YIOULI EPTAKILI

No more delicious ladera?

Consumers out shopping for a bottle of olive oil at the supermarket during the recent heatwave would hardly have thought that the prematurely high temperatures of mid-June – a phenomenon that is increasing in frequency – would affect its price.

They have not suddenly gone mad

It was a performance of high symbolism. About 200 activists gathered on a popular beach in Mallorca, Spain, to protest the effects of overtourism on the environment, on rent and prices in general, and on their daily lives.

28.06.2024 / 21:15

‘What is kourou, please?’

People started lining up outside 10 Voulis Street in downtown Athens early on a recent Saturday morning, even before the city started to look properly alive. That the crowd was a multiethnic one was immediately apparent.

28.06.2024 / 20:11

Raptors returning to Dadia after devastating fire

Positive signs first emerged in April when experts found that the cinereous vulture (Aegypius monachus), also known as the Eurasian black vulture, a rare but emblematic species of the Dadia Forest in northeastern Greece, had not abandoned the area after what European Union officials described as the largest fire recorded in […]

30.05.2024 / 10:00

Californians won what?

“We are the most beautiful country in the world.” “We have the greatest culture.” “We have the best cuisine.”

17.05.2024 / 08:47

Monuments need tourism, experts explain

The Culture Ministry’s head ephor for Cycladic antiquities hits the nail on the head when he points to one of the most popular islands in Greece to describe the imbalance between culture and tourism.

20.03.2024 / 21:38

The rising cost of eating out

Katerina P. has a job that brings in around 1,500 euros a month. Up until a few years ago, this was a very decent amount that allowed her not just to survive in relative comfort, but also to have an active social life, to go out with friends for a meal or a drink, sometimes […]

21.02.2024 / 21:29

Beekeepers in a battle for survival

Northern Evia experienced an awful disaster in 2021 when a wildfire charred over 50,000 hectares of land.

09.02.2024 / 10:33

The season of the tractor

It was early on the morning of February 7, 1997, when a force of riot police and soldiers started deflating the tires of the tractors of protesting farmers on the national highway at Mikrothives in Central Greece.

21.12.2023 / 20:23

Setting small ‘green’ goals in the way we eat

Hundreds of articles are published in newspapers and magazines, traditional and digital, every December about the food and culinary trends that are expected in the year that lies ahead. The “predictions” for 2024 are already raging. Will Peruvian cuisine, ceviche and tiradito still be in vogue? Which famous chefs will add more stars to their […]

16.12.2023 / 22:05

Points first, then funding

It would be highly beneficial to have information about the financial stability of municipalities, the fiscal prudence of mayors, and their contributions to civil protection, environmental initiatives, and enhancing citizens’ daily lives before each local election.

09.09.2023 / 16:08

In Varvitsiotis’ mind

Understanding the intent behind Shipping Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis’ statement following the tragic death of 36-year-old Antonis Karyotis is challenging.

22.07.2023 / 22:46

The campus police is here to stay. Or is it?

In February 2021, the then-minister of education, Niki Kerameus, declared in Parliament, “Let the smell of fear and lawlessness in the universities, which thrives there and nowhere else in the country, be dissolved once and for all.” That was the day the draft law on universities was voted on, which included the introduction of the […]

06.07.2023 / 15:18

The new, old far-right wave

In September 2013, following the murder of anti-fascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, the Greek authorities launched a crackdown on the leadership of Golden Dawn. A person who is now 17 years old and has just voted for the first time in the May and June elections was only 7 back then.

14.04.2023 / 21:41

Not another Mykonos

In the bruised face of archaeologist Manolis Psarros, who was beaten by unidentified men in northern Athens a few weeks ago, we saw the Mykonos of gangs, thugs, rackets and dirty money.