Greece fully supports the directives issued by UNESCO to combat the illicit trading of cultural goods, noted Alternate Minister for Culture Nikos Xydakis yesterday (19.5), addressing the Third Meeting of States Parties to the 1970 Convention in Paris. Xydakis presented Greece’s proposition on the issue called Stop Illicit Trafficking, which urges the 127 countries of the 1970 UNESCO’s convention to form a wider alliance to help authorities prevent cultural goods exiting a country without legal documents.

The minister stated that since 2009, Greece has registered more than 30 restitution

Since 2007, the European Business Awards promote the most innovative European businesses, "recognising success, innovation and ethics in Europe." Last year, the EBAs engaged with over 24,000 organisations in over 33 countries and participants represented a combined turnover of over €1 trillion (8.23% of EU GDP), employing over 2.7 million people.


Each year, only ten winners are announced as European Public Champions, out of a pool of entries selected as National Public Champions. At the European Business Awards 2014/2015, Olympia Electronics, a Greek business based in Pieria - specialising in

If you happen to be in Thessaloniki and too tired to even browse through online guides, a simple photo of the place you are standing is enough to give you all the information one may need. This is thanks to an app created by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Department of Informatics), which focuses on receiving as much information the mobile device can get, offering tailor-made suggestions on how best to enjoy the city. "Using a system called Atlas, which uses algorithms for fast geo‐aware social media tagging and annotation, we can retrieve and recommend geo‐aware multimedia

Yorgos Lanthimos’ feature film The Lobster is competing for the Palme d'Or in the 2015 Cannes Festival (13-24/5/2015). Starring Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, John C.Reilly and Lea Seydoux, it is set in dystopian future, where single people are forced to mate in a facility, called the Hotel, within 45 days. If they fail, they are transformed into the animal of their choice and are released in the woods.

This is not the first time one of Lanthimos’ films competes in Cannes; his film Dogtooth has won the Un Certain Regard prize in 2009.

See also: Lobster Press Conference (video) & Greek News

Lunch breaks with snacks of feta, cheese and honey, sea bass with fennel and one koulouri(sesame seed-coated bread roll) for the road; "eating Greek" in London is not yet a trend, but many Greek chefs and entrepreneurs have chosen the British capital and metropolis of gastronomy to establish their business.

The Greek Larder is a new restaurant not far from King's Cross St. Pancras. The owners talk about the effort it took them to hold their ground. "There were 114 candidates interested in renting the space where we are," says chef Theodore Kyriakou, who opened his first London restaurant,

The annual general assembly of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) took place yesterday. Addressing the event, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that Greece had now entered the final stretch in talks with creditors in order to achieve a mutually beneficial agreement. Greece has tabled detailed proposals for a viable deal and had made repayments amounting to €8 billion euros, in spite of experiencing financial strangulation.

He reiterated that such an agreement must have a long term outlook and must include restructuring of the debt, with low primary surplus targets for 2015 and

NATO and the EU should cooperate to limit extremism, fundamentalism and irredentism in the Balkans, Greek National Defence Minister Panos Kammenos stated at the EU Defence Ministers Meeting in Brussels yesterday (18 May).

Kammenos noted that the challenges for Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) are Jihadist terrorism threat in the EU, human trafficking from regions of North Africa and the Middle East and the exploitation of real or imaginary minority issues.

Kammenos also referred Greece’s participation to CSDP operations at the Horn of Africa, "where we successfully assumed action

The Special Olympics Flame of Hope for the Special Olympics World Games Los Angeles 2015 (LA2015) was lit during a formal torch lighting ceremony (May 14). The torch was lit by the sun’s rays at the Sacred Site of Pnyx, opposite the Acropolis. "This Flame of Hope will ignite the cauldron in the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, the site of the 1932 and 1984 Olympic Games," said Patrick McClenahan, LA2015 President and CEO.

After the Flame of Hope was lit, McClenahan handed the torch to Final Leg Team member and Special Olympics Southern California athlete Brett Laza and Special Olympics Hellas

Remarking on the exceptionally high standards of surgery in Greece, especially in the field of endocrinology,  Dimitris Linos, General Surgeon and Professor of Surgery at Athens Medical School, referred also to the substantial and ongoing cooperation with International Academic Centres. He emphasised cooperation with the United States in particular, which provides further opportunities for continuous development in the field.

Adding that he intends to contribute to these efforts in his capacity as President of International Association of Endocrine Surgeons (IAES), Linos accepted the honour of

The 2nd Greek-German Food Forum will be held on May 20-22 at the foot of Mt. Olympus in the town of Litochoro, Central Mecedonia, Northern Greece. It is organised by the Greek-German Chamber of Commerce and BASF Hellas. It is supported by the Ministry of Development. 

Greek producers and farm products cooperatives will have the opportunity to present their products such as fruit, olive oil, olives, wine, raki, rice and peanuts during special B2B meetings between Greek and German companies. The Forum will conclude with a tour to local businesses for the German visiting companies. This year’s