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[Nikos Kokkalias] The Museum of Modern Greek Culture is marking a century of Greek shadow theater with a new exhibition tracing the evolution of its emblematic figure, Karagiozis. Presented with the Panhellenic Association of Shadow Puppetry, the show follows the art form from its 19th‑century emergence to its 21st‑century reinventions. Curators Elena Melidi and Niki …
More funds are now required for the energy upgrade of ever fewer homes, as a result of the large increase in the cost of materials (insulation, aluminum etc.), but also of labor remuneration, recorded in recent years. A simple comparison between the 2021 “Exoikonomo (I Save)” program and that of 2025 shows that in proportional …
Electoral clientelism is a transaction. The citizen promises to support the politician in the upcoming elections and the politician offers in return something that the citizen desires, but is not entitled to. What the citizen does is immoral, but what the politician does is also illegal, because he bypasses rules that do not “serve” the …
[InTime News] The Education Ministry is deploying an AI-powered platform to predict teacher shortages and accelerate school staffing, officials said. The system, called Eduplan.ai, will aggregate data from education and public administration databases to forecast teacher needs by specialty and school, match available educators to vacancies based on qualifications and preferences, and recalculate placements when …
Three out of four primary schoolchildren in Greece already maintain social media profiles, raising alarms among experts about early exposure to harmful content. The country also records the highest rate in Europe of excessive internet use among children, at 34%. Specialists urge parents to enforce strict limits, warning that children under 15 lack the maturity …
More than 150 million lives worldwide have been saved over the past 50 years thanks to vaccines, according to public health authorities, underscoring their central role in preventing disease and death. Vaccines today provide protection against more than 30 infections and life threatening diseases, while newer vaccines targeting malaria, HPV, cholera, dengue, meningitis and RSV …
Discussions are under way on how to manage or mitigate a possible US withdrawal from the “European security architecture,” Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Saturday. He gave no details of the discussions, but said such a withdrawal by the United States could be “destructive” for Europe if carried out in an uncoordinated way. …
Residents of the seaside settlement of Xifia near Monemvasia are raising concerns over a major tourism investment that they say will double the size of their sparsely built community and alter its character. The project began drawing attention a year and half ago, when a fenced worksite appeared on what locals believed was protected forestland. …
All of Europe’s eyes were on Hungary this past weekend, where voters, in a historic election, brought Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16 years in power to an end. Orban’s close relations with Russian President Vladimir Putin, and his blocking of multiple EU initiatives – including an urgently needed €90 billion loan for Ukraine – had …
Makarios Lazaridis resigned as deputy agriculture minister on Saturday, saying he was stepping down to avoid distracting the government from its work, amid an ongoing dispute over his academic qualifications and political pressure within the administration. Lazaridis had been appointed in a limited cabinet reshuffle earlier this month that replaced ministers who stepped down after …