Energy crisis impacts Southern Europe less
The continuing rally in natural gas is spreading panic across Europe.
Cypriot economic activity indicators deteriorate
External geopolitical uncertainty and soaring inflation continue to trouble the Cypriot economy, causing a decline across a number of leading economic activity indicators for the second month in a row, according to a report released this week by the University of Cyprus Economic Research Center.
Turks frustrated by ‘deliberate’ increase in number of European visa rejections
Turkish sports presenter Sinem Okten was surprised to see her visa application to Europe’s Schengen area rejected twice, having visited often to cover matches and interview figures like Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon and Liverpool’s Juergen Klopp. “I applied first to Germany then to France. Both rejected my application,” she said. “I’ve travelled abroad numerous times…
Ankara resorts to fake news over violations
Ankara appears to be deploying fake news as a tactic in its ongoing escalation of tensions with Athens, claiming that on two occasions Greek jets harassed Turkish aircraft that were conducting NATO exercises together with American aircraft in the Aegean Sea.
Dawdling over campus police
The progress of plans to launch university police units this year was the subject of a meeting on Thursday between the chief of the Hellenic Police (ELAS) and the rectors of four institutions in Athens and Thessaloniki.
US lawmakers raise alarm on sale of S-400s, F-16s to Turkey
Democratic Congressman Chris Pappas (NH-01), a member of the Hellenic Caucus, has led a bipartisan group of 19 lawmakers in expressing concern about recent reports that Turkey will move forward with the purchase of a second batch of Russian-made S-400 missile defense systems and restating their opposition to and requesting an update from US Secretary…
MPs brace for phone-tapping showdown
The ongoing clash between the government and SYRIZA at Parliament’s Committee on Institutions and Transparency over the wiretapping affair is expected to culminate on Friday with an anticipated showdown between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras during a debate on the phone-tapping affair that is due to take place in Parliament.
Museum of the Bible returns ancient gospel looted from Greek monastery
The Museum of the Bible in Washington, which has been working to regain credibility by giving back tainted objects in its collection, returned a handwritten gospel that is more than 1,000 years old to the Greek Orthodox Church on Tuesday afternoon after determining that it had been looted from a Greek monastery during World War…
UBS forecasts 2022 GDP growth at 5.7%
Swiss-based investment and financial services bank UBS has significantly raised its growth estimate for Greece’s gross domestic product for 2022.
End of the road
The areas of Attica that tend to flood after every severe rainstorm are pretty much common knowledge – in fact, one could draw a map of flood-prone areas.