As the government tries to right a battered economy and restore some faith in Greece as a good place to do business, it has taken another hit with a finding from the auditing firm Ernst & Young, which surveyed more than 3,500 business managers, who said it’s the fourth most corrupt country in Europe. Transparency [...]
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Greek Researcher in ETH Anti-Obesity Therapy Team
Researchers in the laboratory of Professor Christian Wolfrum from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-ETH in Zurich, consistently ranked by all major World University rankings among the top universities worldwide, managed to discover for the first time a mechanism to convert the white (bad) fat cells into brown (good) fat cells in a living organism. [...]
Week of Greek Arts Scene in Geneva
A Greek week under the title, Glances at the Contemporary Greek Arts Scene, will be hosted in Saint-Gervais Theater in Geneva, Switzerland from April 29 to May 2, with the support of the Athens International Film Festival. Films, performances and street art from the last three years will be included. During the event, eight Greek [...]
Upbeat Greece At World Tourism Forum Lucerne
Olga Kefalogianni, Minister of Tourism of Greece attended the third World Tourism Forum Lucerne (WTFL) in Switzerland during which she expressed her optimism for the forthcoming tourism year. In the framework of the upward trend the world tourism market presents, Kefalogianni referred especially to the matter of the tourist visa, saying that this issue concerns [...]
The Lost $2 Billion Goulandris Art Collection
A Greek heiress is fighting a legal battle in Switzerland to find out what has become of a collection of Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and Degas art that she says should be part of her inheritance. Aspasia Zaimis’s uncle, Basil Goulandris, was a billionaire shipping magnate. He died in 1994 while his wife [...]
Anti-Greek Poster in Switzerland
Politicians from Switzerland as part of the far-right Swiss People’s Party, SVP political advertising, chose a poster to be glued shortly in the Canton of Zurich concerning the referendum of March 3rd. The title of the poster is Tricksen wie die Griechen? (Doing tricks like Greeks?), and shows Ursula Gut, Finance Minister of the Canton [...]
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05 / 18 Three Greek Islands On EU Cheap List
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05 / 18 The Greek Who Can Spy On Earth
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05 / 18 Former Consul Tipaldos Died In Italy
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05 / 18 Papandreou Not Welcome In Edinburgh
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05 / 18 Greek Truck Overturns in West Bulgaria
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08 / 04 Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan Reportedly Claims Olympic Flame is Turkish
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01 / 24 Intercultural Association Macedonia Cuts Vasilopita
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07 / 28 IOC President Jacques Rogge Calls London Home of The Olympics; Forgets Greece
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05 / 03 Skopje: Streets Renamed With Ancient Greek Names
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05 / 22 Philip II of Macedonia Statue in Skopje Defies NATO
