Scholz to meet with Erdogan next week
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz will travel to Turkey on Monday, where he will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan, said a German government spokesperson on Friday.
European Commission aims to double military aid for Ukraine, Borrell says
The European Commission aims to double the EU’s military aid to Ukraine and has proposed earmarking another 500 million euros for this purpose, the bloc’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said on Friday.
Turkey urged to pay compensation over missing Greek Cypriots
The Council of Europe’s Committee of Ministers has urged Turkish authorities to abide by their international obligations and pay the “just satisfaction” awarded by the European Court of Human Rights to relatives of nine Greek Cypriots who disappeared during Turkey’s military invasion of Cyprus in 1974.
Moderate quake rattles Crete
A 4.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the island of Crete on Friday morning, according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
Greece sending assistance to Poland
With Russian troops and forces reaching the outskirts of the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Thursday, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis said that Greece will send buses or airplanes to Poland to help resettle refugees from Ukraine after an appeal by the Polish government.
Conditions are set for recreational diving at 91 wreck sites
A joint decision has been announced by the Minister of National Defence Nikos Panagiotopoulos, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, and Shipping and Island Policy Minister Giannis Plakiotakis regarding conditions for recreational scuba diving on submerged cultural sites in Greece.
Inflation soars to 7.2% in Feb
The national consumer price index recorded another jump last month to reach 7.2%, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Thursday, and it may even rise further according to the Finance Minister.
Unanimous approval for the relocation of antiquities
The removal and relocation of antiquities found in the second phase of excavations at the under-construction Venizelou metro station in Thessaloniki was given unanimously approval by the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) at a meeting earlier this week, following a joint presentation by the directorates for classical and Byzantine antiquities, the Directorate of Restoration of Ancient…
Facebook allows Ukraine war posts urging violence against invading Russians, Putin
Meta Platforms will allow Facebook and Instagram users in some countries to call for violence against Russians and Russian soldiers in the context of the Ukraine invasion, according to internal emails seen by Reuters on Thursday, in a temporary change to its hate speech policy.
Germany will have to increase spending
Germany’s new government coalition will probably have to be open about changes to the fiscal rules of the eurozone as it will itself have to increase spending in order to carry out the “green” and digital transformations of the German economy, Marcel Fratzscher, president of the Berlin-based economic research institute DIW Berlin, tells Kathimerini.