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The meeting point is the corner of Fokionos Negri and Drosopoulou. I’m already 5 minutes late to meet Dimitris Stratakis, better known as Dimitris The Athens, who looks like a rock star as he’s leaning on the curbside with one of his associates, Nikos who brandishes his camera.

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his cabinet yesterday reviewed the government’s National Recovery Plan that is about be submitted to the European Commission for approval so that Greece may receive its share – 32 billion euros – of EU Pandemic Recovery Fund monies.

Though the announcement brought a sigh of relief to struggling entrepreneurs, the sector is hardly out of the woods as it is still uncertain when it will re-open.

Italy despite 109,000 COVID-19 deaths has an entrenched anti-vaccination movement and the recent discovery of clusters in hospitals after staff refused to have shots has sparked an outcry,

The EU Pandemic Recovery Fund is not just a final hope. It is a first class opportunity for reforms that will allow the country to begin its third century of independence dynamically.

Τhe presence of Russia's PM Mikhail Mishustin at the bicentennial celebrations in Athens - the highest-ranking foreign leader to attend - given the chill in bilateral relations is noteworthy.

Fame criminal lawyer Alexis Kougias has unleashed a strong “J’accuse” in statements made just ahead of the upcoming Hellenic Football Federation elections.

President Sakellaropoulou underlined the seminal role of some of the great powers – Great Britain, Russia, and France – in defeating the Ottomans and of the great philhellenes in turning the tide of public opinion in favour of the Greeks.

The EU leaders are expected to declare at tomorrow's summit their that Turkey deserves more financial support for hosting millions of Syrian refugees.

There should have been a heavier schedule of routes in mass transit and demonstrations and a public backlash should not have been encouraged.

Releasing its first 'Climate Action 100+ Net-Zero Company Benchmark', the group uses a traffic-light system to show how each of the 159 companies is currently performing on a variety of indicators and metrics.

Based on more than 32,000 people, the trial was larger and around 20% of volunteers were aged 65 and above, compared to 5.7% in an earlier British trial. The scarcer data had made some European countries hesitant to use the AstraZeneca shot on older people.

Soon in your ballot boxes and your Sundays. The profile and the heavy resume those that the "reclamation" wants to govern Greek football.

Dimitris Melissanidis’ career both in his business dealings and in Greek football - where he played a leading role in some of its darkest moments  - is common knowledge.

The Dendias-Cavusoglu talks were discussed during political consultations between Greece and Turkey held parallel to ongoing exploratory talks.

Use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Greece will continue 'steadily and with confidence', the head of the Greek National Vaccination Committee told a televised news conference today.

The talks were held just over a week before the 25-26 March EU summit, which will discuss whether to impose sanctions on Turkey, which were postponed at the last summit.

Carnival parties, more or less concealed, in the midst of a pandemic were an inexpensive way to relax, but at the same time were extremely irresponsible.

Once again at a critical juncture in the life of our nation the prevailing environment is one of sterile political rivalries and irrational and often untimely demands.

One continues to see a four-digit number of COVID-19 cases daily despite the protracted lockdowns. Every day over 400 COVID-19 patients nationwide are admitted to hospital.

A disciplined implementation of public health measures against COVID-19 transmission is the only way for a speedy return to normalcy.

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The World Trade Organization director-general on Tuesday called for urgent action on boosting COVID-19 vaccine production in developing countries, saying manufacturing sites could be prepared in six to seven months or less than half the time previously thought. «The fact is that each additional day the vaccine shortage continues, people will pay with their lives,» […]

The NLD's Zaw Myat Linn died in custody on Tuesday after he was arrested in the country's main city of Yangon around 1:30 a.m., said Ba Myo Thein, a member of the dissolved upper house of parliament.

We hold the keys to our freedom in our own hands. The decisions we make every day, combined with the slow but steady vaccination rollout, is the decisive factor in managing the pandemic.

One of the most important lessons from the pandemic, as the PM put it in an article of his that Ta Nea has published today, is the valuable, decisive, and irreplaceable role of the state.

Given the political tensions that prevailed internet trolls gained ground and returned to their destructive work of easy and absolutely corrosive slander.

We talked with Mrs. Goudouna about the role of art in the time of a pandemic, her daily life between obligations and aspirations, the New York Performa Biennale, her favorite museums, GREECE IN USA and many more and even her views on rebetiko

State organisations, services, and elected officials were passing the buck between them by exploiting the diachronic dysfunction of overlapping jurisdictions.

In general, electrical grids that do not incorporate competitive elements and characteristics obviously need public care and public funding as private funding is unavailable.

The Greek side must remain devoted to its line, ring the alarm bells when necessary, and come to the table of exploratory talks with determination.

We all saw how the smaller and more efficient state that has been touted by this government since it came to power as a key objective failed to make the grade.

It is well known that long after a citizen retired he or she was up in the air without money, awaiting payment, and making great sacrifices. That reality did no honour to a civilised society.

Just as after wars, so too after major economic recessions there comes a time to pay off the debt or at least reduce it in relation to GDP through economic development and inflation.

Before the summer season trips in Greece should be feasible and absolutely safe both for visitors and tourism workers and all other citizens.

There have been in the past specific education reforms that made history and were registered in the consciousness of citizens because they were linked to the real needs of society.

The Feb. 1 coup, which overthrew elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian-led government, occurred less than two weeks after Biden took office. It presented him with his first major international crisis and an early test of his dual pledges to re-center human rights in foreign policy and work more closely with allies.

"Innovation should not just be a shield to protect against bad actors. Innovation should also be a ladder to help more people climb to a higher quality of life," she said.

Tourism and related economic sectors for example will not be freed up nor will they have a shot at quick recovery at 2019 levels, as most had expected.

Lakor, forced to murder his three-year-old sister, is inclined to forgiveness, even though Ongwen was a grown man when he destroyed Lakor's life.

Mnangagwa, in a nationally televised address, also said there were plans to vaccinate at least 60% of the population using government and private sector funding.

Every Friday since the 15th of January, Christopher Brown, Ohio State University Professor of Modern Greek, his associates and their students read to their internet listeners chapters of Petros Markaris’s crime novel «Ληξιπρόθεσμα δάνεια» (Expiring Loans)

Because the centre of the political spectrum remains the most hegemonic and seminal in terms of political representation, it holds the key to the political stage.

The truth is that Antonis Samaras is not operating in a vacuum. For decades he has had an intransigent stance on national issues and has played the nationalist card,

Spot silver leapt as much as 7.4% in Asia to $28.99 an ounce, taking gains to about 15% since last Wednesday and the price to its highest since mid August.

Suu Kyi, Myanmar President Win Myint and other NLD leaders were "taken" in the early hours of the morning, NLD spokesman Myo Nyunt told Reuters by phone. Reuters was subsequently unable to contact him.

The example of Portugal and the threat of a third wave are very much with us and jeopardise the enormous efforts made by societies so far.

The global mass vaccination is stoking tensions across the world as big powers buy up doses in bulk and poorer nations try to collect whatever supplies are left.

Vangelis Marinakis was found innocent in the trial about the so-called ‘match-fixing scandal’ in Greek Football.

On 29 December then government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that Greece would receive 429,000 does of the vaccine by the end of January, but companies delayed delivery.

The Greece-Bulgaria agreement includes mutual commitments for the construction of the gas pipeline and for the transportation of gas after the project has been completed.

It took the courageous stance of Sofia Bekatorou for mouths to open and for countless hidden incidents of harassment and sexual violence against women to be aired.

It was the 61st round of such talks, which commenced in 2002, when George Papandreou was foreign minister, and were abruptly terminated in 2016 after an abortive coup against Erdogan

The addition of the French war planes to the Greek Air Force fleet has been touted as giving the Greek Air Force a strategic boost in its deterrent force amid Turkish threats.

One of the last five Communist-ruled countries in the world besides China, Cuba, Laos and North Korea, Vietnam is already eyeing average annual gross domestic product growth of 7.0% over the next five years.

Biden, who took office on Wednesday, campaigned on a promise to aggressively take on the pandemic, which his predecessor President Donald Trump often downplayed and provided conflicting information about.

'It’s not just to meet the moral obligation,' Biden said in remarks at a White House event to sign two executive orders. 'This is an economic imperative.'

Greece need a system that produces graduates with solid academic training, makes the university a place for research and knowledge, and is linked with the market and the new division of labour.

Beginning in 2021 the aim is to contribute to the greatest possible degree to the national effort to place Greece on the path of economic development through the use of state-owned real estate.

Joe Biden must break the shackles of isolationism and fashion a global plan with the entire Western world, that can stem the recession and make America the motive force of a new social contract.

'We must end this uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal. We can do this - if we open our souls instead of hardening our hearts.'

Olympics champion Sofia Bekatorou fulfilled her duty not only to other women but also to society in its entirety by opening a discussion that we ought to have conducted long ago.

Although economies were dealt a severe blow by the pandemic, the harm to households as regards bank deposits, stock investments, bonds, and real estate is limited.

The PM said Athesn is 'well versed in our arguments on the sole issue that essentially causes great tensions in our relationship with Turkey, the delimitation of Aegean and Eastern Mediterraneanmaritime zones.'

Greece has an opportunity to exploit Turkey's shift towards Europe in order to impose terms and pre-conditions for the prospective resumption of talks and negotiations with the EU.

Europe's biggest vaccination programme so far had focused on people aged 80 and older as well as frontline healthcare workers.

GDP grew 2.3% in 2020, the data showed, making China the only major economy in the world to avoid a contraction last year as many nations struggled to contain the COVID-19 pandemic.

Despite the unfortunate timing of the pandemic in the early stages of recovery of the Greek economy ihe durability and adaptability of healthy economic units produce healthy antibodies.