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Foreign Minister Vassilis Kaskarelis is on Wednesday expected to meet Albanian counterpart Olta Xhacka, on the sidelines of the informal meeting of NATO Foreign Ministers in Oslo to discuss the release of a jailed ethnic Greek official. 

In a commentary published in Kathimerini on January 5, my good colleague Pantelis Boukalas expressed surprise at the term "orthodox entrepreneurship," which was used by now-resigned New Democracy lawmaker Themis Cheimaras to justify his company's business dealings with the state (a practice forbidden by the Constitution for active MPs).

A view of the National Theater of Greece in central Athens. As the government prepares to gradually reopen the coronavirus-hit economy on May 4, directors and other artists have called on the Culture Ministry to announce a similar plan to help the performing arts. "One would have expected that, after specialized measures were announced for hairdressers...

The Benaki Museum's Pireos Street annex is currently hosting an exhibition put together by Lifo magazine to celebrate the weekly free-press/city guide's 15th anniversary titled "Athenians: The Face of a City." The exhibition comprises more than 200 portraits, taken by distinguished Greek photographers, of people who have collaborated with Lifo over the years.

Singer and actress Eva Kotanidi performs French chansons and other romantic songs at the Numismatic Museum cafe on Thursday, December 20, with Pantelis Benetatos on the piano. The show starts at 9 p.m. and entrance is free with a one-drink minimum.

Numismatic Museum, 12 Panepistimiou, Syntagma, tel 210.361.0067

In a historically unprecedented move, the president of the Council of State, Nikos Sakellariou, on Wednesday quit his post over leaks to the media of the court's deliberations on a new round of pension cuts due to come into effect next year.

A 24-hour strike called by Athens metro employees led to traffic bottlenecks in the Greek capital on Monday, 14 May 2018, with cars forming long lines on main avenues. [Pantelis Saitas/ANA-MPA]

The Greek National Theater goes on stage at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on Friday and Saturday, July 21 and 22, with a kooky adaptation of Aristophanes' "Peace," directed in the form of a musical by Constantinos Arvanitakis, with a score composed by Nikos Kypourgos and starring the unorthodox musician/actor Tzimis Panousis as Trygaeus.

Around 1,800 people have died over the past year, between the death of popular singer Pantelis Pantelidis in February 2016 and Sunday's tragic accident in which four people were killed on the Athens-Lamia national highway, road safety expert Tassos Markouizos told Skai on Tuesday.

European companies have expressed an interest in participating in the international tender that Hellenic Sugar Industry (EBZ) will call for the sale of the factories of its two subsidiaries in Serbia, EBZ president Christos Rossios stated. He added that the state firm's board meeting on Monday approved the tender process so that it can be announced immediately.