Hungary will lift its objection to Bulgaria joining Europe’s passport-free Schengen zone after the Bulgarian parliament formally confirms its scrapping of an extra tax on Russian gas shipments, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said.
Eliminating the stigma associated with technical education is of the upmost importance, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said. Visiting Perama vocational high school near Piraeus, he said he was impressed by the quality of the work being done.
While there is growing interest on the part of potential employees to apply for local authority positions, when it comes to the time of appointment, it is estimated that one in two turn their backs on the public sector.
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Tuesday as saying that positive developments on the US sale of F-16 fighter jets to Ankara, and on Canada’s arms embargo, would help Turkey’s parliament move toward ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership bid.
A former New Democracy prime minister has voted against a government amendment that would enable certain migrants to obtain a three-year residency and work permit. In voting “no” to the amendment, Antonis Samaras sided with the rightwing Hellenic Solution, Spartans and Niki MPs.
Importers of coffee to the European Union are starting to scale back purchases from small farmers in Africa and beyond as they prepare for a landmark EU law that will ban the sale of goods linked to the destruction of forests, a cause of climate change.
Greece’s opposition sharply criticised Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis on Tuesday for ordering the removal of an art piece that depicted the Greek flag in pink hues from an exhibition at the country’s consulate in New York, following complaints from a far-right party in Parliament.
A 75-year-old man was arrested for dangerous driving, disruption of transportation safety and insubordination on Sunday morning following a long car chase with police through Athens, authorities said on Tuesday.
Last week European leaders focused on EU enlargement, from the Western Balkans to Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia.
The ideological chasm between those who propose solutions to problems and those who choose to live in fantasies and fossilized ideologies is not determined by whether they are on the Left or Right of the old political distinctions. Often, the same party can be divided along the lines of members who feel the need to…