Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended his government’s plans to legalize same-sex civil marriages during a cabinet session on Wednesday, presenting the legislation as a step towards greater social equality.
SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis has criticized a government bill that introduces postal voting for Greeks living abroad in both national and European elections for not granting diaspora Greeks the right to run for office.
The Superfund plans to have received binding financial offers for the concession of Kalamata airport by the end of June, so as to complete the signing of the concession contract by the end of the year, to be ratified by the Parliament.
Thirteen of Greece’s environmental NGOs are calling for the withdrawal of the proposed legislation for construction outside town zoning areas, presented earlier in the month by the Environment Ministry.
Amid growing concern over the loss of exam periods, university authorities insist that classes must start immediately, calling on the small minority of students to end their ongoing occupation of faculties in protest at the government’s plan to institutionalize non-state institutions of higher education.
As was expected, the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece, which convened on Tuesday, was unanimous in its opposition to the legalization of same-sex marriage and equally unanimous regarding the next steps it will take.
In a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Greece’s permanent representative to the organization, Evangelos Sekeris, says that Libya’s recent decision to declare a 24-nautical mile contiguous zone, extending beyond its 12-nautical mile territorial sea, violates international law in three key respects.
Public discourse in Greece is dominated by the argument that the government’s effort to legislate marriage equality will carry a political cost. Careful analysis of the situation, however, leads to the opposite conclusion.
The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Greece to pay 8,000 euros to an unaccompanied child refugee, who in 2018 was left without accommodation for six months.
Greece’s power utility PPC plans to invest 9 billion euros in the 2024-2026 period with the aim to turn the company into a leader in clean energy, infrastructure and services in Southeastern Europe, under the new strategic plan presented by the company’s chairman and CEO George Stassis in London on Tuesday.