Greece welcomes Monday’s agreement between the EU and the United Kingdom on Northern Ireland, Alternate Foreign Minister Miltiadis Varvitsiotis has said. “After a long round of negotiations between the two sides, logic and realism prevailed,” he underlined.
Police have said they booked 13,683 traffic violations during a total of 59,832 checks carried out over the Clean Monday long weekend. Almost three in ten (28.8%) of the violations were for speeding (3,283 cases) and driving under the influence of alcohol (652 cases).
Another suspect in the case of the pimping and rape of a 12-year-old girl in Athens has been remanded pre-trial detention after testifying before an investigating magistrate.
Friday’s cabinet meeting will decide on the date of the upcoming general election, Government Spokesperson Yiannis Oikonomou has indicated.
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras has said it was his decision to remove Pavlos Polakis from his position as shadow minister for transparency, in his first public comments on the recent controversy sparked by a social media post from the firebrand lawmaker.
NATO membership for Finland and Sweden is “a top priority,” the military alliance’s chief Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday, urging members Turkey and Hungary to urgently ratify the Nordic countries’ accession.
Belgian judicial authorities will announce later this week whether Greek MEP Eva Kaili should be released from pre-trial detention with an electronic bracelet, her lawyer has said.
A television outlet on the popular holiday island of Mykonos has released a video casting fresh light on the shooting death of a 34-year-old Albanian national outside a bar on February 20.
Cyprus’ new president affirmed the island nation’s Western foreign policy orientation as a member of the European Union that seeks to further strengthen its bonds with the US and stands firmly with others on “the side of justice” to condemn Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Greek state budget recorded a surplus of 1.480 billion euros in January, up from a target for a surplus of 917 million from a deficit of 1.199 billion euros reported in January 2022, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.