A 26-year-old Spanish tourist was handed a suspended six month prison sentence on Tuesday by a three-member court in Thessaloniki for physically assaulting disabled 59-year-old Yiannis Kastouras when he berated him for parking in a space reserved for the handicapped in the center of the city.
One of the measures by which a society is judged whether it is civilized or not, is by the way it treats animals.
Headlines announced the bad news in early August in a tone that unsuccessfully tried to banish panic with sarcasm: Greece had the highest electricity rates in Europe.
Eurozone inflation could peak this year then decline in 2023 before moving toward the ECB’s 2% target the following year, Bank of Greece chief Yannis Stournaras said on Wednesday.
The WWF Hellas environmental organization is lamenting delays in the implementation of European legislation on single-use plastics.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair discussed global and regional developments, as well as the challenges posed by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to the prime minister’s office.
Nine people, including four former intelligence chiefs, have been requested to attend a closed-door hearing in Parliament on the National Intelligence Service (EYP) and the wiretapping of PASOK-Movement for Change leader Nikos Androulakis.
“Greece is not an equivalent or interlocutor, either politically, economically or militarily,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, describing the recent “harassment” of Turkish jets by Greek air defense systems as a “hostile act.”
The government’s key Covid committee has recommended against mandatory mask wearing and rapid testing ahead of school reopening September 12.