Greece will set up a special task force to investigate cases of illegal EU subsidy payments made to fake farmers through a Greek organization responsible for distributing the aid, the country’s prime minister said on Monday.
Greece needs to cover a gap of 0.4% of its gross domestic product, or approximately 1 billion euros based on current GDP, for its defense spending to reach 3.5% of GDP.
On June 2, a few weeks before the expiry of the gross margin cap on Monday, concerning a range of food and other grocery items and fuel, supermarkets received a letter from the Interdepartmental Market Control Unit (DIMEA) – anything but a farewell or formal one.
At least two frigates of the Hellenic Navy have been deployed in international waters off Libya in a move aimed at halting illegal immigration into Greece, Kathimerini understands.
Thirty-nine people suspected of being members of two antiquities trafficking rings were conditionally released on Monday after testifying before an investigative magistrate in Thessaloniki.
With experience of Greece that stems from his many years of diplomatic service in Athens, American diplomat Thomas Miller advises the new US ambassador in Athens “not to try to sell the MAGA agenda” to the Greek people.
Since President Trump stepped back into the Oval Office, Greece has been on the lookout for the arrival of a new US ambassador.
Ever since Greece joined what was then the European Economic Community in January 1981, the bloc’s generous farming subsidies have been used, above all, to keep the farmers happy.
The conservative government is again staring at the prospect of some of its officials facing judicial pursuit, this time for a corruption scandal involving the mismanagement of European Union farming subsidies.
Goldman Sachs has sold three seaside resorts it bought in northern Greece in 2022 at a low price, barely breaking even on the roughly €100 million it had invested in the project, according to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday which cited people familiar with the matter.