Consensus on education
The country’s rational political forces could, surely, find some common ground on the issues of education.
The quiet luxury of a summer night at the movies
Greece’s open-air cinemas, an iconic summer pastime, are back in full swing but ticket prices are climbing. Attendance has started strong. ‘People realize summer weather comes early now and aren’t afraid to come out,’ said Kostas Gounaris.
Basketball finals to resume after club owners met with minister
The Greek Basketball League finals between Panathinaikos and Olympiacos are set to resume, following meetings on Wednesday between the two clubs’ owners and Alternate Minister for Sports, Yiannis Vroutsis.
ATHEX: Index gains more ground on blue chips
Non-bank blue chips carried the Greek stock market higher for the second day in a row on Wednesday.
SYRIZA proposal for Tempe disaster inquiry clears Parliamentary threshold
A proposal submitted by the leftist SYRIZA party to establish a preliminary parliamentary committee on the 2023 Tempe railway disaster has officially secured the required 30 signatures, advancing it to the next stage of parliamentary procedure.
Greece and Egypt seeking solution on Sinai Monastery issue, says Gerapetritis
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis, held a meeting in Cairo with his Egyptian counterpart, Badr Abdelatty, regarding the issue of the Orthodox Monastery of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai.
Turkey to press allies for access to EU defence funds
Turkey will press European allies which plan to sharply ramp up their defense spending to ease restrictions that now require most of that money to be spent in the EU, Defense Minister Yasar Guler told Reuters on Wednesday ahead of a NATO meeting.
Former police officer gets life sentence for Grigoropoulos’ killing
Former police officer Epaminondas Korkoneas was sentenced to life imprisonment without mitigation by a Mixed Jury Court of Appeal in Lamia on Wednesday, nearly 17 years after he fatally shot 15-year-old Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens.
Athens clinic evacuated after bomb threat
Authorities responded to a bomb threat at the Viokliniki diagnostic center in the Ampelokipoi district of Athens on Tuesday, after an anonymous caller warned of an explosive device on the premises.
EU firefighting support set to arrive in Greece for summer season
A total of 323 firefighters from six European countries will join Greek forces this summer as part of the EU’s Union Civil Protection Mechanism, in what is the largest single deployment in this year’s European firefighting support effort.