Stavros Tzimas

2 months ago | ekathimerini.com | Vassilis Nedos |Stavros Tzimas

Greece is distancing itself from the new regime in Syria following reports of violence against and murders of members of the country’s Christian and Alawite communities in the country’s north. Greece had “from the first moment expressed its reservations to those who rushed to recognize the current regime in Damascus as a force that had renounced its past,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Monday. “Greece had always harbored doubts about whether such a change was possible,” he added.

Jan 26, 2025 | ekathimerini.com | Lucas Velidakis |Stavros Tzimas

In one of the largest demonstrations in recent years at Syntagma Square in Athens, tens of thousands of people gathered on Sunday to demand justice for the Tempe train disaster, joined by 97 cities across Greece and 13 cities internationally rallying around the slogan “I Have No Oxygen.” The protests followed the release of a new chilling audio recording suggesting that dozens of victims may have died as a result of a fire of yet unknown origin, rather than the collision itself, during the...

Nov 26, 2024 | ekathimerini.com | Stavros Tzimas

On Saturday, November 30, at noon, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will “press the button” to launch Thessaloniki’s first metro train. To be precise, there isn’t an actual button. The signal will come from the control center, the brain of the metro, located in Nea Elvetia. The rest will be managed by a state-of-the-art electronic system that monitors and controls everything – from driverless train operations to the trains’ nighttime rest and morning awakening.

Nov 19, 2024 | ekathimerini.com | Stavros Tzimas

He stood silently for a moment, leaning on his metal crutches before the icon of the Virgin Mary. Then, with reverence, he placed his crutches down, as a soldier would lay down his weapon, and lay face down to pray. He did not kneel, as is customary among the faithful, because he was missing one leg – he had been severely injured in a trench somewhere in eastern Ukraine.

Sep 21, 2024 | ekathimerini.com | Stavros Tzimas

It’s a great day for Kevi, a young waiter at a cafe that’s popular among the diplomats working at the foreign embassies flanking Skenderbeu Street in downtown Tirana. “I’m finally leaving! I’m going to Germany,” he tells a regular customer, insisting on treating him to his usual coffee. He’s been looking for a way to emigrate to Western Europe for years but it’s not easy, without a European Union passport, to secure a work permit in any member-state.