Mediterranean

Celebrate the transition to the new year with the soulful tunes of Greek singer Nefeli Fasouli at Ypsilon (5 Edessis) in Thessaloniki. Fasouli, a new favorite in Greece known for her dynamic and emotive voice, will serenade the crowd with a repertoire spanning various genres and stirring up a vibrant atmosphere to ring in the new year. Admission is free.

Greece's Environment Ministry and Thessaloniki's municipal town planning authority issued on December 19 the building permit for the construction of the city's Holocaust Museum, with work expected to begin next year, the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki announced on Wednesday. 

The project is slated for completion in 2026.

The rail link between Athens and Thessaloniki has reopened after a three-month stoppage caused by Storm Daniel, with 131 boarding the first service from the capital on Saturday morning.

"The Greek railway is back on the tracks," said Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras, who was among the passengers as far as Larissa.

He came to our meeting with his three companeros. He had just arrived at the mission's offices in Thessaloniki from Colombia and he greeted me singing, "Hello, Mother Saloniki," a song by popular singer Zafiris Melas.

The railway link along the central Athens-Thessaloniki axis, previously disrupted by the damage caused during storms Daniel and Elias, was set to be restored Monday with the arrival of the first commercial train at the Thriasio Logistics Center.

In a somber ceremony on Monday, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki honored the memory of two students who were killed in February's rail disaster at Tempe in Central Greece by delivering their degrees to their families.

Taxi drivers in Athens will be on strike for 48 hours on December 5-6 and in Thessaloniki for four days on December 4-8, their respective unions have announced.

The unions are responding to government measures aimed at combating tax evasion among the self-employed.

The building permit for the Holocaust Museum project in Thessaloniki is expected to be issued in the coming days, while the tender process for the selection of the contractor will begin next spring, it has been announced.

This year I had the chance to travel across the countries around the Mediterranean, attending conferences, symposiums and events, from Crete to Sicily, from various corners of Spain to Italy and France, but two travels made me think more about the unique charm of Italy, how its far corners are different yet similar in terms of their concerns about tourism, and how they can put their unique gast

Dozens of people from the Roma settlement Agia Sophia in western Thessaloniki protested on Tuesday the fatal injury of the 17-year-old that took place on Saturday in Boetia. 

According to state broadcaster ERT, at around 2 p.m. the crowd set up a roadblock on Pontou street, which they then set on fire. 

The protesters dispersed after the police rushed to the scene.