A pre-trial council in Brussels on Thursday extended the detention of Greek MEP Eva Kaili by another two months. Kaili, a European Parliament vice-president, was arrested on 9 December 2022 in Brussels as part of the Qatargate corruption case in the European Parliament.
Officials in Thessaloniki are expected to order a sworn investigation into the causes of the death of a 2.5-year-old girl at a nursery in the city. The girl was found dead on Friday morning by employees at the Agios Stylianos municipal nursery.
A devastating earthquake that toppled buildings across parts of Turkey and neighboring Syria has revived a longstanding debate locally and in neighboring Cyprus about a large nuclear power station being built on Turkey’s southern Mediterranean coastline.
Cyprus’ newly elected President Nikos Christodoulides will meet with Turkish Cypriot leader Ersin Tatar next week, his office said on Thursday. The February 23 meeting will take place at the official residence of Canadian diplomat Colin Stewart, who is the special representative of the United Nations’ Secretary-General to Cyprus.
Greece’s tax revenue in January beat its target by a considerable 620 million euros, or 14.1%, according to last month’s budget execution data, continuing the good run of the last few months of 2022 and explaining where the government has found the fiscal space for the latest benefits package.
Two people have been hospitalized following an explosion at a gas bottle store in of Egaleo, western Attica. Reports say one of the injured is the store owner of the store, who was taken to the hospital by ambulance, while the second is a street vendor, who was setting up his stall at the time.
A nurse in a children’s home in northern Greece has been fired from her position following accusations that she administered a sedative gel to children. Over a two-month period, the nurse allegedly administered, without the approval of psychologists and social workers, gels with a herbal hypnotic substance to at least two children.
SYRIZA MP Angeliki Adamopoulou has announced her decision to leave the main opposition’s parliamentary group in a letter to the Speaker.
The port of Thessaloniki is on a growth trajectory that will see it welcome over 70 scheduled cruise ship arrivals this year with the season getting under way last week, 10 weeks before the city plays host to the 2023 Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum (PSTF).
Transaction volumes in the Cypriot real estate and land development sector last year surpassed those of 2019. According to the most recent PwC Cyprus publication, the total value of transactions in 2022 came to 5.2 billion euros, representing a 27% annual increase.