News archive of June 2019

The electronic road tolling system in Bulgaria is almost ready at 70%, said the Austrian company, which is responsible for its construction.

As campaigning heats up ahead of next week's snap election, opposition leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, whose center-right New Democracy party is leading in the polls, called on Greeks to get out and vote, describing abstention as "the defeat of democracy."
"Not one vote should be wasted," the ND leader said while campaigning in Evros, northern Greece.

On June 29, the Orthodox Church honours the memory of the great apostles Peter and Paul. 

The celebration is of ancient origin, the date selected being the anniversary of either their death or the translation of their relics.

The first-ever Pride Parade staged in the capital of North Macedonia started on Saturday at noon in the park in front of the national assembly in the centre of Skopje. After a stroll through the sun-drenched city streets, the marchers ended up in Skopje's main park.

German and Kurdish archaeologists have found a 3400-year-old palace in northern Iraq thanks to prolonged drought, DPA reported.

The building of a minimum of 2000 sq. M is made of brick walls up to 2 m high and is located in a reservoir in Iraqi Kurdistan. The palace was part of the ancient and mysterious Mittani Empire, experts from the University of Tübingen, Germany announced.

Today there are still queues of cars at the Kulata border checkpoint. The queue of cars was 3 kilometers long before noon, the bTV reported. Yesterday, people wishing to vacay in Greece waited for about 4-5 hours to enter the country.

Rebetiko, Greece's answer to the blues which emerged around the middle of the 19th century as more and more people moved from the countryside to the cities, is the subject of a festival on the island of Syros for seven days from July 1 to 6. The festival will feature concerts and theatrical shows, an exhibition of folk instruments and master workshops.

Known for its fusion of Greek and Caribbean sounds, six-man band Locomondo is bringing its special blend of reggae, ska, rock and Latin to the Petra Theater, a quarry-turned-outdoor venue in Petroupoli, northwestern Athens, on Monday, July 1.

The huge backlog of applications for residence permits for non-European Union citizens investing at least 250,000 euros in Greek properties has forced the state to decentralize the Decentralized Authorities' competences.

At least one migrant child dies or disappears every day during the 2014-2018 period, according to a report published by the UN on "Fatal Journeys". It was published by the IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) of the United Nations International Migration Organization and UN Children's Fund UNICEF.