ATHEX: Another day with stocks in dead heat
Wednesday’s session at the Greek stock market was a mirror image of the day before.
Kasselakis in call for fair and just migration pact
A fair and just European Pact on Migration and Asylum would mean “finding a way for Greece to not be bearing the brunt [of the migration influx] as a first-arrival country,” SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has said in Brussels.
The strength of border regions
“I will send you to Evros!” This line is still used by some as a threat.
Tax hubris or tax populism?
Since his return from the United States, Stefanos Kasselakis, the new leader of SYRIZA, has aimed to project a more distinct and serious image compared to that immediately following his election, which had been consistently highlighted on morning television programs.
Mother, sister, landlady to face charges over woman’s murder
Three people are facing charges in relation to the death of a 23-year-old pregnant woman in the central Athens district of Kypseli, whose dead body was found wrapped in a blanket in October 2021. Police arrested three women known to the dead woman at noon on Tuesday.
Landfills ‘thing of the past,’ says Mitsotakis
Landfills are now “a thing of the past,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said at the opening of the county’s newest waste management facility in the Peloponnese. The facility at Paleochouni, in Arcadia, has the capacity to treat 105,000 tonnes of waste annually and will serve the regional units of Arcadia, Argolida and Corinthia.
Italy’s deal with Albania on migrant camps capped at 3,000 migrants
Albania will hold a maximum of 3,000 migrants at any one time under a deal announced this week allowing Italy to build two migrant reception and detention camps there, official documents showed on Wednesday. The scheme is the first example of a non-EU country accepting migrants on behalf of an EU nation.
Crete: 12 teenagers detained after egg fight gets out of hand
A dozen secondary school students in Crete have been detained by police after an egg fight with a rival school got out of hand. As students arrived for class at the city’s 1st Lyceum, students from another school were waiting to take revenge for a previous egg attack.
EU Commission urges Turkey to refrain from unilateral actions that challenge EU interests, international law
The European Commission’s report on Turkey, published on Wednesday, acknowledges the progress in Athens-Ankara relations in the aftermath of the devastating earthquakes that hit southern Turkey in February. However, the report also urges the EU candidate country to refrain from taking unilateral actions that contradict EU interests, breach international law, and infringe upon the sovereign…
Crete: Egyptian probed for probed for incitement to violence
A prosecutor on Crete has launched a preliminary investigation into claims that an Egyptian national incited violence by calling on his co-religionists to support the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas.