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The Tatoi Friends Association is holding is sixth annual opera gala, raising funds for conservation work at the former royal estate north of Athens. The main destination of funds from this year's event will go toward the restoration of the estate's dilapidated winery, which is one of the oldest buildings on the property.

Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev will deliver two lectures in Greece on the subject "The EU as a Community of European Law and Values" on November 26 and 27, organized by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation.

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Opposition parties in Greece challenged the government in Parliament and the media on Thursday to offer some explanation about last April's acquisition by Public Power Corporation (PPC) of electricity trader Energy Delivery Solutions (EDS), which is based in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.

Enduring Greek rock act Vassilis Papaconstantinou is on a summer tour and will be stopping at Piraeus's Veakeio Theater on Monday, July 23. His summer 2018 concert presents highlights from a successful 45-year career that has influenced hundreds of younger Greek rockers. The show starts at 9.30 p.m.

Traffic police will be closing off several streets starting on Wednesday afternoon in the vicinity of the Panathenaic Stadium, which will be hosting a big charity concert.

The prominent comedian and political satirist Harry Klynn died on Monday in Thessaloniki. He was 78.

Born Vasilis Triantafyllidis in Thessaloniki, Klynn, the son of Pontic Greek refugees from Turkey, grew up in poverty before embarking on a career that made him a household name. 

Distinguished Greek-American scientist Stamatios Krimigis has resigned as director of Greece's newly established Hellenic Space Agency (HSA) just weeks into his tenure, it emerged on Wednesday.

Retailers appear to have relatively high expectations for the winter sales, which start on Monday, January 8, and will last for more than seven weeks through February 28. The optimism stems from the rather positive picture of the festive period.

The indicted general director of soccer's Super League and former president of the Greek Football Federation (EPO) Vassilis Gagatsis has denied that he mishandled 1 million Swiss francs given to EPO in 2008 by European soccer's governing body, UEFA, to help finance the rebuilding of soccer facilities damaged by devastating fires in the Peloponnese.