Greece News 2024

NEWS ARCHIVE - December 2024

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December 18, 2024 Wednesday

Ministry of Education announces the Minimum Entry Base Scores for students

Story at Skai [Greek]

Using Hadrian's aqueduct again after 2,000 years

Greece is reviving Hadrian’s Aqueduct, a Roman-era engineering marvel, to supply non-drinking water for everyday tasks like garden irrigation and street cleaning. Built in 140 A.D. under Roman Emperor Hadrian, the aqueduct stretches over 12 miles beneath the city.

Story at Greek Reporter [English]

Kimberly Guilfoyle soon comes to the Ambassador mansion in Athens

Story at SF Gate [English]

Click to expand and enlarge photo - view of Athens

Eurostat reports Greece as only European country with wage cost decline

Story at Athina984 [Greek]

US pressure on Turkey to not attack Kurdish SDF in Syria

Story at Capital [Greek]

Journalist Costas Hardavellas has died

Story at Protothema [Greek]

Areas that will be getting snow

Weather at Ta Nea [Greek]

The Kiosk decline

Story at To Vima [Greek]

Over the past 15 years, every day a kiosk has been closed and either torn down or left as a corpse, reminiscent of an urban everyday life that no longer exists. Of the 9,904 kiosks that were operating nationwide in 2010, based on data from NielsenIQ's annual Census survey, only 4,358 were left open in 2023. That is a decrease of 56%. And what is certain is that the downward trend will continue this year...."