A former New Democracy prime minister has voted against a government amendment that would enable certain migrants to obtain a three-year residency and work permit. In voting “no” to the amendment, Antonis Samaras sided with the rightwing Hellenic Solution, Spartans and Niki MPs.
Importers of coffee to the European Union are starting to scale back purchases from small farmers in Africa and beyond as they prepare for a landmark EU law that will ban the sale of goods linked to the destruction of forests, a cause of climate change.
Greece’s opposition sharply criticised Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis on Tuesday for ordering the removal of an art piece that depicted the Greek flag in pink hues from an exhibition at the country’s consulate in New York, following complaints from a far-right party in Parliament.
Last week European leaders focused on EU enlargement, from the Western Balkans to Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
A 75-year-old man was arrested for dangerous driving, disruption of transportation safety and insubordination on Sunday morning following a long car chase with police through Athens, authorities said on Tuesday.
The ideological chasm between those who propose solutions to problems and those who choose to live in fantasies and fossilized ideologies is not determined by whether they are on the Left or Right of the old political distinctions. Often, the same party can be divided along the lines of members who feel the need to…
Greek police is searching for five youngsters believed to have attacked and robbed a teen in the district of Agia Paraskevi in Athens last Friday, in a new incident of adolescent criminality.
The pandemic appears to have produced a demand for more expensive stays in public hospitals. Covid-19’s first year disrupted a period of hospital operating expense control by boosting costs by up to 28.4% per hospital day, according to the key findings of a study for the analysis of the financial dimensions of public hospitals of…
Former conservative premier Antonis Samaras is expected to vote against an amendment included a government bill that allows migrants to obtain a three-year residency and work permit, Kathimerini understands.
While the new generation of artificial intelligence, the so-called generative AI (GenAI), is bringing tectonic changes to all sectors of the economy, having the potential to increase the Greek GDP by an additional 5.5% by 2030, most Greek businesses have no plans of utilizing it in the foreseeable future.