Newly re-elected Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis unveiled his government’s roadmap for the next four years during a speech at the inaugural cabinet meeting held at the Maximos Mansion on Wednesday.
Anti-Americanism in Greece seems to be on the wane, as a recent Pew Institute survey in 23 countries showed that 56% of Greeks have a positive view of the United States.
New Minister of Citizen Protection Notis Mitarakis vowed to “deal with phenomena of racist violence and protect vulnerable social groups,” during the handover ceremony on Tuesday from the acting minister Charalambos Lalousis.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who has been newly sworn in for a second term, is set to preside over the inaugural meeting of the new cabinet at 11 a.m. on Wednesday. The event will take place at Maximos Mansion, and the entire cabinet will be in attendance.
Energy, Commerce, and Industry Minister George Papanastasiou expressed optimism regarding the construction of a pipeline between Cyprus and Israel after a meeting with Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi and President Nikos Christodoulides at the Presidential Palace on Tuesday.
The programs of the Public Employment Service (DYPA) are highly effective as almost two out of three beneficiaries are still working 12 months after the end of the employment program they participated in.
A tourist bus, under unspecified circumstances, veered off its path and collided with parked vehicles in the center of Thessaloniki in northern Greece on Wednesday morning. No injuries were reported.
After an extended pre-election period, which was markedly different from what everyone had anticipated before February 6 and the devastating earthquakes that struck southern Turkey, there is now a government in Athens with a four-year outlook.
Dealing with tax evasion has entered the vocabulary of the government’s economic policy.
A Turkish court on Tuesday jailed the chief editor of an opposition TV channel pending trial on a charge of spreading terrorist propaganda, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported.