News archive of June 2019

The Athens Railway Museum has moved from the capital's central Sepolia district to a former train depot in the port city of Piraeus that was built in 1912 and closed in 2005.

Giannis Antetokounmpo says he will play for Greece at this year's basketball World Cup in China, adding that he can play any position.
The Milwaukee Bucks player and NBA MVP says he hasn't "talked to the coach about which position Ill be playing ... the important thing is to play."

The bitter U.S.-China trade war and signs of slowdown in the global economy have overshadowed a two-day Group of 20 (G20) summit that kicked off in Osaka, western Japan, on June 28 with a session on the world economy and trade.

By George Gilson

Centre-left Movement for Change leader Fofi Gennimata has unleashed a frontal attack against main opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis over his warning that if New Democracy does not receive a strong mandate in the 7 July general election then the country will be led to a second parliamentary election in August, in the middle of most Greeks' summer vacation.

The Electronic Media Council (CEM) elected Svetoslav Kostov as Director General of the Bulgarian National Radio. This happened at the first vote in the media regulator.

Svetoslav Kostov received 3 votes and Mitko Dimitrov - 2.

Betina Joteva, Rosita Elenova and Sofia Vladimirova voted for Kostov.

Greece is the only country in Europe and perhaps in the world in which we continue to debate in 2019 the issue of university asylum.

There is no other country that for decades has been unable to confront and resolve a problem which everywhere else has been solved long ago.

The Greek Film Archive and the Athens Festival present Cinema and the City, a real treat for cinephiles in which three restored silent films about Athens and Berlin will be screened at the archive's Lais open-air cinema this weekend.

Wizz Air, the largest low-cost airline in Central and Eastern Europe, has already transported 15 million passengers from Bulgaria. This is another achievement for the company this year after Wizz Air recently celebrated 200 million passengers since its inception in 2004 and became the airline with the smallest ecological footprint of a passenger in Europe. 

Sculptures and paintings by 26 eminent artists including Yannis Gaitis, George Zongolopoulos, Vlassis Caniaris, Costas Tsoclis and others illustrate the evolution of the abstract in Greek art from the 1950s to the 1960s at the Alex Mylona Museum. "Untitled: Greek Post-War Abstraction: The Heroic Years" showcases how the genre developed in Greece after the end of the Civil War.

The Finance and Treasury Ministry is working on a regulation that would allow the transfer of the Central Bank's reserve funds kept in Turkish Liras to the budget, state-run Anadolu Agency has reported.