News archive of March 2019

Rights of ethnic Greeks in Albania in dispute, again

Albania on Saturday reportedly withdrew a decision published in the online version of its government gazette calling for the seizure of properties belonging to members of the ethnic Greek minority in the town of Himara.

Erdogan revisits controversy over Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has announced that plans are afoot to make architectural changes to the Hagia Sophia monument in Istanbul, the Cypriot newspaper Phileleftheros reported on Saturday.

Bernard-Henri Levy | Athens | April 1

One of the most prominent figures of the French intelligentsia for a good four decades, French philosopher Bernard-Henri Levy will be in Athens to stage his work "Looking for Europe" - a monologue about the future of the European idea which is threatened by the rise of nationalism - at the Pallas Theater on Monday, April 1, at 8 p.m..

Gales disrupt services, keep emergency crews busy

Salvage crews were waiting for the rough weather to abate before retrieving a speed boat that partially sank in the port of Nafplio, southern Greece, on Saturday due to powerful winds that swept across the southwestern Aegean and the Saronic Gulf.
According to Nafplio port authorities, the area was battered by winds of 9 to 10 on the Beaufort scale.

Let’s talk about the 'unseen'

The people whom French New Wave filmmaker Agnes Varda focused on in her work wouldn't make the front page.

They were people who were defeated and weak - not exactly poor, but living on the margins of society. A rather peculiar margin. They are not helpless, they do not suffer from some form of disability, they are not angry with politics. They ignore it, just as it ignores them.

Tourism with rules

Apartment booking sites used by tourists and other travelers have boosted growth in Greece, as they have done elsewhere. Real estate that remained unused is now being developed. New cells of urban economic activity have been created around those properties.

Montenegro Opposition Parties Unite Behind Civic Protests

The Odupri se [Resist] movement started as an initiative of a group of civic activists, university professors, and journalists.

It has since gained the support of all opposition parties, some unions, and students associations.

Akar issues new warning on Aegean, EastMed

In a warning seen to be directed against Greece and Cyprus, Turkey's Defense Minister Hulusi Akar reiterated on Saturday that Ankara will not be excluded from any decision regarding the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Albania removes gazette entry on confiscation of ethnic Greek property

The Albanian government removed from its gazette a law that would allow the arbitrary nationalization of land belonging to the ethnic Greek families in the south of the country, a diplomatic source from the Greek foreign ministry said on Saturday.

Call for Pedion tou Areos to come under municipal control

The jurisdiction over the Pedion tou Areos, one of the capital's biggest parks, must be passed from the Attica Regional Authority to the City of Athens, according to the conservative candidate for Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis.
"I cannot imagine how a regional governor can manage Pedion tou Areos. In contrast, a mayor could intervene in a substantial way," he said on Saturday.

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