Any attempt to change the status quo in Greenland would be “disastrous” and a “direct challenge to NATO,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview Monday. “It could prove the final straw in a difficult relationship we have with the US,” Mitsotakis said. “Greenland is part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and that cannot…
In the current era of radical disruption, Europe seems at a loss – or still worse – scared and divided. The world at large is becoming ever more perilous, and the fundamental assumptions of old no longer apply.
A convicted murderer, serving a life sentence in Korydallos prison, was stabbed to death in his cell by a fellow prisoner on Monday.
Protesting Greek farmers who are demanding extra state subsidies and tax breaks will decide Tuesday whether to continue their weeks-long campaign of blocking key highways and border crossings, following lengthy talks with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
A total 79 migrants reached the southern island of Gavdos in a small vessel from northern Africa on Sunday and two of them have been arrested on suspicion of belonging to a migrant smuggling gang, authorities said Monday.
Israel will share operational experience from the use of F-35 fighter jets with Greece as the two countries seek to deepen strategic cooperation amid growing instability in the Middle East, according to an Israeli spokesperson.
A Greek prosecutor has ordered that assets belonging to 17 farmers suspected of involvement in wide-scale European Union subsidy fraud be frozen pending an investigation into whether they should be charged over the so-called OPEKEPE scandal. Organized crime prosecutor Dimitris Gyzis is understood to have issued the first sequestration orders shortly before Christmas. These involved…
A 51-year-old pedestrian was slightly injured Monday morning when a taxi accidentally drove onto the sidewalk of busy Panepistimiou Street in central Athens, authorities said. The accident occurred at 11:15 a.m.
Gale-force winds, rainstorms and snowfall are forecast to hit Greece over the next couple of days before starting to relent from Thursday on.
Greek taxi drivers are holding a new two-day strike starting 6 a.m. Tuesday, to protest schedules for obligatory transition to electric-powered vehicles. The greater Athens region’s SATA union has called the strike, and taxi drivers in Thessaloniki and other parts of the country are expected to also participate. Taxi driver unions are angry at a…