This year marks the 15th anniversary of the lethal shooting of 15-year-old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a police officer in Athens in December 2008. Over 9,000 people took to the streets across Greece to pay tribute to the killed teenager and protest instances of police brutality. The massive turnout proves that the shocking killing remains etched…
No issue was resolved during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s visit to Athens, but a new beginning was made. Many people wonder how long it will last, due to past history with Turkey, but it was a good step forward. The Athens Declaration may not be binding, but it exists and we can invoke it…
Everyone should have realized by now that yet another “package of measures” against hooliganism is not enough. These announcements have become part of the bloody ritual in and around sports stadiums
The public statements and overall behavior of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his ministers in Athens last Thursday indicated that improving relations with Greece is a strategic decision by Ankara – and a perfectly logical one, too.
Border police in northeastern Greece blocked four separate attempts by illegal migrants to cross into the country on Friday and Saturday and arrested a total of four traffickers, all foreign nationals.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis had a telephone conversation with his Cypriot counterpart Constantinos Kombos on Saturday to brief him on the results of the Greece-Turkey High Council of Cooperation that took place in Athens on Thursday.
A 50-year-old man was arrested in Kozani, northern Greece, for committing fraud against two businessmen and extracting more than 528,761 euros from them.
The Hellenic Observatory, the London School of Economics and Political Science’s (LSE) Research hub on contemporary Greece and Cyprus, noted on Saturday the honor bestowed on former Socialist prime minister Costas Simitis by the British university at a ceremony on Friday.
Five years after its arrival in Athens, the Masoutis supermarket chain has been operating its first “Grand Store” in the capital since last week.