Latest News from Greece
First ever Sailing Marathon gets under way
More than 350 yachtsmen, aged 7 to 77, took part in Greece's first ever Sailing Marathon on Saturday, in the Saronic Gulf. The organizers hope to make the event a fixture on the international sports calendar. [Nikos Alevromytis]
500,000 Bulgarians To Spend Christmas Holidays Abroad
More than 500,000 Bulgarians will spend Christmas and New Year's Eve abroad, forecast Rumen Draganov, Director of the Institute for Analyses and Estimates in Tourism.
Draganov explained that, traditionally, most Bulgarians will prefer Greece for the New Year holiday. Others will visit Macedonia and Romania.
Refugees experience 90 minutes of normality
Spectators watch a soccer match between refugee teams from the Nea Kavala and Herso camps, in the village Nea Kavala, northern Greece, in this photo made available Saturday. Players and fans from Syria and Iraq got a break from life at the camps to play a match organized by a government migration agency, launching a tournament that will include local amateur Greek teams.
Varoufakis: Official government line was that country was bankrupt
In an article in newspaper “Efimedida Ton Syntakton”, former Greek Finance Minister Yianis Varoufakis responds to the allegations levelled against him by the governor of the Bank of Greece (BoG), Yiannis Stournaras during his deposition before the parliamentary committee on transparency. In his article Varoufakis calls for the removal of Stornaras from his position as governor.
Novi Sad declared the European Capital of Culture 2021
BRUSSELS - BRUSSELS - Novi Sad has been named one of the three European Capitals of Culture for 2021.
Novi Sad and Timisoara, Romania, will in November be joined by a city in Greece - Eleusis, Kalamata or Rhodes.
Novi Sad beat Montenegro's Herceg Novi in the final selection round, becoming the first city from a non-EU country to take the prestigious title.
Tourists may reach 35 mln by 2021
Greece can expect to receive about 35 million holidaymakers in 2021, while its direct tourism revenues are projected to range around 19-20 billion euros in that year, not including revenues from transport services, according to the latest study by consulting firm McKinsey and the Association of Hellenic Tourism Enterprises (SETE).
State entities drag feet over debt coverage
The Finance Ministry is yet to announce its September figures on the repayment of debts to third parties, although it did announce the figures up to end-August on Friday. This lack of information on last month's figures is what deprived Greece of the disbursement of the entire 2.8-billion-euro bailout tranche this week.
Berisha sees 'third player' in unmaking of continental shelf pact between Albania, Greece
Former Albanian prime minister Sali Berisha has blamed the unmaking of a continental shelf pact between Albania and Greece five years ago on outside intervention.
"I am saying with full certainty that you did so in the interests of a third party," Berisha said in reference to current Prime Minister Edi Rama and his government.