The leaders of Greece and Cyprus sought Friday to tamp down tensions with neighboring Turkey amid increasingly belligerent rhetoric from the Turkish president, insisting that the best way to counter such talk is through “calm and composed determination.”
The European Union gave its blessing on Friday to Ukraine to become an official candidate to join the bloc, along with its neighbor Moldova, an historic eastward shift in Europe’s outlook brought about by Russia’s invasion.
The Greek state is suing Swiss-American multinational pharmaceutical giant Novartis for 214 million euros, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Friday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday it was important to keep communication channels open with Turkey, despite sharp rhetoric which has heightened tension between the two neighbors.
Against the backdrop of seemingly relentless tension, the defense ministers of Greece and Turkey, Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Hulusi Akar, agreed during a short chat on the sidelines of a NATO summit in Brussels on Thursday to keep their channels of communication open.
Police in Athens have arrested a 17-year-old man who is accused of blackmailing the father of his 14-year-old girlfriend by threatening to post intimate photographs of her on the internet.
Bottler Coca-Cola HBC and its existing customers in Russia are “in the process of depleting stock,” Coca-Cola Co said in a statement, after Reuters reported that Coke was for sale at a McDonald’s Corp franchise in St. Petersburg.
The war in Ukraine risks upending the economic recovery of Greece and the European Union, as higher energy prices and trade disruptions could destabilize EU firms already weakened by the pandemic, according to European Investment Bank analysts, while EIB economic models show that rising inflation could push more Europeans under the poverty line.
Greece is becoming a top destination for wealthy migrants, as it is expected to welcome 1,200 “millionaire immigrants” this year.
An extra 600 special guards are being recruited by the Citizens’ Protection Ministry to be integrated in the campus police force known as the University Institutions Protection Teams (OPPI), when they finally assume duties.