The National Security Governmental Council (KYSEA), Greece’s top decision-making body on foreign affairs and defense matters, discussed on Thursday Hamas’ terrorist attacks in Israel and the situation in the Gaza Strip, along with their effects on Greece and the wider region, the government said in a press release.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis visited Victoria Square in central Athens on Thursday with Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis in a sign of support for the incumbent ahead of a runoff municipal election this Sunday.
Socialist opposition party PASOK on Thursday accused the Minister of Rural Development, Lefteris Avgenakis, of blackmailing farmers in central Greece whose livelihoods were destroyed in two major storms last month into voting for the regional governor supported by the ruling Conservatives in order to receive their compensations in time.
If prolonged for long, the war in Israel could deal a blow to Greece’s tourism industry, with the total number of arrivals and travel receipts likely to drop by up to 2%, according to market sources who spoke to Kathimerini.
Police on the island of Lesvos arrested on 12 October two stretcher-bearers who took bribes from the owner of a funeral parlor to inform him which patients were in critical condition and likely to die.
The foreign ministers of Greece and Cyprus were just in Oman, where EU ministers met with their Gulf counterparts. Needless to say, the planned agenda got thrown out the window with the Hammas terrorist attack against Israel taking center stage.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is believed to be changing the country’s strategy, with political analysts suggesting that his government has shelved recent attempts to re-engage with the US and Israel and has instead started a campaign to advocate for the protection of the Muslim world. In his speech to his party’s parliamentary group on…
The ongoing crisis in main opposition SYRIZA appears unrelenting as the leftist party’s newly elected leader Stefanos Kasselakis issued a stark warning on Wednesday to dissenters that they would be excluded from the ballot papers. Shortly before the meeting of the Bureau of the Parliamentary Group concluded, Kasselakis posted that “anyone who undermines the unity…
The incumbent Athens mayor Kostas Bakoyannis and Haris Doukas took part in a televised debate on Wednesday night ahead of Sunday’s runoff.
Germany wants to make it simpler and faster to deport migrants, particularly those with a criminal background, by cutting notification periods and making searches by authorities easier, according to an Interior Ministry statement on Wednesday.