Greece’s Parliament voted on Tuesday to ban the extreme-right Greeks-National Party from running in the upcoming elections, aiming to block its members linked to the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn criminal organization from entering parliament.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias spoke on the phone on Friday with his Austrian counterpart Alexander Schallenberg to discuss the promotion of bilateral relations.
Champion Stefanos Tsitsipas crashed out of the Monte Carlo Masters when he slumped to a 6-2 6-4 defeat against American Taylor Fritz in the quarter-finals on Friday.
The US Ambassador to Greece, George Tsunis, noted the exceptional bilateral relations between the two countries following a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday.
The Holy Fire, flown to Greece each year from the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, is set to arrive on a special Aegean Airlines flight on Saturday evening, in time for Easter midnight mass.
A 52-year-old woman is expected to appear before an Athens prosecutor after dousing her 57-year-old husband with a flammable liquid and setting him alight.
The lawyer of Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption who is to be released from custody and placed under house arrest, said that her fingerprints were never found on the bundles of money found in her residence by an investigator in the so-called Qatargate scandal.
Electric cars remain an unaffordable luxury for the majority of Greeks and Europeans in general, as in spite of state subsidies, which were also provided in Greece, the purchase cost is in some cases even double that of a conventional car.
The government hopes tourism revenue will increase by 10 percent this year, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias has said.
Eva Kaili, the former European Parliament vice president accused of corruption, has been released from custody with an ankle bracelet.