The Appeal of Albania’s Special Court for Corruption and Organized Crime (GJKKO) on Monday rejected a request by Fredi Beleri, the ethnic-Greek mayor-elect of Himare, to be sworn in before the municipal council.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis held a telephone conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, in preparation for the upcoming Special European Council meeting scheduled for February 1.
The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Roman Catholic church in Istanbul during a Sunday Mass that killed one person.
The acceleration of the process of determining the minimum salary, in order for the increase to be implemented earlier and to support employees in practice, will be one the first interventions by the new Minister of Labor, Domna Michailidou.
The recent unanimous rejection by the influential Greek Church’s governing Holy Synod of government plans to legalize same-sex marriage is perceived as a success for Archbishop Ieronymos in navigating the perennial antagonism between the more modernizing and conservative, at times obscurantist, factions within the Hierarchy.
Greek university rectors were holding an extraordinary meeting on Monday to explore alternative options for conducting semester exams due to numerous faculty occupations by students protesting government plans to facilitate the establishment of private universities.
Construction of a holiday home overlooking a bay on an Aegean island. In an interview with Kathimerini, Theodoros Aravanis, a retired Council of State judge, criticizes Environment Ministry plans to facilitate construction outside town plans.
The monuments on the Acropolis of Athens and any work carried out on the Sacred Rock always tend to draw attention.
Despite widespread public approval for founding non-state universities, the government must deal with strong reactions on the left, including occupations of campuses, and the fear of violent incidents.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday referred to the US State Department’s approval of the sale of up to 40 advanced F-35 fighter jets to Greece, as well as the accompanying letter from US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, saying that these developments “confirm the strategic depth of relations between the US and Greece.”