Greece’s National Confederation of Disabled Persons (ESAMEA) denounced on Thursday the state’s “blatant lack of protection of vulnerable citizens,” following the arrest on Wednesday of a man for abusing disabled people on live streamed videos. “These behaviors are not human,” the confederation said in a statement. “The behavior and attitude of all those who watched…
Seven people were injured on Thursday in fighting that broke out between groups of students outside the Propylea on Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, where an education-sector protest rally against the draft bill for founding non-state universities was underway.
The Migration and Asylum Ministry is working on a draft law to modernize the administrative mechanism granting resident permits to legal migrants.
Streets in the center of Athens will be gradually closed off to traffic on Thursday as a protest march against the establishment of private universities got underway.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias will travel to London on Thursday to meet with British officials, as well as academics and experts in defense technology, with a view to creating an innovation ecosystem for the Hellenic Armed Forces. During his visit to London, Dendias will also attend an event on the Greek language organized by the…
The premiere of Athens International Airport on the Athens Stock Exchange on Wednesday came with a rise that was approximately at 15%.
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake rattled Antikythera early Thursday morning, a small island on the edge of the Aegean Sea, lying between Crete and the Peloponnese. No damages were reported.
A 50-year-old man was found dead inside an apartment in the central district of Exarchia on Thursday morning, police said. Initial information suggested that the man suffered a head injury, while a hammer and a knife were found next to his body. The victim was being hosted in the said apartment on Harilaou Trikoupi Street…
The situation in Greece’s wider neighborhood, as well as bilateral defense cooperation, will be discussed by Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis and US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday in Washington, as part of the fifth round of the Strategic Dialogue with the United States.
Severe penalties and fines will be imposed on companies that sell cash registers and POS terminals that do not upgrade their software by February 29, the day the deadline expires for businesses to interface POS with cash registers.