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![Beach chairs await beachgoers at the seaside resort of Benidorm, Spain, March 28. As pandemic restrictions lifted, travel industry officials in Europe were looking forward to a strong summer season, but they may be disappointed. [Emilio Parra Doiztua/The New York Times]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EUROPE-TRAVEL-UNCERTAINTY-1-320x200.jpg)
CEYLAN YEGINSU
Diego Sanz, a tour guide on Spain’s southeastern Mediterranean coast, received his first international group booking in more than a year in mid February. It was, he thought, an augury of better things to come.
Greece, Cyprus and Israel will continue working together on natural gas pipeline projects with European energy dependency a new focus because of the war in Ukraine, their foreign ministers said on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday hailed Greece’s early repayment of the last installment of its bailout loans from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the “end of an era.”
The value of transactions completed electronically, through the internet and mobile banking, increased 23.2% in 2021 from the year before, reaching 390.3 billion euros from €316.7 billion in 2020.
The drawings in a makeshift classroom in Athens tell the story of children who escaped war. Combat scenes – a helicopter dropping bombs, burning buildings, tanks and bodies on the ground – hang next to peace doves carrying olive branches.
The National Vaccination Committee recommended on Tuesday that people over 60, especially those with health issues, take a fourth dose of the Covid vaccine.
And now that our fears are confirmed – that the darkness in the human heart is always present, ready to take over our lives – what do we do?
NEWS
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The magistrate investigating the alleged murder of a nine-year-old girl in hospital by her mother requested on Tuesday access to the telephone and internet records of the accused.
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ECONOMY
Farmers and dairy industry-related entities are complaining of profiteering practices in the market through the creation of artificial shortages in various products and especially in cattle feed.
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![Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou (R) awards the medal of the Golden Cross of the Order of the Redeemer, to Pfizer President and CEO Albert Bourla (L), at a special ceremony at the Presidential Palace, Athens, Greece, on Tuesday. [ALEXANDER BELTES/EPA]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Bourla-medal-sakellaropoulou-EPA-768x480.jpg)
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SPORTS
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The top spot of the regular season in the Basket League will be played in the Panathinaikos vs Olympiakos encounter to come pn April 11, after Panathinaikos emerged unscathed from the challenge of its short trip to AEK’s home on Sunday.
CULTURE
A still from a virtual reality video by Loukia Alavanou that will represent Greece at the 59th Venice Biennale, opening April 23. Presented in Athens on Monday, ‘Oedipus in Search of Colonus’ is part of a bigger installation.
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![Workers install Louise Bourgeois’ monumental and iconic ‘Maman’ at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens. The historical sculpture, over 10 meters tall and weighing 11 tons, has been brought to Greece by the NEON Cultural Organization and the SNFCC. It will be on display as of March 31. According to Bourgeois (1911-2010), it was ode to her mother. ‘Maman’ is the largest of the artist’s sculptures of spiders, with which she was was obsessed. [NATALIA TSOUKALAS © THE EASTON FOUNDATION]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/5b05f1d92a3a0ea51ba3927f4fb68ecd_IMG_3426-1-768x480.jpg)
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