Beyond the barricades, great struggles
Farmers’ barricades on major arteries across the country during the holiday season underline how solutions for chronic problems demand immediate diagnosis, serious proposals, and credible policies.
Farmers’ barricades on major arteries across the country during the holiday season underline how solutions for chronic problems demand immediate diagnosis, serious proposals, and credible policies.
Philistor Destempasides, a former protected witness in Greece’s high-profile Novartis bribery case, described the pharmaceutical group as the “OPEKEPE of medicine” during testimony on Tuesday, invoking the scandal-hit farming payments agency to underscore what he called systemic corruption.
As they ease many blockades around the country, farmers’ representatives from across Greece will meet in Malgara, west of Thessaloniki, on Sunday at noon to decide on the future course of their protests.
One of the leading figures in the nationwide farmers’ protests has filed a lawsuit with a prosecutor, alleging a violation of his personal data in connection with an investigation into farm subsidy payments he received.
Police on the island of Rhodes have arrested a 37-year-old police officer after finding him in possession of approximately half a kilogram of cocaine.
Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud arrived in Turkey on Tuesday for talks with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, following Israel’s announcement recognizing Somaliland, the breakaway region of Somalia.
The environmental studies for two protected marine parks have been given the green light by the Environment Ministry and will now head off to the Council of State for approval of their legal provisions, the ministry announced on Monday.
Residential developments at The Ellinikon, the site of the former airport in the Elliko suburb of southern Athens, have attracted buyers from more than 110 countries, with international buyers accounting for 45 percent of sales, Lamda Development said.
Turkey and Spain have signed a €2.6 billion deal for the Spanish air force to procure 30 light training jets from Turkish Aerospace Industries from 2028, Turkey’s defense industry authority has said.
Turkish police carried out further large-scale operations against the Islamic State group across Turkey on Tuesday, detaining 357 suspects, the interior minister said.