Police break gang of motorcycle thieves
Authorities have broken a ring that stole motorcycles from the Greater Athens region cruising the streets by night in a white van they used to spirit away their loot, police said Friday.
Erdogan rejects ‘maximalist’ approaches in Aegean, East Med
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said his country rejects what he described as “maximalist unilateral approaches” that seek to exclude Turkey and the Turkish-occupied northern part of Cyprus from regional developments.
Lesvos livestock breeders told to keep calm amid foot-and-mouth outbreak
The government will partially lift a ban on the sale of cheese from the foot-and-mouth disease-hit island of Lesvos, Rural Development Minister Margaritis Schinas promised Friday following a meeting with local livestock breeders.
Bulgarian election fraud in spotlight on eve of vote
There are many reliable ways to meddle in a Bulgarian election. Brokers working for political parties offer voters €50 to 100 for their support. Agents threaten to halt wood supplies to rural households that rely on them for heating.
Phone scammers lift €100,000 in pensioner’s buried savings
A pensioner in a northern Greek village who had buried €100,000 in cash in her garden for safekeeping has lost the entire sum after falling for a phone scammer who posed as an accountant, police said Friday.
Man arrested after discovery of large cache of child abuse material
Police have arrested a 46-year-old man who was found in possession of hundreds of thousands of files containing child sexual abuse material, authorities said on Friday.
Trucker held for breaking sheep pox ban on transporting livestock
A truck driver has been arrested in southern Greece after being caught breaking a ban on the local transport of livestock amid the sheep pox epidemic, authorities said Friday.
Farmers urged to comply with biosecurity measures
Agriculture Minister Margaritis Schinas is expected to urge livestock farmers of Lesvos on Friday to comply with biosecurity measures aimed at containing foot-and-mouth disease, as authorities seek to curb its spread quickly.
Hasty register completion raises legal concerns
The Court of Audit has raised serious concerns about efforts to hastily complete the national cadastre, warning of prolonged uncertainty over property ownership and a surge in court appeals.
All’s well, apparently
In a weird way, Thursday’s parliamentary debate “on the state of the rule of law, the institutions and the functioning of the Parliament in Greece,” exuded something comforting: Even if everything around us is falling apart, we don’t feel the need to change.