As unions across the Greek public sector plan nationwide strikes and rallies on Wednesday in reaction to last week’s fatal train collision in the Vale of Tempe, workers on the capital’s metro, electric railway (ISAP) and tram are also planning to walk off the job to join the action.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called a Cabinet meeting for Thursday where the Tempe railway disaster is expected to be the only topic on the agenda, according to sources.
Greece is close to regaining its investment-grade credit rating in 2023, after 12 years of relegation to junk status, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
The wound from the 10-year economic crisis on household incomes in Greece is hard to heal, both because of the intensity and duration of the crisis, and because it was followed by two more: the pandemic and inflation.
The trial in the second instance at the Mixed Jury Court of Appeal of the North Aegean regarding the arson of the Moria migrant camp on the island of Lesvos on September 9, 2020, has been deferred to Wednesday.
Theologian and religious historian Vasilis Adrahtas will be delivering a lecture from the University of Sydney on “Myths and Dreamings: Cross Hatchings between Ancient Greece and Indigenous Australia.”
Greece could become an important hydrogen hub for Europe, with hydrogen being the fuel of the future and ranking high on the European Commission’s agenda for the transition to a pollution-free economy by 2050.
A key opposition party rejoined Turkey’s six-party alliance on Monday after a compromise was found over the nomination of a joint candidate to challenge President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in elections scheduled for May.
The possibility of general elections being called for April 9, as widely speculated in recent weeks, is growing increasingly remote as the government deals with the fallout from last week’s deadly train crash in Tempe, central Greece.
The owner of a donkey on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos was arrested on Monday on charges of animal cruelty, in the area of Plomari, local media reports said.