Conservatives wooing young voters
The ruling New Democracy party is looking for ways to attract a large segment of the estimated 420,000 new voters at next year’s election.
The ruling New Democracy party is looking for ways to attract a large segment of the estimated 420,000 new voters at next year’s election.
The extraordinary life and work of the late Costa Carras, visionary conservationist and co-founder of the Elliniki Etairia Society for the Environment and Cultural Heritage (ELLET), Greece’s largest environmental organization, was formally honored at this year’s Europa Nostra Awards in Prague.
Three Turkish nationals were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly transporting irregular migrants trying to reach Italy in a sailboat.
A young woman identified only as a tourist died on Tuesday after falling off the outcrop of the Areopagus rock, northwest of the Acropolis. State broadcaster ERT said she was 30 years old.
Judges and a jury at an Athens court of appeals on Tuesday upheld a verdict by a lower tribunal sentencing a man convicted of the 2017 murder of a 32-year-old female tax officer to two life terms in prison.
The signing of the memorandum between the government of national unity of Libya based in Tripoli and Turkey did not have the triumphal character that Turkish officials and Turkish media tried to give it, diplomatic sources reported.
Turkey on Tuesday lashed out at Brussels and Athens for their stern objections to a hydrocarbon exploration deal Ankara signed with Libya, saying that the European Union and its member states should “not overstep their boundaries and powers.”
Greece has no right to claim sovereignty over the islands of the southeastern or northern Aegean, Devlet Bahceli, the head of Turkey’s Nationalist Movement party and government coalition partner, said on Tuesday.
Ankara is trying to “fabricate a reality around something that is illegal” and is “ignoring the international context,” Greek government spokesman Giannis Oikonomou said on Tuesday, a day after Turkey signed a preliminary agreement with Libya for oil and natural gas exploration.
The European Commission has approved an 800-million-euro Greek program to support non-household electricity consumers in the face of the challenges posed by Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine.