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Archive - 2009

May 15th

The oldest submarine city found in Southern Peloponnese

15 May 2009 / 12:05:27  
The sunken city, nearby Pavlopetri, is located in southern Peloponnese peninsula, only a few meters under the water. It’s in immediate proximity to the beach visited every summer by numbers of tourists and campers.


May 14th

Bilderberg club meeting starts in Athens

14 May 2009 / 16:05:27  
During the following three days (May 14-16), the Athenian hotel “Aster Palace” will be e “forbidden zone.” An unusual coincidence is the fact that the premiere of the movie “Illuminati – the enlightened” coincides with the meeting of the “heirs of … the Enlightened.”


Will Turkey tango with Europe?

14 May 2009 / 14:05:32  
Turkey must earn its membership by doing the reformations needed; but it has to be given the opportunity to do this, too, said Giannis Grigoriadis at the presentation of his new book “Trials of Europeanisation: Turkish Political Culture and the European Union” in Athens.


24 hour strike of the public sector

14 May 2009 / 13:05:42  
The workers want an increase of salaries and pensions, collective labor contracts, which will be for everyone and direct financing of insurance and retirement funds.


May 13th

Fitch lowered Greece's credit rating

13 May 2009 / 12:05:08  
The international agency put a "negative" lable on its prognosis for the development of the Greek economy but it kept its long-term prognosis to level A.


120 000 laptops given out to high school students

13 May 2009 / 11:05:13  
Free laptops will be given out to 120 000 first year high school students. Students will receive a coupon for between ?400 and ?500 and with it, they will be able to buy a laptop.


Depeche Mode vocalist hospitalized, the concert is postponed

13 May 2009 / 09:05:59  
Over 30 000 fans, of one of the most successful British bands of all time, waited for Depeche Mode to come on stage. Unfortunatelly, David Gahan had gastroenteritis and the band could not perform.