Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s harsh rhetoric against America and Israel will set back the efforts he has seemingly undertaken lately to improve relations with, among others, the West and more specifically the US; still, that should not impede the rapprochement that is under way between Athens and Ankara.
The miserable state of the Greek justice system has been highlighted from many different quarters, not least by thousands of citizens who have had first-hand experience of its workings.
Sunday’s local and regional election runoff had many would-be winners, but the one which prevailed beyond all doubt stood alone: It was abstention.
The fate of fish farming company Avramar is to become known soon, as the completion of the biomass inventory, seen within the next 10 days, is expected to signal the start of the company’s sale process.
A 41-year-old former soccer player has been identified as the leader of a local cocaine trafficking ring that was dismantled on Monday by the Hellenic Police (ELAS), after a raid of a container at the port of Piraeus yielded 67 kilograms of the drug in 58 packages.
The benchmark of the Greek stock market returned at closing on Tuesday to where it had started the week.
Despite comments by former PASOK leader George Papandreou on Sunday that the victory of Haris Doukas in the Athens mayoral race was a great opportunity for an alliance with SYRIZA in view of the European elections, PASOK’s leadership does not share the same view.
Greece’s railway services which suffered huge damages after a mega-storm hit the country last month will return to full operation in 18 months, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday.
When PASOK announced on July 26 that it was nominating Haris Doukas as its candidate for the Municipality of Athens, the usual reaction was “Who is he?”
What a difference a day makes… Just last week, the conversation in this part of the planet almost exclusively revolved around the procedure for a Greek-Turkish rapprochement.