Greece
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Golden “passports to the afterlife”
The beauty and mystery of the ‘lamellae orphicae’ of Ancient Greece.
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8 ancient Roman shipwrecks discovered near Naxos island
“Those remains suggest the reef could be a rich site for learning more about sea trade in the Classical world,” archaeologists say.
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Tsipras among the world’s top-10 ‘Hottest Heads of State’
Malcolm Turnbull ranks 11th, while Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos is #196.
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Turkey claims Aegean islets
Turkish Foreign Minister mentions the Imia conflict and tells the Parliament that the options are diplomacy or war.
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One in three Greeks deprived of basic material goods
Only Romania and Bulgaria fared worse than Greece among EU countries, a Eurostat report revealed.
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No more free plastic grocery bags in Greece
A new waste reduction initiative to decrease the use of plastic bags will be put into place from January.
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New bailout program for Greece?
Details of Greece’s bailout program update, as agreed between the Tsipras government and the creditors, include 82 prior actions.
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Thessaloniki to showcase its Jewish legacy
Mayor Yiannis Boutaris announces the creation of a new Jewish school and Holocaust museum.
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More jobs created in Greece, but not full-time ones
Data confirms roughly 128,000 new jobs were created in 2017.