Greece will fix a cap on gross profit margins on fuel, food and other consumer goods to help curb profiteering, its development ministry said, as Western sanctions over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine boosted world prices of commodities.
Expert Aykan Erdemir joins our host Thanos Davelis to explore the delicate balancing act that Turkey’s Erdogan is playing between Moscow, Ukraine, and the West and answer the question of where Turkey stands in the Russia-Ukraine war.
With relations between Athens and Moscow severely strained over the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian ambassador to Greece, Andrey Maslov, insisted Thursday that he is in no doubt that Greek-Russian relations will be restored.
The market is fretting over new price hikes in bread and a series of other food categories that have flour as their main ingredient due to the soaring of global rates, which have reached record levels.
Collectively known as the Emerson Quartet, the violinists Eugene Drucker and Philip Setzer, violist Lawrence Dutton and cellist Paul Watkins demonstrate the elegance of what is regarded as one of the world’s leading chamber music ensembles.
Greece has asked the International Maritime Organization (IMO) for an emergency meeting on ships and crews in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov, due to the Ukraine crisis following the Russian invasion.
As part of the wider effort to upgrade the Greek justice system and clear up the backlog of cases, a plenary session of the Supreme Court Thursday dismissed seven judicial officials who were deemed inadequate in the performance of their duties, as they unjustifiably delayed the issue of verdicts in court trials they presided over.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis stressed Thursday that after the Russian invasion of Ukraine “there is no audience” to listen to Turkish revisionism, while saying he is open to a possible meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
The Culture Ministry, in cooperation with the European Commission, is putting together a plan to better exploit its significant assets in the Medieval City of Rhodes and to elevate the profile of the UNESCO World Heritage site in a bid to wean it off mass tourism.
Much of the world has united against Russia in the aftermath of its incursion into Ukraine. Envoys have walked out of meetings rather than listen to a top Russian diplomat speak.