Greek Finance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis, a US-trained technocrat with a background in computer science and public policy, was on Thursday elected president of the Eurogroup, the assembly of finance ministers from the countries that use the euro, beating his Belgian peer Vincent Van Peteghem.
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras, expected to be preparing a political return through a new party, has voiced his support for the nationwide farmers’ protests over delayed subsidy and compensation payments in a social media video released on Thursday.
Bulgarian Prime Minister Rosen Zhelyazkov handed in his government’s resignation on Thursday following weeks of street protests over its economic policies and its perceived failure to tackle corruption.
A majority of the members of parliament voted to lift the immunity of ruling New Democracy party MP Athanasios Kavvadas.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis had a phone call with the Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides to discuss the latest developments on the Cyprus issue.
The pride of European leaders was deeply hurt because the “National Security Strategy,” signed by US President Donald Trump and made public at the end of last week, was deemed an unacceptable intervention in the current internal political order of the European continent.
The official presentation of the MyHealthApp on Thursday marks a new step in digital health access for citizens, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis said.
Authorities have arrested four minors, aged 13 to 16, in connection with a string of robberies targeting female employees at bakeries and kiosks in the northern suburbs of Athens.
An appeals court on Thursday upheld the life sentence passed down at the first instance against a 35-year-old man convicted of the cold-blooded murder of his girlfriend more than four years ago.
Dozens of angry farmers descended on the port of Igoumenitsa in northwestern Greece on Thursday, as the agricultural sector’s anti-government protest campaign continued to target key infrastructure across the country.