Can refugees become entrepreneurs in Greece? In their quest to rebuild their lives, those seeking safety in Greece often strive for decent employment or endeavor to establish their own businesses, utilizing their skills and talents.
You could cut the tension with a knife on Friday morning at the Panellinion, located on the corner of Solonos and Mavromichali in the downtown Athens district of Exarchia: The chessboards were out at the kafeneio, with pawns, rooks and castles positioned for battle.
Officers of the Municipality of Athens and the Hellenic Police removed the tents of two homeless people who lived in the archaeological site of Philopappou Hill next to the Acropolis for three years.
Stefanos Tsitsipas is 26 years old and already a very successful and wealthy tennis player, much wealthier than his parents. But his parents are not just limited to their familial role. They are also his partners and guides in cultivating his talent.
For thousands of drivers and pedestrians traveling daily on Alexandras Avenue near the Panathinaikos soccer stadium, the view of the refugee apartment blocks has remained largely unchanged for at least 40 years: faded ocher facades, rickety balconies, peeling walls, tattered curtains, scattered satellite dishes and political and soccer slogans. Few notice the four black, neatly arranged banners on the only apartment building (out of eight) facing the avenue.
Vangelis Ilias was returning from holiday on Monday when friends called to tell him the unthinkable. A wildfire in forests north of Athens had suddenly descended on his suburb and was approaching his sculpture workshop.
West Nile virus cases continue to rise across the country, putting officials and health experts on alert.
Domestic and international funds have been investing in the buying of well-known private schools, especially in Attica and Thessaloniki.
“In Turkey we say, ‘Tencere yuvarlanmis kapagini bulmus.’ Don’t you have the same proverb?” a woman from Kusadasi on Turkey’s western Aegean coast, eating at the table next to ours on the island of Agathonisi asked the waiter, making a circle with her hand.
Greece’s bid to host the 1996 Olympics on the centenary of the modern Games in Athens seemed so ludicrous, it even featured in the verses of a song written by Lina Nikolakopoulou and performed by Haris Alexiou, poking fun at the audacity of such an ambitious undertaking by a country still struggling to join modernity. It was regarded as a “national wager” and we ended up losing it to Atlanta.
The message of the folktale is quite clear: Repeated false alarms can make a population skeptical, leading to disbelief or inaction even when some end up actually being true.
Forbes magazine features an in-depth profile of Costas Spiliadis, the 78-year-old Greek American restaurateur behind the renowned Estiatorio Milos chain. Known for its fresh seafood and elegant Greek cuisine, Milos has grown from its origins in Montreal in the late 1970s to become a global dining icon, with locations spanning from New York to Dubai.
Asylum seekers have been stranded in a UN controlled buffer zone splitting Cyprus for weeks, caught up in the conflict which divides the island and a government getting increasingly tough on migration.
Stone-built, arched, proud or overgrown with weeds, the bridges of Epirus in northwestern Greece have carried thousands of stories of movement on their backs.
Armed with selfie sticks and phones, the tourists flood into Santorini from everywhere – on dinghies from giant ocean liners, on coaches that zigzag up the steep hillsides, atop donkeys that clip-clop along the narrow cobbled streets.
With the scars still visible on his body 50 years after Turkey invaded Cyprus, Angelos Vougioukas, a member of the Panhellenic Association of Cyprus Fighters of 1974, looks back on the crucial first hours of the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, and the 99 days he spent as a prisoner of the Turkish forces.
Overtourism is already a reality on many Greek islands, and appears to be largely responsible for making existing water scarcity more severe.
Child obesity is a big, and growing problem, across the world and certainly in Greece. Among children ages up to 5, 13.6% are either overweight or obese. Among those aged 5-7, this shoots up to 43%.
A Turkish parliamentary commission has approved a bill aimed at regulating the country’s large stray dog population, a move that has raised concerns among animal rights advocates who fear many of the dogs would be killed or end up in neglected and overcrowded shelters.
A veteran hotelier in Athens used to say, “Tourism is like a storm; for three years you might ride high on the waves and for the next two, you struggle to keep your head above water.”
Air raid sirens wailed across Cyprus’ ethnically-split capital Nicosia at dawn on Saturday as Greek Cypriots mourned, and Turkish Cypriots celebrated 50 years since Turkey invaded part of the island in response to a brief Greek-inspired coup.
On Oinousses, children don’t eat fish. Despite how contradictory that might sound, it seems many children on this eastern Aegean island turn their noses up at fresh fish – and its excellent Omega-3 content – opting instead for red meat and sweets.
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