Complaint lodged against Greece over hydrocarbon extraction
Three environmental groups have filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Greece about hydrocarbon extraction.
Three environmental groups have filed a formal complaint with the European Commission against Greece about hydrocarbon extraction.
As EU leaders meet in Brussels this week, their focus is largely on Ukraine and its ties to the EU. In the buildup to the summit, however, the Western Balkans also caught their attention.
A fan of Olympiacos club was banned for life from the Peace and Friendship stadium in Neo Faliro after shouting a racist slur against French referee Joseph Bissang during a basketball match between the Greek club and Valencia on Friday.
Students and police forces engaged in a tense standoff, which at times spilled over, on Friday outside a hotel in Kavouri on the southern coast of Athens where a meeting of university deans was taking place.
Direct access to the islands of Imbros and Tenedos has been a perennial request of the natives of the two islands. Particularly on Imbros, the largest of the two, where, under the Lausanne Treaty, Ankara had a contractual obligation to safeguard rights and property (and certainly did so only piecemeal), there is a problem of…
The rail link between Athens and Thessaloniki has reopened after a three-month stoppage caused by Storm Daniel, with 131 boarding the first service from the capital on Saturday morning. “The Greek railway is back on the tracks,” said Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras.
Greece proceeded on Friday with the early repayment of two installments of bilateral loans, as it had long planned.
Former conservative prime minister Antonis Samaras has criticized a government amendment that would grant residence permits to third-country nationals living in Greece for many years without legal documents and working in undeclared jobs.
A new type of residence permit for third-country citizens is being created to resolve the major issue of labor shortages, to eliminate the phenomena of undeclared work, and to ensure public order and security.
Three people have been hospitalized after receiving injuries in a shooting outside a nightclub in central Athens. The shooting occurred shortly before 7 a.m. outside a club on Iakchou Street in Gazi. According to reports, a vehicle pulled up outside the venue and a passenger opened fire. The three injured people were transferred to Gennimatas…