Tag: Athens
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Greece lifts Golden Visa threshold in bid to ease housing crisis amid rising rents
[ad_1] Over Christmas, Athina Drakopoulou shut down the arts and crafts shop she had run for 13 years in Koukaki, a gentrified neighbourhood near the Acropolis. Her landlords were doubling the rent, and Drakopoulou wasn’t able to compete with the investors going all in on trendy coffee shops and Airbnbs. Greece lifts Golden Visa threshold…
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Charles to miss memorial service for his second cousin, the last king of Greece
[ad_1] The Queen will lead the royal family at St George’s Chapel. [ad_2] Source link
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Europe’s crowded cities are getting creative to curb overtourism
[ad_1] From Venice to Amsterdam, bus bans and TikTok influencers are helping reduce tourist numbers. ADVERTISEMENT Europe’s ETIAS online travel authorisation has been delayed until 2025. The requirement restricts travellers from non-EU countries to 30 European nations, including France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. Applications will bring in €7 each, adding up to considerable…
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Elgin Marbles should be returned to Greece in ‘grand gesture’, says Lord Frost
[ad_1] Lord Frost, who previously served as chief Brexit negotiator, told Parliament: “I do think that Lord Elgin’s actions possibly were a little murky, but I do think nevertheless our legal case is good. I also think it’s not the point. The point is what we do now rather than what happened in the past.…
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Bedbug hoax aims to drive tourists out of Athens apartments
[ad_1] Fed up with holiday apartments driving up rent, locals in Athens have put up fraudulent bedbug evacuation notices. ADVERTISEMENT Fake signs warnings of bedbug infestations are being used to deter tourists in Athens, Greece. They have been put up outside apartment buildings in the city centre, falsely describing a bedbug problem. Athens and other…
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UK and Greece still have strong relationship despite Marbles row – Lord Cameron
[ad_1] Conservative peer Lord Dobbs asked about ‘relations with Greece’ as the Foreign Secretary faced questions from peers for the first time [ad_2] Source link
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Charles sports tie decorated with Greek flag for meeting with Prime Minister
[ad_1] The King has close ties to Greece through his father Prince Philip, the late Duke of Edinburgh, who was born on the Greek island of Corfu, to parents Prince Andrew of Greece and Princess Alice of Battenberg, before becoming a naturalised British subject in 1947. [ad_2] Source link
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Diplomatic row grows between UK and Greece over Elgin Marbles
[ad_1] Mr Harper added on BBC Breakfast: “It’s a regret that the Greek prime minister wasn’t able to take up the meeting with the deputy prime minister, but that was offered and obviously the deputy prime minister would be very happy to talk through a number of the important issues facing both of our countries…
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Rishi Sunak cancels meeting with Greek PM amid row over return of Elgin Marbles
[ad_1] There is seemingly a diplomatic row brewing over returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece [ad_2] Source link