The Greek shipping company that owns a bulker on which Italian authorities found a stash of cocaine worth €150m have said “neither the crew nor the company was involved in any way” with the drugs.
A very important research project on the history of slaves in antiquity, led by Kostas Vlassopoulos, associate professor of ancient history at the University of Crete and collaborating faculty member at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS), is attempting to answer questions like those raised by German poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht in his 1935…
The international community must aim at safeguarding Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity, and territorial integrity, Greek Foreign Affairs Minister Nikos Dendias has said, during the welcoming remarks of the Athens Retreat on Syria.
At least 27 migrants and refugees were located on a country road on the island of Skyros on Wednesday while a sailing boat and an auxiliary boat used for their transport were found in a nearby bay.
The ministers responsible for transport in Greece and Italy hope to hold a face-to-face meeting in the near future, following a call between them on Friday.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that interest rates will fall as long as he is in power, and that inflation will decline with them, repeating his unorthodox views. Erdogan was speaking in Istanbul weeks before a presidential election on May 14.
Western Balkan nations are seeing a boom in solar energy investment, which could help ease a power crisis that had threatened a shift away from coal, but industry officials say transmission systems are not prepared for new energy feeds.
UN Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen on Friday met with Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias at the Foreign Ministry in Athens to discuss the latest developments in Syria.
Greek opposition leader Alexis Tsipras met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, at the headquarters of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) in Berlin Friday for talks that focused on economic and geopolitical developments in Europe and the world, SYRIZA’s plan for a progressive governance, foreign policy and the need of political cooperation to contain the threat…
Expert Jonathan Schanzer, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies’ Senior Vice President for Research, joins Thanos Davelis to look into the Supreme Court decision this week that the Turkish state-owned Halkbank remains subject to criminal prosecution in US courts for conspiring to evade US sanctions against Iran.