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              Greece

              • Saturday, 11 January, 2025
                Europe Express
                Asylum ruling against Greece exposes Europe’s migrants dilemma Premium content

                Curbing irregular arrivals is a political priority but legal and humanitarian questions cannot be brushed aside

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                A Spanish police officer and Frontex officer receive migrants arriving in the Lanzarote port of Arrecife this week. A baby boy was born on a small, crowded boat carrying 60 people on the deadly Atlantic migration route from Africa to the Canary Islands
              • Friday, 20 December, 2024
                HTSI
                The world’s most wonderful places of worship

                FT editors and contributors nominate 32 awe-inspiring holy buildings, from the Temple of Light in Texas to Thailand’s Khuha Kharuehat Pavilion

                Ellsworth Kelly’s secular Temple of Light in Austin, Texas
              • Saturday, 14 December, 2024
                Europe Express
                France and Greece: spot the differences Premium content

                Political and fiscal troubles pile up in Paris as Athens continues to recover from its debt agony

                People outside a closed National Bank branch hope to get their pensions on Crete island on June 29 2015 during the debt crisis. Greek banks were shuttered to prevent the country’s financial system from collapsing
              • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
                Chris Giles
                The astonishing success of Eurozone bailouts

                As Greek borrowing costs fall to French levels, the bloc’s ‘periphery’ shows the value of steady reform

                People eat in a restaurant in Athens as a chef cooks in the open kitchen
              • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
                HTSI
                Athens – the coolest wine scene in Europe?

                A new generation of entrepreneurs is crushing it in Acropolis

                Chris Kontos’s Kennedy Vins in downtown Athens
              • Tuesday, 3 December, 2024
                UK foreign policy
                Greece hopeful of deal on Parthenon Sculptures as Starmer meets Mitsotakis

                Downing Street reiterates that UK prime minister will not stand in way of deal between Athens and British Museum

              • Friday, 29 November, 2024
                UK foreign policy
                Keir Starmer to meet Greek PM amid hope of progress on Parthenon Sculptures

                Meeting comes amid warming bilateral ties as officials in Athens adopt cautious but optimistic stance

                Visitors to the British Museum walk around a selection of items from the collection of ancient Greek sculptures known as the Elgin Marbles
              • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
                French economy
                French bond yields surpass Greece’s for first time as budget worries swirl

                Investors fear dispute over planned tax rises and spending cuts could topple Michel Barnier’s government

                The Paris skyline
              • Thursday, 24 October, 2024
                Heineken NV
                Heineken liable for competition violations by Greek unit, Dutch court rules

                Judgment over infractions stretching back to 1990s leaves brewer open to hundreds of millions of euros in potential damages

                Beer bottles move along the conveyor belt at the Heineken brewery in Zoeterwoude, Netherlands
              • Friday, 18 October, 2024
                Travel
                Postcard from Greece . . . meeting the 100-year-old guru of hotel design

                Nicos Valsamakis created Delphi’s modernist Amalia hotel in the 1960s — and is still going strong

                Black and white 1960s photograph of a couple sitting on a balcony in a modernist hotel
              • Thursday, 17 October, 2024
                EU immigration
                Greece sceptical about EU outsourcing asylum seekers

                Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Italy-Albania deal cannot be replicated for entire bloc

                Kyriakos Mitsotakis arrives at the EU summit in Brussels on Thursday, standing among several flags, including those of the European Union
              • Friday, 13 September, 2024
                The FT ViewThe editorial board
                The rise of tourist taxes

                Revenues can help make mass travel more sustainable

                People sunbath and swim at the beach of Monterosso in the Cinque Terre National Park, near La Spezia, nortwestern Italy
              • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
                Greece cracks down on excessive tourism

                Curbs on short-term rentals and cruise ship traffic could damage crucial sector, warns hospitality industry

                Tourists gather at the village of Oia, on the Greek island of Santorini, to watch the sunset, in July
              • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
                LexEuropean banks
                Greek banks’ comeback could be capped by a legacy of their crisis Premium content

                Deferred tax assets may hobble their ability to return capital to shareholders

                Customers line up for an ATM outside a branch of Alpha Bank in Athens
              • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
                News in-depthClimate Capital
                Water emergency becomes part of Mediterranean summer ritual

                Greek, Italian and Spanish islands rely on rationing, tankers and desalination as global warming and tourists sap reserves

                A worker refills a water tanker
              • Thursday, 15 August, 2024
                Wildfires
                EU co-ordinates record response to wildfires

                Civil Protection Mechanism has been activated 29 times this year as Europe becomes world’s fastest warming continent

                Volunteers try to extinguish a wildfire in northern Athens on August 12 2024
              • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
                Wildfires
                Athens residents evacuated as wildfires spread near capital

                Wall of flames over 25 metres high is encroaching on Greek city

                Local residents cry as they try to save some belongings during a wildfire near Penteli, on August 12
              • Wednesday, 17 July, 2024
                Visual Arts
                Democracy in Athens — this exhibition is a stress test for our times

                A thought-provoking show brings together art from three countries — Greece, Spain and Portugal — created under oppressive regimes

                A painting of a cartoonish dictator in military uniform standing to salute but dwarfed by his throne behind
              • Saturday, 13 July, 2024
                FT MagazineJancis Robinson
                Who’d be a Turkish wine producer?

                Turkish wine should be great, but President Erdoğan’s regime is making things very hard indeed

              • Friday, 12 July, 2024
                European prime property
                The audacious rise of the Athens Riviera

                The revitalisation of the Greek capital’s southern coastline is a Herculean task. Can the country’s infrastructure support such an epic vision?

                coastline with beachfront amenities and a tall residential tower
              • Saturday, 6 July, 2024
                HTSI
                HTSI editor’s letter: summer hosting come rain or shine 

                Seven tastemakers set the scene for a meal to remember 

                Amber Guinness and her husband Matthew Bell prepare a table to eat outside in Tuscany
              • Wednesday, 3 July, 2024
                HTSI
                High culture meets hedonism on Hydra

                A tour of the Greek island where books, beatniks and buzz collide

                A swimming spot beside one of Hydra’s beach bars
              • Saturday, 22 June, 2024
                Travel
                A dramatic new clifftop retreat — on the perfect Greek island

                The opening of Gundari, a five-star clifftop retreat, is prompting both excitement and anxiety on the island

                A small town of white-washed houses situated on the edge of a cliff
              • Friday, 21 June, 2024
                FT SeriesThe HTSI summer packing guide
                How to pack for a city break in Athens

                HTSI’s fashion editor never travels without his packing cubes, polo shirt and Pleasing lip balm

                HTSI fashion editor Benjamin Canares in Ischia, Italy
              • Monday, 17 June, 2024
                ReviewTelevision
                Dead Calm: Killing in the Med? — the a migrant boat disaster that became a Greek tragedy

                Rigorous BBC2 documentary suggests the Greek coast guard helped cause the 2023 sinking, with the loss of nearly 650 lives

                A blue-painted boat heavily crowded with people sails across blue water
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