Coast guard rescues 74 migrants near Gavdos
Seventy-four undocumented migrants aboard a stranded vessel were rescued by a coast guard patrol vessel 10 nautical miles southeast of the island of Gavdos on Monday.
What led to Thursday’s Cabinet ousters
The resignations of the minister of state, Stavros Papastavrou, and the deputy minister to the prime minister, Yiannis Bratakos, last Thursday has been attributed to their attendance at the “wrong” social event.
PASOK chief again lashes at government over Tempe disaster
Socialist PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis lashed out at the conservative government on Monday morning, ahead of a meeting with Supreme Court Prosecutor Georgia Adeilini where he is expected to call for an investigation to establish who was responsible for doctoring audio recordings that made it appear that the February 2023 Tempe railway disaster was caused…
Tempe train crash casts long shadow over Greece’s political scene
The deadly Tempe train crash of February 2023 casts a long shadow over the country’s political scene, with political clashes set to deepen.
Supermarkets eye the Balkans
When Nikos Veropoulos sold his supermarket chain in Greece to Metro AEBE in 2016, he held onto the outlets under the Vero brand in the Balkans.
Passport checks for air travelers lifted as Bulgaria and Romania join EU’s Schengen
Airports in Sofia and Bucharest on Sunday removed passport check points for those departing to or arriving from most European Union member states as Bulgaria and Romania partially joined the Schengen open-travel zone.
In setback to Erdogan, opposition makes huge gains in local election
Turkey’s main opposition party retained its control over key cities and made huge gains elsewhere in Sunday’s local elections, in a major upset to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who had set his sights on retaking control of those urban areas. With more than 90% of ballot boxes counted, incumbent Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, of the…
HRADF: Signing of the concession agreement for Egnatia Odos Motorway
The Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), a member company of GROWTHFUND – The National Fund of Greece, announces that today, Friday, March 29, 2024, the agreement for the concession of Egnatia Odos Motorway was signed between the Greek State and the Fund, on the one hand, and NEA EGNATIA ODOS S.A. as the Concessionaire…
Thessaloniki metro to open in fall, after long wait
Thessaloniki will at long last welcome the opening of its first metro line at the end of November.
Turkey’s resurgent opposition thumps Erdogan in pivotal local elections
Turks dealt President Tayyip Erdogan and his party their biggest electoral blow on Sunday in a nationwide local vote that reasserted the opposition as a political force and reinforced Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as the president’s chief rival.