EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers are likely to reach a deal on a 6-billion-euro ($6 billion) satellite internet system next week, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday, driven by the bloc’s push to cut its dependency on foreign companies and the Ukraine war.
In France and Australia, November 11 is commemorated as the day when the First World War ended. For both countries, it remains a day of reflection. As an Australian I am not alone in having a great-grandfather who, after surviving Gallipoli, was gravely wounded in France’s trenches.
Greece’s anti-drug unit arrested three people and seized more than seven kilos of cannabis in the southern city of Patras on Thursday.
Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis is expected to table an amendment dealing with the problems ascertained during the first week of the launch of the so-called “household basket” – a set of products protected from inflation – on Thursday in parliament.
Greece delivered a demarche to Turkey on Wednesday to protest the denial of entry to a regional governor in Izmir last Saturday.
Eight people who clashed with police after a march through central Thessaloniki, northern Greece, against surging inflation on Wednesday will be led before a prosecutor on Thursday.
Exxon Mobil has started conducting seismic surveys in two blocks southwest of the Peloponnese peninsula and the island of Crete on Thursday, Greek Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas announced on Thursday.
The results of the US mid-term elections will allow the Greek-American diaspora to have, once again, a strong presence in Congress as well as in state and local levels, state-run news agency AMNA reports.
Turkey’s worsening economic crisis has eroded President Erdogan’s popularity ahead of elections in 2023, threatening to oust him from power for the first time in two decades.
Greek workers went on a day-long strike on Wednesday, demanding higher wages to cope with surging inflation, as Europe’s soaring energy prices and living costs trigger industrial action and protests across the continent.