If a few days ago, when petrol bombs and naval flares were raining down on people during clashes between police and hooligans in Renti, a bystander or one of the hundreds of unsuspecting fans who had gone to the stadium to watch a match had been injured, then many would have protested – and rightly…
Migrants are essential to filling the labor and skills gap in the domestic labor market, the governor of the Bank of Greece Yannis Stournaras has said. Speaking at the 2nd MD Forum in Athens, Stournaras noted that Greece faces significant labor shortages in key sectors of the economy, such as tourism, agricultural production, industry and…
About 14 percent of the country’s land surface was covered in snow on Sunday, the National Observatory of Athens’ Meteo weather service has reported. Satellite data shows that that the area under snow during last week exceeds the average of the period from 2004 to 2022 and is the third most extensive since 2005 for…
Police have made a second arrest in relation to Monday’s deadly car chase in which a policeman lost his life in the western Athenian suburb of Nikea. The second arrest concerns a 17-year-old male, who is suspected of being an accomplice of the first suspect to be arrested, a 20-year-old male.
Greece is willing to send aid to the Gaza Strip through military means, as it did in November when it sent a C-130 with pharmaceutical and medical supplies to the territory through Egypt, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis has said.
Cyprus has disrupted an alleged Iranian plot to target Israeli businessmen with the arrest of two Iranian asylum-seekers who were in contact with another Iranian associated with the Revolutionary Guard, a Cypriot official has said.
Hungary will lift its objection to Bulgaria joining Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone after the Bulgarian parliament formally confirms its scrapping of an extra tax on Russian gas shipments, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
Eliminating the stigma associated with technical education is of the upmost importance, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said. Visiting Perama vocational high school near Piraeus, he said he was impressed by the quality of the work being done.
While there is growing interest on the part of potential employees to apply for local authority positions, when it comes to the time of appointment, it is estimated that one in two turn their backs on the public sector.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada’s arms embargo, would help Turkey’s parliament move toward ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership bid.