Kalamata airport to undergo runway renovation
The implementation of the investment plan aimed at modernizing the infrastructure of the Captain Vassilis Konstantakopoulos Kalamata Airport is about to begin.
NTUA cameras destroyed weeks after installation
Security cameras at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) were vandalized in late March, just weeks after being installed.
EU border agency reviewing 12 cases of potential rights violations by Greece
The EU border agency said on Tuesday it was reviewing 12 cases of potential human rights violations by Greece, including some allegations migrants were pushed back across the frontier, a practice for which Athens has already been chastised in European court.
A new age of global economic competition?
Last week President Trump’s announcement of global tariffs on both allies and adversaries went beyond most predictions, and we’ve seen experts talk about a US declaration of economic war on the world, while others warn of economic havoc, recession, and fears of a sharp global economic slowdown.
EU expects to present follow-up US tariff response plan early next week
The EU Commission expects to present an initial plan for its response to the wide import tariffs announced by US President Donald Trump early next week, a spokesperson said on Tuesday.
In 50-plus years at a cliffside Greek island monastery, a monk keeps faith and community together
For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island monastery carved into a seaside cliff that’s little changed since its founding more than a millennium ago.
ECB’s Stournaras says higher inflation due to tariffs could delay monetary policy normalisation
European Central Bank policymaker Yannis Stournaras said on Tuesday that likely higher inflation and a global trade war following US President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs could delay normalization of euro zone monetary policy.
EU’s Kallas warns Albania of difficult reforms in the bloc’s membership path
The European Union ‘s foreign policy chief on Tuesday hailed Albania’s “ambitious” agenda to close full membership negotiations in two years and also urged the country’s political parties to support difficult reforms ahead.
Three Afghans cleared in Moria camp fire case
Three Afghan asylum seekers were acquitted last Friday by a juvenile court in Mytilene, on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos, overturning prior convictions that saw them imprisoned for over three years for allegedly starting the 2020 fire that destroyed the overcrowded Moria migrant and refugee camp.
Power cable plan draws Turkish ire
Turkey has voiced strong objections to Greece’s planned resumption of underwater surveys near the islands of Kasos and Karpathos for the the Greece-Cyprus-Israel electricity interconnection project, known as the “Great Sea Interconnector.”