MARIANNA KAKAOUNAKI

Thousands of refugees back out in the cold

It wasn’t too cold the first night Marie spent on the streets of downtown Athens even though it was already early December. She had a small school bag with some milk, biscuits, diapers and baby wipes.

New law sparks Golden Visa rush

After six years of arranging viewings on an almost daily basis for fellow Chinese nationals coming to Greece in search of good property deals, Peter Chang had to hang up his realtor’s hat three years ago, when the pandemic brought business to a halt.

20.11.2022 / 21:05

Digital nomads with all the bells and whistles

The first companies organizing the stays of people who choose to live in Greece for a few months or years, working remotely, have appeared.

17.11.2022 / 11:56

Turkey in the dock over US attack on protesters

On the last day of October, lawyer Andreas Akaras kept refreshing the United States Supreme Court website trying to confirm the information he had been hearing since that morning: that the ruling he had been waiting for had been published. Indeed, the long-awaited ruling had been published online that afternoon.

19.10.2022 / 13:55

The dream and the story behind the F-16 jets

Greek-American Congressman Gus Bilirakis went to bed on the evening of July 13 not knowing that the next morning, an amendment on an issue that was of particular concern to him – the sale by the United States to Turkey of 40 American-made F-16 fighter jets and 80 upgrade kits for aircraft it already owns […]

04.06.2022 / 19:41

A warm embrace for Ukraine’s children

Just before midnight on Good Friday, Heracles Moskof, Greece’s special secretary for the protection of unaccompanied minors, called Sofia Kouvelaki, CEO of The HOME Project, an organization that supports unaccompanied child refugees, to announce the news: “The children have just crossed the border at Promachonas [in northern Greece],” he told her with great relief.

06.03.2022 / 11:45

‘It is like opening a wound again,’ say parents of murdered American youth

Jill and Phil Henderson traveled to Greece’s western port city of Patra late last month. There was only one reason they were there: the retrial for the murder of their son Bakari in the summer of 2017.

01.02.2022 / 15:32

An educational opportunity for three young refugees

It was early October when Sofia Kouvelaki, CEO of The Home Project, a nonprofit organization that supports unaccompanied refugee children, connected with Athens College online.

12.01.2022 / 19:34

‘Here, the heart of Hellenism beats strongest’

The President of the Hellenic Republic visits the island of Gavdos

22.11.2021 / 14:07

Expatriate protector of the Parthenon Marbles

John Lefas was in the Middle East for work last week, but his mind was in London and on what was being done about the Parthenon Sculptures in the wake of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ meeting with his British counterpart, Boris Johnson.

25.07.2021 / 19:28

How the US averted a Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1964

Much has been written about America’s involvement in Greek and Turkish politics. Historians, analysts and ordinary citizens have attempted to decode its actions, with documents, letters and minutes revealing little-known aspects of history.

14.06.2021 / 21:09

Damning audio sheds light on Mati fire litigation

The repeated requests for the charges faced by fire brigade and civil protection officials over their management of the deadly fire in Mati in 2018 to be upgraded from misdemeanors to felonies have received a fresh boost with an Athens prosecutor’s call for audio recordings including threats by ex-fire chief Vassilis Mattheopoulos against investigator Dimitris Liotsios to be introduced in the court case.

19.03.2021 / 10:54