Germany will deliver infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) to Greece so that the government in Athens can pass on Soviet-style weapons to Ukraine, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Tuesday.
European Union leaders have agreed an embargo on Russian oil imports that will start kicking in towards the end of the year and which exempts, for now, pipeline imports that Hungary and two other landlocked Central European states rely on.
The number of new coronavirus infections climbed back to 5,080 on Tuesday, from 2,400 the previous day, the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) said in its daily bulletin.
The recent aggressive rhetoric by Turkish officials towards Greece exposes Ankara and proves “how right we are to say that Turkey is threatening us,” Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said Tuesday.
Governments need to avoid “export restrictions wherever possible” and should also try to “ease bottlenecks in trade by lowering tariff and non-tariff barriers to trade,” Victor Stolzenburg, a research economist with the World Trade Organization, tells Kathimerini.
Greece “continues to believe in dialogue and does not adopt Turkey’s combative rhetoric. However, we are ready for all eventualities and will never accept any dispute of our country’s sovereignty,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said on Tuesday.
A man was arrested in the wider area of Iraklio, Crete, on Tuesday for possession of cannabis local police said. The arrest was made after a raid at his home and an adjacent area revealed 610 grams of cannabis and four cannabis seedlings up to 170cm tall in an equal number of pots. The preliminary…
The draft law for the streamlining of Elefsis Shipyards, drawn up in cooperation between the ministries of Finance and National Defense, authorizes the Development and Investments minister to represent the company’s main creditor, i.e. the Greek state, at the negotiation regarding the streamlining plan that will be submitted to the competent court based on the…
Turkey will be filing an official request with the United Nations and other international organizations to change the way the country’s name is spelled in English, the state-run Anadolu Agency reported on Tuesday.
Iran urged Greece on Tuesday to cooperate to resolve a crisis over the seizure of ships without involving the United States, after Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf following the seizure of an Iranian vessel off Greece.