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Daily Archives: Apr 22, 2014

New Modern Art Museum Gets €3M Grant from Niarchos Foundation

The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) board of directors approved a 3-million-euro grant to the National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) for the immediate completion...

NBG Owners to Meet May 10 to Approve €2.5bn Share Issue

Greece's second-biggest lender, the National Bank of Greece has unveiled the terms of a planned share capital increase that must be approved by the shareholders'...

Papaconstantinou: IMF Did Not Demand Debt Relief

In a statement issued on Tuesday, former Greek finance minister Giorgos Papakonstantinou denied that former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn ever insisted on restructuring Greek debt as part...

More Than 225,000 Greeks Scurry For Social Dividend

  Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras' pre-election cash giveaway has prompted hundreds of thousands of people to apply for the so-called "social dividend," much of...

Greek Island of Ithaca to Become High Class Resort

Australian investors are planning to build a luxurious resort on the southern shores of the Greek island of Ithaca, which will host villas, marinas...

Victim Gives Shocking Testimony About Vicious Fascist Attack

A 17-year-old student who was stabbed, allegedly by Golden Dawn supporters, while walking to school in January 2013 in Palaio Faliro, Athens, gave his...

River Evros at Alarming Levels After Bulgaria Dam Overflow

Authorities are preparing for the worst in the northern Greece regions of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, where the water level of the river Evros has risen dangerously. Indeed,...

Greek Basketball Giants Fight Back for Euroleague Survival

Both Greek teams in the last eight of basketball's Euroleague managed to edge do-or-die victories in closely contested play-offs Monday night, kindling fading dreams of keeping the trophy in Greece...

German Paper Reports on Unpaid Work in Greece

A recent article in German daily Der Spiegel, entitled Warum Jannis auch ohne Lohn arbeitet ('Why is Yannis working without a salary?') addresses the problem of unpaid...

Remembering the Meaning of Good Friday at St. Nicholas Flushing Church

The Lamentations and processions of the Epitaphios at St. Nicholas Church in Flushing is always special to Eastern Queens residents.  Rev. Protopresbyter Paul C.,...