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ROGER COHEN AND CHRIS BUCKLEY
On his first visit to Europe in five years, Chinese President Xi Jinping appears intent on seizing opportunities to loosen the continent’s bonds with the United States and forge a world freed of American dominance.
International investment interest in hotel properties in Greece, including the capital, is not only steady, but is actually growing stronger and is expected to drive up the current values of these properties.
Household chores and looking after children are purely “women’s work” in Greece, Italy and Romania compared to other European countries, according to a survey by the Center of Demographic Studies of Barcelona.
North Macedonia’s nationalist opposition achieved sweeping gains in parliamentary and presidential elections on Wednesday. Voters expressed their frustration over the country’s sluggish advance bid to join the European Union, but also prevailing corruption and the slow pace of reforms.
In the northern port city of Thessaloniki, residents confronted storms and hail Thursday afternoon, enduring an hour of heavy rain.
The European Union marks its annual Europe Day on Thursday, but instead of the humdrum celebrations, all eyes are on the EU elections in a month’s time, which portend a steep rise of the extreme right and a possible move away from the bloc’s global trendsetting climate policies.
It’s been a constant theme of past decades but the situation has dramatically deteriorated during the last 10 years as the economic crisis took its toll.
The late Epiphanios of Mylopotamos, a monk and a chef who publicized the gastronomy and viticulture of Mount Athos to the wider world, made a cracking red snapper soup, with lots of herbs, but also cumin, which is unusual for fish. The small amount of cumin doesn’t define the dish, but it does make it spicier.
These five iconic eateries have resisted the passage of time and firmly established themselves in Athens and Thessaloniki’s culinary scenes.
For all of us Gastronomos travelers, no mission is complete without a stop for something sweet at a local confectionery.
Smyrna cookies, along with tsoureki and red eggs, are now an essential component of many households’ culinary traditions. We refer to them as Smyrna cookies because they originated in Asia Minor.
