Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has congratulated Romania’s pro-European Union presidential candidate, Nicusor Dan, on his victory in Sunday’s presidential election, in which he defeated his ultranationalist opponent.
A motion filed by the main opposition party, the socialist PASOK, to indict former transport minister Kostas Karamanlis on felony charges over the deadly Tempe railway crash is expected to dominate the political agenda this week.
The Greek labor market presents an interesting but also extremely worrying contradiction.
Defense Minister Nikos Dendias on Monday marked the anniversary of the Pontic Greek Genocide – the mass killing and persecution of ethnic Greeks by Ottoman Turks during World War I and the subsequent Greek-Turkish War.
Nikos Androulakis, leader of Greece’s main socialist opposition party, has called for the international recognition of the Pontic Genocide – the massacre of ethnic Greeks by Ottoman Turks during World War I and the subsequent Greek-Turkish War.
It was just a few weeks after the September 2009 elections when then deputy health minister Marios Salmas and the metropolitan bishop of Aetolia-Acarnania, Markos, inaugurated the new intensive care unit of the Agrinio General Hospital in western Greece with much pomp and ceremony.
A decision earlier this year by authorities in the occupied northern part of Cyprus to allow headscarves in schools has led to mass protests against what many see as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s increasing authoritarianism and a creeping Islamification from Ankara.
Final exams in high schools across Greece began on Monday.
A 25-year-old man died after falling from the 24th floor of a residential high-rise in the central Athens district of Ambelokipi, in what authorities believe was a suicide, police said on Monday.
The only pediatrician serving the Greek island of Ios has resigned, citing chronic understaffing, inadequate infrastructure, and institutional neglect that he said compromised both patient care and his own health.