The political landscape reflected in public opinion polls almost three weeks after the rail tragedy at Tempe is causing a commotion in the ranks of the country’s political parties, as “nobody” has gained popularity.
A pedestrian died after being struck by a car Sunday evening in the northern Athens suburb of Neo Psychiko.
SYRIZA chief Alexis Tsipras is pondering the idea of taking the issue of safety from Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ pre-election agenda and using it to respond to the public outcry stemming from the Tempe rail crash.
An Israeli-backed Cypriot fund’s deal to buy a Lukoil-owned refinery in Italy is hanging in the balance ahead of a Cabinet meeting in Rome possibly this week, when veto powers would be weighed against energy hub aspirations that could replace Russian gas and put the final nail in the coffin of a proposed EastMed pipeline.
All opinion polls published since the rail tragedy at Tempe, on the last night of February, that left 57 dead and exposed the shoddiness of the country’s rail infrastructure and operations, concur that the ruling conservative New Democracy party, although still in the lead, has lost significant ground.
Acropolis Museum Director Nikolaos Stampolidis points to a sculpture of a horse’s head that is one of three fragments from the Parthenon frieze returned to Greece by the Vatican Museums in the form of a “donation” by Pope Francis to Archbishop Ieronymos.
Thessaloniki, Greece’s second-largest city, commemorated on Sunday the 80th anniversary of the departure of the first train convoy for the Auschwitz camp.
New logistics properties with a total area of 280,000 square meters will be placed on the local market by the end of 2024, continuing the “rally” of new construction in recent years.
Inflation in Cyprus dropped for the seventh consecutive month to reach 6.7% in February.
The Athens derby between AEK and Panathinaikos, at the start of the round-robin playoffs on Sunday, ended in a stalemate.