Constitutional bickering
The government has been greatly displeased by the way its plan to amend the Constitution has been attacked by former socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, a legal constitutional scholar.
The government has been greatly displeased by the way its plan to amend the Constitution has been attacked by former socialist leader Evangelos Venizelos, a legal constitutional scholar.
Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis filed a defamation lawsuit on Monday against leftist, anti-establishment Course of Freedom party leader Zoe Konstantopoulou, following her accusations that he defended the response of a biscuit factory’s ownership after a deadly explosion late last month that left five workers dead.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the president of the United Arab Emirates have agreed to meet presently, officials in Athens said Monday.
A newly-emerged trove of 12 black and white photographs linked with a major German World War II atrocity in occupied Athens appears to be genuine and if further research proves that to be the case the prints will be acquired for Greece, officials said Monday.
Donald Trump’s shaking the bond between the United States and Europe highlights a fundamental difference between the two sides: The Americans see the Europeans as foreigners, while the Europeans turned out to have believed that they had a close kinship with their great ally.
Five people have been arrested west of Athens for alleged membership of a gang that burgled dozens of shops and houses, stealing at least €120,000 and, in one case, battering an elderly person in her house during a robbery that netted them €35, police said Monday.
A large-scale jewelry workshop in Elefsina, west of Athens, was broken into in recent days, with perpetrators making off with valuables estimated at approximately €5,000, police said on Monday.
Civil protection authorities have set much of western Greece on a state of alert for Tuesday ahead of potential flooding amid storms forecast to hit the area.
The previous week’s Greek-Turkish summit meeting in Ankara may not have resolved any contentious bilateral issues, but the calm and respectful exchanges were considered a success, confirming the climate of relative detente prevailing since February 2023.
Authorities have launched proceedings to revoke the asylum status of Javed Aslam, head of the Pakistani community in Athens, as part of a broader government review of international protection cases, according to reports Monday.