Seven more rescued at sea from migrant shipwreck
The coast guard said on Wednesday that it rescued seven more migrants who were still at sea after a shipwreck off the coast of Lesvos on Tuesday that claimed the lives of three individuals.
The coast guard said on Wednesday that it rescued seven more migrants who were still at sea after a shipwreck off the coast of Lesvos on Tuesday that claimed the lives of three individuals.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras on Wednesday announced in Parliament an immediate legislative initiative to improve the extrajudicial debt settlement mechanism, in response to a question by the head of the opposition PASOK-Movement for Change parliamentary group, Michalis Katrinis, about the “ever-increasing private debt.”
The Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum is taking place on April 25-26 in Thessaloniki and the organizers have announced a 20% early bird discount for attendants applying up to February 15.
The outgoing cabinet of Cyprus has approved the Finance Ministry’s proposal to establish a “rent versus installment” scheme known in English as a “mortgage-to-rent” scheme.
The government has definitively decided to offer a handout to at least 140,000 pensioners who did not receive an increase or any other additional benefit recently.
Police said 10 passengers were slightly injured when a bus collided with a car in central Athens on Wednesday. Icy conditions were blamed for the accident which occurred on Vasilissis Sofias Avenue at 8.15 a.m.
In every life, there are a few indelible dates: the birth of a child, the death of a parent, a national tragedy such as 9/11.
Famines, earthquakes and all other calamities can save or destroy political careers.
Reactions to the government’s decision to switch to remote learning, an understandably emergency measure, for the duration of the snowstorm that hit Greece are indicative of a more profound trend.
“We learn to pick our fights in multilateral diplomacy, and [the return of the Parthenon Sculptures] was worth fighting for,” sums up one of Greece’s unexpected allies. Egyptian diplomat Maged Mosleh is speaking for the first time about the battle fought – and won – by Greece at the UNESCO Intergovernmental