Voters in Slovenia headed to the polls on Sunday in a highly contested parliamentary election that pits the governing liberals against right-wing populists in a vote that will decide whether the small European Union nation stays on its liberal course or sways toward the right.
A second case of foot-and-mouth disease was confirmed Sunday at a livestock farm on Lesvos, in Pelopi, near the site of the first outbreak reported last week.
The main opposition party PASOK heads into a critical three-day congress this Friday with internal tensions simmering beneath an uncertain surface, as party officials themselves disagree sharply over how events will unfold.
The trial into the events leading up to the 2023 Tempe rail disaster in central Greece is set to begin Monday in Larissa, at a specially arranged hall in the Conference Center of the University of Thessaly’s Gaiopolis complex.
A natural gas explosion in Istanbul’s central Fatih district brought down two buildings on Sunday.
A nursery school caught fire late Saturday night near Lamia, central Greece, causing alarm among nearby residents and prompting a large-scale response from firefighters to contain the blaze.
Greek banks are limited in their ability to finance growth, ECB economists said in a blog on Saturday, despite a remarkable recovery from the economic crisis a decade ago, as a large part of the country’s private debt is outside the banking system.
The Transport Ministry is overhauling the country’s driver licensing system, introducing a sweeping package of anti-corruption measures aimed at eliminating fraudulent licenses and ending a culture of bribery that has long plagued the process.