Supreme Court prosecutor Konstantinos Tzavellas has instructed prosecutors to intervene in cases where offenses that the law requires authorities to prosecute ex officio – that is, automatically, even without a complaint from a victim – are committed during the farmers’ protests across the country.
The inspections conducted by Greece’s independent privacy watchdog ADAE in the headquarters of the country’s intelligence agency EYP during its investigation into a sprawling wiretapping scandal targeting government ministers and journalists were inadequate, the body’s former head, Christos Rammos, told court on Tuesday.
This weekend we heard Hakan Fidan say he believes Ankara and Washington will find a way to remove CAATSA sanctions “very soon”.
Flights to and from Iraklio Airport on the Greek island of Crete resumed early on Tuesday, aviation officials said, after farmers who had been blocking the terminal ended a protest.
The government will grant a pension of 1,700 euros per month and offer other tax relief to the victims and relatives of the 2017 floods in western Attica and the 2018 wildfires in Mati, the Finance Ministry announced Tuesday.
Value-added tax and personal income tax remain the two sources of problems for the tax administration, as they account for the majority of unpaid tax liabilities.
More than eight in 10 Greeks – 83% – believe corruption exists in Greece to a very large or fairly large extent, while nearly four in 10 say they became aware of at least one corrupt incident in the past 12 months, according to a nationwide survey conducted by Palmos Analysis for the National Transparency…
Police in Athens say they have arrested a man they believe may have been planning a murder, after they found automatic rifles in a car he had stolen.
Six individuals accused of being members of a criminal organisation carrying out contract killings were arrested on Tuesday, following a police operation in Attica.
In a significant distinction for Greek higher education, the internationally recognised university ranking publication Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities has ranked the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) 191st worldwide.