Greece’s Supreme Court prosecutor is set to take over the most serious strands of an expanding illegal surveillance investigation, following a ruling by a single-judge misdemeanors court in Athens.
New files from an investigation by European prosecutors into a major farm subsidy scandal were forwarded to Parliament Tuesday, with the question of stripping two sitting lawmakers with the governing New Democracy party of their immunity from prosecution.
The Parliament’s Ethics Committee unanimously recommended on Tuesday lifting the immunity of 11 ruling New Democracy lawmakers whose names appear in a case file submitted by the European prosecutor as part of its investigation into Greece’s sprawling farm subsidy scam.
The strong seasonality of the Greek service sector and long-term weaknesses of the domestic labor market allow a few, mainly summer months to determine the final annual result regarding the hiring-layoff balance.
The unnatural emptiness of the Eleonas metro station, the one with the lowest daily passenger traffic in the entire network of Athens, is an image that may soon be a thing of the past.
Greek authorities are investigating a couple that checked their ailing infant out of a hospital in Rhodes, against medical advice.
France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle left Souda Bay in Crete on Tuesday, after spending six days moored at pier K-14 in Marathi for a scheduled refueling stop.
At least two attackers were killed and one was seriously injured in an extended gun battle between police and assailants directly outside the building housing the Israeli consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, according to media reports and Reuters video.
The possibility of acquiring a home in Greater Athens through bank borrowing remains largely inaccessible.
The 15-member parliamentary Ethics Committee will convene on April 20 to discuss a request by the European Public Prosecutor’s Office to lift the immunity of two more sitting lawmakers from the governing New Democracy party, a parliamentary source said Tuesday.