerity reaches the screen
SALON — During last summer’s anti-austerity protests in Athens, a Greek TV reporter doing a live stand-up observes the interesting fact that many of the […]
EU acts against illegal landfill in Corfu
ANA-MPA — The European Commission is referring Greece to the Court of Justice of the EU over poor waste management once again over waste management […]
State-guaranteed loans scandal going to trial
eKathimerini — Prosecutors have indicted 57 businessmen who received state-guaranteed loans worth 94 million euros in total but failed to keep up their repayments, forcing […]
More than 500 Greek artifacts from 21 museums exhibited at the Chicago Field
“The Greeks—Agamemnon to Alexander the Great” draws from the collections of 21 museums throughout Greece, making it the largest exhibition of its kind to tour […]
Greek police clash with protesters in central Athens
The Exarcheia area in central Athens became once again a battleground between police and anarchists early Sunday morning, leaving one Portuguese tourist injured. Tension rose […]