EU border chief pledges transparency, no illegal pushbacks
The new executive director of European Union border agency Frontex pledged Thursday to ensure that illegal pushbacks of migrants trying to reach Europe wouldn’t take place under his watch.
The new executive director of European Union border agency Frontex pledged Thursday to ensure that illegal pushbacks of migrants trying to reach Europe wouldn’t take place under his watch.
The Greek Film Archive and the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (filmfestival.gr), in cooperation with the National Film Institute of Hungary, present 12 feature-length films and one short documentary in an expansive tribute to Marta Meszaros.
Last week news dropped that the Biden administration reportedly will ask Congress to approve a $20 billion sale of F-16s to Turkey, coupled with a separate sale of F-35 fighters to Greece.
The fact that Greece is experiencing a particularly warm January was confirmed by measurements of the National Observatory of Athens/Meteo.gr, which showed that minimum temperatures on Wednesday were 15 degrees higher on the Celsius scale compared to the last 10 years. Indicatively, according to the observatory’s network of automatic weather stations, the average minimum temperature…
Greece’s privacy watchdog has asked to brief the parliament’s Institutions and Transparency Committee on its findings regarding its investigation of the wiretapping scandal.
In the latest report of alleged teen-on-teen sex crimes, authorities on the island of Crete are engaged in an ongoing investigation sparked by a complaint filed by the parents of a girl in 2021 against four minors who they claimed raped her repeatedly in the summer of 2020 in Ierapetra, Lassithi when she was 12.
The Onassis Cultural Center is extending the run of the musical stage adaptation of Yiannis Economides’ “Matchbox,” to January 22.
Athens-listed construction group Ellaktor is very close to finalizing an agreement with one of the largest pan-European energy groups.
Greek Citizens’ Protection Minister Takis Theodorikakos will meet in the northeastern town of Alexandroupoli on Saturday with 27 ambassadors of EU member-states associated with the Schengen Treaty and of the UK to brief them about the Akritas plan to protect the border with Turkey at Evros.
In a reflection of a new era of cooperation, President Katerina Sakellaropoulou began a three-day visit to Germany on Wednesday.