The Council of State, Greece’s highest administrative court, has decided the state is liable for more damages to the insurers of the shops that were damaged in riots that followed the fatal shooting of a 15-year-old youth by a police officer in Athens on December 6, 2008.
Athens Metro Line 3 reached Piraeus Monday, finally connecting the busy port with the capital region’s airport, with no need for transfers, in less than an hour.
The energy crisis as well as the decline in consumer and business confidence are setting new standards in international shipping markets, increasing transportation costs for cargoes of oil and refined products and reducing them for container movements.
Ten more cases on West Nile virus were reported by the National Public Health Organization (EODY) in its weekly bulletin on Tuesday, taking the nationwide total since the start of the year to 278 cases.
A 53-year-old shopkeeper accused of repeatedly raping and pimping out a 12-year-old girl has been given until noon Wednesday to testify after appearing before an investigating magistrate.
After defending the controversial agreements Ankara signed with the Libyan government in Tripoli, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Tuesday launched into a scathing attack on Greece, which views the deals as a sharp escalation in aggression.
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras asked the government Monday to clarify whether it intends to reduce indirect taxes on food and fuel to provide substantial relief for society amid a steep rise in inflation.
The government intends to allocate more than 500 million euros for the heating allowance and the subsidy at the pump (the discount of 25 cents per liter).
Strong showers brought on by a low-pressure system drifting in from the Adriatic caused flooding on the northern Ionian island of Corfu and were due to hit other parts of western Greece on Tuesday.
Greece will not be left without electricity, assures, not a politician, but the man with the clearest view of the market, i.e. the head of the Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAE), associate professor Athanasios Dagoumas.