Retired AEK player in intensive care after motorbike crash

Retired soccer player Marios Oikonomou, who represented several clubs including Athens side AEK, has been admitted to intensive care after a motorbike he was riding collided with a car in Ioannina, northwestern Greece, on Saturday afternoon. Source link

Tsipras to promote ‘patriotic left’

Alexis Tsipras knows well that he has to appeal beyond his former left-wing base in order to achieve his primary goal to end up as the runner-up in the next general election. Source link

A populist hodgepodge

“Make me prime minister for a day, and I’ll show you how I can change Greece.” This popular saying aptly captures the spirit of the new political party, Hope for Democracy, launched by Maria Karystianou on Thursday. Source link

A bane as old as the Isthmus

It has been a frustrating fact of life in Greece since 1893, when the Corinth Canal was officially inaugurated: Public infrastructure projects are never delivered on time. Source link

Queensland exhibition explores Ionian migration stories to Australia 

In Australia, Chrysanthi Zantioti discovered two bundles of letters after her mother’s death – one written “from Nick to Popi” and another “from Popi to Nick,” revealing the early correspondence of a couple whose lives were shaped by migration from Kythira. Source link

Investments are the ‘proof of love’

He speaks Greek, owns a home in the Cyclades, and loves fishing. French businessman Jean-Paul Agon, chairman of L’Oréal, was awarded the Apollo prize by the Delphi Economic Forum, with the Acropolis as a backdrop. Source link