December 11, 2019
Turkey-GR
Turkey has found a childish way to expand its borders and deliberately delinate its Exclusive Economic Zone. High-ranking officials like the Foreign Minister take a map and draw vertical and horizontal lines according to their liking. FM Mevlut Cavusoglu presented such a map to the delight of any nationalist Turk …
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September 18, 2019
Turkey-GR
Turkey continues its provocations and claims and this time has eyed some of the Cyclades islands in the central Aegean Sea. Mykonos, Paros and Naxos are among the islands Ankara would like to name hers according to its plan “Blue Homeland.” Umit Yalim, former Secretary of the Turkish Defense Ministry …
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September 2, 2019
Turkey-GR
Turkey believes that half of the Aegean Sea as well as the east part of the east coast of the island of Crete belongs to the neo-ottoman hordes of Erdogan whose target is a so-called “Blue Motherland.” The Turkish President dared to appear with the map of Turkey’s wet dreams …
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July 30, 2018
environment
Detailed maps showing the extent of the burnt areas in eastern Attica were released on Monday by the forest fires monitoring centre of the Institute for Astronomy, Astrophysics, Space Applications and Remote Sensing (IAASARS) at the National Observatory of Athens. Using a system of Drones/UAV for high resolution spatial analysis, …
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May 13, 2018
Sky
Two astronomers from Greece have managed to model the three-dimensional structure of an interstellar gas cloud, and found that it’s on the order of 10 times more spacious than it originally appeared. The 3D “map” is an important step in understanding the process of how stars are born. Greek scientists …
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October 18, 2017
World
The European Union has 28 member countries. And kinda like Captain Planet, when their powers combine, they make for a pretty great place to live. But that doesn’t mean each country is without its flaws. It’s like the Planeteer who controlled the element of Heart. Sure, he helped make Captain …
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September 13, 2017
environment
With every wind blow, with every wave the oil spill sails a bit further. The thick, oily, stinky, black carpet breaks into pieces that now sail independently, swept away by the winds, the waves and the sea currents. It is normally the penetrating smell of petroleum that has locals to …
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September 6, 2017
Greece
Greece and Bulgaria signed a memorandum of cooperation to build rail connections between ports in Bulgaria and northern Greece. The agreement refers to the interconnection of the Greek ports of Alexandroupolis, KAvala and Thessaloniki with the Bulgarian ports of Varna and Burgas at the Black Sea as wells as with …
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August 8, 2017
Very Mix
The large wildfire on the island of Kythira has been finally taken under control. However, the damage is immeasurable. At least 8% of the island has been burned down. The wildfire that broke out on Friday had no active front on Tuesday morning. The fire is fully demarcated, only small …
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May 10, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR
The Turkish Coast Guard published alleged official maps and documents claiming half of the Aegean Sea belong to Turkey. In this sense, Ankara claims to won dozens of Greek islands, the entire eastern Aegean from the island of Samothraki in the North to Kastelorizo in the South. The maps and …
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May 9, 2017
Archeology, Culture
Russian constructors have found the head of a 2,500-year-old terracotta statue of a Greek god during underwater construction operation off the Crimean Peninsula, according to recent media reports in Russia. Chief of the underwater archaeology unit of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Sergei Olkhovskiy has announced that the discovery of …
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April 17, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR, World
A slim victory that is a defeat in a divided country. Turkey’s referendum result is tight, with a gap of some 1.3 million votes between winner Yes and loser No. Opposition parties cry ‘foul’ because the Supreme Electoral Council allowed non-stamped ballots to be counted as valid. One and a …
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April 3, 2017
Tourism, Travel
The Silk Road. Two words that always had a magic attraction on me. I am not sure when I first heard about it. Possible in the last years of the elementary school. Most likely I had also seen some pictures or rather paintings in encyclopedias and historical comic books we …
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June 18, 2016
Tourism, Travel
You are in Athens and you hear the call of the sea? There are several clean beaches nearby that you can visit with public transport means and others a bit more far away that you’d better reach with own vehicle. The Laboratories of the National Ecological Research Center PAKOEE issued …
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March 14, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
The March of Hope of the desperate. The march through hills and mountains, streams and rivers. Hundreds of refugees started to walk through a dangerous passage on Monday in order to enter the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM). Carrying their children and some luggage, men, women, young and elderly …
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June 3, 2015
Economy
Minimum wage across the eurozone and the European Union and the rest of the old continent as well in Eurasia and the countries around the Mediterranean basin. 50 Shades of wages in an unbalanced world. Sourc: Wikipedia/Eurostat – Graphics by Jo Di Graphics . A minimum wage is the …
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September 12, 2012
Economy, Tourism
Fourty uninhabited islands are ready to be leased to local or foreign investors, for up to 50 years. Greece is under pressure to fill state registers and targets revenues of 50 billion euro until 2020. Through the leasing of these islands that “offer good terrain, are close to the mainland …
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