Thessaloniki police score big cocaine bust
More than 100 kilograms of cocaine were seized by police in Thessaloniki investigating a drug smuggling network.
Records not just in flights but also in delays
During this summer, Greece is not only certain to post a record number of flights and passengers but also a record amount of delays in the departures and arrivals of airplanes.
How Erdogan could try to undermine the election and engineer a win
As Turkey gears up for momentous elections on Sunday, President Erdogan and his government are expected to use several tactics to undermine the vote and try to engineer a win. Merve Tahiroglu, the Turkey program director at the Project on Middle East Democracy (POMED), joins Thanos Davelis to look into what steps Erdogan could take…
State seeking demolition orders on Mykonos
The state is looking to execute demolition orders on the popular island of Mykonos which were finalized in previous years.
MeRA25 not here to ‘become Mr Tsipras’ ministers,’ says Varoufakis
MeRA25 was not founded in 2018 in order to play a backseat role in a government led by Alexis Tsipras, the head of the radical left party, Yanis Varoufakis, indicated on Tuesday, ruling out the possibility of joining a coalition with SYRIZA.
Opposition bracing for defeat, says PM
The main opposition party is bracing for a defeat in the May 21 polls and PASOK has gone back to the “bad unionist” days of the 1980s, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday.
As key votes loom, Turkish parties vow to send migrants home
For Nidal Jumaa, a Syrian from Aleppo, life in Turkey is tough. He works part-time at a furniture workshop and collects plastics and cardboard from trash cans that he sells for recycling, but can hardly afford rent.
Animal protection group hails record fine for donkey’s abuse death
An animal rights group that specializes in protecting Greece’s donkeys has hailed the decision by an Athens prosecutor to slap a fine of 30,000 euros on a man who allowed his donkey to die of shock and exposure.
Five suspects in racist attack on art show identified
Authorities in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, said on Tuesday that they have identified five individuals from among a larger group that barged into an art gallery and demanded, with the use of threats, that the exhibition it was showing be taken down.
RES are not enough for energy needs
The conclusions from the energy crisis put the debate on the energy transition on a more realistic basis at the European level and within the country.