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Bilateral tax treaty between Greece and Australia to be negotiated next year

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Bilateral tax treaty between Greece and Australia to be negotiated next year

The Morrison Government will expand Australia’s tax treaty network to support the economic recovery and ensure Australian businesses are well placed to take advantage of the opportunities that will emerge in the coming years, the Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, has announced.

The Morrison Government’s plan will allow Australia to enter into 10 new and updated tax treaties by 2023, building on our existing network of 45 bilateral tax treaties.

The plan will ensure Australia’s tax treaty network will cover 80 per cent of foreign investment in Australia and about $6.3 trillion of Australia’s two-way trade and investment.

Negotiations with India, Luxembourg and Iceland are occurring this year as part of the first phase of the program. Negotiations with Greece, Portugal and Slovenia are scheduled to occur next year as part of the second phase.

READ MORE: Double Taxation Agreement between Greece and Australia only a matter of time.

Federal Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, announced the tax treaty.

The Government welcomes views from the public to inform the negotiations and will be consulting with interested stakeholders.

Tax treaties improve tax system integrity through the establishment of a bilateral framework of cooperation on the prevention of tax evasion, the collection of tax debts and rules to address tax avoidance.

Businesses will be provided with greater tax certainty which will encourage increased economic integration through foreign investment and trade.

In the 2020-21 and 2021-22 Budgets, the Government provided $11.6 million to Treasury and the Australian Tax Office to support this expansion of our tax treaty network.

READ MORE: Betty Alexandropoulou on trade and double taxation agreement between Australia and Greece.

COVID-19 Australia-Cyprus Forum to compare responses to the pandemic

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COVID-19 Australia-Cyprus Forum to compare responses to the pandemic

The Australian Alumni Association of Cyprus is proud to present the COVID-19 Australia-Cyprus Forum in association with the Australian High Commission in Cyprus and The University of Cyprus.

The last two years have been trying for all institutions and every individual across the globe. The pandemic seems to have caught our communities unprepared, ripped through them and forced everyone to spring to action, to adapt, to organise, to mobilise, to find the most effective means of combating this deadly virus.

All systems underwent a rigorous crash test: Healthcare institutions, political and economic systems, law enforcement agencies, information technologies, and communication channels. Nothing remained unaffected and especially human relations and behaviours.

  • Dr Constantinos Tsioutis.
  • Professor Allen Cheng.

So, what have we learned from all this in Australia and Cyprus? How can the accumulated scientific research, evidence, data and knowledge help us respond to the current challenges posed by the pandemic and in particular the Delta variant? How can we make effective use of evidence and good practices?

The Australian Alumni Association of Cyprus is bringing together esteem scientists, clinicians and researchers from both countries, who have been and continue being on the frontline, to reflect on the responses to the pandemic, the immunisation programs, the current situation, vaccines and vaccination rollouts. What was done well, what was done poorly, and what were the outcomes and lessons.

  • Dr Stefanos Herodotou.
  • Dr Nikolas Dietis.

You are invited to join the forum on Wednesday, 22nd of September, 2021, at 10:00 in Cyprus and 5:00pm AEST in Australia. The event will be broadcast live on Facebook and YouTube.

The Australian Alumni Association of Cyprus strongly believes that the cooperation and involvement of academics, practitioners, politicians, economists, media representatives, and the wider community in the two countries can help make use of scientific data, develop policies, and assist in crisis planning and management.

Talking at the event will be: Professor Allen Cheng, Dr Constantinos Tsioutis, Dr Nikolas Dietis and Dr Stefanos Herodotou.

For further details, please contact:

Sakis Fidogiannis, President Tel.: 99 476969 or Cleo Tziva, Secretary, Tel.: 99 329360.

Alleged fraudster, Bill Papas, appears at Xanthi football game

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Alleged fraudster, Bill Papas, appears at Xanthi football game

Alleged fraudster, Bill Papas, has made his first appearance at the football club he owns in northern Greece, attending a friendly match at Xanthi FC, the Australian Financial Review reports.

This comes despite telling the Australian Federal Court in August he had sold shares in the company that reportedly owned the Greek Super League 2 side.

Mr Papas, who has been in Greece since June 21, attended the match between Xanthi and Olympiacos B on Saturday in Greece, with Xanthi chief executive Anastasios Giamouridis and club vice-president Fanis Ouzounidis.

Bill Papas is holed up in an apartment near the Thessaloniki seaside in northern Greece. Photo: The Australian Financial Review.

Mr Papas was spotted by several local Xanthi media outlets, including Thraki Sports and Sports Addict. He even made a statement on the football club’s website.

READ MORE: ‘Extreme anxiety and panic attacks’: Bill Papas breaks silence on Westpac fraud allegations.

“I am very happy to be here today at Xanthi Arena, to watch AOX and be close with the fans and the whole team that works every day for the best result,” he said in the statement.

Bill Papas is at the centre of Westpac fraud allegations.

“After a particularly difficult year with the restrictions of the pandemic, the most important thing today is the return of our fans to the stadium. AOX has the right infrastructure and all the specifications for a really strong year. With zest, co-operation and consistency, all our goals will become achievable.”

READ MORE: NSW Financial Crimes Squad opens investigation into Bill Papas and Forum Finance.

In civil proceedings before the Federal Court, Mr Papas, the Xanthi club president, is alleged to have defrauded Westpac, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking of Japan and French bank Société Générale of nearly $400 million.

Source: Australian Financial Review.

EU leaders pledge cooperation on climate change and security in Athens Declaration

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EU leaders pledge cooperation on climate change and security in Athens Declaration

The leaders of Europe’s Mediterranean countries pledged late Friday to expand cooperation in the fight against climate change and to back common security and defense initiatives in the European Union.

The meetings in Athens were held in the aftermath of massive summer wildfires that ravaged parts of southern Europe, and the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.

The nine Mediterranean countries expressed their “strong conviction that urgent and ambitious global action” to fight climate change is needed at national, regional and local levels, according to a joint statement issued after the talks got underway.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, right, shows the view of the Greek capital to French President Emmanuel Macron, center, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, left, Maltese Prime Minister Robert Abela, left background, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, center background, and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. Photo: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis.

Attending the talks were President Emmanuel Macron of France, Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi, Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and leaders and senior representatives from Malta, Greece, Cyprus, Slovenia, Croatia and Portugal.

“(The climate initiative) is absolutely the right move at the right time because we all see that climate change is heavily affecting the Mediterranean region,” said European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, who also joined the talks.

Participants reaffirmed their commitment to goals set out under the Paris accord, the worldwide global climate pact, called for closer integration of climate change policies across Europe and further cooperation within the EU’s trans-national disaster response mechanism.

French President Emmanuel Macron makes statements during the EUMED 9 summit. Photo: AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis.

“We are all convinced of the importance of cooperation on the economy, climate, technology, and on the strategic and military level, to reinforce European sovereignty” Macron said.

“We must be able to face challenges and threats that affect our neighborhood, and create alliances so that we can effectively manage the consequences of these challenges.”

Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, welcomed support expressed by visiting leaders over efforts to avoid a refugee crisis from Afghanistan reaching Europe.

He also hailed a joint call on Greece’s neighbour Turkey to “abstain, in a consistent and permanent manner, from provocations or unilateral actions in breach of international law” regarding controversial oil-and-gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.

“One thing is sure: We will not allow a repeat of the uncontrolled migration that we experienced in 2015,” Mitsotakis said.

More than a million refugees and migrants, mostly from wars in Syria and Iraq, crossed into Greece and on to other European Union countries in 2015-16. Greece has since hardened its borders and received extensive support from the EU border protection agency Frontex.

Source: AP News.

Winners announced for the ‘Ambassadors 200’ competition

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Congratulations to the 200 winners who deservedly receive the title “Ambassadors” in Victoria’s ‘Ambassadors 200’ competition to mark the Greek Revolution bicentenary. The names of the winners are:

Aivaliotis John, Alevizos Leigh, Alexopoulos Mary, Amirsonis Dion, Anagnostakis Nathaniel, Anastasiadis Adamantios, Anastasiou Nathanail, Andrikopoulos Sotirios, Angelatos Gerasimos, Antoniou Nicholas, Antoniou Serafim, Antonopoulos Nektaria, Athanasiadis Arianna, Athanasiadis Kyriakos, Athanasiadis Dimos, Athanasiadis Anthea, Athanasopoulos Lazarus, Bakali Eva, Ballis Nikki, Ballis Dimitra, Barbagiannis Alexandra, Batsakis Amelie, Batsakis William, Bauzon Alexi, Bombos Jasper, Bracoulias Antonia, Bridgman Elyssa, Chhiev Natalee, Chronopoulos Vasili, Delfas Stephanie, Dellios Amelia Lexi, Demetriou Arthur, Dipierdomenico David, Doukas Victoria, Drougas Daniel, Drougas Alexis, Emmerson Sammuel, Emmerson Zoe, Falduto Zane, Fardis Anabelle, Fardis Diahna, Fountoulakis Michael, Fousias Zabetta, Geneopoulos Anastasia, George Gigu Ayden, Georges Mattea, Georgiou Eleni, Gong Lai Lai, Goudis Marina, Goudis Nickolaos, Goutoglou Christopher, Grigoropoulos Paschalis, Gurfinkel Samuel, Haddad John, Hadjiharalambous Giovanni, Haralambakis Mikayla, Haramis Rudi, Hassan Fatat, Hazipanagiotou Alexandra, Iliadis Nicole, Isari Despoina, Johnson Dimity, Jolley Stacey, Kakaras Stephanie, Kakaras Johnny, Kakolyri Nefeli, Kalivas George, Kalomiris Amelia, Kapetanea Christina, Karac Mladen, Karagiannakis Victoria, Karagiozis Ioanna, Karagiozis Eleni, Karalexis James, Karamitros Mia, Karamzalis Eftyhia, Karanikola Alexandra, Karanikos Constantina Dina, Karatzas Dimitra (Sienna), Kasimiotis Anthony, Katakis Elessa, Katakis Emanuella, Katelanis Eleni, Katsaros Eleni, Katsipodas Yianni, Khatchmanian Victoria, Khoury Sarah, Kirkotsios Elena, Kolivas Evan, Konstantinidis Anastasia, Konstantinidis Tziovannis, Kontos Joseph, Kopanidi Rafaella, Koroneos Chloe, Kosmas Vasia, Kotsiris Marie, Kotzapanagiotis Frank, Koukouras Evangelia, Koumi Christen, Kousourakis Helen, Koutsovasilis Lucas, Kouzoumis Mia, Kouzoumis Alexander, Kozirakis Tsambika, Kyriakoudis Anastasia, Lazarou Alexia, Lazos Emmanuel, Leah Krystal, Leah Georgia, Li Cecilia, Loukaitis John, Lountzis Dionysios, Makris Paul, Manolis James, Manolis Anastasia, Markakis Kristina, Mawal Ketrina, Menelaou Eleni, Micallef Veronica, Milas Konstantine, Millar Michaela, Miltiadous Helen, Miltiadous Andrew, Mrak Josef, Muratore Marco, Muratore Antonio, Nguyer Alex, Nicolaidis Gia, Nicolaou Nicholas, Ntoulelari Eirini

O’Neil Ryan, Palaskas Poppy, Papachristoforos George, Papachristoforos Calista, Papadakis Manie, Papadopoulos Nefeli, Papadopoulos Magdalene, Papakatsikas Chris, Papatsonis Alexandros, Parastatidis Zara, Patsaki Eirini, Patsaki Viktoria, Peripetsakis Mary, Petrou Helena, Petrousis Evangelina Dimitra, Pezos Kristina, Phassouliotis Leah, Phelghati Ella, Pititto Nicolas, Pletas Francine, Pop Maria, Pouris Eleni, Pouris Christina, Psarianos Angelos, Psomiadis Angelos, Radimisis Zoe, Rentoulis Taiya, Rigogiannis Hariklia, Rigogiannis Maria, Sako Cecilia, Salamousas Athina, Sarigianoglou Kalliope, Saxionis Gregory, Sidiropoulos John, Simou Magdalini, Smirnakos Ava, Soundy James, Souris Angelos, Stamoulis Anastasia, Starakis Natassa, Stefanidis Christian, Talias Manni, Tallent Phoenix, Theodoridis Sevastian, Tioulis Vaios, Tochovitis Angelos, Triantafillou Christina, Triantafillou Constantia, Tsalkos Mia, Tsiloulis Victoria, Tsiounis Zoe, Tsiounis Nektarios, Tsoulakos Aristidis, Vakras James, Varsamis Leon, Varytimidis Despina, Vatca Anastasia-Ioana, Vezos Spyridon, Vezou Konstantina, Virtanen Lola, Viskas Aidyn, Vlahos George, Warren Sarah, Wielgosz Jacob, Zarbos Orestis, Zarkos Georgia, Zarras Michael, Zoukis Kristina, Zoukis Georgina.

Anthony Albanese MP – Opinion: Labor’s four-step plan to tackle COVID

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Anthony Albanese MP – Opinion: Labor’s four-step plan to tackle COVID

One thing Labor has learned from tackling past global crises is that a plan for Australia to get through this crisis has to be more than just a plan in name.

A genuine plan to get us through Covid-19 involves expertise, learning from past mistakes, addressing the problems of the present and anticipating the challenges of the future.

This is what underpins Labor’s four-part approach to overcoming the pandemic: a speedy vaccination rollout, a safe end to lockdowns, protecting our children and, armed with the best expert advice, preparing for what’s coming.

Those preparations mean avoiding own goals such as the one the Government scored when it rebuffed an approach from Pfizer in June last year offering early access to its vaccine.

Scott Morrison talks a lot about hope, but yet when hope came knocking, they locked the door. The first step must be speeding up the vaccination rollout.

Labor’s proposal of a $300 payment to every fully vaccinated Australian would plant a foot on the accelerator.

Experience shows that incentives like this work. It would put a jab in the arms of Australians and a shot in the arm of the economy.

Compared to the costs that lockdowns inflict on our nation every week, the price tag for such a program would be far less. It will be an effective investment in our nation’s future.

As we speed up the initial vaccinations, we also need to be securing booster shots.

Those first two jabs are essential, but they are not the end of the story.

Vaccination leave for those who need it is another crucial ingredient.

We need to remove every conceivable obstacle that might stand between an Australian and their jab.

Speedy vaccinations and fair access to vaccines are the road to the safe ending of lockdowns.

Nobody wants lockdowns to last a day longer than they have to.

That is why Labor is supporting the national plan while seeking to strengthen it. A faster route to the safe ending of lockdowns would be an effective world class national contact tracing COVIDSafe app. Such an app would be one of the practical ways whereby we could ensure our contact tracers are world class and support businesses, which want to protect their customers and their workers.

The third part of our plan is the protection of our children, not least vaccinating 12 to 15-year-olds.

Canada is one country that has treated it as a race and has already fully vaccinated 60 per cent of that age group.

The most effective way for us to emulate their success is through a school-based program and that is something we should be preparing right now.

The Government needs to either include them in national targets or specify vaccine targets for that age group.

Children should be vaccinated quickly, and their parents deserve to know when – not least the great many dealing with the added stresses of home schooling.

We desperately want to see our children back at school, but not if it involves putting them at risk of coming home with COVID.

We also need to secure a paediatric vaccine supply for children aged under 12 to prepare for when vaccines are approved for this age group.

The US Government entered into an agreement with Pfizer in June to ensure doses are available for 65 million children there when approval is given.

We should also make sure our schools are properly ventilated to minimise the risk of COVID spread.

Anthony Albanese.

Fourth, we need to prepare for the future – and part of that has to be manufacturing mRNA vaccines here.

The pandemic has been a wake-up call to us all, reminding us how risky it is for Australia to be the last link in the global supply chain.

We cannot be content pleading for leftovers from nations that did plan ahead.

We have the people, the talent and the resources to stand on our own feet.

We also need purpose-built quarantine.

As the old quarantine station on the North Head of Sydney Harbour reminds us, it is part of our heritage. It was the right idea then, it is the right idea now.

Throughout the pandemic, Labor has made constructive proposals.

In that spirit, let’s learn from the mistakes made with vaccines and quarantine.

Australia needs certainty going forward.

Let’s ensure we have the comprehensive plan that gives it.

ANTHONY ALBANESE MP
LEADER OF THE AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY
MEMBER FOR GRAYNDLER

This opinion piece was first published in The Daily Telegraph on Friday, 17 September 2021.


Edith Piaf and Dimitris Horn: Their Athens meeting and the passionate love letter

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Edith Piaf and Dimitris Horn: Their Athens meeting and the passionate love letter

It’s a love story not many know about. France’s great cultural icon, Edith Piaf, meets with Greek stage and movie actor, Dimitris Horn, and later sends him a passionate letter saying she would “give everything up” for him.

Piaf met Horn at a tour stop in Athens in 1946, the year she released her signature song La Vie en Rose. 

Later, in a letter dated September 20, 1946, Piaf, who was then 31 and at the height of her fame, proclaimed her everlasting love for “My Taki.”

“I love you as I have never loved anyone, Taki, don’t break my heart,” she writes to Horn, urging him to visit her in London or Paris.

Edith Piaf wrote a letter to Horn.

“I would like to live very near you, I think that I could make you happy and also believe that I understand you very well. I know that I am capable of giving everything up for you.”

The letter was partially released ahead of an auction by Vergos Auctions in Athens in 2009. It was kept under lock and key in the Greek capital along with a telegram, marked “urgent” and also addressed to Horn.

In the telegram, sent two months later, the clearly infatuated chanteuse again declares her love for the up-and-coming thespian, beseeching him to write to her under the name Mme Bigard at 26 Rue Berry.

But it seems the love affair had waned by that time, as there is no evidence Horn responded in kind and both had other lovers.

Dimitris Horn.

Horn had a longstanding romance with a popular Greek actress and married twice before his death in 1998. He never spoke publicly about his acquaintance with Piaf.

READ MORE: On this day in 1998, Greek actor Dimitris Horn died.

Piaf met the European middleweight boxer, Marcel Cerdan, who, of Piaf’s many lovers, was considered to be her greatest. She died of cancer in 1963, aged 47.

In the end, officials at the Greek auction house told CBC that the handwritten letter and envelope, along with the telegram and a theatre program from a performance Piaf gave in Greece, were sold for $2,702 AUD to a private collector.

“We will never know how Horn felt [about Piaf], but with their blind passion these manuscripts testify that it was clearly a case of love at first sight for Piaf,” Petros Vergos, Greece’s leading auctioneer, said.

Academic Nikos Papastergiadis to analyse Christos Tsiolkas’ work in upcoming event

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Academic Nikos Papastergiadis to analyse Christos Tsiolkas’ work in upcoming event

Nikos Papastergiadis will analyse Christos Tsiolkas’ body of work in an online event on 23 September.

‘Facing the fall: humanism after nihilism in Christos Tsiolkas’ writing’ will run as part of the Greek Community of Melbourne’s Greek history and culture seminars.

“The novels of Christos Tsiolkas provide a powerful portrayal of the hollowing out of radical political ideologies and the disaggregation of cultural bonds,” Papastergiadis writes in a press release. 

“In this lecture, I contrast the ambivalent resort to nihilism (the rejection of religious and moral principles) in Tsiolkas’s work with the theoretical commentary by [philosophers Peter] Sloterdijk and [Slavoj] Žižek’s.”

Nikos Papastergiadis is an alumnus of the University of Cambridge and is currently an academic at the University of Melbourne’s school of culture and communications. 

He is the author of six books, 10 collections, and numerous essays spanning three decades. 

His work often philosophies about migration, displacement, and multiculturalism in the modern world. 

Tsiolkas is the author of nine books, including the novel Damascus about St Saul of Tarsus.  

The event will be simulcasted on YouTube Live, Facebook Live, and Twitter Broadcast and a Q&A session will follow. 

Leading researcher Antigone Kouris explains why Greeks have low mortality rates

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Leading researcher Antigone Kouris explains why Greeks have low mortality rates

With over 50 published papers and 1300 citations, 3 published books, and 35 coauthored chapters in 7 university books, Dr. Antigone Kouris-Blazos is one of Australia’s most well-established dieticians. 

Dr. Antigone Kouris-Blazos is a second-generation Greek Australian researcher who has filled the post of associate professor at La Trobe University’s school of rehabilitation, nutrition, and sport since 2011. 

She is a practicing dietician with over 30 years of experience as a clinician, researcher, author, and educator.

Dr. Kouris-Blazos has been in her post at La Trobe University for 10 years (Photo: latrobe.edu.au)

She is based in Melbourne and says her interest in healthy eating came from her parents who migrated from Athens to Australia.

“Even though we did eat quite a bit of meat, my parents were quite careful. We rarely barbequed meat, they kept sugar dense foods like soft drinks out of the house, and my mum, like most other migrants, made us eat legume-based meals twice a week,” she tells the Greek Herald.

“They had a different outlook and my parents were very well educated. That plays into how you view food and health.” 

Dr. Kouris-Blazos’ landmark PhD was the first study to show that adherence to a Mediterranean diet pattern in old age conferred longevity.

The cross-cultural, international study Diet and overall survival in elderly people, published in the British Medical Journal in 1995, collected the data of 182 elderly residents across three rural Greek villages, including a village 20 kilometres from the capital of Athens called Spata.

Kouris-Blazos was a part of a landmark collaborative study published in the British Medical Journal in the mid-90s (Photo: Andrew Matthews / PA Images via Getty Images)

The study pioneered the first Mediterranean diet score, which classified dietary patterns and allowed them to be analysed statistically, and showed that Greeks had the lowest mortality rate.

“[The score] captures food groups, like how much meat versus fish versus legumes… [not] the cuisine, per se.”

“If it wasn’t for this score that we developed, maybe we wouldn’t have had so much research on the Mediterranean diet…”

Kouris-Blazos takes an epidemiological approach to diet research, looking at food patterns as opposed to cuisines. 

Professor Kouris-Blazos is a staple figure in the field of research into the Mediterranean diet

Professor Kouris-Blazos’ studies have shown time and again that people of Greek descent have their diets to thank for their low mortality rates.

So how do Greek migrants have the highest CVD rates and yet don’t seem likely to die of them? 

“If you have CVD risk factors, it increases your risk of having heart disease, cancer, and so on, but that’s not what we found [with Greek migrants].” 

“We actually found the opposite: that they had these risk factors but had much lower death rates than the slimmer Anglo Australians who had less diabetes, less heart disease, and yet higher death rates from these conditions.” 

Associate professor Kouris says the Meditteranean diet comprises many beneficial food groups (Photo: Getty Images/iStockphoto)

It’s called the Greek paradox. 

Kouris says there are solid and unanimous speculations for this paradox, but admits time is running out to quantitatively confirm it. 

“We look at all possible factors to explain this paradox such as diet, social activities, physical activity, mental health, and more. Following the Mediterranean diet score was the most important factor conferring longevity in our Greek migrants, especially their intake in legumes,” she says.

“Apart from the diet, we suspect it’s also got something to do with inflammation and the microbiome, which are influenced by diet.”

“We don’t have microbiome or inflammatory markers on Greek migrants, unfortunately, and we’re slowly losing this group of people because they’re all in their 80s and 90s and are dying.”

“We’re losing the opportunity to get this information from them.” 

“We need to get more blood and stool samples to look at what it is about this group; why are they so protected from cardiovascular risk factors?”

Research on the Mediterranean diet, however, indicates that the cuisine reduces inflammation in the body and thus lowers the mortality rate of those who live with CVDs. 

This is why the Mediterranean diet forms the basis for Kouris’ practice as a dietician, her own diet, and even her own brand line of Skinnybik lupin biscuits.

After all, who doesn’t love fakes (lentil soup) and some sofrito sauce?

 

Milos voted best island in the world by US travelers

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Milos voted best island in the world by US travelers

The Greek island of Milos was recognized by the readers of US tourism magazine “Travel+Leisure” as the greatest in the world in the publication’s annual World’s Best Awards. More specifically, Milos received an almost flawless score of 95,50 in the Best Island in the World and Best Island in Europe categories.

The writing staff of the magazine pointed out that this vote of preference from their readers came due to the warm people living on the island, the many beautiful beaches and the unique locations that it gives its visitors the chance to explore:“…Mílos rose from its No. 3 spot last year thanks to friendly locals who welcome visitors to explore the quaint villages (Trypiti is famous for its windmills, Plaka for its sunsets), extraordinary tavernas, and dozens of picturesque beaches that vary in color depending on whether they are formed from shells, stones, or sand. Visitors will find many options for lodging.”

But it wasn’t just Milos that the US travelers seemed to show a preference to, as fellow Cycladic island Folegandros was given second place in the “Top 20 Islands of Europe” category, with Greece dominating the rankings, as Santorini was in fifth place, Paros in tenth, Mykonos in 13th, Crete in 14th, Corfu and the other Ionian islands in 15th and Rhodes alongside the rest of the Dodekanisa completing the white and blue lineup in 17th place.

An image of Folegandros, named 2nd in the Top 20 Islands of Europe category by readers of US magazine Travel+Leisure. Source: liadis

This latest recognition comes only a few days after Greece and Santorini had been named as Favorite Country and Best Island in Europe respectively in the recent FXExpress 2021 Awards and serves to further solidify the US tourist’s preference towards Greece as their ideal holiday destination.

The voting process took place for nearly four months, starting on January 11 and ending on May 10. During that time, over 35 million readers had a chance to submit their votes for the many different categories such as Best City in the World, Best Hotel in the World, but also other more specific rankings like the Top 10 Resorts across various tourist locations.

The award on behalf of Milos was accepted by the Chief of the Hellenic Tourism Services in North America, Mr Konstantinos Charokopos, with the official results expected to be published in the October issue of the magazine.

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