The new Independent Labor Inspection Authority has teamed up with the international organization A21, which is active against human trafficking, and imposed a first batch of 49 fines as part of a joint European initiative for specific workplaces, such as farms, where labor exploitation tends to be rampant.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is in Kyiv for talks with his Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba and President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
Τhe Athens Public Prosecutor’s Office has ordered an investigation after testimony given to police authorities by the 12-year-old girl was who was raped and systematically pimped by a 53-year-old man, with the alleged collusion of her mother, was leaked to the media.
Concerns about climate change shrank across the world last year, a survey shows, with fewer than half those questioned believing it posed a “very serious threat” to their countries in the next 20 years.
European Union lawmakers refused on Tuesday to endorse the way the EU’s border and coast guard agency used its 2020 budget, over concerns about serious misconduct by staff and human rights concerns involving Frontex’s work.
Greece will ratify the EU-Canada (CETA) trade agreement as soon as some pending issues are resolved, Alternate Development and Investment Minister Nikos Papathanassis said in the context of the Toronto Economic Forum.
Hours after Turkey test-fired a short-range ballistic missile, Defense Minister Hulusi Akar said that differences with regional rival Greece can be solved through dialogue and negotiations.
As news headlines herald a return to a darker age of nuclear brinkmanship, with fears that different states might develop, test or even use nuclear weapons, 176 countries have chosen to take a bold stand.
Turkey’s main opposition party has applied to the top court to annul an article added to the penal code that sets jailtime for spreading “disinformation” as part of a new media law, a party official said on Tuesday.
The recent excavation of the sanctuary at Despotiko, an uninhabited islet lying just 700 meters southwest of Antiparos (itself just southwest of Paros), some 28 nautical miles south of Delos, has yielded the water collection system, a small temple-shaped structure, pottery and a seated archaic statue depicting Cybele, among other artifacts.