Health authorities on Tuesday announced a total of 51,824 confirmed cases of Covid-19 for the period from December 5 to 11. The total of new infections is the equivalent of 4,968 coronavirus cases per one million people (up 18% on the previous week), with 30% of the cases being reinfections.
Eva Kaili’s career charted a meteoric rise from student activism in Greece to the highest echelons of European lawmaking but now faces an equally precipitous fall after her arrest in a corruption probe involving World Cup host Qatar.
Police in Belgium seized more than 1.5 million euros in cash in the Brussels homes of MEP Eva Kaili and former Italian MEP Pier Antonio Panzeri. As reported by Beglian daily Le Soir, federal police found around 600,000 euros in Panzeri’s home. The remainder was found in Kaili’s home and as in the possession of…
Artist Maria Fragoudaki, in collaboration with ART HUB Athens, is holding an online crowdfunding campaign called #ArtActsForKids in support of children and adults with visual impairments.
Athens police have ordered the closure of Panespistimio metro station from 6 p.m. until further notice. . Services will pass through the station without stopping. The decision to close the station was taken ahead of a protest rally scheduled for 7 p.m. at Athens University.
The matter of the eastern Aegean islands is a “national issue,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told the Grand National Assembly on Tuesday, appealing for consensus over Ankara’s claims that Greece is violating their demilitarized status.
The European Parliament stripped Greek lawmaker Eva Kaili of her senior assembly post on Tuesday over allegations that World Cup host Qatar had bribed her to influence decision-making, charges she has denied.
A car with seven undocumented migrants crashed in northern Greece, leaving several people injured, some seriously, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) reported on Tuesday.
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.