The application by imprisoned mayor-elect of Himare, a town in southern Albania populated predominantly by ethnic Greeks, for permission to be sworn into office has been referred to the county’s supreme court
On its website, Israir said it was offering rescue flights from Larnaca in Turkey, Corfu in Greece and Batumi in Georgia to help bring Israelis back to the country.
Borders must not be violated and terrorist actions must receive a response, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, as Israel increased airstrikes on the Gaza Strip after Hamas rampaged through its towns. “There is no room in the 21st century for more sources of violence, nor excuses for religious and ethnic tensions,” he said.
Former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has said that he and his party will never condemn Hamas’ attack on Israel. “Those who try very hard to extract from people like me and DiEM25 a condemnation of the attack by the Hamas guerillas will never get it,” he said in an interview shown on X.
The Greek Foreign Ministry is bringing home 90 more nationals from war-torn Israel, after the first aircraft carrying 81 Greeks arrived in Athens in the early hours of Monday.
The security and intelligence services of Greece have been placed on a state of alert due to the flare-up in the Middle East with security measures boosted around targets of Israeli interest.
This weekend Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israel, spawning fears of a wider Middle East war. It is also putting the spotlight on not only Iran’s sponsoring of Hamas, but also on Turkey, which has become a sponsor of Hamas in recent years and a major hub of Hamas operations. Expert Sinan Ciddi joins…
A Ministry of Culture summons ordering the Association of Greek Archaeologists (SEA) to vacate the downtown Athens premises it has occupied for four decades expires on Tuesday, with the association saying it has no intention of moving until its appeal against the eviction has been heard.
The Greek economy is expected to grow by 2.5% this year and by 2% in 2024, exceeding the average growth rates of 0.7% and 1.2% in the eurozone, the International Monetary Fund said in its World Economic Outlook report.
Greek industrial output declined 0.5% in August compared to the same month a year earlier, after a 1.9% drop in July, data from statistics service ELSTAT showed.