The Ministry of Culture has decided to allow free attendance to all museums and archaeological sites in the country on the National Day. GRReporter visited the new Acropolis Museum, which was awarded the prize Museum of the Year 2010 by the British Guild of Travel Writers on the National Day of Greece.
For the second consecutive year the financial crisis was the reason the official celebrations of the National Day of Greece to lack military equipment.
The golden age of the 1990s, when everyone thought that the abundance will never end, is gone, says the news director of STAR TV Stamatis Malelis. He himself tells about the reduced amounts in the contracts of many leading television stars.
Panathinaikos defeated last year's basketball champions in Europe. Olympiacos suffered a severe loss of 17 points after scoring 48 points in the first game with Siena.
The word "troika" in Greece has had completely new meaning in recent years. It is no longer used only as a countable noun like in the case of "three skewers" or "three in mathematics," but represents a new era in the modern Greek history.