Although it has less than half of the 230 employees it is supposed to have on paper, the Competition Commission, which is called upon to fight the battle against high prices, is accused by institutions, consumers, businesses, parliamentarians and even by its own political superiors of inefficiency.
Amberin Zaman, Al-Monitor’s chief correspondent covering major stories on the Middle East and North Africa, joins me to look into the protests that rocked Armenia over the past few months, and break down what’s at stake in the region as Azerbaijan – backed by Turkey – continues to demand further concessions from Armenia.
The 50th anniversary of the Metapolitefsi – the transition from dictatorship to democracy in 1974 and the period since – necessitates a rethinking of our relationship with historical time. In fact, the polysemous Metapolitefsi itself challenges our calculation of historical time, in each and every version of it: the Metapolitefsi as an event and a…
A fire broke out on Wednesday morning in the Lakka Kyrillou area of Aspropyrgos, west of Athens.
The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) has caught 27 companies allegedly involved in cases, as well as criminal rings, of issuing and receiving bogus invoices.
A Turkish parliamentary commission has approved a bill aimed at regulating the country’s large stray dog population, a move that has raised concerns among animal rights advocates who fear many of the dogs would be killed or end up in neglected and overcrowded shelters.
A 63-year-old man was fatally injured and a 22-year-old sustained injuries in a work-related incident at the Salamis Shipyards on the island of Salamina near Piraeus on Wednesday.
The past 50 years have been marked by both historic breakthroughs and missed opportunities for Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a parliamentary speech commemorating the anniversary of the restoration of democracy Wednesday, emphasizing that the key national goal must be catching up with more advanced EU states.
Lamda Development will finance the cost of developing its two malls at the Ellinikon project through bank credit.
Greek singer Despina Vandi canceled a recent appearance in Cesme in Izmir (once known as Smyrna) because the Turkish flag and a poster of modern Turkey’s founder, Kemal Ataturk, adorned the stage.