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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) The Foreign Ministry’s portal for international funding is an initiative of the Special Secretariat for the Development of International Programmes aimed facilitating Greek funding projects and NGOs make more efficient use of financing and investment opportunities offered by international development organisations. The international funding portal (www.aidfunding.mfa.gr, in [...]
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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) Spurred by a trend towards natural products, Greek cosmetics companies are breaking out of their niches and entering the mainstream international market through high-end department stores or their own outlets. Two such firms are Korres (www.korres.com) and Apivita (www.apivita.gr). The Korres homeopathic pharmacy in Athens has blossomed into a large-scale, high-tech company [...]
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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) Greece’s Development Minister Christos Folias signed a power swap deal with his Turkish counterpart in Istanbul on July 2, in a bid to solve the anticipated rise in power consumption. In his speech at the 5th International Energy Forum, which was held in Istanbul, Folias stressed that regional energy cooperation and development [...]
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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) Greece’s unemployment rate fell to 7.7% in April from 8.4% in the same month last year, boosted by an increase in the number of women joining the work force. According to the National Statistics Service, the number of jobless in April fell to 380,775 compared to 415,047 last year. Unemployment rates continue [...]
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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) In a historic ruling for the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) condemned Turkey on July 8 over its seizure of the patriarchate’s Prinkipos (Buyukada) orphanage. This was the only piece of property in Turkey in the name of the Patriarchate. With a unanimous [...]
Filed under: Greeks Abroad, International Relations, Sport, Turkey, tourisme | Tagged: Ankara, Buyukada, Constantinople, ECHR, Ecumenical, European Court of Human Rights, Marmara Sea, Patriarchate, Princes Islands, Strasbourg, supreme court | Comments Off
(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) The island of Kalymnos (www.kalymnos-isl.gr), part of the Dodecanese islands in the Aegean sea, is the island of sponge-divers. Their stories about the difficulties of the past, the preparation, the “divers’ disease,” as well as the museum of the sponge-divers indicate that the past has left its mark on [...]
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(GREEK NEWS AGENDA) The International Centre for Hellenic Culture and Vocational Training (ICHCVT) is a grant by the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation to the University of Ioannina. The Centre aims to serve as a bridge between Greece and Greeks living abroad. Its objectives include supporting the teaching of the Greek [...]
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