Island ferries will remain in port Thursday due to a 24-hour strike called by the seamen’s umbrella PNO union to demand the immediate repatriation of all Greek crew members stuck on merchant ships in the war-torn Persian Gulf.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias reiterated Greece’s support for Cyprus security during a meeting with President Nikos Christodoulides.
Greece has set up a plan to repatriate thousands of its nationals stranded in the Middle East amid a widening Iran conflict but their return is difficult as the airspace over the region remains closed, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday.
Pressure on Greek stock prices were increasing on Tuesday with the market recording significant losses, over 4%, below the 2,100-point threshold.
Physical and sexual violence affects roughly a third of women in the European Union during their lifetime, but most incidents go unreported, a survey revealed on Tuesday.
Greece is not participating in military operations against Iran, Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lana Zochiou said during a press briefing on Tuesday.
Britain has yet to decide whether it will send a warship to defend its Royal Air Force Akrotiri base in Cyprus, a source close to the matter said on Tuesday, after the Times newspaper reported ministers had discussed such a deployment.
“With the (Iranian) military leadership being so disruptive right now, there are independent commanders doing whatever they think they should do,” retired US Army Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, former commanding general of US Army Europe, tells Kathimerini.
Last year more than 62,000 citizens took the role of the tax auditor upon themselves.
A small brick wall on one side of the Arch of Galerius in the northern city of Thessaloniki was demolished on Tuesday, as part of an effort to improve the area surrounding the important Roman monument.