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since 2025 › Jan › 25 (Sat) @ 07:22 UTC

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2 days ago

Greece’s booming tourism sector in race to find workers as summer season looms

found 2025 › May › 05 (Mon) @ 04:55 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

About 80,000 jobs still to be filled – and country is turning to asylum seekers and overseas for help

On the facade of the Karyatis taverna in a plaza of palm trees and garden plants beneath the Acrop…

13 days ago

Greece must face punishment over abuses against migrants, Frontex official says

found 2025 › Apr › 24 (Thu) @ 02:05 UTC

a story from Politico EU › Politico EU

Athens has 13 open cases into alleged human rights violations involving migrants, the single largest number of incidents across the bloc.

14 days ago

Raphael’s School of Athens review – rewarding study of Renaissance fresco

found 2025 › Apr › 23 (Wed) @ 12:20 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

During the latest in Howard Burton’s Masterpiece series, the art historian turns his low-tech but scholarly attention to Raphael’s interior decoration in the Vatican palace

Here is the latest in the s…

22 days ago

Europe's race to rearm is pointless if its adversaries are waging war online | Johnny Ryan

found 2025 › Apr › 15 (Tue) @ 04:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Ireland holds the algorithm off-switch. Ursula von der Leyen must force Dublin to use it

Europe is scrambling to remilitarise. The European Commission is raising a €150bn (£129bn) defence fund and is …

23 days ago

Unknown leftist extremist group claims responsibility for Athens bombing

found 2025 › Apr › 14 (Mon) @ 10:10 UTC

a story from Euronews › Euronews

While no injuries were reported in the blast on Friday, the group said the attacks were part of an "armed struggle against the state".

24 days ago

Athens is burning after petrol bomb riots see attacks on police - before 70 are arrested

found 2025 › Apr › 13 (Sun) @ 16:35 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

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Shocking footage emerging from the holiday hotspot showed rioters storming the streets just after midnight as the rowdy mobs came head-to-head with cops.

25 days ago

Bomb explodes in British tourist hotspot outside HQ of train firm involved in Greece's deadliest rail disaster - with reports of anonymous call and device in backpack

found 2025 › Apr › 11 (Fri) @ 21:15 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

Anonymous calls were made ahead of a bomb exploding in a British tourist hotspot in Athens, Greece on Friday night - just yards away from the headquarters of rail firm Hellenic Train.

28 days ago

Academic freedom in the US is under threat – universities of the world, unite! | Andrew Graham

found 2025 › Apr › 09 (Wed) @ 11:15 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

We cannot be neutral with respect to fake news, misinformation or outright lies

In western academia, everything began with philosophy. Ever since, especially since the Enlightenment and the scientific…

30 days ago

‘Incompatible with the symbolism’: Yorgos Lanthimos denied permission to shoot new film at the Acropolis

found 2025 › Apr › 07 (Mon) @ 16:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

The country’s best-known director was refused by Greece’s culture ministry when he applied to shoot scenes for sci-fi comedy Bugonia at iconic Athens site

Greece’s leading contemporary director has ha…

40 days ago

‘All around us was the low hum of contented diners’: readers’ favourite places to eat in Europe

found 2025 › Mar › 28 (Fri) @ 16:37 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Opulent omelettes, plump scallops and a ‘confessional’ fondue are among our tipsters’ happy culinary memories, from Athens to the Algarve

Sarajevo has to be one of the most underrated cities in Europe…

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