Doctors will walk off the job next Wednesday, June 14 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., and a meeting at the Ministry of Health has been called by board of directors of the Athens-Piraeus Hospital Doctors Association (EINAP) at 1 p.m. on the day.
Now that President Erdogan has secured reelection, the Biden administration is stepping up its efforts to pressure the Turkish President to lift his veto over Sweden’s accession to NATO.
Two donkeys who ended up on a remote beach on the Dodecanese island of Karpathos have been taken to safety following a two-hour rescue operation by local emergency services.
Seven of the eight men arrested recently in the case of the pimping and rape of a 12-year-old girl in Athens have been remanded in pre-trial detention. One of the men, a 20-year-old son of another suspect in the case, was released on health grounds, but must report to local police.
Cyprus is launching an information campaign to counter a spike in irregular migration, authorities said on Tuesday, saying they were struggling with the highest inflows in the European Union. The island has had the highest new asylum applications in proportion to its population for the past six years.
Bulgaria’s parliament on Tuesday formally approved the country’s new government proposed by the two main political rivals in a bid to end a 30-months-long political crisis, restore stability and spur economic development in the poorest EU member country.
The European Commission said on Monday it had decided not to prolong emergency measures introduced last year to shield consumers from soaring energy prices, adding those measures had helped to contribute to a calming of European energy markets.
A “notorious money launderer” who cleaned “the dirty money of the world’s foremost criminals” was arrested late last month in Athens, Europol, the EU police agency, has announced. The arrest, on 31 May, followed a long investigation by Dutch police into the activities of the underground banker, who operated in the Netherlands.
In a statement, North Macedonia police described the group as a sophisticated criminal organization that operated routes between Greece and Hungary as well as from Bulgaria and Serbia to various destinations in the European Union, charging each migrant between 2,000 and 4,000 euros.
European Union countries are expected this week to agree on how to share out the responsibility of hosting refugees and migrants, a top EU official has said of what would mark a breakthrough after years of bitter feuds within the bloc.