Erdogan attacks Greece over Muslim minority rights
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused Greece of undermining the rights of the Muslim minority in the country’s northeastern Thrace region.
Government monitors opinion polls for warning signs
With elections, possibly two of them, looming in the first half of 2023, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and his aides are closely following opinion polls for signs that ruling New Democracy’s lead might be weakening.
Contractors seek cash to fund projects
The large construction groups have been in a race lately in order to ensure the required liquidity for their participation in the concession and public private partnership (PPP) project contracts that have been announced in the last two years, as well as those to be announced in the coming months.
Europe’s south offers a warm welcome to energy migrants
Software developer Victor Varlamov logs in every morning to work on a sunny Spanish island off the coast of Africa after the prospect of steep heating bills and a winter made harsher by the Ukraine war drove him to leave his adoptive home in Poland.
US tourists are big spenders in Greece
American tourists are proving more than simply worthy substitutes for the Chinese and the Russian visitors in terms of the expenditure they make during their stay in Greece for shopping, data have shown.
State hospital workers striking over NHS bill
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.
Erdogan says Turkish, Egyptian ministers to meet in process of building ties
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.
Greek Navtex is a message to Libya
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 clouding 2023 budget
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.
Some changes made to draft surveillance bill
The government has decided to make some changes to the draft bill on surveillance and wiretappings as the result of the public consultation process.