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.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the head of the center-right European People’s party group at the European Parliament, Manfred Weber, discussed the latest developments in Ukraine and the energy crisis over dinner in Athens Thursday.
Cyprus Finance Minister Constantinos Petrides announced on Thursday a reduction in fuel tax following a cabinet meeting at the Presidential Palace.
In the information war, we are all at war. We are all potential victims of propaganda in a cataclysmic flow of news – and “news” – that is impossible to filter.
On February 27, 2022 the new German government decided on a historical shift of its foreign policy and security doctrine, with consequences not only for Germany but for Europe and the Western alliance at large.
In recent weeks the eminent economist and professor at Columbia University Jeffrey Sachs has been quite critical over Washington’s handling of Ukraine.