Skourletis quits SYRIZA, alleges orchestrated plan to break up leftist party
Former SYRIZA secretary Panos Skourletis has become the latest high-ranking official to depart from the main opposition party.
OECD to make proposals for Greek education changes
OECD officials will reportedly study every aspect of the operation of Greece’s educational structures and the evaluation system to promote broad changes.
Our flagging rights
In an absurd turn of events, according to a statement issued by the Hellenic Police, “a 22-year-old Palestinian national was identified and brought in for questioning after he appeared in a video raising his country’s flag during a gathering at Syntagma Square on Sunday” (@hellenicpolice 7/11/2023).
Turkey discussed more aid trucks for Gaza with US Blinken
Turkey discussed increasing the daily number of aid trucks to at least 500 for Gaza with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during his visit to Ankara, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday.
Erdogan criticises top Turkey court, stoking legal spat
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan criticised the Constitutional Court for “many mistakes” and urged his ruling AK Party colleagues to support an unprecedented challenge to the court by an appeals court, stoking a potential legal crisis.
Hand grenades thrown at house in Ano Liosia, no injuries
Unknown assailants threw two hand grenades at a residence in Ano Liosia, northwest of Athens, in the early hours of Friday.
Master of satire Nikos Perakis honored in Thessaloniki
Tuesday night’s ceremony honoring filmmaker Nikos Perakis with a Golden Alexander at the 64th Thessaloniki International Film Festival also presented his 1987 film “Living Dangerously,” surprising the younger members of the audience with its cutting-edge humor addressing issues that remain under question 37 years later.
Winning bids for redevelopment of Athens metro squares
Athens Anaplasis (Athens Redevelopment) has published the winners of the first three of seven tenders for the redevelopment of the squares where Metro Line 4 stations will be built.
No ‘quick wins’ in defending democracy
Democracy is under threat across the world. Fewer people today live in democracies than did two decades ago. Opposition to democracy, and to capitalism, has grown as populists launch “culture wars” – cruelly exploiting migrants and minorities – and appeal to the socially and economically excluded.
Mitsotakis and Christodoulides to take part in inaugural Greece-Cyprus High-Level Cooperation Council
After jointly attending the humanitarian conference convened by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides returned to Athens for the inaugural Greece-Cyprus High-Level Cooperation Council.