Records amounts of cocaine are being seized in Europe while manufacturing of the drug is now taking place inside the European Union, officials in charge of fighting and monitoring drugs use in the bloc warned on Friday.
Police are expected to launch an internal investigation into the allegations of a 19-year-old student that police on the Dodecanese island of Kalymnos prevented her from making a complaint that she had been raped.
Cyprus, Greece and Malta expect the European Union to take into account their concerns over a planned EU ban on transporting Russian oil, as the bloc hammers out the details of its proposed embargo on Russian crude, Cyprus’s president said on Friday.
Health authorities announced 5,130 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday, a slight decline on Thursday’s figure of 5,191.
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, left, welcomes Cyprus’ President Nicos Anastasiades before their meeting at Maximos Mansion in Athens, Friday.
The Labor Ministry and the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) are activating the fast-track process for the issue of pensions, aiming at clearing out all pending applications by October.
Under the slogan “Next to every citizen,” the 14th congress of the ruling New Democracy party gets underway on Friday at 7 p.m. The three-day congress takes place at the Athens Metropolitan Expo, near Athens International Airport.
The Hellenic American Union and Metaichmio publications have invited award-winning American writer Naomi Novik to talk to her fans in Greece – via Zoom – on May 7.
A vote to determine the new name of the center-left Movement for Change (KINAL) alliance will be held on Sunday.
United Against Nuclear Iran, a bipartisan, nonprofit advocacy organization in the US, has urged the Greek government to proceed immediately with the impounding of the Russian-flagged oil tanker Pegas, which has been moored at Karystos on the southern coast of Evia since April, and loaded with Iranian oil.