Swiss 24 Heures Paper Features Western Greece
The Swiss newspaper 24 Heures published a long feature on Western Greece, especially on tourist and production fields of Ahaia, Aitoloakarnania and Ilia prefectures. With the Western Greece Prefecture...
View ArticleMore Greek Firms Eye Swiss Tax Haven
More Greek firms could follow Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling and move their headquarters to Switzerland or elsewhere to avoid higher taxes at home, Swiss media reports said Oct. 14. Several heads of Greek...
View ArticleAnti-Greek Poster in Switzerland
Politicians from Switzerland as part of the far-right Swiss People’s Party, SVP political advertising, chose a poster to be glued shortly in the Canton of Zurich concerning the referendum of March 3rd....
View ArticleThe Lost $2 Billion Goulandris Art Collection
A Greek heiress is fighting a legal battle in Switzerland to find out what has become of a collection of Picasso, Van Gogh, Renoir, Monet, Cezanne and Degas art that she says should be part of her...
View ArticleUpbeat Greece At World Tourism Forum Lucerne
Olga Kefalogianni, Minister of Tourism of Greece attended the third World Tourism Forum Lucerne (WTFL) in Switzerland during which she expressed her optimism for the forthcoming tourism year. In the...
View ArticleWeek of Greek Arts Scene in Geneva
A Greek week under the title, Glances at the Contemporary Greek Arts Scene, will be hosted in Saint-Gervais Theater in Geneva, Switzerland from April 29 to May 2, with the support of the Athens...
View ArticleGreek Researcher in ETH Anti-Obesity Therapy Team
Researchers in the laboratory of Professor Christian Wolfrum from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-ETH in Zurich, consistently ranked by all major World University rankings among the top...
View ArticleGreece Fourth Most Corrupt In Europe
As the government tries to right a battered economy and restore some faith in Greece as a good place to do business, it has taken another hit with a finding from the auditing firm Ernst & Young,...
View ArticleGreek Scientist Shows Dementia Model to CERN
The Greek scientist and neurologist Dr. Kostas Petsanis will present a new integrated model for dementia and Alzheimer management at the Council Chamber of the European Organization for Nuclear...
View ArticleGreek Ancient Sculptures Through 3D
The Skulpturhalle Basel museum in Basel, Switzerland will host a revolutionary 3D scanning and 3D printing project, under the title, Through a Scanner, Skulpturhalle, introduced by Cosmo Wenman, a 3D...
View ArticleDiaspora Scientist Deciphers Gene Secrets
Emmanouil T. Dermitzakis, a Professor in the Department of Genetic Medicine and Development in the Medical School of the University of Geneva, is heading a team of scientists compiling a comprehensive...
View ArticleGreek-owned Luxury Hotel Group Acquires Historic St. Moritz Hotel
Grace Hotels, the privately owned luxury hotel group, has acquired the historic La Margna hotel in the heart of St. Moritz, Switzerland. During 2014 the company will undertake an extensive programme...
View ArticleDufry Strikes Deal to Acquire Remaining 49% of Hellenic Duty Free
Swiss travel retailer Dufry said it was buying the 49 percent stake in Hellenic Duty Free it does not already own from Greek rival Folli Follie for 328 million euros ($452 million), a vote of...
View ArticleSwiss Probe Greek Defence Bribe Link
Switzerland has blocked CHF10 million ($11 million) of suspected bribery funds held in Swiss banks and opened investigations into three alleged accomplices of a Greek money laundering scandal. The...
View ArticleGreek Diaspora of Switzerland
Switzerland is a federal state in the west of Europe, an economical and commercial crossroad of international caliber. Many Greeks are currently living in Switzerland and the two countries have a long...
View ArticleGreece in 7th Place for Human Rights Violations
According to the annual report of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) released on Thursday, January 30 by the president of the Court Dean Spielmann, Greece is in 7th place for recorded human...
View ArticleSwiss Committee on the Return of the Parthenon Marbles
The president of the Swiss Committee for the Return of the Parthenon Marbles, Professor Dusan Sidjanski, during the event titled “Europe and the Parthenon Marbles: a common cause,” stressed the need...
View ArticleFirst Greek Gourmet And Wine Expo in Zurich
Greek Gourmet & Wine Expo is the first Greek food and wine exhibition that will take place in Zurich, introducing Greek companies to the Swiss Market. The aim is to introduce more quality Greek...
View ArticleSpyros Louis Silver Cup Travels to Olympic Museum in Lausanne
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation announced that the Silver Cup awarded to Spyros Louis, the first Marathon Winner at the inaugural Modern Olympic Games in Athens, in 1896, has been temporarily moved to...
View ArticleInternational Award to Greek Scientist
Greek scientist and businessman Dimitris Papanastasiou has been awarded the 2014 Curt Brunnee Award at a special ceremony during the 20th International Mass Spectrometry Conference (IMSC) in Geneva,...
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