Public transport in Athens will stop early on Sunday, New Year’s Eve, according to the city’s transport authority OASA, ANA reports. On December 31, buses and trams will begin their last scheduled journey between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. and will be out of circulation at 11:00 p.m. Passengers planning to use express buses to Athens International Airport should call 11185 for timetables. Athens metro and tram lines will operate until 11:00 p.m. on New Year’s Eve. The latest scheduled route for the Athens Metro and Tram is: ATHENS METRO:LINE 1 (ISAP)From Piraeus to Kifissia, the last train leaves at…
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As Albanian Deputy Prime Minister from Skopje Bujar Osmani travels to Athens for contacts with the leadership of the Greek Foreign Ministry, a message from the Albanian news portal www.infoshqip.com, which refers to “details” of the upcoming Athens-Skopje agreement for the name, citing “reliable Greek sources”. According to the Albanian publication, the agreed official name is “Republic of New Macedonia” and abbreviated “New Macedonia”. The agreement also provides solutions to ecclesiastical, linguistic and identity problems, not only for the Slavomacedonians but also for the Greeks of Macedonia. The name of the country will be in Slavic, English, Greek and Albanian.…
MILWAUKEE — The Brewers have an exciting season ahead of them and it’s not just about what happens on the field. The Brew Crew has released its entire promotional schedule, including the inaugural Greek Night, free Robin Yount jerseys, and the popular Star Wars theme party.There will be 10 themed evenings, four community evenings and figurine and jersey games. Greek Night on Saturday, April 2 is brand new for the Brewers. Other popular themed days include Star Wars Night on Wednesday May 4 and Christmas in June on Saturday June 25.Another new event this year is 414 Community Night on…
ATHENS – Eleven of Greece’s most promising startups, led by dynamic young entrepreneurs in many fields, had the opportunity to present their project to local and international investors at the 5th Annual Hellenic Initiative Business Fair at the Athens Hilton on July 1. Leaders and members of THI, a non-profit organization active in the Hellenic diaspora from Australia to America to London, traveled to Athens to meet the talented young people and some participated as judges to the competition whose first round narrowed the group of companies down to its five most impressive and finally – the judges heard they…
There is a feeling of total body stimulation in Times Square – the visual excess of signage and language that “threatens to overwhelm you, the buzzing artificial light that can shake you.” For Chryssa, the mononymous Athens-born artist, this experience, on her first night in New York in 1955, when she was 21 and still focused on painting, was catalytic. In its pulsing lights and blaring advertisements, she saw a deep poetry; as she told a reporter a decade later: “I knew that Times Square had this great wisdom – it was Homeric.” »These few square blocks propelled his own…
Admissions will open soon for the 2024-2025 school year, grades K-8, at Hellenic American Academy (HAA) in Deerfield. The Academy offers a strong, problem-based learning program across the four disciplines of mathematics, science, literature and history; instruction that recognizes objective standards of accuracy, logic, beauty, and truth; immersive Greek language teaching; Creative preschool curriculum, based on research and practical experience; optional before and after school care; and after-school enrichment and cultural programs available. Registration for current students opens February 1st, registration for new students opens March 1st. Act quickly because there is a waiting list for kindergarten and grades 3…
Inaugurating the new Aktio-Amvrakia highway during a visit to western Greece on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said the year 2024 would be notable, not for the start but for the completion of projects that have been under construction for some time. time, reports the ANA. . “Those of you who live here are well aware of the painful history of the Amvrakia road and you also know how systematically our government fought to unblock this project through new calls for tenders, so that today we have managed to deliver an ultra-modern highway of almost 50 km. on time,” noted…
TORONTO — Nia Vardalos, the actress and screenwriter behind “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” can now add a new line to her resume: cultural ambassador. The Greek-Canadian actress was to be honored Monday at a ceremony naming her cultural ambassador for Toronto’s Greek community for 2014-2015. Vardalos, who is in Toronto to star in Theater 20’s production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Company,” rose to fame in 2002 with her role as a Greek-American travel agent struggling to get her zany family to accept her non-Greek fiancé. The Winnipeg-born star was scheduled to receive a plaque recognizing her commitment to the Greek…
Greek Deputy Foreign Minister for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis will lead a large delegation of businessmen to Istanbul on Thursday and Friday, ANA reports.Fragogiannis will be accompanied by the Secretary General for International Economic Relations and President of EnterpriseGreece, Maira Myrogianni.The delegation is part of a broader effort to strengthen bilateral economic and trade relations with Turkey. Top executives from 75 Greek companies active in the food, construction, shipping, tourism, pharmaceutical, energy and banking sectors are joining the mission, as well as senior officials of professional associations. RELATED TOPICS: Greece, Greek tourism news, Tourism in Greece, The Greek…
The Boston and New England Greek Parade is scheduled for Sunday, April 7, 2024, as announced during the closing ceremony of the Federation of American Hellenic Societies of New England’s Vasilopita New Year’s Eve event at the Maliotis Cultural Center. It should be noted that initially, the date of the parade was announced for Sunday April 21, but after further discussions and consultations between the organizers, it was definitively set for Sunday April 7. This was officially announced by the president of the Hellenic American Federation. The New England Societies, Vasilis Kafkas, and the official poster with announcements and detailed…