Germany wants to make it simpler and faster to deport migrants, particularly those with a criminal background, by cutting notification periods and making searches by authorities easier, according to an Interior Ministry statement on Wednesday.
The incumbent Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and Haris Doukas took part in a televised debate on Wednesday night ahead of Sunday’s runoff.
Greece, Bulgaria and Romania co-signed a letter of intent for the extension of NATO’s Fuel Pipelines Network towards the Alliance’s eastern flank on the sidelines of a NATO defence ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.
Fiction originally written in Vietnamese, Polish and French and poetry in German, Arabic and Greek are among this year’s finalists for National Translation Awards.
A conservation group in Cyprus said Wednesday that police have been lax in cracking down on criminal gangs that illegally trap migratory songbirds to supply restaurants, although the poaching has declined overall.
Greece hopes to raise more than 5 billion euros in 2024 from the sale of state assets including a stake in Athens International Airport and concession deals for two toll roads, a senior privatization official said on Wednesday.
In its World Economic Outlook for October, published on Tuesday, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) forecasts that Cyprus’ growth rate for 2023 will slow to 2.2% of gross domestic product.
Discussing a wide range of topics, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios, the spiritual leader of the world’s Orthodox Christians, also referenced the unfolding crisis in Israel and Gaza and the need to protect the Christian presence in the Holy Land during their meeting in Athens on Wednesday.
The Greek stock market built on Tuesday’s rebound on Wednesday, with the main index securing further gains as the local market is still considered oversold among traders.