Professor Alexander Kitroeff joins Thanos Davelis to explain why a decision by major outlets like CNN and BBC during Queen Elizabeth’s funeral to feature the son of Greece’s former king and refer to him as “Crown Prince” has rightfully sparked a backlash.
A large shipment of cocaine with a street value estimated at more than 6 million euros has been intercepted and seized at the Piraeus container terminal, according to a police announcement on Tuesday.
Ankara’s increasingly aggressive posturing is driven by domestic political considerations, but Greece will not rise to the bait, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis indicated on Tuesday, as he prepares to head to the UN General Assembly in New York.
Turkish media are reporting that Turkish Cypriots could be closer to getting direct flights between Russia and north Nicosia.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias has underlined the deepening strategic relationship with the United States, whose culmination, he said, was the establishment of nine direct flights a day between Greece and America’s largest airports.
In a letter dated June 5, 1963 and addressed to the elderly Turkish prime minister Ismet Inonu, US President Lyndon Johnson sought to avert a military invasion of Cyprus by threatening that in the case of a Soviet attack, the United States and NATO would not come to Ankara’s aid.
Greek energy-intensive industries are preparing a line of defense against the European Union proposals for a mandatory reduction in electricity consumption after the mandatory natural gas ceiling.
The American Hellenic Institute (AHI) “applauds” a decision by the Department of State to lift an arms embargo on Cyprus in 2023, saying that it “demonstrates the evolving geostrategic importance the United States places on the Republic of Cyprus.”
Relations between Ankara and Washington are not “ideal,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said, accusing the United States of actions that are not “very becoming of two friendly countries.”
The Governing Board of the European Investment Bank has approved new funding amounting to 15.1 billion euros for the acceleration of investments in the private sector, for climate action, for sustainable transport and city development across Europe and the rest of the world.