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Jan Fabre Quits Greek Festival Amidst Reactions

Belgian multidisciplinary artist Jan Fabre, decided to quit his position as the director of the annual Athens & Epidaurus (International) Festival for the 2016 – 2019 period, amidst reactions by Greek artists against the programme he created. On the website of the...

Greece-Russia Agreement for Cooperation in Quantum and Nanotech Research

Greece's Alternate Minister for Research and Innovation Costas Fotakis and Russian Federation Deputy Minister for Education and Science Ludmila Ogorodova on Friday signed an agreement for cooperation between the two countries in specialist new technologies, such as quantum technology,...

Turkey Forcibly Sending War Refugees Back to Syria, Amnesty Reports

Turkey has been rounding up and forcibly sending back about 100 Syrian refugees nearly every day since January, according to a new report by Amnesty International. The human rights group said Friday that this has been an "open secret" in...

Wikileaks: IMF Threatens to Leave Troika Ahead of Greek 'Disaster'

Wikileaks has revealed a conversation between the two top IMF officials in charge of the Greek debt crisis, Poul Thomsen, head of the IMF’s European department, and Delia Velculescu, IMF mission chief for Greece. The details of the conversation,...

New World Wealth Research: 3,000 Millionaires Leave Greece in 2015

Out of the total of 55,000 millionaires that remained in Greece in 2015, 5% abandoned the country in search of better conditions, according to a recent research by the New World Wealth. The research titled "Millionaire migration in 2015" by...

NASA Space Apps Challenge Returns to Cyprus April 16 – 17

NASA Space Apps Challenge, the biggest event for the development of innovative and space oriented ideas, is back in Cyprus for the fourth consecutive year. Last year, one of the winning teams of the Space Apps Challenge Limassol 2015, “ArachnoBeeA”,...

13 Theses on the Continuing Greek Debt Drama

As the Greek debt drama continues to unfold and both the IMF and the eurocrats demand ever more sacrifices from the average Greek people and treat the country as a colony, there are several things worth highlighting about Greece’s...

Brussels Source: Greek Program Review 'Ideally' by April 12

The review of Greece's programme should ideally be concluded before April 12, a well-informed source in Brussels told the ANA-MPA on Friday, while clarifying that this depended on the required "political will." According to the same source, there was a...

Greek-Listed Companies Lose 7.5 Bln Euros in 2015

Listed companies in the Athens stock exchange registered losses totaling 7.5 billion euros last year with the banking sector being the main contributor, according to data published by Beta Securities on Friday. Beta looked into the balance sheets of 199...

Athens Hoteliers Feel Threatened By Private House Rentals

In a recent press release, the Athens-Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association (AHA), announced that hotels in Athens have been seeing their occupancy numbers decrease since last fall until February 2016. According to AHA's data, there was a steady decrease throughout...