“That’s the charm: discovering and living in places that are not popular destinations. I didn’t even know where Leros was. It’s not like Kos and Rhodes that every foreigner knows,” Austrian Sigi Ertl tells Kathimerini. He has chosen to work remotely, not from his office in London, but from the Dodecanese island of Leros, with …
A remarkable bronze griffin from ancient Olympia will return to the United States for a major exhibition at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met), just a year after Greece repatriated the artefact following its illegal trafficking. The well-preserved griffin once adorned a tripod cauldron in Olympia in the 7th century BC. It spent …
The Greek-Turkish relationship is naturally competitive for a variety of historical, geographical and geopolitical reasons. Since 1974, in particular, and to the present day, it has been marked by alternating periods of tension and relative calm, dialogue and estrangement, willingness to seek solutions and intransigence, cooperation and rivalry. Source link
Greece, Cyprus, Malta and Italy have agreed to strengthen their joint presence in European and international shipping negotiations, signing a common declaration in Limassol focused on competitiveness, decarbonisation and realistic measures that take their wider economic impact into account. The four countries reached the agreement during the ninth Trilateral Shipping Meeting between Cyprus, Greece and …
PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis promised deep changes in government as soon as he succeeds Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis. Source link
Digital evidence is helping investigators reconstruct the final hours of Giorgos Mazonakis, with particular focus on the 84 minutes between the interruption of his plasmapheresis treatment and the emergency call. The investigation into the death of Greek singer Giorgos Mazonakis is increasingly focusing on a crucial 84 minute period inside a medical clinic in Kolonaki. …
In a previous column I dealt with Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” and the controversies it had generated even before it hit the screens. At the end of the column, I wrote that I would see the movie and opine afterward. Well, the movie is a great commercial success, and I did see it so here …
Antonis Remos became visibly emotional as he honoured the late Giorgos Mazonakis during his 30th anniversary concert in Thessaloniki, dedicating one of the singer’s best known songs to his memory. Remos was performing at the major concert marking 30 years in Greek music at the Statue of Alexander the Great in Thessaloniki when he paused …
Life expectancy is rising and Greeks are living longer. The welfare state must adjust its priorities to this new reality, with the aim of ensuring that longer lives are also better lives. Source link
Most who know multimedia artist Dimitra Skandali’s work have seen it in some of the major Athens exhibitions curated by Kostas Prapoglou. Source link