Giorgos

It had been speculated for days, and he even hinted at it in his statements. Now, the time for the official announcement has come: Monaco has acquired Giorgos Papagiannis for the upcoming 2024-25 season! Just a few hours prior, he was officially released by Fenerbahce.

Giorgos Aftias won 310,876 votes, way ahead of all other Greek candidates in the European Parliament elections. On Cyprus, 24-year-old YouTuber Fidias (Panayiotou) came out of nowhere - Kasselakis style - and, declaring that he knew nothing about Europe, took 20 percent of the vote.

Twelve original hand-crafted costumes designed by Holly Waddington will be on display at Benaki Museum (1 Koumpari) from June 12 to September 29. See up close the pieces worn by Hollywood stars Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Mark Ruffalo in Giorgos Lanthimos' award-winning modern classic. For tickets, visit tickets.benaki.org.

Ruling New Democracy announced Fredi Beleri, an ethnic Greek mayor-elect in Albania recently sentenced to two years in prison for vote-buying, as a candidate for the upcoming European Parliament elections.

He was represented by his brother, Leonardo, at the ballot announcement in downtown Athens, as Beleri is currently in Albanian police custody.

On December 19, 1992, robbers drilled holes in the basement wall of what was then an Ergasias Bank branch in central Athens - even though it was reinforced with steel - opened hundreds of safes and removed valuables, cash and bonds worth billions of drachmas, or millions of euros today. 

The Greek government on Wednesday denounced an attack against a journalist by a ship owner during a football match in Athens.

Giorgos Papachristos, an opinion writer and adviser at the daily Ta Nea, was attacked on Tuesday evening after the end of the first half of the football match between Panathinaikos and Braga, in front of dozens of spectators.

A growing number of young foreign buyers are acquiring holiday homes in Greece. 

The Athens-Epidaurus Festival (aefestival.gr) is inaugurating its program at the cool Pireos 260 venue with a feast of shows for the week starting on June 7. On Stage D, avant-garde Russian theater and film director Kirill Serebrennikov is making his Greek debut with a performance expressing his opposition to Moscow and its invasion of Ukraine.

The European Commission wants to assist the Greek authorities in the official investigation into the causes of the Tempe railway disaster and in coming up with a railways framework that will be safer and more attractive to citizens, a government minister has said.

On the one hand, a recount of what has so far been achieved and the planning of the next steps. On the other hand, pre-election planning - the goals ahead of the polls, the rhetoric, and the New Democracy stratgey overall.