Greek state hospital workers have announced three days of strike action over a draft bill allowing National Health System (NHS) doctors to practice privately and even use public hospital facilities to treat their private patients.
Τurkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments broadcast on Sunday that a process of building relations with Egypt will start with ministers of the two countries meeting and that the talks would develop from there.
The navigation warning (Navtex) issued by Greece Saturday expanding the area of seismic surveys for oil and natural gas deposits off the coast of Crete was in response to a request by US oil firm ExxonMobil, which has been granted exploration rights, but also serves a geopolitical purpose.
Inflation is at the back of the ministry’s mind in every initiative, and rightly so. Together with the election and the potential difficulties of forming a government, they represent the biggest risks of upsetting economic policy next year.
The government has decided to make some changes to the draft bill on surveillance and wiretappings as the result of the public consultation process.
Three days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, leading scholar Robert Kagan published an article titled “What we can expect after Putin’s conquest of Ukraine.” Seven months later, the Ukrainian military armed by a US-led coalition has proved many pundits wrong.
Cyprus has recorded some progress in improving its level of compliance with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism, but moderate shortcomings remain, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Moneyval) said on Friday.
The government announced on Friday it will spend another 435 million euros next month to support households and companies facing extremely high electricity rates, but data show Greeks are increasingly saving on energy consumption with tangible results.