The General Confederation of Greek Workers ,the Civil Servants’ Confederation, and the Panhellenic Maritime Federation have all called for a further nationwide strike on Thursday over the deadly rail collision at Tempe.
“The Cyprus issue is a constant concern and a top national priority of Greek foreign policy,” the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou said on Monday, welcoming the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides to the Presidential Mansion on his first official visit to Athens after assuming his new duties.
A fire has broken out in an abandoned Thessaloniki factory on Monday afternoon, outside the area of Sindos.
A 3.4 magnitude earthquake struck to the north of the island of Evia on Monday afternoon, with its epicenter located 11 kilometers north of Artemisio. According to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens, the earthquake was at a depth of 11.5 kilometers.
The Greek annual inflation rate slowed further to 6.1% in February from 7% in January and 7.2% in February 2022, the Hellenic Statistical Authority said on Monday. However, this development is attributed solely to a drop in electricity prices while the consumer price index in foods and food items jumped 14.8% in the month.
For years, the unionists of state-owned Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) have been warning about the lack of safety on the railway network. Was anyone listening?
New polls show the Turkish opposition’s presidential candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, leading against President Tayyip Erdogan by more than 10 percentage points ahead of elections on May 14 seen by many as the most consequential vote in Turkey’s history.
Greece will continue joint efforts to solve the Cyprus problem on the basis of UN resolutions, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the Mediterranean island’s newly-elected president Nikos Christodoulides during a meeting in Athens Monday.
The death toll in Turkey from last month’s major earthquakes has risen to 48,448, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Monday, as authorities rush to set up container cities to house for the longer-term those left homeless by the disaster.