Against the backdrop of the ongoing turmoil in the Middle East, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan talked on the telephone on Monday to discuss regional stability and security, moving beyond purely Greek-Turkish issues.
After the shock of human life losses in Israel, the question is whether there is also a risk of a shock in the global economy.
Twenty-four municipalities in Attica through which the Kifissos river and two of its tributaries, the Podoniftis and Eschatia, flow have been ordered to proceed immediately in cleaning out the waterways in view of the risk of flooding.
The National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued an emergency bulletin warning of heavy rain and storms in various parts of the country that will last from noon until tonight, with the west and north of the country mainly affected.
A well-known beach bar has been ordered to close for four days after it was found to be operating software designed to trick tax inspectors. Officials from the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) found that the business, located in Kavouri, Vouliagmeni, in southwest Athens, was using a so-called “panic button.”
With SYRIZA riveted by internal turmoil, triggered by repeated electoral losses and the assumption of its leadership by “outsider” Stefanos Kasselakis, a representative of the “Umbrella” faction, which represents the left-wing opposition within the party, has told Kathimerini that “it is finished.”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated Greece’s position on Monday that Tirana’s aspirations to begin accession negotiations with the European Union hinge on the case of Fredi Beleri, the jailed ethnic-Greek mayor-elect of Himare in southern Albania.
Seven Greenpeace activists, including one from Greece, scaled the cooling tower of a coal-fired power plant in Bulgaria on Monday in protest over its pollution, demanding its immediate closure.
Defence Minister Nikos Dendias held talks in London on Monday with his British counterpart Grant Shapps regarding cooperation between Greece and the UK in the field of defense innovation.
The Petit Paris d’Athenes cultural festival was created with the aim of celebrating Athens’ downtown neighborhoods where the streets have French names.