The Athens offices of Intellexa, which sells the Predator spyware in Greece, and Krikel, an ICT and electronic security systems provider, were among six companies raided by police as part of the investigation into the wiretapping affair on Tuesday.
The European Parliament’s political groups voted on Tuesday to strip Eva Kaili of her role as vice president over a major corruption scandal, just as her lawyer said she denied any wrongdoing in her first public comment on the case.
Kosovo will apply to join the European Union this week, Prime Minister Albin Kurti said on Tuesday, a process that is expected to take years if not decades and is dependent on its normalizing relations with Serbia.
European Union energy ministers are meeting in Brussels on Tuesday to try to agree a bloc-wide cap on gas prices after months of deadlocked talks over whether the measure will ease Europe’s energy crisis.
Investigators with the Greek police on Tuesday were conducting a series of raids on the homes of individuals and on companies connected to the Predator spyware scandal.
Law enforcement officers across Greece were placed on alert by the force’s Athens headquarters on Tuesday following the death in Thessaloniki of a 16-year-old Roma youth who had been shot in a police chase last week.
A teenager from Greece’s Roma community who was shot in the head during a police chase over an allegedly unpaid gas station bill has died, the hospital that was treating him and members of the Roma community said Tuesday.
Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos expressed condolences over the death on Tuesday of a Roma teenager who had been shot by a police officer last week, but also sought to curb expected reactions to the news.
A 16-year-old boy who was shot in the head by a police officer last week died on Tuesday, the Ippokrateio General Hospital in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, said in an announcement.
A five-day debate on the state budget for the fiscal year 2023 will begin on Tuesday afternoon in the plenary session of the Parliament, in what is widely seen as a litmus test for the government ahead of next year’s general elections.