Greece
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Canadian company to open offices in Athens to create 600 jobs
A Canadian company has announced it is expanding its operations in Europe and is to create more than 600 jobs in Athens, a city it says that is one of …
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Hard Rock heads to courts to reverse old Athens airport casino decision
Hard Rock International has filed a pre-trial appeal in Greece against the decision by the Hellenic Gaming Commission (HGC) to grant the initial rights to develop a casino resort in …
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Greek company develops cheap system to test offshore wind power
A Greek innovation is offering huge savings in the offshore wind energy field and has received a European Commission award a two million euro funding grant. The Floatmast, a floating …
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Greece condemned for plans to build a floating barrier to deter migrants in the Aegean
Human rights groups have condemned Greece’s plans to build a 2.75km-long floating barrier off its Aegean coastline to deter migrants from Turkey after the Greek Defence Ministry put out a …
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Greek high-schoolers to benefit from international exchange programme
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) is providing support for a three-year pilot programme to give 50 Greek high school students the opportunity to spend a semester on an international exchange …
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Hard Rock offers to build 1 billion euro complex at old Athens airport
Hard Rock International has promised to invest one billion euros for an integrated casino resort (IRC) at the Hellenikon International Airport site near Piraeus if it wins the international tender …
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Turkish ministry seeks return of Panagia Soumela artefacts
Turkey is seeking from Greece, among other countries, the return of artefacts taken from the historic monastery of Panagia Soumela Monastery on Mela Mountain about 40km inland from Trabzon on …
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Legendary Greek fashion designer, Yannis Tseklenis has passed away, aged 82
Iconic fashion designer Yannis Tseklenis passed away on Wednesday, aged 82. Born in Athens, he went on to make a name for himself as Greece’s premier designer of the second …
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Unique oral history project set to cover all corners of Greece
A Greek not-for-profit organisation has been launched with the mission to create an archive of Greek oral histories that will give a fuller picture of the nation’s past. The organisation, …
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Old palace artefacts pose big headache for Greek culture ministry
The Greek Department of Conservation of Ancient and Modern Monuments is facing a huge challenge in cataloguing and storing up to 50,000 objects housed at Tatoi, the former royal estate …