Ambassador Alexandros Mallias, the former Greek ambassador to the United States and a frequent contributor to Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis today to explain why it’s time to have a real conversation about Turkey’s role in NATO.
The American vehicle carrier ARC Endurance has sailed into Alexandroupoli for the “largest transfer of military equipment ever” handled by the northern Greek port, the chairman of the port authority said in a tweet on Tuesday.
The Russian Federation declared eight Greek diplomats as “personae non gratae” on Monday and gave them eight days to leave the country in retaliation for the similar move taken by Athens on April 12.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis headed to Madrid on Tuesday for a crucial NATO summit on the alliance’s expansion that will see the premier sitting at the same table with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for the first time since Ankara started ratcheting up tension with Athens.
Two 24-year-olds were arrested on charges of beating 42-year-old Dimitris Koutras to death outside the Sante bar in the central square of Rafina, eastern Attica early Sunday. They turned themselves in on Monday morning to police.
Hundreds of migrants attempted to reach the islands of the eastern Aegean en masse with inflatable boats from Friday until early Monday morning, according to data released by the Hellenic Coast Guard headquarters.
Greece’s coast guard was called out to a major rescue operation in the southeastern Aegean on Tuesday morning after a boat carrying dozens of migrants ran into trouble south of Crete.
The government expects additional fiscal space of 600 million to 1 billion euros through the increase of tourism revenues this year to 90% of the record-breaking year of 2019, compared to 80% that was provided for in the Stability Program drafted in spring.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou has decried the decision of the US Supreme Court to overturn Roe v Wade on abortion as a narrowing of the field of human rights.
An integrated digital information system of public primary and secondary education called eschool, which aspires to change the operation of Greek public schools, was unveiled by the Education Ministry.