The European Parliament stripped Greek lawmaker Eva Kaili of her senior assembly post on Tuesday over allegations that World Cup host Qatar had bribed her to influence decision-making, charges she has denied.
A car with seven undocumented migrants crashed in northern Greece, leaving several people injured, some seriously, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) reported on Tuesday.
The matter of the eastern Aegean islands is a “national issue,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Grand National Assembly on Tuesday, appealing for consensus over Ankara’s claims that Greece is violating their demilitarized status.
The Athens offices of Intellexa, which sells the Predator spyware in Greece, and Krikel, an ICT and electronic security systems provider, were among six companies raided by police as part of the investigation into the wiretapping affair on Tuesday.
The European Parliament’s political groups voted on Tuesday to strip Eva Kaili of her role as vice president over a major corruption scandal, just as her lawyer said she denied any wrongdoing in her first public comment on the case.
Kosovo will apply to join the European Union this week, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Tuesday, a process that is expected to take years if not decades and is dependent on its normalizing relations with Serbia.
European Union energy ministers are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to try to agree a bloc-wide cap on gas prices after months of deadlocked talks over whether the measure will ease Europe’s energy crisis.
Investigators with the Greek police on Tuesday were conducting a series of raids on the homes of individuals and on companies connected to the Predator spyware scandal.
Law enforcement officers across Greece were placed on alert by the force’s Athens headquarters on Tuesday following the death in Thessaloniki of a 16-year-old Roma youth who had been shot in a police chase last week.
A teenager from Greece’s Roma community who was shot in the head during a police chase over an allegedly unpaid gas station bill has died, the hospital that was treating him and members of the Roma community said Tuesday.