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On Saturday 26 October 2024, His Eminence Metropolitan Cleopas of Sweden and All Scandinavia celebrated the Divine Liturgy at the newly established Parish of Sts. Demetrios and Nestor in Örebro, Sweden, assisted by the Very Rev. Archimandrite Fr. Bartholomew Iatridis, Parish Priest of the St. George Cathedral in Stockholm, the Rev. Presbyter Fr.

In the early 1950s, Greek lawyer Konstantinos Methenitis went to London seeking shipowner clients to draft insurance contracts for their vessels. In the closed clubs of the City where the shipping community gathered, it was customary for women to sit on one side and men on the other to discuss their business matters.

Athina (Nounou) Martinou, a key figure in modern Greek shipping and the global maritime industry died on Friday, at the age of 97.

Born in 1926 in Glyfada, an Athenian suburb in the city's southern coast, she started her professional career working at her father's law office.

Greetings! So, yesterday, the “day after” PASOK’s first ballot, the atmosphere inside felt like Verdi’s “Requiem“. The general disappointment from the outcome isn’t just limited to Pavlos and Anna’s camps, but also to their 130,000 voters. While that’s significantly more than Androulakis’ 90,000 or Doukas’ 65,000, unfortunately, they ended up “split” in two and failed.

Natassa Bofiliou will present a fresh interpretation of Mikis Theodorakis’ work on October 14th at the Herodeion, as part of a tribute to the great composer organized by radio station Melodia 99.2.

Let’s face it, we all love ice cream — and some of us are very fond of soft ice cream. Yet it is not widely known in Greece that the man who invented soft ice cream was a Greek immigrant in the United States whose name became legend there.

They referred to him as "Koulis" (a derogatory diminutive for men named Kyriakos in Greek).

In a tribute marking the centennial of Maria Callas' birth, the Greek National Opera is premiering Luigi Cherubini's "Medea" on Tuesday. This major international co-production involves three leading North American opera houses: the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, the Canadian Opera Company and the Lyric Opera of Chicago.

Coca-Cola 3E is "running" an investment plan of 75 million euros for the 2022-2023, and this is cause for optimism according to Ms. Maria Anargyrou-Nikolits, general manager of the company for Greece and Cyprus, despite the adversities due to inflationary pressures, the energy crisis and the problems of the supply chain.

Investments

Now that George Papandreou is returning to the central political scene, the winner of the 2009 elections with a percentage that would be envied by his political opponents (PASOK 43.92% and 160 seats, second party ND with 33.47% and 91 seats), inevitably our mind goes back to that time and the bleak years of the memoranda that followed.