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Hellenic Railways (OSE) has criticized a finding by the Railway Regulatory Authority (RAS) that there was serious deficiencies in its training of stationmasters.
Veterinarians are fighting to save a white tiger cub abandoned in a rubbish bin at an Athens zoo, believed to be a victim of the illegal wildlife trade. The three-month old white tiger was found on February 28 under a garbage bin in the parking lot of the Attica Zoological Park by a cleaner.
A frenzy of self-flagellation by those trying to understand Greece’s weaknesses and the torrent of rage and accusations against those responsible (in fact as well as in our minds) form the two poles of the public discussion that has followed the tragedy at Tempe.
A prosecutor has ordered a preliminary investigation into an incident during Thursday’s general strike in Athens where a police tow truck drove at high speed into dumpsters that were being wheeled into the middle of a street by protestors.
The increase in the monthly minimum wage by 9.4% as of April 1 “is a far cry from the demands of the poorest of workers and does not allow them to cover basic living needs,” the country’s biggest private-sector trade union federation has said.
Opposition MeRA25 party leader Yanis Varoufakis has called for the removal of Citizen Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos from office.
President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday that Turkey’s parliament will begin ratifying Finland’s NATO bid, but not that of Sweden, removing the biggest remaining hurdle to enlarging the Western defense alliance as war continues to rage in Ukraine.
The meeting of Parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee on Monday morning is seen as the latest chapter in the acrimonious exchanges between Greece’s political parties as to who was responsible for the deadly train crash on February 28 in northern Greece.
A 19-year-old man arrested on suspicion of assaulting former finance minister Yanis Varoufakis has been released on condition that he report to a police station once a month.