When Greek police raided the apartment of a 49-year-old planning officer suspected of bribery on the tourist island of Rhodes last week, they found thousands of euros stashed in her pots and pans and even the cooker hood.
Turkish authorities deported a BBC News correspondent on Thursday after detaining him for 17 hours and branding him a “threat to public order.”
Professor Alexander Kitroeff joins Thanos Davelis as we look beyond the White House Greek Independence Day event to the Greek-American experience as a whole, from the early immigrants who arrived looking for opportunity to the new challenges the community faces.
Greece came in first in a survey as the cheapest luxury country, followed by Spain in second and Germany in third.
The Greek Ministry of Migration and Asylum is preparing tougher measures aimed at encouraging illegal migrants to return to their home countries.
The European Commission will assess US President Donald Trump’s announcement for tariffs of up to 25% on automotive imports, it said late on Wednesday, together with other measures the US is looking at in the next days.
The Hellenic Ports Association (ELIME) predicts that there will be a significant increase in cruise ship and passenger arrivals this year.
On Wednesday afternoon, the National Defense Ministry unveiled the Ark of National Memory, an art installation honoring the 121,692 fallen soldiers who fought in the country’s wars.
Turkey rejects “prejudiced” statements from the international community about the arrest of former Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and the nationwide protests triggered by it, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said.
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis has dismissed the antics of a group of Hellenic Navy cadets during Tuesday’s Independence Day parade as being part of an age-old and distinctly Greek (though certainly not exclusively) custom.”