Underground culture

The Aussie woman who fell in love with Tsitsanis, Theodorakis and spread rembetika to the world

Gail Holst-Warhaft, director of the Mediterranean Studies initiative (2004 onwards) and Faculty Associate of the Cornell Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University, was born in Australia, lives in the United States but has a heart that beats to the tune of rembetika – a Greek music genre that was once considered the music of tekes and hashish.

The naked tourist's bare-all guide to Greek naturist resorts (photos)

More and more nudie havens are popping up in Greece, the land of the body beautiful. If you want to be in harmony with your body and everybody elses, here are three naturist vacation options that are so much more than a bunch of people doing everything without clothes while pretending not to be naked.

Shadow Economy in Bulgaria On the Rise

Bulgaria comes first among all EU member states in terms of shadow economy rates, Rositsa Dzherkova from Vitosha Research claimed at an international round table, Thursday.

The discussion, which focused on informal economy and undeclared work, was organized by the Center for the Study of Democracy and the University of Sheffield.

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