Switzerland
Europe
International Award to Greek Scientist
Greek scientist and businessman Dimitris Papanastasiou has been awarded the 2014 Curt Brunnee Award at a special ceremony during the 20th International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC) in Geneva, Switzerland, on Wednesday.
The prize is awarded every three years by IMSC to scientists under...
Culture
Spyros Louis Silver Cup Travels to Olympic Museum in Lausanne
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that the Silver Cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896, has been temporarily moved to Switzerland. The cup will be exhibited at...
Europe
First Greek Gourmet And Wine Expo in Zurich
Greek Gourmet & Wine Expo is the first Greek food and wine exhibition that will take place in Zurich, introducing Greek companies to the Swiss Market. The aim is to introduce more quality Greek products to important companies and...
Greece
World Cup Knockout Stage: The 8 games of the Final 16
After a record of 136 goals in the first 48 games, tomorrow the World Cup is taking it's final 16 teams to the knockout stage where usually the surprise teams collapse and the favorites stand. Let's take a...
Europe
Professor Anastasia Ailamaki Thrives Abroad
Anastasia Ailamaki is a Greek professor from Chania, Crete, born in Cyprus. She is one of the many distiguished Greeks abroad, as a Carnegie Mellon University faculty member at the Computer and Communication Science department, where she works as a full time...
Economy
Greek Deposits of 60 Billion in Switzerland
According to the economist Gabriel Zucman, the deposits of Greek citizens in Swiss banks are amounting to 60 billion euros. The French professor of the London School of Economics and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley published his book...
Greece
Greek Movie Fridays: 'Hard Goodbyes: My Father' Will Move You!
How can a young child deal with his father’s death? Is children’s imagination helpful in such dramatic circumstances? The Greek leading film distributor and producer, Odeon S.A and Greek Reporter present the award-winning social drama by Penny Panayotopoulou, Hard...
Business
Greek Diaspora of Switzerland
Switzerland is a federal state in the west of Europe, an economical and commercial crossroad of international caliber. Many Greeks are currently living in Switzerland and the two countries have a long interrelated history behind them.
The first governor of...
Business
Greek-owned Luxury Hotel Group Acquires Historic St. Moritz Hotel
Grace Hotels, the privately owned luxury hotel group, has acquired the historic La Margna hotel in the heart of St. Moritz, Switzerland. During 2014 the company will undertake an extensive programme of renovation and transformation to create Grace St. Moritz...
Europe
Greece to be Country of Honor at “Gouts et Terroirs”
Greece will be the country of honor at the Salon of Gastronomy “Gouts et Terroirs” which is organized by Canton of Fribourg in the city of Bulle, Switzerland, (near Berne in the district of Gruyère). The 2013 edition of...