River overflows banks in Ancient Olympia
Trees stand on a flooded field after Alfeios river overflowed its banks due to heavy storms, in Ancient Olympia, Sunday.
Tsipras congratulates new KINAL chief
Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras has called Nikos Androulakis to congratulate him on his election Sunday as leader of the center left Movement for Change (KINAL) coalition.
WHO: Omicron poses ‘very high’ global risk but data on severity limited
The Omicron coronavirus variant, reported in more than 60 countries, poses a “very high” global risk, with some evidence that it evades vaccine protection but clinical data on its severity is limited, the World Health Organization says.
Gunmen open fire outside cafe in northwestern Athens
Two gunmen opened fire outside a cafe in Ano Liosia in northwestern Athens on Monday, police said.
Parental concessions and donations declared online
Property gifted or transferred from parents to their children will be filed online for tax purposes as of Monday, on the myProperty platform, the government announced last week.
Anti-vaxxers who handcuffed school principal to appear before prosecutor
A group of anti-vax protesters arrested last week after manhandling a school principal and dragging him to the local police station in northern Greece were to appear before a prosecutor on Monday.
Early payment of Greek debt
Greece stands to benefit some 70-80 million euros thanks to the early repayment of its outstanding dues to the International Monetary Fund, as well as the part-repayment of bilateral loans from eurozone countries that will take place in January and March respectively.
The ambitious pragmatism of ‘old’ Europe
Strategic autonomy indicates the strengthening of the EU’s impact, if not through all 27 acting in unison, then through “coalitions of the willing” or forms of “enhanced cooperation” in which groups of like-minded member-states act jointly.
Turkish lira plummets to new low ahead another expected rate cut
The Turkish lira crashed as much as 7% in just a few minutes to a new record near 15 to the dollar on Monday, gripped by worries over President Tayyip Erdogan’s risky new economic policy and prospects of another interest rate cut on Thursday. The sudden slide left the currency with half the value that…
The geopolitics of memory
In the great post-war map of the Cold War, the issue of the archives of Jewish communities that had been looted by Nazi occupying forces across Europe remained a murky affair.