Turkish political leaders were bidding to outdo each other on Tuesday in the use of aggressive rhetoric targeting Greece. Apart from the members of the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extreme voices of other representatives of the political spectrum are becoming more and more frequent.
In comments made to a TV panel discussion on home heating and the energy crisis on Tuesday, Alternate Interior Minister Stelios Petsas said that “whoever doesn’t adjust, dies.”
Announcements by the ministers involved are to be made on Thursday regarding a programme to restart housing policy, in line with what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), Labor and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis told the state broadcasting television channel ERT3 on Wednesday.
Former head of the National Intelligence Service (EYP) Yannis Roubatis gave a six hour testimony on Wednesday in the Parliamentary Inquiry Committee set up to investigate the wiretapping of PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis. Roubatis served as head of EYP from 2015 to 2019 during the premiership of SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras.
The death of distinguished actress Irene Pappas on Wednesday was addressed by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in a statement released on social media.
Hellenic Police officers stopped a suspicious vehicle on Wednesday to discover two AK-47 Kalashnikov rifles and ammo magazines with over 90 bullets in the Attica suburb of Haidari. The car’s passengers were a former convict, who had been released last June after a long sentence, and one other person. According to state broadcaster ERT, the…
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu made new inflammatory remarks on Greece during a meeting of the central committee of the ruling Justice and Development’s Party (AKP) on Wednesday, according to the Hurriyet newspaper and the TGRT Haber broadcaster.
The Greek branch of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation has invited respected academics and philosophers to conduct a series of seminars in English on the theme “The Politics of Liberation.”
A large Greek dairy company has plans ready for the packaging of its yogurt to contain 180 grams of product instead of the 200 gr it currently contains. Another Greek food company is planning to reduce the quantities in its frozen vegetable packs so that instead of a kilo of frozen okra, they contain 900…