Greece’s economic growth is likely to slow to just 1.1% this year from a 5.1% clip in 2022 as soaring energy costs and continued uncertainty about the war in Ukraine hurt spending and investment, the OECD said on Tuesday.
A group of 24 aid workers and volunteers who participated in migrant rescue operations on an eastern Greek island went on trial Tuesday in a smuggling-related case widely criticized by human rights groups.
Labour and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis on Tuesday announced that he intends to table an amendment in parliament in the coming days on the timetable of the deliberations with the social partners and experts regarding the minimum wage.
Police in central Athens on Monday arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of abducting and raping a 32-year-old woman. It is claimed that the suspect detained the woman against her will for three days in an apartment in the Agios Panteleimon district.
Recent legislative changes mean that the independent Authority for Communication Security and Privacy no longer has the authority to tell citizens whether they were put under surveillance for national security reasons, a Supreme Court prosecutor said in an opinion issued on Tuesday.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will establish a research center on Crete to analyze demographic and migration policies, issues related to the diaspora as well as individual challenges related to the labor market and the population, under an agreement signed with the government on Tuesday.
Turkey’s recent announcement of plans to significantly strengthen its naval force is seen in Athens as an attempt to level the playing field with Greece, amid an increase in tension between the two neighbors over maritime borders and energy rights.
A Greek court was set to hear a smuggling-related criminal case Tuesday against a group of 24 aid workers and volunteers who participated in migrant rescue operations on an eastern Greek island.
Just days after a 4.9 Richter earthquake caused rockslides and some damage to buildings on Lesvos on Saturday, the eastern Aegean island was hit by a new tremor of a similar magnitude on Tuesday morning.