The government is facing an economic and possibly fiscal nightmare with the war in Ukraine, as natural gas and oil rates leapt higher on Thursday, again upending projections on inflation, growth and the budget deficit.
The submission of applications for the new eight-month community service program for 25,000 unemployed people has started, government spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou said on Friday in a Twitter post.
Greece’s Euroleague stars enjoyed three wins on Thursday and Friday, as besides the home victories of Olympiakos over Armani Milano on Thursday and Panathinaikos over Red Star Belgrade, a number of players from the two Greek clubs played for the national team instead, helping it beat Turkey for the World Cup qualifiers on Friday. It…
The European Union could exclude Russia from the SWIFT global interbank payments system in a fresh round of sanctions, European Parliament President Roberta Metsola said on Friday.
The invasion of Ukraine drew more punitive measures across the sporting world on Friday.
Thousands of people took part in demonstrations outside the Russian Embassy in Athens on Friday evening in protest at Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. The separate protests, called by the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) and by the main opposition party SYRIZA, took place in the northern suburb of Psychiko, where the embassy is located.
National borders must never be changed by force. In the case of Greece, this guiding principle is mandated by the country’s longstanding faith in international law, historical orientation and national interest.
History’s tectonic plates are shifting. No one knows the magnitude, depth or duration of the earthquake caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Thursday.
Revisionism is the main threat to world peace and should not be tolerated, no matter where it comes from, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told an emergency summit of NATO countries on Friday.
The United States “welcomes Greece’s role and leadership as a key ally” in defending NATO’s southeastern flank, US Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt tweeted on Friday, after meeting with Defense Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Chief of Hellenic National Defense General Staff Konstantinos Floros.