The head of Greece’s Anti-Money Laundering Authority Charalambos Vourliotis has ordered a freeze on the property and financial assets in Greece of European Parliament Vice-President Eva Kaili and those associated with her.
The delays generated in Thessaloniki by the two re-designings of the Venizelos and Agia Sofia stations have affected all the works on the main line of the metro in Thessaloniki.
Members of the ethnic Greek minority in southern Albania lament their community’s dwindling numbers, saying that unless incentives are given to young people to return to their ancestral villages the community will eventually disappear.
The leader of Greece’s leftist opposition on Monday urged Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis to resign amid a phone tapping scandal still under investigation.
Local banks are now adopting a European model in their charges, with special packages which include a certain number of free transactions every month via internet, mobile banking or ATM, and with a parallel charge to the bank account.
A building of almost unreal appearance strikes a contrast among the city blocks of Agios Dimitrios. Like a spaceship ready to take off down the straight run of Vouliamenis Avenue, it looks like something that has come from another galaxy.
Four people have been charged with being part of a criminal group, money laundering and corruption in connection with an investigation into suspected influence peddling by a Persian Gulf country at the European Union’s parliament, the Belgian federal prosecutors office said Sunday.
A fire broke out Monday at the Kara Tepe refugee facility on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos.
The number of tankers waiting to pass through Istanbul’s Bosphorus Strait on the way to the Mediterranean fell to 13 on Monday from 17 a day earlier, the Tribeca shipping agency said, showing an easing of the recent build-up in traffic.
Greece and Cyprus are warily following the United Kingdom’s moves toward a closer relationship with Turkey, including in armaments production.