Britain said on Tuesday it intends to start talks with Turkey over refreshing their bilateral free trade deal, with a view to including services and the digital sector in any future agreement.
A 37-year-old martial arts coach stands accused of sexually molesting three teenage female students in the northern port city of Thessaloniki, the police said in a press release on Tuesday.
Culture Ministry researchers documenting the movable assets at the former royal palace at Tatoi in northern Athens have discovered the regalia of Greece’s Bavarian King Otto, the ministry said on Monday.
Greek and Turkish naval and air forces took part in a NATO “enhanced vigilance activity” last week, with a British destroyer also involved with the two countries’ forces.
Four Canadair water-dropping aircraft are expected to arrive in Greece from France and Italy to help put out wildfires raging in Attica, Viotia and Corinth, following the activation of the EU-wide Civil Protection Mechanism.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mistotakis’ “bold agenda” for Greek-Turkish relations, and look at the difficult road ahead to bring the issue of the delimitation of the continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) to the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
More than 300 cats, dogs, farm animals and horses have been rescued from the East Attica wildfires that flared up on Monday, an Interior Ministry official said on Tuesday, while animal protection groups reported that dozens also perished as the blazes tore through fields, farms, yards and animal shelters.
Sale prices for holiday homes on the popular islands of the Cyclades are on a decade high, as the losses recorded in previous years have been more than covered.
Civil servants will be walking off the job for a few hours across Greece on Wednesday morning in demand of higher salaries, their umbrella union, ADEDY, said on Monday.
Water-dumping aircraft took off at first light on Tuesday to help dozens of ground crews and mobile units battle three wildfires in the regions of Attica, Corinth and Viotia for a second day, as strong winds and high temperatures continued to exacerbate conditions.