Bulgaria and Romania have been given the green light to fully join the border-free Schengen area, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday (22 November).
380: Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople Crabtree watching the Transit of Venus in 1639 by Ford Maddox BrownTransit of Venus 1639: First observation of the transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree, helps establish the size of the solar system 1642: Dutch explorer Abel Tasman is the […]
Minister of Foreign Affairs Lin Chia-lung attended a reception celebrating the third anniversary of the establishment of the Taiwanese Representative Office in Lithuania Nov. 18 in Vilnius, expressing hope of enduring bilateral cooperation and exchanges across the board. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, other guests of honor at the event included Matas Maldeikis, […]
President of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, inaugurated the construction of a Cyclotron Unit at the Bank of Cyprus Oncology Centre on Thursday, in Nicosia. The €4.2 million facility, funded by an anonymous Cypriot philanthropist, is expected to revolutionize cancer diagnosis and treatment through cutting-edge PET/CT technology.
Three Australians with Greek heritage have been named in this year’s The Deal/Barron’s Top 150 Financial Advisers list.
The former leader of SYRIZA, Stefanos Kasselakis, officially launched his new political party, the “Movement for Democracy” on Saturday at the Michael Cacoyannis Foundation in Athens. The name was chosen following a three-day online vote among the organization’s supporters.
The Romanian government approved the country’s first energy strategy in 17 years up to 2035, identifying energy storage as a key priority and envisaging a gradual shift from coal-fired power plants to cleaner natural gas in the short term and nuclear power in the medium and long term.
1248: Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile after the city capitulates 1644: “Areopagitica”, a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published 1869: Clipper Cutty Sark is launched in Dumbarton, Scotland, as one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving 2018: US Federal Climate […]
UN climate talks looked set to overrun into the weekend as a deep gulf formed between richer and poorer countries over cash to help those most vulnerable in a warming world. Wealthier nations offered to more than double to $250bn a year the cash they give developing countries annually to fight climate change. But poorer […]
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