Greece - ekathimerini.com (English)

The latest national news from ekathimerini.com.

*Please note: The news links below will open a new window.

1. ATHEX: Eurobank steals show at bourse

   Eurobank garnered most of the interest at the start of the trading week on the Greek bourse.

2. Retailers will try to block pricing rule

   Supermarket chains appear determined to block a regulation that provides for the indication of the final price formation process for fresh products.

3. Green light for expansion and upgrade of National Archaeological Museum

   The Central Archaeological Council and the Central Council of Modern Monuments have unanimously approved all proposed preliminary studies to expand and upgrade the National Archaeological Museum.

4. One ‘Frappe’ coming up

   There was a strong and cross-party desire for Giorgos Xylouris, a key witness in Greece’s farming subsidies scandal, to appear before the Parliament’s investigative committee examining the case. After his initial refusal, some even demanded his forced summoning. 

5. University launches free online training program for Greek language volunteers in US

   The University of Ioannina, through its Center for Training and Lifelong Learning, has announced a free online training program aimed at volunteers from the Greek diaspora in the United States who teach the Greek language.

6. The price of education: Students on the move

   For many Greek students, attending regional universities now means long commutes instead of dorm life. 

7. Greece and Ethiopia sign memorandum on Greek community school

   A memorandum of cooperation between the Ministry of Education of Ethiopia and the Greek community of Ethiopia on the operation of a Greek Community Cultural Heritage Legacy School has been signed in Addis Ababa.

8. Conferences of the willing or the desperate?

   Whether we like it or not, US President Donald Trump is right. Europe’s leaders are generally mediocre, indecisive and weak. They are cut from the same cloth that makes them conventional and polite. But these are not the times for such leaders.

9. Police arrest man in Exarchia over gun threat

   Police have arrested a man after eyewitnesses reported he had threatened a woman with a gun earlier in Exarchia, central Athens.

10. US plan on ports, gas stations

    Four companies are vying for the creation of an alternative FSRU to that off Alexandroupoli.