BRUSSELS—Senior European officials are embracing the so-far taboo idea of cutting off the migrant trail in Greece, a step that they acknowledge could create a humanitarian crisis in the country. This so-called Plan B, floated until now only by Europe’s ...
Welcome, 77 artists, 40 different points of Attica welcomes you by singing Erotokritos an epic romance written at 1713 by Vitsentzos Kornaros
Friday, February 26, 2016
Norway allocates more funds to help refugees in Greece
Norway said on Thursday it has stepped up its efforts to help refugees in Greece by allocating more funds to strengthen Athens' capacity to deal with the flow of refugees. The authorities in Greece and Norway have agreed that a total of 231 million ...
The GREEK crisis as a source of inspiration
Since the emergence of the crisis, the GREEK capital has witnessed an unexpected collateral benefit as Athens turned into a magnet for international art ...
Blueprint for a Greek Restructuring
“Greece is running out of time again, but this time, the real economy really is collapsing,” writes Theodore Pelagidis, a fellow at the Brookings Institution and a professor of economics at the University of Piraeus in Greece, in making the case that a ...
The Case for GREEK Startups
During the long and deep crisis in Greece some businesses have done well. Tourism as a whole grew, and so did several segments of food and ...
Panathinaikos hands Fenerbahce its first Top 16 loss
There are no more unbeaten teams in the Top 16 after Panathinaikos Athens earned a hard-fought 76-71 victory over visiting Fenerbahce Istanbul and former Greens head coach Zeljko Obradovic in the Game of the Week in the Greek capital on Thursday night. Panathinaikos picked up its fourth consecutive win to improve to 5-3 and at […]
Greece Recalls Vienna Ambassador in Anger Over Exclusion
Such practices also undermine the conclusions reached by the European Council last week recalling that to enter the EU without adequate travel documentation, people need to apply for asylum when reaching an EU country, UNHCR said. "We will not agree to any ...