News archive of May 2024

According to the latest RAI poll, Phidias Panagiotou secures 8.7%, just half a point away from the DI.KO (Democratic Party)

Νot even nine months have passed since director Yorgos Lanthimos triumphed in Venice by winning the Golden Lion award with "Poor Things" and the Greek filmmaker managed to create yet another film, this time sending it to the competition section of the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Life expectancy in Bulgaria has increased by a year and a half, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Statistics. This study compares the period 2021-2023 to 2020-2022. However, compared to ten years ago, there is a decline in average life expectancy for both women and men. City dwellers live more than three years longer than those in villages.

The Greek prime minister's recent letter to the president of the European Commission addressing the "asymmetric power of some large multinational companies," despite its obvious pre-election purposes (it is reminded that Ursula Von der Leyen will be running for office again in the June 9 European Parliament elections, with Kyriakos Mitsotakis' support), brings an interesting question to the for

The Ministry of Culture announced on Wednesday that archaeological excavations of the ancient Nikopolis Agora in the Epirus region of northern Greece have brought new findings to light.

According to the ministry, the new findings will provide archaeologists with a better understanding of Roman architecture and city planning. 

A commemoration ceremony has been held for victims of the 1993 Solingen arson attack that claimed the lives of five Turks in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia State.

On May 29, 1993, in the city of Solingen, the house of the Genç family was set on fire by far-right extremists, and five people, three of them children, were killed in the attack.

BELGRADE - At a courtesy meeting with Israeli Ambassador to Belgrade Yahel Vilan, Serbian FM Marko Djuric conveyed Serbia's commitment to continue to advance its long-standing relations with Israel, the Serbian MFA said in a statement.

For the first time since the potential return of Boyko Borissov as prime minister became a central theme in Bulgaria's election campaign, a GERB representative explicitly stated: "Regular government with Boyko Borissov as prime minister."

"The Bulgarian town that boomed from UK's biggest benefits fraud."

This is the title of a Daily Telegraph article today, highlighting the largest welfare fraud and money laundering case in the UK, for which five Bulgarian citizens have been charged.

British media are abuzz with details of the case, according to the Bulgarian National Radio.

Israel has allegedly conducted a nearly decade-long campaign to obstruct the International Criminal Court (ICC) from issuing arrest warrants against its leaders, according to the Guardian.