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On June 20, the Acropolis Museum is celebrating its fourth birthday. The exhibition areas and the restaurant will remain open from 8 a.m. until 12 midnight. For the occasion, admission will be reduced to three euros for all visitors. Visitors...

Hounded by howls of protests within Greece and Europe over the closing of the national broadcaster ERT to meet demands by international lenders to start firing public servants, Prime Minister Antonis Samaras has reportedly agreed to let information programs...

The television viewers of Crete have been able to watch the state TV program since 13.30. The TV screen that turned black on the night of June 11 is broadcasting live with programs run by journalists and technicians of the...

Eleven-year-old Nikiforos Papadopoulos sent a letter to the Greek Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, concerning the closing down of the state public broadcaster, ERT. “I wrote and sent a letter to the prime minister and I asked him to re-open ERT...

After the announcement the Greek government made that it will close down the state public broadcaster ERT, which caused a wide uprising of the people in Greece and abroad, on June 13 it was unanimously decided that the 24-hour...

Amid complaints of favoritism and patronage from disgruntled and angry former staff members of the Greek national broadcaster ERT, all 2,656 of whom were fired by the government on June 11 with five minutes notice, Athens Prosecutor of Corruption...

Greece's highest court, the Council of State, will decide on Jun 17 whether to overturn the decision by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras to shut down the national broadcaster ERT and fire all 2,656 workers, although he said a slimmed-down...

George Stephanopoulos, an entertainment lawyer and film producer (not the former political adviser and television journalist most people associate the name with), grew up playing golf in the U.S. with his father, a Greek Orthodox priest. Taking his experience...

Prime Minister and New Democracy Conservative leader Antonis Samaras has set a June 18 meeting with his coalition partners, PASOK Socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos and Democratic Left (DIMAR) head Fotis Kouvelis, who are demanding he withdraw a decree that...

After the Greek public broadcaster ERT's shutdown, there has been an unprecedented wave of foreign media solidarity with ERT employees and Greece in general. Following the Franco-German ARTE, which dubbed its TV news program in Greek showing great interest in...

The Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center (O.C.S.C) celebrated its 20 years of operation since its founding during an event at its headquarters in Athens. Greek Health Minister Andreas Lykourentzos, the First Vice President of the Parliament Giannis Tragakis, representatives of the...

The 22nd Nafplion Festival will take place in the historic city of Nafplion in the Peloponnese, Greece at June 21 to 30. Giannis Vakarelis is the artistic director and Phormigx Concert Agency has the organizational responsibility. The festival will honor...

Public transportation in Athens will be staggered on June 13 as transport workers join a strike called by the country's largest labor unions representing public and private workers in the aftermath of the government's decision to shut down the...

With Lena Papaligoura, recent winner of the Melina Mercouri Award in the main role and other well-known actors such as Vicky Papadopoulou, Christos Sapountzis, Lydia Fotopoulou and Orfeas Avgoustidis , Sophocles' Antigone will be presented only for 15 performances...

On 23 February 1966, Greece’s public broadcaster ERT, which was named National Radio Foundation (EIR) at the time, made its very first official appearance. EIR’s broadcaster, Eleni Kypraiou, was the one to welcome the audience, the few people who had...