It’s important to distinguish between the bureaucratic process and the aesthetic result. The decision to call off the design competition for a logo for the Thessaloniki metro should be discussed separately from the end-result, which everyone will have a different opinion on. The abrupt reversal of the planned procedure for proposals to be submitted is …
[Hellenic Police] Police have released photographs of the arms cache found in a storeroom of an apartment building in the Pangrati district on Tuesday evening. The find included three grenades; a submachine gun; six firearms, various gun parts, magazines and cartridges; 25 detonators; 7.5 kg of ammonia dynamite; 3 kg of gelignite, 2 kg of …
[InTime News] Weather forecasters say there will be a noticeable drop in temperatures this coming weekend. According to the director of the National Meteorological Service, Thodoris Kolidas, rain is expected Thursday and Friday, but it will stop from Saturday afternoon. But he added that the temperature will fall significantly below the seasonal levels, by around …
[AP] The Greek government taps the markets Wednesday with a reissuance of its 10-year bond. An auction will be held for the reissuance of dematerialized bonds with a fixed interest rate of 3.375% due on June 15, 2034, according to the Public Debt Management Agency. The re-issuance aims to meet investor demand while facilitating the …
File photo. Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan opposes a US decision to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to attack inside Russia, saying it would further enflame the conflict, according to a readout shared by his office on Wednesday. Ukraine used US ATACMS missiles to strike Russian territory on Tuesday, taking advantage of newly granted permission …
The owners of a mansion overlooking the Acropolis in Athens have denied authorizing the sale of the property, following a report in Kathimerini earlier on Wednesday about the listing. The family of the late Elias Barbalias, founder of Elias Barbalias – Special Buildings Constructions & Real Estate Development, informed the newspaper that they are considering …
Olympiakos soccer club has responded to the prosecution of its president and four senior officials in a Greek soccer-related criminal case, describing the charges as politically motivated. Charges were filed on Tuesday against Olympiakos President Evangelos Marinakis, vice presidents Yiannis Moralis (who is also the mayor of Piraeus), Kostas Karapapas, Dimitris Agrafiotis, and Michalis Kountouris. …
File photo. [Shutterstock] Greek police seized firearms and explosives during a search of a storage unit in the central Athens neighborhood of Pangrati late Tuesday. According to reports, earlier that day, a private citizen alerted authorities after discovering a stockpile of weaponry in a storage unit he owned but had not visited for an extended …
Greek riot police officers stand guard as demonstrators march during a protest marking the 51th anniversary for the 1973 Athens Polytechnic student uprising against the military junta, in Athens, Greece, on 17 November 2024. [Fotis Karambetsos/EPA] Τhis year Greece celebrates half a century of a well-functioning democracy following the collapse of the junta in July …
In 2016 European leaders treated Trump’s win as an aberration, something to ride out. Eight years later, European leaders are now trying to gauge what a second Trump presidency will mean for the continent. While Jean Monnet famously said “Europe will be forged in crisis,” the political turmoil in Germany and France, Europe’s two largest …