Ukrainian soccer club Shakhtar Donetsk will play a series of charity games on a government-backed “Global Tour for Peace” that will raise money for the country’s military in the war against Russia.
Police have announced the arrest of a 33-year-old man who posed and fired shots from an assault rifle in a VICE documentary on ganger rap in Athens.
The legendary Martha Graham Dance Company returns to Greece with a double bill: “Αcts of Light” and the European premiere of a reimagined version of “Canticle for Innocent Comedians.”
European Union foreign ministers will not formally discuss an oil embargo on Russia at Monday’s meeting in Luxembourg, a senior EU diplomat involved in preparations said on Friday.
Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis has defended Greece’s border policy, while saying that the country’s treatment of migrants and refugees is in line with its obligations under European and international law.
Greece may be able to leave the regime of enhanced surveillance in August, European Commission Executive Vice President and Commissioner for Trade Valdis Dobrovskis said in Athens on Friday.
Health authorities announced 14,763 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. Friday, a 36% increase on Thursday’s figure of 10,858.
Inflation and nine other sources of internal risks are threatening the Greek economy, Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras told the central bank’s general meeting, reiterating the possibility of stagflation as “small but not negligible.”
Two men arrested by police on Friday in relation to an assault of a participant in a pro-Russian motorcade in Athens on Sunday, April 3, face charges of attempted murder, insulting the symbols of another state, racially motivated crime, damaging property, disobedience and violations of the law on weapons.
The soaring prices of energy products and raw materials have resulted in the trebling of the trade deficit: Although exports posted a significant increase in February, mainly thanks to the rise in the price of fuel Greek enterprises sell abroad, imports that are always greater in absolute figures grew by almost three times as much.