Ολοκληρώθηκε η εξόδιος ακολουθία

Με τιμές αρχηγού κράτους ολοκληρώθηκε στο Μητροπολιτικό Ναό Αθηνών, η εξόδιος ακολουθία για τον μακαριστό Αρχιεπίσκοπο.
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Farewell to Archibishop Christodoulos

Thousands of mourners are still queuing for up to three hours outside the Athens Cathedral to pay their last respects to the late Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Christodoulos. His body lies in state for three days now. Christodoulos, one of the most popular, charismatic and loved Archibishops in Greece’s history, passed away early [...]

Studying opportunities in Greece

Master Southeast European Studies
The University of Athens Department of Political Science and Public Administration – Master’s Degree in Southeast European Studies will accept 25 students for the academic year 2008-2009. Application deadline is Μay 15, 2008.

Greek Shipping Prospects

Adressing the a “Blue Water Economy” Conference, Deputy Foreign Minister Petros Doukas gave a brief presentation of the world’s shipping prospects from which Greece can benefit a great deal. Stressing out that Greece holds an outstanding record in the seafaring shipping industry controlling 20% of the world’s shipping capacity while representing only 1/600 of the world’s [...]

Digital Greece

The Greek Information Society has made a significant progress over the last few years thanks to the implementation of the Digital Strategy 2006-2013 and the increase of competition in the broadband market. The Digital Strategy 2006-2013 is compatible with the “Growth and Jobs” Lisbon Strategy and the i2010 policy. It utilizes more effectively existing financing [...]

Γίγαντες στη Μηλία Γρεβενών

Της Γιώτας Μυρτσιώτη

ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ. Στον παγκόσμιο χάρτη της παλαιοντολογίας, η Μηλιά Γρεβενών για τον επιστημονικό κόσμο αποτελεί όχι μόνο ένα από τα σημαντικότερα κέντρα, αλλά ένα από τα πιο «επικίνδυνα τοπία». Στην περιοχή αυτή πριν από 2,5 – 3 εκατομμύρια χρόνια κυκλοφορούσαν τα πιο επικίνδυνα θηρία: ελέφαντες -mammut borsoni- ύψους 3,5 μέτρων, βάρους 6 τόνων και [...]

PM Karamanlis, Gates inaugurate Microsoft Centre

Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, Microsoft Corp. founder and chairman Bill Gates, and Economy and Finance Minister George Alogoskoufis on Monday inaugurated the Microsoft Innovation Centre in Athens.Karamanlis noted that “a society develops and progresses to the degree that it gives its members the opportunity, the tools and the liberty to open up new roads [...]

Archbishop Christodoulos passes away, four-day mourning announced

  A four-day period of mourning was announced on Monday following the death of Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece, who passed away at dawn at the age of 69 following a 7-month battle with cancer.The Interior ministry announced that all public service buildings would fly flags at half-mast, while public services and schools [...]

Archbishop Chistodoulos passes away

Ailzing Archbishop of Athens and All Greece Christodoulos passed away on Monday at 5:15 a.m. (3:15 GMT) after battling cancer for the past seven months. Earlier, his attending physicians, close associates and numerous clerics hastily assembled at the Archbishop’s official residence in the upscale Athens district of Paleo Psyhico, as Christodoulos had declined to leave [...]

Closer ties with Turkey

Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis yesterday stressed the importance of intensifying efforts to resolve longstanding disputes between Greece and Turkey, during the second day of his landmark official visit to Ankara. Delivering a speech at Ankara’s Bilkent University, one of the leading research universities in Turkey, the premier said “I know very well that the road [...]

Ancient Olympia: Green again

Greece approved an emergency plan to plant thousands of trees at the fire-ravaged birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games, hoping to restore vegetation the at site in time for the Beijing 2008 flame-lighting ceremony on March 24. “Planting will start in the next few days,” said Maria Mathioudi, general secretary of Greece’s National Agricultural Research [...]

Karamanlis in Ankara: “Peace requires the strength to endure it”

(ANA-MPA) Greek Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis continued his ground-breaking trip to Ankara on Thursday at the head of a high-ranking Greek delegation, which was received at the presidential mansion by Turkish President Abdullah Gul. Hours earlier the Greek premier laid a wreath at the Ataturk Mausoleum (Anitkabir) in the Turkish capital.In a dedication in the [...]

The Jews of Greece

(GREEK NEWS AGENDA)   The presence of Jews in Greece traces back to ancient times. These Greek Jews, known as Romaniotes, spoke Greek (Judeo-Greek) and had developed their own culture and customs within the confines of the Byzantine Empire, living on the mainland as well as on some islands, like Rhodes, Chios and Samos. That Jewish population [...]

International Photography Competition

CEDEFOP, the European Agency for the Development of Vocational Education and Training in the European Union, and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, both seated in Thessaloniki, Greece, invite photographers to participate in the competition for the 2nd CEDEFOP Photo Museum Award. The prize donated by CEDEFOP and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography will be awarded [...]

Karamanlis make History in Turkey

“It’s Time to Turn a New Page”
Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis arrived in Turkey on Wednesday for the first official visit by a Greek Prime Minister in nearly half a century. The last Greek PM to visit Turkey was his uncle, Konstantinos Karamanlis, in May 1959.Karamanlis met with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. During a [...]

2ème Festival international ‘E-motion pictures’

Le Secrétariat général pour l’Information – Secrétariat général pour la Communication (SGI-SGC) lance un appel pour la participation au 2ème Festival International ‘E-motion pictures‘: Documentaire et handicap’ , qui aura lieu à Athènes du 21 au 23 Juin. Date d’échéance, le 30 mars. Comme l’année dernière, le festival est une initiative du SGI-SGC, en collaboration [...]

Karamanlis: A clear message to Turkey

Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis on Tuesday emphasised his government’s desire for better relations between Greece and Turkey, during an interview given to the Turkish news agency Anadolu, one day before the start of his official visit to Ankara.
“I will be the first Greek prime minister to visit Turkey after an interval of 48 years. Turkish [...]

International Architectural Competition

In an effort to address the urgent need to shelter the people who suffered the loss of their houses during the devastating fires of last summer in the Peloponnese, the Technical Chamber of Greece in collaboration with the Greek branch of the International Union of Architects Work Programme on architecture and renewable energy sources (ARES) [...]

Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop

The Kokkalis Programme on Southeastern and East-Central Europe, John F. Kennedy School of Government, and the Southeastern Europe Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, will hold the ninth Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop (GSW) on February 7-8, 2008. The GSW is a dynamic initiative of the Kokkalis Programme, drawing burgeoning

Study for Mediterranean diet

Women who follow the famous Mediterranean diet while pregnant may also be shielding their baby from childhood asthma and allergy, according to a study titled “Mediterranean Diet in pregnancy protective for wheeze and atopy in childhood,” published in the international journal of respiratory medicine Thorax, on January 15, 2008. Doctors recruited women on the island [...]