Local government failures
Transferring responsibilities to local government level is a sound policy, in principle.
Transferring responsibilities to local government level is a sound policy, in principle.
Drug enforcement police officers have dismantled a drug smuggling ring in the port city of Patra, leading to four arrests and the confiscation of several kilos of narcotics.
Libya has reacted to Greece’s decision to expand the area of seismic surveys for oil and natural gas deposits off the coast of Crete.
The casinos of Corfu, Rio and Alexandroupoli have just completed the first key step toward their inclusion in the debt restructuring process of Article 106 of the bankruptcy legislation.
Visitors from the United States are making up for the drop in tourists from China and Russia in terms of the amount of shopping they do while in Greece, and not only are they spending large amounts of money, they are also showing an interest in luxury items.
“The statements by Turkish officials regarding the demilitarization of the Aegean islands have been repeatedly rejected in their entirety with a series of arguments, which are included in the relevant letters that Greece has sent to the UN Secretary General,” a foreign ministry announcement said on Wednesday.
St Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church, right, sits next to ground zero in New York, Tuesday, December 6.
John Psaropoulos, an independent journalist based in Athens and Al Jazeera’s southeast Europe correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to look at an oil pipeline project Greece and Bulgaria are looking to revive that would bring oil from Alexandroupoli to Bulgaria and possibly into Romania, bypassing the Bosporus Strait and effectively elevating Greece’s geopolitical status even further.
Disruptions in tanker traffic from Russia’s Black Sea ports to the Mediterranean are a result of a new Turkish insurance rule, not the price cap on Russian oil agreed by a coalition of G7 countries and Australia, an official with the group said on Tuesday.
Greece has made obvious leaps since 2015 in innovation, trying to close the gap with other pioneering countries. However, despite the improvement, its performance in various categories that make up the profile of an innovative country this year (funding and support, innovative businesses, intellectual property data, broadband penetration, human resources, etc) prove that Greece is…