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A large part of the Athens-Thessaloniki highway remains under water in areas of central Greece with the floods to have ‘cut’ the country into two. The highway remains closed also on September 13-14, 2023 even though a part of Trikala-Larissa opened on Wednesday. The National Highway Athens-Thessaloniki has turned into …

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Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis urged Greeks to seek alternative ways for heating, warning that the upcoming winter will be worse than the one in 1942, when the country suffered famine due to occupation by the German Nazis in WWII. Heating oil is currently 6 times cheaper than natural gas. the …

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Greece is proposing to European Union to import natural gas or electricity from North Africa as alternative to the energy crisis. At door steps comments ahead of the European Council meeting on Thursday, prime minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that he would brief his counterparts on developments in the Eastern Mediterranean …

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You are at the beach under the boiling sun and not a green leaf around to offer just a bit of a shadow? Or you think the price to rent a set of sun-bed and -umbrella much too high? There are always alternatives… all you need is a practically thinking …

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Migrants from Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, stuck in Greece, are turning to a barely disguised smuggling market for passage to other European countries. With borders to FYROM, Albania and Bulgaria closed, human traffickers promise new routes and new ways to take the desperate refugees and migrants all way to Germany …

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The times when state bonds underwent haircut or ‘debt restructuring’ to easy the national debts seem to be over. Cyprus showed the way with ‘seizing’ 50% of savings over 100,000 euro. While the International Monetary Fund and the Eurozone quarrel over a possible Greek debt haircut and the debt/bailout program …

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“Greece doesn’t need yet another rescue package – it needs a way out”: That’s a really wise conclusion amid the discussion of a third ‘rescue’ package of some 10 billion euro with the IMF pressing for another debt haircut and Germany vehemently rejecting such option. The strict austerity measures imposed …

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There is an unofficial service initiated by the website Athens Transport via Twitter. It runs in Greek but you can post your message, offering or seeking a Car Pool in the hashtag #carpoolgr. Also KTEL-Buses operate between downtown Athens and the Airport every 30 minutes. Ticket €5. Please, share in …

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