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A legacy of weakness, concessions, and economic disasters

Former Greek prime minister Costas Simitis, who led the country into the European Union’s single currency in 2001, died on Sunday aged 88 at his summer house in the Peloponnese. While most mainstream media are reporting the death of Costas Simitis as…

7 January, 2025

GREECE·The News Weekly·WORLD

The importance of the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone

In 1967, Malta’s Ambassador to the United Nations, Arvid Pardo, called for an international conference to devise a new law of the seas. In this call, he referred to the oceans as “the common heritage of mankind.” Fifteen years later, on December…

6 July, 2019

GREECE·The News Weekly

Lamda Development warns against last-minute ministerial decisions regarding delay-plagued Helleniko project

A nascent “feud” between the international consortium that’s won a concession for the massive Helleniko property development in southeast Athens and the outgoing Tsipras government, given that the privatization remains mired in Greece’s ubiquitous “red tape”, surfaced anew this week – less…

4 July, 2019

GREECE·The News Weekly

Greece sees its future as the Florida of Europe

Tourists in hats, cameras slung around their necks, crane them for a view. In the heart of old Athens, it is a reminder that the holiday season has begun. Last week as parties from cruise ships were guided through the narrow streets…

3 July, 2019

GREECE

More than one in four young Greeks are not working or studying

More than one in four young Greeks aged 20-34 do not work or study, according to the latest Eurostat figures for 2018. Greece is in the second-worst position among the members of the European Union, as 26.8 percent of young people aged…

2 July, 2019

GREECE·WEATHER

Heat wave with temperatures up to 41°C to strike Greece July 1-5

A heat wave with temperatures reaching up to 41 degrees Celsius is forecast to strike Greece in the upcoming weak. Temperature have risen as of this Monday, July 1st, and will remain high until at least Friday, July 5th 2019. The hottest…

2 July, 2019

GREECE

Greek Trump: Mayor wants to build a wall to segregate Roma settlement

An elected mayor in Northern Greece wants to build a wall around a Roma settlement even if it is illegal and against the Constitution and no public servant, no matter how racist one is, could ever isolate a group of the country’s…

2 July, 2019

GREECE

The path to recovery

The qualititative data of a poll conducted by MRB for Ta Nea are of interest in many ways. Overall, they confirm recent polling trends which suggest that New Democracy is on its way to single-party rule. That path, however, is not guaranteed.…

2 July, 2019

GREECE·WORLD

Turkey: Vote until you get it right Anti-Greek sentiments unleashed again

“Greek settlements in Asia Minor date as far back as the 11th century BC when Greeks emigrated from mainland Greece.” — Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center Today, less than half a percent of Turkey’s population is Christian. The hostility of…

30 June, 2019

GREECE·The News Weekly

US companies interested in ports, energy, tech, says ambassad

Today, the new US ambassador to Athens, Geoffrey R. Pyatt, who, together with Victoria Nuland organized the coup d’etat in Kiev in 2014 [1], is determined to set up an Independ-ent Orthodox Church in Ukraine. The Orthodox Church is organized into 7…

29 June, 2019

GREECE

Thessaloniki Pride 2019: thousands march to celebrate diversity

Thousands of people marched on the streets of Thessaloniki on Saturday, June 22 to mark the city’s 8th Pride celebration. This year, Thessaloniki Pride commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York, when people at the gay bar ”Stonewall…

26 June, 2019

GREECE·TECHNOLOGY

American engineers to pay tribute to Antikythera mechanism in Athens

The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ΑSME) will pay tribute to the world famous ancient artifact known as the Antikythera Mechanism, in recognition of its significance to the evolution of mechanical engineering and technology. The society will designate the ancient technological marvel…

26 June, 2019

GREECE

Greek jobless rate drops in spring season; higher in May 2019

Greece’s official unemployment rate continued to fall in May 2019, with the number of registered jobless individuals easing under 930,000, reduced by roughly 44,000 from the previous month, April 2019. A total reduction in the number of unemployed persons in a country…

26 June, 2019

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GREECE- Page 25

A legacy of weakness, concessions, and economic disasters

The importance of the Greek Exclusive Economic Zone

Lamda Development warns against last-minute ministerial decisions regarding delay-plagued Helleniko project

Greece sees its future as the Florida of Europe

More than one in four young Greeks are not working or studying

Heat wave with temperatures up to 41°C to strike Greece July 1-5

Greek Trump: Mayor wants to build a wall to segregate Roma settlement

The path to recovery

Turkey: Vote until you get it right Anti-Greek sentiments unleashed again

US companies interested in ports, energy, tech, says ambassad

Thessaloniki Pride 2019: thousands march to celebrate diversity

American engineers to pay tribute to Antikythera mechanism in Athens

Greek jobless rate drops in spring season; higher in May 2019

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