Greece, Battered a Decade Ago, Is Booming New York Times (September 25) Paris Skouros pointed toward the sky outside his office in Athens on a recent weekday. In the past six months, four high-rises had sprung up, built by Greek and international builders to be sold for use as tourist rentals, foreign real estate investments and company offices. Farther afield, a fresh crop of new buildings dotted the horizon. read more
Greece’s Largest Wind Power Project Partially Operating on Evia Island The National Herald (September 26) Greece’s push to find alternative energy sources and further wean off reliance on Russian supplies in the wake of that country’s invasion of Russia is turning more toward wind farms, the biggest project now working on the island of Evia. That island had seen almost half its territory destroyed in 2021 summer wildfires amid allegations, never proved, that it was partially due to arson to clear land for wind towers that critics don’t want there. read more
Please return if found: British Museum seeks help to recover missing treasures Ekathimerini (September 26) The British Museum has launched a public hotline asking for help to locate some 2,000 missing artefacts, revealing they were mostly ancient Greek and Roman gems and jewelry. The museum said last month it had sacked a staff member over stolen, missing or damaged items in a crisis that highlighted internal failings and led to its director quitting days later. read more
Greece is planning a major regularization program for migrants to cope with labor crunch AP (September 26) Greece’s minister for migration says the government is planning a major regularization program for migrants to meet pressing demands in the labor market despite a recent increase in illegal arrivals. Dimitris Kairidis told state-run radio Tuesday that the program would target an estimated 300,000 migrants who are undocumented or whose residence permits have expired to help address acute shortages in agriculture, construction and tourism. read more
How this US-based veterinarian returned to Greece to help her 'stray cat friends' CNN (September 26) Growing up on the remote island of Karpathos, Greece, in the 1990s, Anna Katogiritis struggled to make friends at school and says she was bullied for being “small-sized.” But she was able to find comfort and friendship from another source – the thousands of stray cats that roamed the island, which is situated between Rhodes and Crete. read more
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