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President Prokopis Pavlopoulos welcomed the European Commission's Vice President-designate Margaritis Schinas on Wednesday who is on a two-day visit to the Greek capital.

A state health committee is this week to start perusing a total of 1,661 applications that have been submitted for 111 hospital director posts that the Health Ministry aims to fill as part of its bid to overhaul the leadership of state health facilities.

The committee is to short-list the most promising candidates with the final decision falling to Health Minister Vasilis Kikilias.

The Vassilis Tsitsanis Orchestra will perform at the open-air Petra Theater with Greek vocalists Dimitra Galani and Natassa Bofiliou on September 18. The singers will share songs by bouzouki legend Vassilis Tsitsanis, in a show marking 35 years since his death. Purchase tickets beginning at 13 euros from www.ticketservices.gr.

Dimitris Karantzas' production of Aristophanes' comedy "The Clouds," playing at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on Friday and Saturday, is the second to last show on the Greek Festival's ancient drama program at the 4th century BC theater.

A pledge by the government to crack down on smoking in public places - finally enforcing a law that was introduced a decade ago - will initially focus on Greece's Parliament building, followed by ministries, hospitals, schools and other places where social services are provided, officials decided on Wednesday.

Following a visit to Greece's main healthcare provider, EOPYY, Monday, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said he would do everything in his power to ensure that burn victims from last year's disastrous fires in eastern Attica receive the free treatment that they deserve.

Following a visit to Greece's main healthcare provider, EOPYY on Monday, Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias said he would do everything possible to ensure that burns victims from last year's disastrous fires in Mati, eastern Attica, receive the free treatment that they deserve.

The visit followed reports that EOPYY did not have the pharmaceuticals required by burns victims from Mati.

Singer, songwriter and musician Vassilikos, the former frontman of successful indie-rock band Raining Pleasure, will be performing at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) on Monday, April 15.

A military inquiry into the arrest by Turkish authorities last year of two Greek soldiers on border patrol in northeastern Greece has been "sent to the archive," Defense Minsister Evangelos Apostolakis said on Friday in response to a question from the opposition.

In our first meeting, about 18 months ago, in the context of the annual conference of the Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association (EENE), it was with satisfaction that Vassilis Apostolopoulos showed me the findings of a major survey that pointed to a drastic shift of public opinion in favor of entrepreneurship and indicated that citizens' trust in the private sector as a lever of development had inc