Greek stocks maintained their growth course for another day on Thursday, though this time banks were not the protagonists – that role fell to other blue chips, especially power companies, as well as the majority of mid-caps.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the leader of the opposition, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras, clashed in Parliament on Thursday during a debate on a bill on surveillance and wiretapping.
Turkey’s foreign minister on Thursday accused Greece of not recognizing the Muslim minority in the country’s northeastern Thrace region as an “ethnic minority” and thus of violating an international treaty.
Police have made seven arrests and four detentions during an extensive operation in Western Attica following disturbances in the area on Wednesday night.
A hospital in Thessaloniki has said that the supply of corneas for transplant has jumped following the much-publicized decision of the family of a 21-year-old woman to donate her organs after she died five days after being struck by a car in a hit and run in the city.
Officials have found 57,000 euros in cash in a safe deposit box kept by the mother of the priest at the centre of a child abuse and financial scandal at one of the country’s best-known children’s charities.
Finland would consider granting arms export permits to Turkey on a case-by-case basis, Finland’s Defense Minister said while visiting Ankara on Thursday, in an effort to bring Turkey round to supporting Finland’s and Sweden’s NATO membership bids.
It’s All Oh So Souvenir to Me has invited 40 designers to come up with their own modern versions of the traditional Greek New Year’s charm (gouri).
The Greek government has admitted to the New York Times that it gave an Athens-based company permits to export a phone hacking tool to Madagascar, a country with a history of cracking down on dissent.