Letting the obvious go
Sure, people may laugh when they read of a judicial reform plan with a horizon stretching to 2026 when we’re in the runup to a national election.
Weber holds talks with PM in Athens
Migration flows and the Eastern Mediterranean were the focus of talks between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the visiting president of the European People’s Party (EPP), Manfred Weber, in Athens on Monday.
Tribute to the great artist who gave us the ‘little man’
Yannis Gaitis (1923-1984) in front of one of his iconic “little man” pieces in Paris in 1967. The respected Greek sculptor and painter is the subject of a career-spanning exhibition beginning this week at the B&M Theocharakis Foundation in Athens, marking 100 years since his birth.
Cartoon (06/02/2023)
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FM meets with Brazilian counterpart Vieira in Brasilia
The strengthening of Greek-Brazilian relations was the focus of a meeting between Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias with his Brazilian counterpart Mauro Vieira in Brasilia on Monday.
ATHEX: Benchmark stays put on freezing day
The downbeat mood in the rest of Europe and the US, and the freezing weather in Athens offered buyers a break at the Greek stock market on Monday.
Lessons from the Imia crisis
Twenty-seven years have gone by since the Imia crisis, yet it is an incident that remains deeply etched on the collective conscience. It is an open wound on the one hand and, on the other, an enduring source of conspiracy theories and prophecies of what will happen if…
SYRIZA slams gov’t ‘boasts’ over Barbara measures
Main opposition SYRIZA took issue on Monday with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis over his “boast” about a very satisfactory response of the state mechanism “with two inches of snow” brought by the Barbara weather front.
Greece’s mission in Geneva to provide quake aid to Turkey and Syria via UN office
Greece’s permanent mission to the UN in Geneva announced it would provide emergency contribution to earthquake-stricken Turkey and Syria through the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Greek Foreign Affairs Ministry said on Monday.
Tax reform to do away with ‘tekmiria’
The tax system reform will be a key part of the ruling party’s program for the next four years, aiming to abolish anachronistic methods of determining income, such as the use of assets owned (known as “tekmiria”), while activating ways to safeguard public revenues.