Patra will acquire the intercity passenger train it has been without, which will reach Rio at the beginning of 2028, Alternate Transport Minister Konstantinos Kyranakis said on Thursday, adding that funding has been guaranteed.
President of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides and Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhurman held a meeting under the auspices of UN Cyprus envoy María Holguín, during which they discussed a number of confidence-building initiatives, the UN said in a statement.
“I often think back to the carefree days of my childhood, playing with reeds,” says Dr Ioannis Sanidas, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and investigator at the Krantz Family Center for Cancer Research at Mass General Research Institute in Boston.
Seven individuals were arrested Thursday during a coordinated police operation in Aspropyrgos, west of Athens, aimed at cracking down on illegal activity in the area.
Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, a US-trained technocrat with a background in computer science and public policy, was on Thursday elected president of the Eurogroup, the assembly of finance ministers from the countries that use the euro, beating his Belgian peer Vincent Van Peteghem.
A total of €21 million will be provided to farmers affected by sheep and goat pox to cover the cost of animal feed, under a new joint decision by the Ministries of National Economy and Finance and Rural Development and Food.
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, expected to be preparing a political return through a new party, has voiced his support for the nationwide farmers’ protests over delayed subsidy and compensation payments in a social media video released on Thursday.
A majority of the members of parliament voted to lift the immunity of ruling New Democracy party MP Athanasios Kavvadas.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov handed in his government’s resignation on Thursday following weeks of street protests over its economic policies and its perceived failure to tackle corruption.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a phone call with the Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides to discuss the latest developments on the Cyprus issue.