The impact of COVID-19 on Europe’s island economies

By George Assonitis Is restarting post-corona tourism on Europe’s Islands a simple push a button enough? Opening travel and tourism on Europe’s thousands of islands after COVID-19 is not an issue of just pushing a button, but, instead, need a slow, attentive, and eventually more painful effort than other coastal areas. Since it is unknown …

“Cultural Routes Dialogues: Challenges and Opportunities after Covid-19”

The “Routes of the Olive Tree” participated in this very interesting Teleconference on the above topical issue, which was organized on June 26 by the Directorate of International Relations & EU of the Greek Ministry of Culture & Sports in cooperation with the Secretariat of the Enlarged Partial Agreement on Cultural Routes of the Council …

Final Conference of the Routes4U project

The final Conference of the Routes4U project was successfully held yesterday, July 7, 2020, in which many speakers participated with presentations and interventions. The work began with interesting welcoming remarks by Mr. Jean Pierre Halkin, Head of the Unit Macro-regions Transnational / Interregional / External Cooperation, Enlargement, DG Regional and Urban Policy, European Commission and …

The olive tree “Can Det” in the municipality of Fornalutx in Mallorca received the AEMO 2020 Award

A thousand-year-old olive tree in the municipality of Fornalutx in Majorca, of the local variety “Empeltre Mallorquina”, has been selected by the AEMO (Association of Olive Oil Producing Cities of Spain) as the best monumental olive tree in Spain for 2020 According to AEMO, the olive tree “Can Det” with a perimeter of the trunk …