Thirty-nine people suspected of being members of two antiquities trafficking rings were conditionally released on Monday after testifying before an investigative magistrate in Thessaloniki.
With experience of Greece that stems from his many years of diplomatic service in Athens, American diplomat Thomas Miller advises the new US ambassador in Athens “not to try to sell the MAGA agenda” to the Greek people.
Since President Trump stepped back into the Oval Office, Greece has been on the lookout for the arrival of a new US ambassador.
Ever since Greece joined what was then the European Economic Community in January 1981, the bloc’s generous farming subsidies have been used, above all, to keep the farmers happy.
The conservative government is again staring at the prospect of some of its officials facing judicial pursuit, this time for a corruption scandal involving the mismanagement of European Union farming subsidies.
Goldman Sachs has sold three seaside resorts it bought in northern Greece in 2022 at a low price, barely breaking even on the roughly €100 million it had invested in the project, according to the Wall Street Journal on Sunday which cited people familiar with the matter.
Major heat waves across southern Europe have pushed temperatures above 40 C (104 F) in countries including Italy, Spain and Greece, as local authorities issued fresh warnings against the risk of wildfires.
A Greek-managed oil tanker carrying about 1 million barrels of crude oil suffered an explosion off Libya on June 27 but no injuries or pollution were reported, a spokesperson for the operator TMS Tankers said on Monday.
One of the pillars of Greek foreign policy regarding the Mediterranean, and also its rivalry with nominal ally Turkey, appears to be crumbling, as the government of Benghazi, one of Libya’s two antagonistic poles of power, appears to be inching toward Turkey.
The National Economy and Finance Ministry will be asked to budget for an end to the growth rate of value-added tax revenues for both 2026 and 2027.