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Greece, birthplace of democracy, seeks to put humanity ahead of AI in updated constitution | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/greece-birthplace-of-democracy-seeks-to-put-humanity-ahead-of-ai-in-updated-constitution/

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/greece-ban-social-m…

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis says Greece will ban children under 15 from accessing social media starting January 1, 2027, and calls for coordinated EU action (Antonis Pothitos/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/gr…

Verschiedene Länder bringen gerade ein #Socialmediaverbot für Kinder und Jugendliche mit aller Macht vorwärts. Es dürfte eine Abstimmung/Koordinierung im Hintergrund gegeben haben..
Hier z.B. von griechischer (konservativen) Regierung:

"Greece increases the number of beaches where sunbeds are banned to protect the environment"
#Greece #Beaches #Environment

Greece has increased the number of beaches where sunbeds are banned
The ban means that you will not be able to hire umbrellas or sunbeds at some 251 beaches, many of which are marine NATURA 2000 sites.

Flag of Greece before and after defragmentation.

Tomb Raider: Greece and Egypt
Having decried the lack of verticality in the Peruvian levels, St Francis's Folly more than made amends. The main part of the level has you scaling up and down a central room, opening doors with levels and solving puzzles in rooms names after Greek mythology1. The permanence of enemy deaths is very noticeable here, where the bats you shoot at the top of the room can sometimes be found lying on the ground at the bottom; when using original…

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/social-media-ban-children-countries-list/

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children | TechCrunch
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

Whenever I see these obvious offsets in #OpenStreetMap, I have this itch to move them so they align with each other. But since I am not a local, I won’t do so and will leave it to Greek OpenStreetMappers to reconcile. But yeah, the 100-meter offset looks bad.
Island of Skopelos, #Greece 🇬🇷:

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#TheEssay
- The Insect Singers
The Essay revels in the musicality and din of Earth’s loudest insect singers. Cicada Summer Song. Celebrated in verse, sculpture and myth - from Japan and China to Ancient Greece.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002vmxj

"Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program"
#Greece #Batteries #Energy

Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program
Investors have submitted applications for 12.15 GW of utility-scale, standalone merchant battery storage projects in Greece, far exceeding the 4.7 GW the country plans to approve. But with wrestling over financing and key policy details still unresolved, the path to construction remains unclear.

Cancel culture in ancient Greece #Monsterdon

Intellexa founder, three others sentenced to 8 years in prison over Greek spyware scandal https://therecord.media/spyware-intellexa-greece-sentenced

A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (Nektaria Stamouli/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/predatorgate-greece-court-…

Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang
Greece’s “Predatorgate” scandal is one of Europe’s biggest political crises over the use of hacking software.

A Greek court sentences four people, including spyware maker Intellexa's founder, to prison, for using spyware to target journalists, politicians, and others (Nektaria Stamouli/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/predatorgate-greece-court-…

Greek court sentences Predator spyware gang
Greece’s “Predatorgate” scandal is one of Europe’s biggest political crises over the use of hacking software.

Greece's ex-finance minister Varoufakis charged over use of dance drug ecstasy decades ago | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/greeces-ex-finance-minister-varoufakis-charged-over-use-dance-drug-ecstasy-2026-02-26/

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House.
An annual report from V-Dem, an institute at Sweden's University of Gothenburg, concluded democracy had deteriorated so much in the U.S. that it lowered the country's democracy ranking from 20th to 51st out of 179 countries.
The U.S. landed between Slovakia and Greece.
Meanwhile, Bright Line Watch, which surveys …

"Greece to open applications for 130 MW agrivoltaics plan"
#Greece #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Greece to open applications for 130 MW agrivoltaics plan
Greece’s distribution grid operator will begin accepting applications for agrivoltaic systems on March 4, marking the first step in implementing a new law targeting 130 MW of capacity nationwide.

How do you mend a broken heart?
Trump ambassador to Greece [Kimberly Guilfoyle] busted for 'lavish' $90,000 spending spree leaks - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/send/trump-guilfoyle/

Countries for which genocide is a deal breaker:
Iceland, Ireland, Netherlands, Slovenia, and Spain
Countries for which genocide is not a deal breaker:
Albania, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany (2nd largest arms dealer of the genocide behind the US; historic fan of genocides), Greece, Israel (our good friends who are carrying out the genocide), Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, L…

Eurovision Song Contest 2026 - Wikipedia

Brush-up On Fascism Before Trump's 2026 "State Of The Union" #fascism

Brush-up On Fascism Before Trump's 2026 "State Of The Union"
Political scientist Lawrence Britt studied the Fascist regimes of Hitler’s Germany, Mussolini’s Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia.

Detail on voting for the #UnitedNations #Resolution UN A/80/L.48: “Declaration of the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement,” recognising the Transatlantic #slave trade as amongst our…

From imagination to remains, from remains to imagination: literary representations of ancient Greece in its materiality (14th-19th centuries)
https://ift.tt/DnLmd1q
updated: Monday, March 30, 2026 - 3:04pmfull name / name of organization: University of Caen…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Union representatives for media in the US, Philippines, and Greece share how their groups are trying to protect members from job changes due to AI (Gretel Kahn/Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a

New study shows democracy has deep global roots—not just Greece and Rome
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-democracy-deep-global-roots-greece.html

Any comms people guess what this auction lot is? It's listed as 'CPU cabinet' - but to me it looks like fibre cabinet on one side and I'm not sure what on the other - PABX???
https://www.bidspotter.co.uk/en-gb/auctio…

LOT 895 CPU CABINET 
Bid Live on Lot 895 in the Complete Dairy and Ice Cream Processing Equipment in Greece Products Auction from CRF Auctions.

Another #Brexit bonus. British-born dual citizen cannot enter the UK on their non-UK passport. Unlike foreigners they cannot travel to Britain on a visa or an ETA, but they must have a UK passport. Yet lapsed UK passports may not be renewed in case of name change, particularly for women (e.g. married vs. maiden name). It's a fine mess.

New UK border rules for dual nationals are discriminatory against women, campaigners say
British women in Spain and Greece face ‘huge problems’ entering UK because of differing surname rules

An irrational fear of the date is known as paraskevidekatriaphobia.
In Spanish-speaking countries and in Greece, it is Tuesday the 13th that frightens people. In Italy, it is Friday the 17th.
#fridaythe13th

"It's one of the features of modern Western democracies that political parties seek their crucial election finance from those people who have surplus wealth, and those who have surplus wealth are by definition those who are profiting from the status quo... So it's little surprise that when 'financial services' institutions shudder and fall, our politicians, whom we elected with their money, choose to use our money to bail them out" -- me, 2012

The signature of the Treaty of Paris, 18 April 1951 reconciled France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. It created a solidarity of fact and common democratic management of the strategic materials of war, steel and energy, then primarily coal.
All five of the European institutions in operation today were born that day in Paris.
Over the following decades the peace process expanded.
The UK, Ireland and Denmark, Greece, Spain, Portugal, Austria, Finland a…

Why is Brussels ignoring EU’s 75-year anniversary?

"Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program"
#Greece #Energy #Batteries #Renewables

Greece receives 12.2 GW of merchant battery applications for 4.7 GW program
Investors have submitted applications for 12.15 GW of utility-scale, standalone merchant battery storage projects in Greece, far exceeding the 4.7 GW the country plans to approve. But with wrestling over financing and key policy details still unresolved, the path to construction remains unclear.

Intellexa's founder says his firm sells surveillance tech exclusively to governments, reviving claims of state spying in Greece after being sentenced last month (Eliza Triantafillou/OCCRP)
https://www.occrp.org/en/news/convicted-spywa…

Convicted Spyware Dealer Links Greek Government to Surveillance Scandal
The founder of the commercial spyware firm Intellexa, recently convicted in a landmark wiretapping trial, says his company sells its technology exclusively to governments—an admission opposition leaders claim proves the state orchestrated a massive domestic espionage campaign.

"Greece installs 1.9 GW of PV capacity in 2025"
#Greece #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Greece installs 1.9 GW of PV capacity in 2025
Greece installed around 1.9 GW of new solar capacity in 2025, bringing total installed solar capacity to roughly 11.5 GW, according to industry estimates.

CFP: Greece and Germany — Literature, Philosophy, Culture, and the Arts
https://ift.tt/PxGYgUf
updated: Tuesday, March 10, 2026 - 2:12pmfull name / name of organization: Dedalus: Portuguese…
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"Seagrass is a secret weapon against climate change. Can eco-moorings protect it from boat anchors?"
#SeaGrass #Climate #ClimateChange

Greece tests eco-moorings to protect Mediterranean Posidonia seagrass
Anchors are damaging Posidonia seagrass, a key Mediterranean habitat that stores carbon, filters seawater and supports marine life.

"€400 million in EU funding approved to help Greece achieve net zero emissions"
#EU #EuropeanUnion #Greece #NetZero

Greece secures €400 million in EU funding for green transition
The funding will support strategic investments that increase clean technology capacity.

"Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine"
#Greece #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

Greek utility completes 2.13 GW solar cluster at former coal mine
Greece’s PPC Group has finished construction of its 2.13 GW solar portfolio in northern Greece. The company is now working on its third large-scale battery storage facility in the area, with plans for two pumped-hydro storage projects also progressing.