The new Ministry of Social Cohesion and Family will work on “strengthening the family” and on the “harmonization that must exist between professional and family life,” its first minister, Sofia Zacharaki, has said.
The outcome of Sunday’s election largely followed expectations, with no significant deviations from the May 21 election. However, regrettably, there is a notable difference compared to the previous election.
Greece’s ambassador to Albania has described the absence of the mayor-elect of the predominantly ethnic Greek city of Himare in southern Albania from the first meeting of its new council as a “great blow to the rule of law and the presumption of innocence.”
With all 17,258 valid votes cast by Greek citizens abroad in Sunday’s general election, conservative New Democracy emerged as the most popular party overseas with 43.23% of the vote, a slight increase on its 42.62% share in the May election.
Three migrants have been hospitalised with light injuries when the truck they were travelling in hit a street light in the northeastern city of Alexandroupoli. The incident occurred at around 11 a.m., when the alleged trafficker driving the truck lost control of the vehicle, which had 21 passengers in the back.
A European Union parliament committee has rejected a landmark legal proposal to protect endangered natural habitats, ahead of a decisive vote by the full EU assembly next month.
Coast guard on Kalymnos have evacuated 37 migrants from a rocky coast on the northwest of the Dodecanese island. The migrants said that their vessel began to drift while passing the nearby island of Pserimos and sank after it hit a rock.
A Czech tourist has died after collapsing on a beach on the northern Aegean island of Thasos, with eyewitnesses saying that it took 51 minutes for an ambulance to reach the scene.
Greece plans four bond reopenings via auctions in the second half of the year to boost liquidity on the secondary market, the Public Debt Management Agency (PDMA) said on Tuesday.