What Valencia has taught us
The floods in Valencia, which cost more than 200 lives, are another loud alarm bell that should be heeded by Greece.
The floods in Valencia, which cost more than 200 lives, are another loud alarm bell that should be heeded by Greece.
Europe faces two major dilemmas following the latest political developments in the United States. The first concerns the role it will choose to play in the escalating tension between China and the US.
Greece’s top judicial leaders are calling for urgent action regarding conditions at Greek penitentiaries and police detention centers to avert European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) penalties.
JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, who is of Greek extraction, will remain at the bank and has no plans to join Donald Trump’s administration despite questions about whether he would take a senior government role after the US presidential election, a source said.
Police on Chios are investigating a case in which a woman was defrauded of of 608,955 euros in an online scam.
“‘Small America’ won today and it is going to abandon the world,” international law professor Maria Gavouneli tells Kathimerini.
Friday’s upcoming meeting, in Athens, of Greek and Turkish foreign ministers George Gerapetritis and Hakan Fidan, will be important in determining whether the two countries could seek international arbitration for their bilateral disputes.
The European Union must be united and coordinate closely in view of Donald Trump’s coming return to the White House, the leaders of the bloc’s two main powers, Germany and France, have said after holding talks to coordinate their response.
The meeting on confidence building measures between the Greek and Turkish delegations has concluded in Istanbul, some 24 hours before the arrival in Athens of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan.
An Italian navy ship has set sail for Albania carrying a second small group of migrants, with Rome looking to salvage a controversial plan to process asylum seekers abroad after a first attempt hit legal hurdles.