The Istanbul head of Turkey’s main opposition party, Canan Kaftancioglu, who cannot run in next year’s elections but can still play a key role in rallying voters in the nation’s biggest city, denied a new charge of insulting the president on Monday.
MPs have voted to set up a committee of inquiry into the wiretapping of the mobile phone of PASOK-Movement for Change leader Nikos Androulakis.
The Hellenic Authority for Communication Security and Privacy has announced an investigation into National Intelligence Service (EYP) as well as police Special Violent Crime Squad and Intelligence Division over the wiretapping affair.
Bulgaria has reached an agreement in principle to double its reserved capacity at a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility to be built off the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli, its interim energy minister said on Monday.
Ruling New Democracy will not support the proposal for a parliamentary examination committee to look into the surveillance of the phone of PASOK-KINAL leader Nikos Androulakis and abstain by voting “present” during the roll-call vote, the party’s rapporteur Dimitris Keridis told Parliament on Monday.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s nationalist ally and governmental partner Devlet Bahceli stoked tensions on Monday when referring to an alleged incident on Sunday where Greek missile defense systems are supposed to have locked on to Turkish fighter jets in the Aegean, something Greece denies.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias received US Special Presidential Envoy for Climate John Kerry on Monday.
A 5-year-old girl has died after she was hit by a car in Alykes, near the port city of Patra, on Monday by a car that was being driven by a 23-year-old woman.
A gas station on the popular island of Santorini was hit with a 5,000 euro fine for fuel profiteering on Monday by decision of Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis.
While Covid-19 continues to concern health scientists, the growing consensus among experts is that it is something the world has to adapt to living with.