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High rents force Mykonos’ businesses to shut down

The high prices owners demand from businessmen to pay for rent at Mykonos‘ highstreet of Matogianni, has led many businesses to shut down. Residents of the popular Greek island say that some owners ask for outrageously high prices, which include, apart from the…
13 February, 2019

The detestable trade in MPs, votes

The image of Parliament over the last days is absolutely disheartening and reflective of the political crisis that has beset the country. The representatives of the people, deserted and faceless, as the poet says, bargaining in a provocative manner through mutual blackmail…
13 February, 2019

Aussie refugee soccer player to remain in Thai jail

Australian soccer player Hakeem al-Araibi has begged a Thai court not to be sent to Bahrain. The 25-year-old who was granted refugee status in Australia will spend at least two more months detained in Thailand after a court today set an extradition…
6 February, 2019

2019 NPL Season kicks off with community shield

The 2019 season kicks off with the FV Community Shield at ABD Stadium. Heidelberg United will take on Bentleigh Greens for what promises to be a great game. In 2018 Heidelberg met once more with the Greens, winning by 4-1. The FFV…
6 February, 2019

Best places to camp around the world

Cast aside those tainted memories of squabbling with siblings on family camping trips or mud-logged tents and foul portaloos at music festivals, because camping is having a revival. There’s no better way to get back to nature than to pitch your tent,…
6 February, 2019

Thessaloniki mayor vows to protect city’s Jewish heritage

Thessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris said Friday that Jewish monuments will be repaired, no matter how many times they are vandalized. “Even if they vandalize the monuments 100 times we will repair them 110 times,” said Boutaris. He was speaking after the vandalism…
6 February, 2019

Greece is the third largest investor in the FYROM

Greek companies have invested 473 million euros over two decades in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), according to data released by Skopje’s National Bank. This makes Greece the third largest investor in FYROM in the period 1997-2017, despite the difficulties…
6 February, 2019

Who owns the Acropolis of Athens? An “unknown owner”…

The Acropolis of Athens narrowly escaped the risk to be target of property hunters after the Culture Ministry failed to claim the ownership on time. In the Hellenic Cadastre it was regi-stered to have an “unknown owner.” This grave mistake was discovered…
6 February, 2019

A blackmailed Prime Minister is not a Prime Minister!

For days now and since the confidence vote and the ratification of the Prespa Agreement, the government, the political system, and, by extension, the entire country, are faced with a “pending institutional issue” and have been thrust into a peculiar captivity. Parliamentary…
6 February, 2019

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