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Three Greek Islands On EU Cheap List

Tourists are returning to Greece, according to the German newspaper Tagesspiegel, which notes that the country’s image has now improved from last year’s images of constant protests, strikes and riots against austerity measures, while the travel website Trivago classifies three Greek islands among the 14 cheapest destinations in Europe. Tagesspiegel, in an article entitled Hopes [...]

The Greek Who Can Spy On Earth

Yiannis Antoniades, a director at BAE Systems, a British multinational defense, security and aerospace company, has designed a system that create an eye-in-the-sky-spy to see almost anything on the planet. His work produced the ARGUS-IS or the Autonomous Real-Time Ground Ubiquitous Surveillance Imaging System, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) project. According to DARPA, [...]

Former Consul Tipaldos Died In Italy

Evaggelos Tipaldos, who was a member of the historic Brotherhood of Greeks in Naples, honorary president and founding member of the Greek Community of Naples and Campania and former Consul of Greece in Naples, in the 1960′s, has passed away. The story of the Tipaldos family is the history of Diaspora in Naples. Many members [...]

Greek Truck Overturns in West Bulgaria

A heavy-freight TIR truck with Greek registration, driven by a Greek national, overturned on a road section, which was under repair, in West Bulgaria, the District Interior Ministry Directorate-Pernik announced to FOCUS News Agency. The incident occurred in the region of the Dolna Dakliya road junction at around 4 a.m. on May 18. The vehicle [...]

Greek NGO Organizes ECOWEEK 2013 in Copenhagen

ECOWEEK 2013 New Nordic Living opened in Copenhagen on Monday May 13 with great success and with the presence of over 300 participants from around the world. The international conference ECOWEEK 2013 New Nordic Living in Copenhagen, an initiative of the Greek NGO ECOWEEK and the School KEA Copenhagen School of Design and Technology is [...]

Sarakatsani at MuCEM

The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (MuCEM- Musée des Civilisations de l`Europe et de la Mediterannée), which will open its doors on June 7 in Marseille, France, will host an exhibition on the cultural identity of Sarakatsani, a group of Greek transhumant shepherds.The center of the exhibition will be the “konaki”, the pastoralists’ traditional [...]