For more than five decades, Ambassador Stuart Eizenstat was Jimmy Carter’s closest friend and tireless advocate, and he has written a book of over a thousand pages (“President Carter: The White House Years,” 2018) to defend the legacy of the 39th president of the United States. Today, the former White House domestic affairs adviser and …
Management experts suggest that mobilizing just 3% of a company’s workforce is sufficient to drive modernization, progress and growth. The key is for this minority to be determined, to clearly understand the goal, and to genuinely believe in it. The majority will follow, even if reluctantly, without substantially hindering the overall momentum. The same principle …
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, left, and Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump attend a campaign event at the Butler Farm Show, on Oct. 5, 2024, in Butler, Pa. [Alex Brandon/AP] Kyriakos Velopoulos, leader of the far-right, Christian nationalist and pro-Russian Greek Solution party, has asked the Greek parliamentary speaker to invite tech …
Costas Simitis was born into a political family and lived his life in the tumult of Greece’s politics, but he was so “alien,” so different to other Greek politicians that he was like a board on which everyone could project his own desires, fears and bigotry. In the way he lived, with his actions and …
The deficit of the waste management body that municipalities are “suddenly” called upon to cover – and ultimately the government on their behalf – is only the symptom. The chronic disease is the state’s inability to impose a modern, green and economically viable system of waste collection and processing – like all other European countries. …
[Intime News] Athens’ public transportation is embracing a digital transformation with the launch of the “tap-and-ride” system, enabling passengers to pay for rides using bank cards or digital wallets via smartphones and smartwatches. Starting January 15, all modes of transit under the Athens Urban Transport Organization, including buses, trolleys, the metro and trams, will offer …
[Intime News] A prosecutor on Friday charged 19 suspects with a slew of offences, some of which are felonies, over their roles as members of two criminal organizations involved in bribery linked to brothels and gambling clubs, as well as large-scale tax fraud. The charges include forming and running a criminal gang, aggravated fraud against …
Cyprus will resolve all technical issues required to join the Schengen Area by 2025, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Friday. Speaking at the “Beyond Sea and Sun” tourism conference organized by Hermes Airports in Nicosia, he said Cyprus and Ireland are the only EU member states that are still the Schengen area, and its inclusion …
[Shutterstock] After enjoying a week of mild weather, temperatures in Greece are forecast to dive in the coming days, bringing snowfall in Western Macedonia and possibly in other parts of northern Greece, Thessaly and the mountains of the Peloponnese. Starting on Sunday and through Tuesday, the national weather service warned of rain and storms over …
The 2011 ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague against Greece, following an appeal by the then-Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), underscores that the outcome of a case before a judicial body can never be predicted with absolute certainty. This point is highlighted by Maria (Mania) Telalian, the newly appointed …