Exploiting the migration crisis
The migration crisis is a very complex problem and Greece, as a country on the European Union’s border, has borne and continues to bear an unfair burden.
The migration crisis is a very complex problem and Greece, as a country on the European Union’s border, has borne and continues to bear an unfair burden.
New Democracy is clearly concerned that if the ultranationalist Niki party makes it into the next Parliament, it could gnaw away at the conservatives’ majority, and this concern has prompted an effort to repatriate part of the far-right vote and redefine the party’s agenda. Party leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ first reaction to the unexpectedly good performance…
The search for missing people following the sinking of a migrant vessel off the southern coast of Greece on Wednesday continued for a second day Friday in the wider area where the fishing vessel with hundreds on board capsized and sank.
The Greek stock market rebounded after Thursday’s respite to post a fresh nine-year high on Friday with the help of most blue chips, though not banks.
A municipal court in the town of Nafplio in the Peloponnese in southern Greece has found a 40-year-old cleric from Ermionida guilty of sending lewd video material to a 13-year-old.
A sailboat with about 60 people on board some 100 kilometers off Pylos on Greece’s southern coast was spotted on Friday by Italian authorities, who informed their Greek counterparts.
The planning for the new salary system for civil servants, which New Democracy has promised, is oriented toward increases that will exceed 10% for low-paid workers and will be limited to 2-3% for high-paid workers.
Given that the final victor of the June 25 elections appears to be a foregone conclusion, the key stake for conservative New Democracy next week hinges on the percentage of the vote it will get and the achievement of an outright majority.
The press office of caretaker Prime Minister Ioannis Sarmas issued a statement on Friday regarding the fatal sinking of a fishing vessel which was carrying migrants.