The head of Serbia’s Orthodox Church said Tuesday that he would recognize the full independence of the church in neighboring North Macedonia, signaling an end to a decades-old religious dispute.
A consignment of animal feed from Bulgaria is unloaded at the port of Naxos. Farmers on the Cycladic island traveled to Bulgaria in search of food for their animals due to huge shortages in the market.
The targets the European Commission is setting for the development of renewable energy sources in Europe appear elusive for Greece, with the local market arguing that only a strict and resourceful plan such as that in the run-up to the Athens 2004 Olympics could meet Brussels’ requirements.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu started a two-day trip to the Palestinian territories and Israel on Tuesday, the first such visit by a senior Turkish official in more than a decade.
President Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to launch military operations soon to expand safe zones already set up across Turkey’s southern borders has raised the stakes in his row with NATO partners over Finland and Sweden joining the alliance.
Nine Lebanese banks are shutting down their operations on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a representative of the Cyprus Central Bank said on Tuesday.
The European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union, on Tuesday declined to make a comment on controversial remarks by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday that he no longer recognizes the Greek prime minister and will refuse to meet him at a planned summit.
Greek health authorities announced 5,588 new reported cases of Covid-19 and 11 virus-related deaths on Tuesday.
Despite the extension in the general escape clause from the European Union Stability Pact for another year, Greece will still have to take substantial steps toward fiscal streamlining in 2023, European institutions agree, having been one of the most generous member-states in the bloc regarding measures against the pandemic’s economic impact and energy hikes.
The last 50 years had not prepared the Greek foreign policy establishment to deal with the turn that Greek-Turkish relations have taken in the past five years; it is not trained for this level of challenges