Greek dream for Euro 2024 hinges on Dutch
Greece’s hopes for automatic qualification to the Euro 2024 soccer finals tournament will to a large degree hinge on the Netherlands, which it will take on in Athens on Monday.
Greece’s hopes for automatic qualification to the Euro 2024 soccer finals tournament will to a large degree hinge on the Netherlands, which it will take on in Athens on Monday.
Greece’s ruling New Democracy party suffered a setback in Sunday’s runoff elections for regional governors and mayors, losing the country’s two largest cities and five of the six regional contests.
A search and rescue operation is currently underway near the island of Symi in the southeastern Aegean following the sinking of a dinghy believed to be carrying 13 undocumented migrants.
The second round of Greece’s local and regional elections on Sunday caused upsets in the country’s two largest municipalities, Athens and Thessaloniki, while candidates officially backed by ruling New Democracy lost in five of the six remaining regions in the runoff.
The rate of home ownership in Greece is decreasing. The latest official figures from Eurostat put the figure at 72.8%.
Athenians “believed the impossible” and made his win over incumbent mayor Kostas Bakoyannis come true against all odds, newly elected mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas, said on Sunday.
Police arrested a 38-year-old man in the Piraeus suburb of Perama on Sunday on charges that he was beating his pet dog.
Cyprus and Egypt are currently facing the most direct credit risks among countries rated by Scope Ratings due to the Israeli-Hamas conflict, warns the German firm.
Kostas Peletidis was elected to a third term as mayor of Patras by 56.70% of voters and 98.55% of all votes counted nationally in Sunday’s runoff local government elections.
The European Union’s national leaders back Israel’s right to defend itself in line with humanitarian and international law, they said in a statement issued on Sunday.