A prosecutor from Greece’s Supreme Court on Thursday launched an emergency inquiry into the alleged beating and sexual assault of a 16-year-old Egyptian boy at a migrant camp outside Athens.
It’s a fragile and vulnerable trend, capable of being stopped in its tracks in an instant by the crisis at large. Yet it is extremely interesting: Common sense appears to be gaining the upper hand on Greece’s central political stage.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will chair a National Security Governmental Council (KYSEA) meeting Friday to consider suspending asylum applications from Syrian refugees after the collapse of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
Construction of a major freight hub in West Attica, an investment of 260 million euros covering 265,000 square meters, will start in 2025.
Descending Stadiou Street on a Sunday afternoon, the last thing I expected to encounter was a grand exhibition dedicated to the “liberating, revolutionary” events of 1944, organized by the Greek Communist Party (KKE).
A gas station in Crete has announced that it has stopped supplying fuel to any motorcycle where its driver or passenger is not wearing a helmet.
A 40-year-old monk was found dead Thursday on a rocky shoreline in the Monoxylitis area of Mount Athos, Greece’s all-male Orthodox monastic community. He had been reported missing in late November.
Turkish intelligence chief Ibrahim Kalin has visited Damascus, for what the Syrian information ministry said would be talks involving its new rebel leadership.
Former SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis, founder of the newly formed Movement for Democracy, has criticized the government’s 2025 budget as excessively austere as a five-day debate in parliament got underway.