Avgi

On Monday morning, SYRIZA president Stefanos Kasselakis visited the Parliament, accompanied by his partner, Tyler Macbeth. The couple was given a tour of the parliament by friends visiting from the US, and they also stopped by the parliamentary press room.

Employees of Avgi were waiting for Stefanos Kasselakis outside Koumoundourou, where the SYRIZA Political Secretariat was meeting. They expressed their displeasure at the decision to cease the daily publication of Avgi.

A domino effect of reactions inside and outside SYRIZA has been triggered in the last few hours by Stefanos Kasselakis’ sudden decision to suspend the publication of the daily edition of the historic newspaper “Avgi”. Party MPs, executives, and prominent figures from the Left, literature, and press have expressed strong opposition to this “sudden death” of the publication.

SYRIZA's leadership decided to immediately suspend the daily edition of the party newspaper Avgi on Tuesday.

The publication of the daily edition of the newspaper “Avgi” is being suspended, citing financial problems from SYRIZA‘s HQ at Koumoundourou.

A weather pattern known as an Omega block will be bringing another taste of spring to Greece as of Monday, after a wintry weather system dubbed Avgi covered many parts of the country with snow for a short spell in late January. According to forecasts, daytime temperatures in will rise starting on Monday, to reach highs of 19-20 degrees Celsius later in the week.

A fire service truck clears the snow from the road near Lake Beletsi in Ippokrateios Politia, about 35 kilometers north of Athens, Tuesday. The Avgi cold weather front hit the Greek capital and outskirts, bringing low temperatures and even snow in mid to high-altitude areas. The weather is anticipated to progressively improve on Wednesday as Avgi retreats.

An expert wreck researcher has located the remains of a ferry boat that went down off the southeastern coast of Evia on the afternoon of February 23, 1983, killing 28 passengers and crew, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported on Wednesday.

The Archbishop of Athens has come under criticism in Greece for quietly raising the costs of church funerals during the pandemic by up to 250 per cent without any warning or explanation to funeral homes and the families of the deceased.

"X Them Out," a group exhibition of sketches depicting racist incidents, is currently on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (MOMus). The exhibition is a joint initiative by the Athens-based civil society organization HumanRights360 and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation and a part of the campaign bearing the same name.