Ankara expects Washington to “act in accordance with the spirit of alliance and fulfill the commitments made” for the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan reportedly told US Secretary of State Antony Blinken during a phone call on Wednesday.
Incoming Athens Mayor Haris Doukas signaled a grass-roots approach to his mayorship by pledging a “return to the neighborhoods” of the Greek capital at the swearing-in ceremony of the new municipal council.
A Cypriot brokerage firm caught up in an investigation by French prosecutors probing financial transfers possibly tied to Yevgeny Prigozhin on Wednesday denied it had ever had direct relations with the late Wagner mercenary chief.
The site in Kalamata, southern Greece, where a pilot crashed and died on Wednesday. The Defense Ministry declared three days of mourning for the Armed Forces.
“Europe has lost one of its founding fathers,” Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said in a statement following the death of former European Commission president Jacques Delors on Wednesday.
In the first two months of the year the digital platform will be ready for the submission of applications for the acquisition of encroached state land, according to the National Economy and Finance Ministry.
Greece “sadly bids farewell to a great European and philhellene, the visionary who, with his work, marked the European Union’s history and development,” Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis said in a statement about the passing of former European Commission president Jacques Delors on Wednesday.
Athens mayor-elect Haris Doukas and the new city council are to be sworn into office at 11 a.m. on Thursday, in a ceremony at the Kypseli Municipal Market that will not be attended by the convicted far-right councillor Ilias Kasidiaris.
The Anti-Sports Violence Subdivision is launching a criminal case for the formation of a criminal organization against at least 25 hardcore Olympiakos hooligans.
In the latest reshuffling of the pack in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Tripoli government in Libya has informed the United Nations of the Council of Ministers’ decision, led by Prime Minister Abdul Hamid al-Dbeibeh, to declare a 12 nautical mile territorial waters zone.