An Environment Ministry decision on the height of buildings insists that an additional bonus in floors as stipulated in the new building regulation can be applied in Athens as well, thus overriding a series of recent decisions by the Council of State on the matter.
Main opposition leader Alexis Tsipras is engaging in “extortion” and “degrading the institutional pillars of Greek democracy,” government spokesperson Giannis Oikonomou has said , following SYRIZA’s announcement that it will abstain from all parliamentary procedures until the prime minister announces a general election date.
Ambassador Ioannis Raptakis and Lieutenant-General Georgios Kellis have been appointed deputy chiefs of the National Intelligence Service (EYP), following a decision of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Greece’s main opposition party on Tuesday demanded the dissolution of Parliament and immediate elections, accusing the conservative New Democracy government of being “morally and politically compromised.”
Cypriots are voting Sunday for a new president who they’ll expect to decisively steer the small island nation through shifting geopolitical sands and uncertain economic times that have become people’s overriding concern, eclipsing stalemated efforts to remedy the country’s ethnic division.
A coalition of six Turkish opposition parties striving to end two decades of rule by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday reaffirmed a commitment for a return to parliamentary democracy should their alliance win elections that are likely to be held on May 14.
A large-scale search-and-rescue operation resumed at first light in western Greece on Tuesday for a Hellenic Air Force officer who has been missing since the jet he was flying went down over the Ionian Sea on Monday.
Marking the 100-year anniversary of Maria Callas’ birth, the Athens Symphony Orchestra and Choir, under the baton of Sebastiano Rolli, take the stage at the same theater where the celebrated Greek opera singer made her debut.
Greece has reduced the subsidies extended to consumers grappling with high energy costs to 95 million euros ($102.9 million) in February from 840 million euros in January, the energy minister said on Tuesday, citing a fall in gas prices.
Efforts are under way to reduce the bureaucracy that accompanies property transfers by the relevant departments of the Ministry of Finance.