Stressing the important role played by Greece and Cyprus, which are also members of a strategic alliance in the region, the vice president of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS), Eran Lerman, has urged Israel to repudiate the latest Turkish-Libyan memorandum.
The Western Balkans and Albania belong in the heart of Europe, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Anastasios, Orthodox archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, in a meeting with the prelate on Tuesday.
The 15th Quality Awards of the influential Gastronomos food magazine, published by Kathimerini, had a special emotional touch this year as it coincided with the 100th anniversary of the Asia Minor Catastrophe.
Albanian opposition leader Sali Berisha was punched in the face by a male bystander as he led a crowd of his party’s supporters to central Tirana for anti-government protests taking place meters away from the venue of an EU summit.
Demonstrators protesting the police shooting of a teenage driver in Thessaloniki during a chase over an unpaid gas station bill have blocked the Corinth-Patras motorway near the town of Zevgolatio. Police say diversions are in place through the old national road.
The European Commission on Tuesday urged Bulgaria to thoroughly investigate the alleged shooting by Bulgarian guards of a Syrian refugee on the country’s border with Turkey.
The funeral has taken place of the 11-year-old boy killed in Monday’s explosion in a boiler room at a primary school in the northern city of Serres.
Police in Serres, northern Greece, have made two arrests in relation to the deadly explosion of a school boiler in which an 11-year-old boy was killed and two other pupils, aged 6 and 10, were injured.
Health authorities on Tuesday announced a total of 43,748 confirmed cases of Covid-19 for the period from November 28 to December 4, of which 28% were reinfections.
The European Union has drafted a new proposal for normalization of ties between Kosovo and Serbia with a clear timeline of actions, according to a senior EU diplomat, speaking on the sidelines of the EU-Western Balkans summit on Tuesday.