The works are expected to be completed by 2021. The new business plan will ensure the growth prospects of Piraeus' port as a gateway into Europe for Asian products. Piraeus port now ranks 43rd among the world’s largest and among the top 10 European.

It is estimated that by 2016, Piraeus port will be handling 4.7 million TEUs (containers), from 3 million it handled in 2012. This increase in volume could place Piraeus at the top of all Mediterranean ports.

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One of the first certificates issued was the "DC Best Hospitals of the World" certificate which is granted to hospitals after extensive quality verification lasting several months.

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Now RIEN, her storefront, sits next to Dior and Prada. Her handmade leather handbags sell for 180 to 450 euros, rather steep for the crisis-stricken Greek market, but Vomva says business is good and it would have been better if it wasn’t for the crisis.

The 35-year-old designer started in 2008, at the beginning of the Eurozone crisis. She began showcasing her clothes in a hotel suite and now has two stores, one in Athens and the other in the cosmopolitan island of Mykonos. Like many other new Greek business owners, she is focusing on exports. Switzerland and Saudi Arabia are her key targets, selling through an online shopping site and keeping costs low. Vomva has two employees, so she does most of the work herself. Sales are up, however, so she is optimistic.

“It is really difficult to work in this crisis,” she said. “If I hadn’t studied business administration before getting in the fashion industry, I wouldn’t have made it.”

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By Philip Chrysopoulos

Roussos was born and raised in Alexandria, Egypt, in a family where his father George (engineer Yorgos Roussos) was Greek and mother Nelly Mazloum was Egyptian of Italian origin. His parents lost their possessions during the Suez Crisis and consequently decided to move to Greece.

After his family settled in Greece, Roussos participated in various music bands, starting with The Idols at the age of 17 years.

He became widely known in 1968 with the band Aphrodite’s Child, as a vocalist and later as the bassist. His distinctive vocal style launched the international career of the band, especially after his participation in their “666” album.

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By Ioanna Zikakou

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On top of the projects planned for the first two years of the program, amounting to 4.2 billion euros, another 750 million euros will go toward the funding of previously announced plans to boost employment among the jobless, of which 600 million euros is from the 2014-20 program with the rest coming from the previous program.

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By Evgenia Tzortzi