Greece’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to ban the extreme-right Greeks-National Party from running in the upcoming elections, aiming to block its members linked to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn criminal organization from entering parliament.
The US Ambassador to Greece, George Tsunis, noted the exceptional bilateral relations between the two countries following a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday.
The Holy Fire, flown to Greece each year from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, is set to arrive on a special Aegean Airlines flight on Saturday evening, in time for Easter midnight mass.
Electric cars remain an unaffordable luxury for the majority of Greeks and Europeans in general, as in spite of state subsidies, which were also provided in Greece, the purchase cost is in some cases even double that of a conventional car.
The lawyer of Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption who is to be released from custody and placed under house arrest, said that her fingerprints were never found on the bundles of money found in her residence by an investigator in the so-called Qatargate scandal.
A 52-year-old woman is expected to appear before an Athens prosecutor after dousing her 57-year-old husband with a flammable liquid and setting him alight.
The government hopes tourism revenue will increase by 10 percent this year, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias has said.
The annual Easter exodos of Athenians from the capital picked up pace at Attica’s ports, motorways and airports on Good Friday.
Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption, has been released from custody with an ankle bracelet.
Police in northeastern Athens are investigating a shooting incident and the ramming of a patrol car. The incident began shortly before midnight on Holy Thursday in the Ano Liosia district.