A Libyan court on Monday suspended an energy exploration deal that the Tripoli government signed last year with Turkey, a judiciary source said, pausing an agreement that angered other Mediterranean powers and inflamed Libya’s own internal crisis.
Arguing that if Ankara doesn’t get the F-16s it wants from the United States, it will get Russian jets is tantamount to accepting Turkey’s hostage politics, says Endy Zemenides, executive director of the American Leadership Council (HALC), explaining that “this is not an actual dilemma.”
The Hellenic Police (ELAS) has responded to a media report criticizing Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos for purportedly surrounding himself with an “army” of police for his security detail.
Police in central Athens on Monday arrested a 35-year-old man suspected of abducting and raping a 32-year-old woman. It is claimed that the suspect detained the woman against her will for three days in an apartment in the Agios Panteleimon district.
Labour and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis on Tuesday announced that he intends to table an amendment in parliament in the coming days on the timetable of the deliberations with the social partners and experts regarding the minimum wage.
A group of 24 aid workers and volunteers who participated in migrant rescue operations on an eastern Greek island went on trial Tuesday in a smuggling-related case widely criticized by human rights groups.
Greece’s economic growth is likely to slow to just 1.1% this year from a 5.1% clip in 2022 as soaring energy costs and continued uncertainty about the war in Ukraine hurt spending and investment, the OECD said on Tuesday.
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) will establish a research center on Crete to analyze demographic and migration policies, issues related to the diaspora as well as individual challenges related to the labor market and the population, under an agreement signed with the government on Tuesday.
Recent legislative changes mean that the independent Authority for Communication Security and Privacy no longer has the authority to tell citizens whether they were put under surveillance for national security reasons, a Supreme Court prosecutor said in an opinion issued on Tuesday.
A Greek court was set to hear a smuggling-related criminal case Tuesday against a group of 24 aid workers and volunteers who participated in migrant rescue operations on an eastern Greek island.