The head of Serbia’s Orthodox Church said Tuesday that he would recognize the full independence of the church in neighboring North Macedonia, signaling an end to a decades-old religious dispute.
Eleven nongovernmental organizations issued a statement on Monday expressing dismay at a new climate law currently being debated in Parliament.
Images shared on social media showing visitors at the 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia removing small pieces from the interior walls of the former Christian Byzantine cathedral have prompted fresh concerns regarding the protection of Istanbul’s crowning architectural jewel, after Turkish authorities annulled its status as a museum and converted it into a mosque.
A consignment of animal feed from Bulgaria is unloaded at the port of Naxos. Farmers on the Cycladic island traveled to Bulgaria in search of food for their animals due to huge shortages in the market.
The targets the European Commission is setting for the development of renewable energy sources in Europe appear elusive for Greece, with the local market arguing that only a strict and resourceful plan such as that in the run-up to the Athens 2004 Olympics could meet Brussels’ requirements.
Nine Lebanese banks are shutting down their operations on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, a representative of the Cyprus Central Bank said on Tuesday.
President Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to launch military operations soon to expand safe zones already set up across Turkey’s southern borders has raised the stakes in his row with NATO partners over Finland and Sweden joining the alliance.
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu started a two-day trip to the Palestinian territories and Israel on Tuesday, the first such visit by a senior Turkish official in more than a decade.
Despite the extension in the general escape clause from the European Union Stability Pact for another year, Greece will still have to take substantial steps toward fiscal streamlining in 2023, European institutions agree, having been one of the most generous member-states in the bloc regarding measures against the pandemic’s economic impact and energy hikes.
Greek health authorities announced 5,588 new reported cases of Covid-19 and 11 virus-related deaths on Tuesday.