The corruption scandal rocking the European Parliament, in which suspects were found with suitcases full of cash, is like something out of crime drama television series “Narcos”, EU Economy Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni said on Friday.
Nikos Efstathiou, the deputy editor in chief at the weekly magazine LiFO and a former journalist with Kathimerini, joins Thanos Davelis to break down the significance of this week’s visit by Prime Minister Mitsotakis to the Greek minority in Albania.
The European Central Bank said on Thursday it has withdrawn Cypriot lender RCB’s banking license, months after the central bank restricted parts of its business.
The total value of Greek startups is estimated at 8 billion euros, which is the second highest amount in the region of Southeastern Europe after Romania.
Accompanied by a cloud of mosquitos, Police Capt. Konstantinos Tsolakidis and three other border guards set out on a boat patrol along the Evros River that forms a natural frontier between Greece and Turkey.
One in three Greeks still receives between one and three quarters of their income in cash, a percentage that is the highest in the eurozone and points to the extensive tax evasion that exists in this country.
Greek police arrested on Thursday morning a 17-year-old Bulgarian national for breaking into five churches, police said on Friday.
Turkey’s ruling AKP spokesman Omer Celik on Thursday accused Greece of “sabotaging Ankara’s positive approaches.”
A 30-year-old man accused of killing his 26-year-old girlfriend by pushing her off a cliff on 17 July 2021 on the Aegean island of Folegandros was found guilty on Friday by Mixed Jury Court in Syros, a local news website reported.
Greece’s attitude towards migrants has reached the “level of brutality,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed on Friday and criticised Western countries for “being indifferent to this atrocity and displaying insincerity” on human rights.