Category: GREECE
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Greek olive oil goes for gold
Facing competition from Chile, Australia, the United States and – of course – Greece’s main competitors, Italy and Spain, eight Greek producers received gold awards, eight silver and two were awarded for being ‘best in class’: Chryssopigi PDO from Sitia, Crete and Argali, producer Giovanni Bianchi’s koroneiko variety from Messinia. An Italian computer programmer based…
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Tsipras reminded of shipping’s importance at UGS centenary bash
UGS president Theodore Veniamis, used the occasion to remind the top politicians attending that the government must work to make shipping competitive on home soil. It comes as a cabinet reshuffle last Sunday saw a new shipping minister appointed. Veniamis said UGS “prompts politicians to develop a strategic approach” since shipping is the only sector…
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Greece began schooling migrant children
“Schooling refugee children falls under Greece’s international obligations,” Education Minister Nikos Filis told a news conference. Afternoon classes will be held in 20 schools in greater Athens, Thessaloniki and other parts of the country, the ministry said. But after two schools in northern Greece last month expressed opposition to the project, officials said only vaccinated…
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Greek Foreign Ministry proposes to create GC10 – “more than a dozen civilizations”
According to him, it is “his favorite idea,” he and his colleagues prepared her 20 years. The project has already been agreed, but it was decided to keep the secret until the end of the conference “Religious and cultural pluralism and peaceful coexistence in the Middle East.” “The initiative, which began four months with a…