Voters go to the polls in North Macedonia this week for the first round of the presidential election — the seventh such vote since the small landlocked Balkan country gained independence from the former Yugoslavia in 1991.
In the largest ever operation against fan violence in the country, Attica police proceeded with a barrage of arrests on Monday of Olympiakos club hooligans for their involvement in the fatal injury of the riot policeman Giorgos Lygeridis and in at least 14 more cases.
The government is expected to present its revised benefits policy in the summer.
Dimitris Papalexopoulos, head of Greek business federation SEV, announced on Monday he will not be running for a third term at the helm of the group.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be present at the inauguration event of the Lamia-Kalambaka section of the Central Greek Highway (E65) on Tuesday at 10 a.m.
Greece’s minister of rural development and food, Lefteris Avgenakis, is visiting Beijing, from Monday until Thursday.
Greece was the pleasant surprise of the European economy that was often mentioned at the Spring Meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group (WBG), National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said on wrapping up his visit to Washington.
Cyprus ended 2023 with a fiscal surplus of 918.7 million euros, the country’s Statistical Service (CyStat) said on Monday.
Olympiakos has become the first Greek club to win any European trophy, as it won UEFA’s Youth League on Monday beating AC Milan in the final.
Olympiakos has returned to the throne of Greek volleyball, completing the domestic double on Monday with its playoff final victory over archrival Panathinaikos.