Parliament lifts immunity of SYRIZA MP Polakis
The Greek Parliament voted on Thursday to lift the immunity of SYRIZA MP Pavlos Polakis, following a defamation lawsuit filed against him by Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis.
Probe ordered into train routing mishap, as railway safety concerns mount
Yet another safety breach on Greece’s railway has prompted an urgent judicial investigation, with Athens’ chief prosecutor seeking answers as to why a Suburban Railway (Proastiakos) train was routed onto a metro track.
SYRIZA’s internal struggles and PASOK’s new opportunity
Nick Malkoutzis, the co-founder of Macropolis.gr, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the latest crisis within SYRIZA and look at what to keep an eye on as PASOK shifts gears following its leadership race.
POS-cash register connection target achieved well ahead of deadline
Greece has achieved its target to connect companies’ card terminals with cash registers two-and-a-half months before the deadline, said Hatzidakis.
Vasso Papandreou, a founding member of PASOK, dies
Vasso Papandreou, one of the founding members of the socialist PASOK party, and a former European commissioner, minister and MP, has died. She was 79 years old.
Justice delays hamper economic growth
Laws exist but are not enforced – or at least not implemented efficiently and quickly. That is a prevailing perception in Greece for many aspects of daily life, but also a dominant perception in the business world.
Greece-Ukraine bilateral agreement signed in Brussels
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday signed a bilateral security defense cooperation agreement, on the sidelines of the European Council in Brussels.
Greek PM calls on EU to revisit migrant return policy ahead of Council summit
Europe needs to ensure that migrants who have entered the bloc illegally are turned back to their point of origin rather than their point of entry, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said ahead of the European Council summit in Brussels on Thursday.
Power consumers not benefitting from zero cost of RES electricity
For 173 hours from the beginning of the year until September, electricity prices on the wholesale market were almost zero.
Hospital doctors, nurses on strike over ‘inhumane conditions’
Doctors and nurses working at Greece’s public hospitals were on strike on Thursday and their unions held a protest march from the Health Ministry to Parliament in central Athens in demand of more staff hirings and better salaries.