November 20, 2024
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The enduring controversy surrounding the Parthenon Sculptures, one of the world’s most prominent cultural property disputes, may see significant progress in 2025, according to The Economist’s The World Ahead 2025 report. These 2,500-year-old artifacts, referred to as the Elgin Marbles in Britain, were removed from the Parthenon in the early …
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January 23, 2024
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Atlanta-based Emory University is repatriating three antiquities to Greece. The antiquities were believed to have been looted from three different geographical areas of the country – Crete, Epirus and Attica – and illegally exported abroad, the Greek culture Ministry said in a statement. The …
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October 15, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Traffic restrictions in central Athens, in an area known as the “daktylios” (ring), will resume on Monday, October 16, and will stay in effect until Friday, July 19, 2024, the transport ministry announced on Sunday. From Mondays through Thursdays (7 a.m.-8 p.m.) and on Fridays (7 a.m.-3 p.m.) cars will …
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August 10, 2023
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Hardly had inspectors left the island of Naxos and the sunbeds and the umbrellas returned to the island’s beaches. Shortly after the controls carried out at the beaches about violations regarding illegal sunbeds and umbrellas , some business people put the sunbeds back in their old places again, even in …
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July 27, 2023
environment, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Residents and tourists of specific towns and villages in eastern Rhodes may return to their accommodations, the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry said through the emergency 112 system on Thursday, July 27, 2023.. Specifically, the following areas are safe from fires and evacuated persons may return to: Malona, Charaki, …
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July 6, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A marble fragment from the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis will be voluntarily returned to Greece in Lyon by the Prefecture of the Rhone on Thursday. The architectural fragment, dated to the 5th century BC, is originally from the upper architectural section of the Erechtheion (Temple of Athena Polias), the …
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May 26, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Eva Kaili is is free to return to her duties in the European Parliament and to exercise her rights as an MEP, her lawyers announced in a statement on Friday. The lawyers statement came a day after Belgian prosecuting authorities remove the electronic bracelet from Eva Kaili who has been …
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March 22, 2023
Archeology, Culture
Twenty-nine Greek antiquities, products of looting and smuggling from Macedonia, Epirus, Central Greece, the Cyclades and Crete, were handed over by the Manhattan Prosecutor’s office in USA to Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni. The antiquities ended up in the USA, through the criminal networks of illegal trafficking of cultural goods. …
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December 14, 2022
CORONAVIRUS
Unvaccinated health staff – except doctors – who return to work as of 1. January 2023, must wear a high-protection mask and submit two coronavirus tests a week, the Health Ministry announced on Wednesday. The protocol refers to unvaccinated nurses, administrative personnel and other hospital staff except doctors. Doctors, nurses, …
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December 1, 2022
FEATURED
The first energy autonomous municipality in Greece has suffered a …short-circuited: The photovoltaic investment in Argos – Orestiko were never connected to the power distribution network because the grid argues the network is saturated. Unbelievable and yet true! This is, without a doubt, one yet story of the madness that …
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November 29, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Eighty-six Pakistani nationals returned to their home country voluntarily on Tuesday, boarding a flight chartered by the International Organization for Migration (IOM). The migrants’ return was organized in the framework of the Assisted Voluntary Return (AVR) program, in cooperation with the Greek Migration & Asylum Ministry’s Asylum Service and the …
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November 29, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Unvaccinated health workers of the National Health Care system will return to work under a strict protocol that will include regular rapid testing. The return is reportedly scheduled on January 1, 2023, almost 15 months after thousands of doctors, nurses and administrative personnel were sent home for refusing to not …
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November 17, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The Panhellenic Federation of Freelance Pediatricians proposes the return of the universal use of the protective face masks indoors, due to the concern that prevails with the development of the coronavirus pandemic. According to the Pediatricians, the estimates of the European Center for Infection Prevention (ECDC) on the spread of …
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October 3, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is set to seek an agreement with his British counterpart Liz Truss over the return of the Elgin (Parthenion) marbles to Athens according to a statement published in the Sunday Times. “At a time when Truss will be looking to build her credibility and when the …
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July 15, 2022
Economy
The government has agreed to double the production of electricity using lignite coal as part of a four-point plan to ensure an adequate supply of energy at affordable prices. The plan was agreed at an emergency meeting on the energy crisis caired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday. At …
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May 19, 2022
Archeology, Culture
Greece and the United Kingdom have agreed to hold formal talks on the possible return of the Parthenon Marbles to the country of their origin, the UNESCO announced in a report on Tuesday. On the eve of International Museum Day, celebrated on May 18, UNESCO made the surprise announcement that Greece …
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April 6, 2022
Greece, Politics
Marble tombstones from the former Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis in Thessaloniki were returned to the Jewish community. At a ceremony on Tuesday, the tombstones were presented to David Nahmias, representative of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki by local political and archaeological authorities. The tombstones dated to early 20th …
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January 14, 2022
Economy
Ten years after its departure from Greece, in the early days of the debt crisis, French supermarket giant Carrefour is returning to the country, this time with a different partner and targeting small retailing through cooperation with local chains. Sources say the penetration of the Greek market will begin before …
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January 5, 2022
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
Sicily is returning a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece in a cultural agreement of huge international importance. The fragment known as the Fagan fragment” depicts the foot of a goddess, Peitho or Artemis, peeking out from a beautifully crafted tunic. The return is in the context of a …
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December 9, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Russia will return to Greece the pre-war archives of Jewish communities that were stolen by Nazi forces, the country’s Jewish council said Thursday “Our history returns home,” the Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece (KIS) said in a statement. KIS said Nazi forces in July 1942 had plundered archives, …
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