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GINIA BELLAFANTE
A year ago, if you had asked anyone who has spent time around New York City politics who would next become mayor, you were likely to hear that the election of Scott Stringer was more or less assured.
The major city facelifts and infrastructure projects in the capital, totaling more than 10 billion euros, are generating high expectations for capital gains in the Attica property market.
People in the 40-44 age group will have access to all four Covid-19 vaccines currently available in Greece instead of just one starting on Friday, the country’s secretary general for primary healthcare has said. People in the 35-39 and 30-34 brackets – who have also been restricted to the AZ shot – will also have the option of a different vaccine. The dates will be announced soon.
European lawmakers on Tuesday are due to discuss the reports by the Commission and Parliament on the progress of EU-Turkish relations in 2019 and 2020 before voting on a resolution that will determine the way forward after accession negotiations were frozen in June 2018.
The Athens residence of Bavarian architect Ernst Ziller, who designed some of the Greek capital’s greatest late 19th and early 20th century landmarks, opens on Tuesday.
Greece’s Covid-19 death toll reached 11,471 on Monday after the coronavirus claimed 56 more lives in 24 hours, during which 1,402 new cases were confirmed, taking total infections since the start of the health crisis to 378,485.
Τhe public row surrounding the Covid vaccine patents is absolutely ridiculous, even for a country so accustomed to the ridiculous.
NEWS
A 30-year-old man who was stopped trying to leave Greece for Bulgaria with forged travel documents has been transferred to police headquarters in Athens and is being questioned by investigators as one of the key suspects in last week’s brutal robbery-homicide in the suburb of Glyka Nera.
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ECONOMY
American interest in vacationing in Greece this year has soared to unexpectedly high levels, forcing major airlines to amend their schedules to accommodate demand.
![Passengers stand in a queue to the British Airways check-in desks in the departures area of Terminal 5 at Heathrow Airport in London, on Monday. [Reuters/John Sibley]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/heathrow_airport_-_reuters-320x200.jpg)
![A woman wearing a face mask on the Greek island of Naxos. Vaccination hesitancy is taking a toll on the country’s inoculation campaign. [AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/naxos_AP-768x480.jpg)
![The maid on honor places the ring on the bride’s finger as per the Greek Orthodox custom at a wedding in east Attica in a 2019 file photo. [InTime News]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/marriage-ring-intime-320x200.jpg)
![Abdul Salam Al Khawien, 37, right, and his wife Kariman, 32, left, pose with their children for a family photo, at their apartment in the northern city of Thessaloniki, Greece, Saturday, May 1, 2021. [Giannis Papanikos/AP]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/Syrian-family-AP-320x200.jpg)
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SPORTS
Promitheas and AEK had to work hard to go past Peristeri and PAOK respectively in the first round of the Basket League playoffs, to set up a pair of very appetizing semifinals.
CULTURE
Museums across Greece will open their doors to the public free of charge on Tuesday in celebration of International Museum Day.
![While sleeping at the Amphiareion of Oropos worshippers were either healed of their ailments or got advice from the god in their dreams. [Olga Charami]](https://www.ekathimerini.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/oropos-320x200.jpg)
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