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The Greek Culture Ministry owns a number of buildings in Athens, but due to mismanagement, ends up paying rent to house its offices, while renting its own properties for as low as 15 euros per month. The Hellenic Republic Asset Development...

The environment ministry backed down on a bill seen as compromising legislation that protects Greek forests and the old Athens quarter of Plaka. The controversial bill facilitated the declassification of forests and wooded areas and protected areas. The bill deemed...

Bloomberg published an article about Greece, according to which, despite the optimistic messages for the increase of tourism in Greece, unemployment, chiefly among young people, is at high levels. “For Greece’s Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, the tangible recovery signs in...

They may be in the grip of a crushing recession and riven by bitter internal political divisions, but Greeks are always trying to look on the bright side. Despite struggling to overcome the serious economic hit, Greece is still...

A Libération correspondent walked around the center of Athens, describing the financial situation of the stores in the Greek capital. The journalist writes that tourist shops selling mostly souvenirs "are in great recession." The article is entitled "Athens, Melancholy of...

One of the most important scripts of ancient Greece, "The Apology of Socrates," will be revived in its natural scenery, under the sacred rock of the Acropolis in Athens. The play is directed by Broadway veteran Loukas Skipitaris, starring...