The sovereignty of Greece’s islands is not up for discussion, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, amid recurring Turkish provocations in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.
Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis on Tuesday called for the introduction of a city tax to be paid by visitors toward the municipal authority to help it respond to increased pressure on services from the influx of tourists.
The war in Ukraine is expediting the complete decoupling of the Hellenic Armed Forces from Russian-made weapons systems, as it is becoming abundantly clear that the rupture between Moscow and NATO is not conducive to the creation of conditions for their maintenance.
Turkey has the right to take care of its own problems in northern Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, as his country’s armed forces continued a major air operation targeting a Kurdish militia in the region.
The construction of the Thessaloniki Holocaust Museum, covering a total area of 1.58 hectares, is expected to be put to tender in 2023 after the necessary urban planning was amended a few days ago.
The government will rely on public investments to keep the Greek economy in positive territory in 2023 and to ensure higher performance than the European average, as can be seen from next year’s budget submitted to the Parliament on Monday.
More than 3,600 deaths due to infections caused by antibiotic-resistant microbes and 166,000 days of hospitalization per year could be prevented in Greece, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).
The acclaimed, Vienna-based Janoska Ensemble has developed a new concept and will be showing it off at the Thessaloniki Concert Hall.
A magnitude 5.9 earthquake hit a town in northwest Turkey early Wednesday, causing widespread panic but there was no immediate report of major damage, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency said.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias’ planned visit last week to Tripoli, Libya, to meet the head of Libya’s Presidential Council, Mohamed Menfi, ended before it even started when the Tripoli-based government’s foreign minister Najla Mangoush tried to force a meeting at the airport.