Greece’s highest administrative court, the Council of State, approved the construction of a temporary shelter for irregular migrants on the island of Leros, cancelled plans for one in Lamia, central Greece, and postponed judgment on Malakassa, east Attica, with a series of decisions published Thursday.
Bulgaria has set conditions for lifting its veto blocking North Macedonia’s European Union accession talks and is working to see if Brussels can guarantee those terms are met, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Thursday.
Cyprus police have seized servers that were used to sell social security numbers and other personal information stolen from 24 million US citizens, a law enforcement official said Thursday.
Greece’s population is set to decline over the next 20 years, and to shrink by 24% by 2100 to 8.1 million, according to research by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) presented at the Demographics 2022 conference in central Athens.
On Wednesday the Confederation of Greek Tourism Accommodation Entrepreneurs (SETKE) sent a letter to the ministers of labor and finance, in which it more or less asked them to allow retirees and public teachers to work in the tourism business.
Greece dismissed anew comments by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan who reiterated calls for Athens to stop arming islands in the eastern Aegean that he claimed have a demilitarized status.
Greece will experience a new wave of storms starting Thursday, that have been given the name Genesis, with authorities urging people to exercise great caution and avoid unnecessary movement outside when the storm is underway.
Greece’s National Organization for Public Health (EODY) on Thursday said it had registered nine deaths and 4,500 new cases in the last 24 hours.
The Ministry of Culture, the Municipality of Athens and the Academy of Athens on Wednesday signed a cooperation agreement that paves the way for a radical overhaul of Akadimia Platonos, a 135,000-square meter recreational park and archaeological site in western Athens that was the site of Plato’s Academy.