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.
The Delphi Economic Forum and the government’s General Secretariat for Digital Governance and Process Simplification are holding a roundtable discussion on Thursday.
In 2017, after far-right leader Marine Le Pen and her allies won only a handful of seats in parliamentary elections, she blamed France’s two-round voting system for shutting her party out of Parliament despite getting more than 1 million ballots cast in its favor.
The appointment ceremony of Cyprus’ new minister of labor and social insurance, Kyriacos Koushos, the new deputy minister to the president, Petros Demetriou, and the new director of the President’s Office, Pantelis Pantelides, took place on Monday at the Presidential Palace in Nicosia.
Coast guard officers recovered the body of a 64-year-old German tourist from the sea near Ouranoupoli in Halkidiki, northeastern Greece, on Monday.
Conspiracy theories concerning forest fires chime with a large part of society, according to a survey conducted for the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry.