The municipality of Thira has filed a formal complaint against unauthorized construction on the shoreline at Chanas in Vlychada, on the island of Santorini, alleging violations of Greek coastal protection law. Source link
In a historic quarter of Piraeus, where old residential blocks descend from Kastella and Profitis Ilias toward the city’s dense interior, a handful of aging houses remain as vestiges of an earlier urban landscape. Source link
I don’t remember if Mr Nikos’ grocery store on Drosopoulou Street in central Athens had a name or a nice sign in those years. But I recall the multitude of signs, old or modern by the standards of the postwar world, that filled the streets of Athens. Source link
“Come to the rehearsal tomorrow,” conductor George Petrou said, as we shared a meal at the Szultenburger, a traditional German tavern (which is actually run by a Greek) in Goettingen, a university town in Lower Saxony. Source link
There is a cartoon by Kostas Mitropoulos showing two people standing in front of a newsstand. One says, “Ah, it smells like spring…” The other, looking at the newspapers announcing new benefits, replies, “It smells like elections…” Source link
In Greece, we are often surprised when we read in the news that investigations have been launched by judicial and police authorities into the unjustified enrichment of politicians. Source link
Tens of thousands of Albanians held a new protest late Saturday against a planned luxury resort linked with US President Donald Trump’s family on an environmentally sensitive stretch of the country’s Adriatic coast. Source link
There’s no arguing that any ordinary citizen would be embarrassed about being called into a police station or summoned by a prosecutor. This is doubly so for public figures, who pay the price of the publicity they worked so hard to acquire by being “hung out to dry,” as many government officials like to say. …
In a controversial decision, the Supreme Court decided to send Alexandros Giotopoulos back to prison after reversing a decree by a council of judges at the Piraeus Court of Appeal. Source link
The stage that has been temporarily set up for the rehearsals at the Greek National Theater’s Irene Papas Drama School is curved, creating a constant sense of instability – as if everything is about to collapse. Source link