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Like every year on Greece’s  National Holiday on October 28th, the Acropolis Museum open its gates to visitors free of charge. The Museum will be open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Visitors will be able to tour through the permanent exhibitions of the Acropolis Museum that include findings of …

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Regional and local government officials, former chiefs in charge of Police, the Fire Service and as well as members of the Coast Guard, a total of 21 people started arriving at the prosecutor’s office in Athens on Tuesday morning. In presence of their lawyers, the officials have to answer questions …

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Four police officers were injured when anarchists attacked the police station of Omonia in downtown Athens on Monday evening. It was around 9 o’ clock, when some 50 people wearing hoods and helmets started to throw stones and molotov cocktail bombs first at a police van and then at several …

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Greece’s national football team lost to Finland 2-0 in Tampere Stadium on Monday night and coach Michael Skibbe finds himself just a step before seeking another job. Local media speak of “national humiliation,” blame the German coach for it and demand his replacement …yesterday. “Unfortunately we were not in the …

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The Russian Orthodox Church said on Monday it has decided to break off all ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Constantinople after it recognized the Autonomy of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine last week. The split is the biggest in Christianity and Orthodoxy in more than thousand years, since Catholics …

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An Ancient Greek Amphora is to go on auction in New York at the end of the month. Too bad that the ownership is currently disputed by Greek forensic archaeologists who have alerted authorities to investigate the issue.  The black-figured amphora may end back to Greece, local media report. The …

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The Municipality of Athens is destroying one of the most colorful areas in the historical center of the Greek capital. The 300 artists who sell their homemade handicraft in the area of Thissio should be removed and relocated outside three metro stations in Keramikos and Victoria squares quite far from …

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Heating oil at the average price of 1.15 euros per liter and up to 1.25 in remote areas or the islands make it again a luxury that only a few Greeks can afford. Almost half of the heating oil price is due to high taxation, to add are also transportation …

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Unemployment in Greece fell to 19 percent in the month of July. According to Greek Statistics Authority, the unemployment rate fell to 19% from 19.1% in June and 20.9% in July 2017. Y0uth unemployment is still high at 37.9%, however, a year ago it was at 41.1% and reached above …

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Former Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem wrote a blog post about the pensions system in general and the one in Greece in particular. He supports the Greek government position that  the controversial pension cuts “are unnecessary.” However, at the same time he claims that “the statutory retirement age in Greece will …

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The Acropolis, the Parthenon and the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus were spotted all in one place on the beach Psili Ammo in Tolo by Naflpio on Saturday afternoon. An unknown artist created the exceptional constructions out of sand. With excessive patience, talent and skills, the artist or the artists modeled …

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Médecins Sans Frontières’ Greece Medical Coordinator Dr. Declan Barry told Newsweek that since mid-May, the organization has seen an average of one reported case of sexual assault per week, which adds up to at least 21 cases reported to MSF alone in less than five months. Barry said that those cases involved women, …

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