Thessaloniki
Greece
New Sub-Four-Hour Athens-Thessaloniki Train Service to Begin May 20
Thanos Vourdas, the general secretary of Greece's infrastructure and transport ministry, announced on Monday that the first express electric train service which will take passengers from Athens to Thessaloniki in under four hours will be launched next Monday, May...
Greece
PAOK Thessaloniki Wins Greek Football Cup Final
PAOK Thessaloniki won the final of the Greek Cup against AEK Athens with a score of 1-0 on Saturday night at the Olympic Stadium of Athens, OAKA.
This is the third consecutive year that PAOK wins the Greek Cup, against...
Culture
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Leads This Year’s ”March of The Living”
The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople and New Rome, Bartholomew I and Greece’s Speaker of the House Nikolaos Voutsis led this year's thirty-first ”March of The Living” in Poland, to honor the victims of the Holocaust.
This year's event is dedicated...
Europe
Thousands Honor Greek Victims of the Holocaust in ”March of The Living”
The 31st ''March of the Living'' taking place in Poland on Thursday, honors the thousands of Greek citizens who died in Nazi Germany's concentration camps during the Holocaust of World War II.
On Yom Hashoah day, or the Day of...
entertainment
Greek-American John Kalafatis Partners With Nu Boyana to Open Studios in Thessaloniki
The CEO of New York-based York Studios, John Kalafatis, has partnered with Nu Boyana to open brand new state-of-the-art film stages in Thessaloniki.
The Greek government has enacted a great film incentive for both US and international movies looking to shoot...
Greece
FIFA Tweets Praise for PAOK Football Team's Outstanding Year
FIFA, the international governing body of football, praised on Monday the amazing performance of Thessaloniki's PAOK football club in a Tweet with an accompanying video.
The federation uploaded a video showing the PAOK players celebrating their winning of the Superleague...
Greece
Thessaloniki Celebrates PAOK Winning the Greek Title After 34 Years
Thessaloniki's PAOK football team won their match against Levadiakos on Sunday evening, securing first place in Greece's Superleague.
With a winning score of (5-0), PAOK became Greece's football champion for the first time in 34 years, sparking waves of enthusiasm...
Greece
Activist Whose Bicycle Was Stolen In Thessaloniki Raises Money to Replace it
A Dutch activist whose bicycle was stolen in Thessaloniki on March 26 announced recently that he has managed to raise enough money to replace it, along with all the equipment he needs.
Jitse Bouma is raising money for children with...
Business
''Don't Order Food, Cook Pasta!'': Greek Food Delivery Workers Go on Strike
The first coordinated strike of workers in the food delivery sector will take place simultaneously in Athens and Thessaloniki on Thursday.
The workers in this specific sector have participated in strikes in the past, but this is their first attempt...
Greece
Commuter Chaos in Greece as Hundreds of Migrants Block Main Athens Train Station
Hundreds of migrants have occupied the main train station in Athens on Friday demanding to be allowed to travel north to join other migrants near Thessaloniki who attempted on Thursday to push toward the border with North Macedonia.
Migrant families,...