US Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs, Celeste Wallander, will visit the northern city of Alexandroupolis on Monday, where she will be briefed about the port’s role in facilitating the shipment of American and NATO weapons and personnel to Central and Eastern Europe, a local news website reported.
An anti-corruption unit is being activated at the Finance Ministry, which will probe cases of fraud and corruption within the ministry.
A 30-year-old cadet was found hanged inside his cabin on a Liberian-flagged cargo ship on Friday, state-run broadcaster ERT reported. The man was a foreign national.
Hotels at various popular destinations around Greece are reporting occupancy rates close to 100 percent for Carnival long weekend (February 25-27), particularly in areas with popular street parades such as Patras and Rethymno.
From the pattern of old tax case closures (“peraiosi”), Greek governments have quickly shifted to debt arrangements.
Greek and Serbian law enforcement are reportedly tantalizingly close to solving a double murder that occurred in a villa in Halikouna Beach on the island of Corfu in July 2020.
Nearly two weeks after a massive earthquake leveled tens of thousands of buildings and displaced millions of people in Turkey and Syria, many are still struggling to fulfill their basic needs and some are bedding down in tents, factories, train cars and greenhouses.
The fate of Finland’s bid to join NATO is in “Turkey’s hands,” President Sauli Niinisto said on Friday, after the Finnish parliament agreed it would ratify NATO’s founding treaties on February 28.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with a bipartisan delegation of the United States Congress on Friday, on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), and exchanged views on international and regional issues, with an emphasis on the consequences of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Stakeholders in the market and society, coordinated by the government and with the assistance of the European Union, must be mobilized in order to maximize the development of the workforce skills needed in the economy, said Schinas.