‘I play the music that I love, that’s all,’ insists master of the classical violin > Tetzlaff will perform works by Brahms and Pierre Boulez.
His style scope ranges from Brahms to Shostakovich and from Bach to Ligeti. The repertoire of German violinist Christian Tetzlaff is extremely wide. No matter what he plays, the 42-year-old [...]
Country needs equivalent of ‘three planets’ to sustain current rate of consumption of natural resources, WWF says
Greece needs the equivalent of three planets to sustain its current rate of consumption of natural resources, according to a report by the World Wildlife Fund conservation group (WWF) made public yesterday, which found the country to have [...]
Greek University students yesterday said they planned to take legal action against a European Court of Justice ruling that requires Greece to grant full recognition to degrees obtained from private colleges.
Following yesterday’s session of the senate of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), students from politically affiliated unions that have often been at loggerheads [...]
Police are alarmed by the rise in violent crime in Athens, particularly in the city center, during the last two months and are making an effort to put 500 more officers on patrol in a bid to ensure citizens’ safety.
There have been 10 robberies in the last month in Athens that have led to victims [...]
Home prices in Cyprus grew 1.5 percent quarter-on-quarter in the third quarter of 2008, a private property tracker said yesterday.
The BuySell index said the average home price was 193,323 euros in September, based on the prices at which residential properties were sold on the island. There was a 0.4 decline in sale prices in [...]
Measures include upping benefits, say sources > The government is likely tomorrow to unveil steps aimed at helping protect low income earners and the long-term unemployed from the impact of the global financial crisis, sources said yesterday.
The steps were discussed at a Cabinet meeting yesterday which weighed the impact the slowdown was having on domestic [...]
Cyprus yesterday said it was working on a financial contingency package that it would implement if hit by global financial turmoil.
The Mediterranean island, a eurozone member since January 1 2008, has been largely buffered from a meltdown on markets worldwide because of an insular retail-based banking system. But there are underlying concerns that tourism, [...]
