The European Central Bank raised interest rates by 50 basis points on Thursday as promised, ignoring financial market chaos and calls by investors to dial back policy tightening at least until sentiment stabilizes.
Clashes broke out in Athens Thursday after a general strike in Greece that was called in response to a rail disaster last month.
Greece and Israel signed the 2023 Defense Cooperation Program in a meeting in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, the Hellenic National Defense General Staff (HNDGS) announced.
Police arrested a 47-year-old man in Thessaloniki on Tuesday night who is wanted for sexually abusing the child of his former partner.
Hellenic Train, whose train crashed in a head-on collision with a freighter on Feb. 28, killing 57 people on board, announced on Wednesday it will make advance payments to the families of the victims and to the passengers injured in the crash in Tempe, to cover their immediate financial needs.
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Thousands of Greek workers walked off the job on Thursday and rallied in central Athens to protest failures of safety standards they claim helped cause the country’s deadliest train crash, which killed 57 people on Feb. 28.
European Commissioner for Justice, Didier Reynders, will visit Athens on March 16 and 17, to discuss the EU’s findings of the Rule of Law 2022 report for Greece, and other justice-related issues.
Flights to and from Greece were grounded and ships remained docked at ports on Thursday, as Greek workers walked off the job to protest over the country’s deadliest train crash on record which killed 57 people on Feb. 28.
A prosecutor in northern Greece ordered a preliminary investigation onto the stability and safety of the Servia High Bridge (also known as Lake Polyphytos Bridge) in western Macedonia, amid concerns over serious structural problems.