The government will table memorandums of cooperation with North Macedonia in Parliament for ratification only when the “national interest and parliament’s agenda permit,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Friday.
Cyprus said on Friday it would extend a lower value added tax (VAT) on electricity bills and a fuel price cap and also boost pensions to cushion the impact of runaway prices that have pushed inflation to its highest rate in more than 40 years.
Talks between Turkish officials and delegations from Sweden and Finland have made little headway overcoming Ankara’s objections to their NATO membership bids, and it is not clear when further discussions will take place, according to two sources.
A fire in the building housing the Chamber of Industry in the center of the northern city of Thessaloniki has been partially brought under control, firefighters said on Friday afternoon. The fire broke out at around 3 p.m.
A man is being treated for burns in hospital following an explosion in a butchers and mini market in central Athens on Friday. Two more people suffered slight injuries in the blast, which occurred on the busy Ioulianou Street shortly before 1 p.m.
Health authorities announced 3,727 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday, a drop on Thursday’s figure of 4,048. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also announced 14 deaths, one more than on the previous day. There were 133 patients on ventilators.
Iran on Friday summoned the envoy of Switzerland, which represents US interests in Tehran, to protest against the US seizure of Iranian oil from a Russian-operated ship near Greece, the foreign ministry said in a statement quoted by Iranian media.
A World Health Organization senior official said on Friday that the priority needs to be containing monkeypox in non-endemic countries, saying that this can be achieved through quick action.
Greece’s Financial Crimes Squad (SDOE) has dismantled a racket that imported wheat and corn from Bulgaria, involving dummy companies in that country and Greece, and sold it in the Greek market without paying VAT.
Turkey’s growing leverage as a regional power in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has prompted the United States to strengthen ties with Greece as a means of containing Turkey, a local expert told state-run Anadolu agency in an analysis published on Friday.