Greek officials said Tuesday that they will continue talks with the British Museum about bringing the Parthenon Marbles back to Athens, despite UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak canceling a meeting with his Greek counterpart where the contested antiquities were due to be discussed.
Athens mayor-elect Haris Doukas visited the municipal authority’s Department of Sanitation on Monday, where he vowed a cleaner, greener city.
Greece will next month repay ahead of schedule 5.3 billion euros ($5.8 billion) of loans owed to eurozone countries under its first bailout, and hopes to repeat the move in 2024, Finance Ministry officials told Reuters on Tuesday.
The US is reportedly discussing with Greece the sale of a total of 75,000 artillery shells from the Hellenic Armed Forces’ stockpile as part of the effort to replenish Ukrainian ammunition in the war against Russia.
Strong winds are hampering the ongoing search for 12 seamen who have been missing since the freighter they were sailing on went down near the northeastern Aegean island of Lesvos on Sunday.
The islands of the Ionian and western parts of mainland Greece and the Peloponnese should brace for strong showers and gale-force winds on Tuesday and Wednesday, according to weather forecasts.
UN peacekeepers on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus are reportedly keeping a close eye on recent Turkish Cypriot activity in the buffer zone between the internationally recognized Republic of Cyprus and the Turkish-occupied north.
Greece has one of the highest percentages of elderly residents in rural and remote areas in the EU, experiencing insurmountable difficulties, according to a study by the Care Policy and Evaluation Center of the London School of Economics.
Expert Constantinos Filis joins Thanos Davelis to break down what we should expect from the upcoming meeting between Greek Prime Minister Mitsotakis and Turkish President Erdogan in Athens on December 7th, and look at what Turkey’s distancing from the West means for Greece.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to cancel a meeting with his Greek counterpart in London just hours before Kyriakos Mitsotakis was expected at 10 Downing Street, is “unprecedented” and “disrespectful,” the government spokesman in Athens said on Tuesday.