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Let the celebrations begin! OMG week (Oh My Greek Week) returns to Melbourne this November with more great Greek treats presented by chef, TV personality, restaurateur and author George Calombaris as well as some of the most famous Greek...

The Council of State (CoS) plenum will meet on October 24 and 26 to discuss and decide on the constitutionality and legality of the government’s TV licensing law in two closed-door sessions, the president of the court Nikolaos Sakellariou...

State Minister Nikos Pappas said that the Greek media landscape would return to its previous condition of unlicensed television stations if the Council of State (CoS) ruled that the TV license law was unconstitutional. He made this statement on...

The third Greek Parliament leaders meeting on the Greek National Council for State Radio and Television (NCRTV) began at 2 p.m. on Wednesday but did not bear results as the conservative New Democracy, socialist PASOK and centrist Potami parties...

The Council of State plenum, Greece's Supreme Court, threw out three petitions for injunctions filed in connection with a television license tender procedure aimed at limiting nationwide TV licenses to four. The decision was reached in the council's third...

More than 200 Greek businesses from the agricultural and food sector are at SIAL Paris 2016, the biggest annual international food and beverage exhibition. The Greek presence, organized by Enterprise Greece, aims to help increase Greek exports to foreign...

Born in Athens, Greece, Betty Harlafti has traveled the world giving concerts in everything from encompassing Greek composers, lyrical performances, traditional Greek music such as rebetiko and jazz. Although the Greek Mezzo-soprano is perhaps best known for her collaboration with...

The National Hellenic Society, a prominent non-profit organization sending dozens of Greek-American students to Greece every year, honored business leader and philanthropist George Behrakis, legendary actor John Aniston, HBO executive and Academy Award-winning producer Kary Antholis as well as eminent political...

With the promise to romp wildly on the island where Zeus romped, SDC Travel that caters to swinging couples has organized a six-day swinging "marathon" on the island of Crete. So far 75 couples from around the world have booked...

The Greek government was forced to withdraw a series of amendments on television licensing late on Friday. The amendments were tabled in parliament after an outcry from opposition parties and the press. According to an amendment State Minister Nikos Pappas attempted to...

The long-awaited session of the Council of State on Friday convened to examine the legality of a law covering the broadcast television license framework following the government's decision to decrease the number of national broadcasters to four. The session...

In the framework of Greece-Russia Year, the northern Aegean region presents the exhibition "The Aegean Islands, the Birth of the Archipelago" at the Polytechnic School of Moscow. The exhibition is organized at the initiative of the Natural History Museum of...

The 2nd Israel-Greece Joint Meeting on Nanotechnology and BioNanoscience is taking place from October 25-28, 2016 at the Hotel Aquila Atlantis in Heraklion, Crete. The Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser (IIDL) and the Institution of Research and Technology (ITE) have organized this meeting...

The non-profit European Association for Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality (EuroVR) will hold its annual conference in Athens on November 22-24. The EuroVR Conference 2016 is the sector's 14th annual conference and will be carried out in cooperation with the...

The Greek State Council, the highest administrative court of the country, is set to convene on Wednesday and Friday to review the constitutionality of the recent competition that the government had carried out to limit the number of national...