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Most Greek experts on military and security affairs, including many in uniform, have for years pointed out the need for a radical overhaul of the way the Hellenic Armed Forces are organized. It is indeed inconceivable for a country to have invested heavily, spending many billions of euros, in defense procurement, purchasing the most advanced …
[Shutterstock] A 24-year-old woman has reported being sexually assaulted by a 58-year-old colleague while on duty in Thessaloniki. The alleged incident occurred on January 9 while the woman was cleaning an apartment used for short-term rentals in the second city. According to the woman’s complaint, the 58-year-old man entered the apartment and began to grope …
[Shutterstock] A Greek army colonel was arrested Tuesday by the cybercrime division for alleged possession of child pornography. According to a report by local TV station Mega, the colonel, aged 55, was found to have thousands of child pornography files in his possession. The officer was arrested at his home in Athens and has so …
If you are one of those people who will automatically give your seat to an elderly passenger on the bus, the sight of such an action would maybe make Olivier Roy despair a bit less about the crisis of culture the world is going through right now. “Culture means that we share something ‘implicit,’ such …
[Prime Minister’s Office/InTime News] Treating vocational training as a “poor relation” of general education is a mentality that must be reversed, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told students attending a model vocational high school in Perama, Piraeus. “Vocational training can open extremely interesting avenues of professional advancement and progress, and we must face it with …
[InTime News] Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will meet with President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Wednesday at the Presidential Palace in Athens for their regular monthly briefing, where the prime minister updates the largely ceremonial president. The meeting on this occasion is of particular significance as Mitsotakis is expected to announce his proposal for the next president …
[Dimitris Papamitsos/Prime Minister’s Office] Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has written to Ursula Von der Leyen to request that the European Commission consider new ways to bring down gas and electricity prices. “Prices are telling us we need to move faster but also differently – to think about new ways to tackle the problems that confront …
In Greece, there is no wind farm that has been installed without causing reactions. The war against wind turbines has been rekindled, spurred by the reproduction of “news,” mainly through social media, and the overall climate of conspiracy theories gaining more and more ground in Greek society. Wind turbines are blamed for the fires, for …
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of Honor to shipowner Athanasios Martinos in recognition of his philanthropic contributions during a ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion on Monday. In her address, Sakellaropoulou expressed gratitude on behalf of the Greek people, presenting Martinos with the second-highest civilian award of the Greek …
The National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued an update to the emergency weather warning released on Tuesday. According to EMY, localized thunderstorms, snowfall in mainland areas and strong winds will persist, though their intensity is expected to decrease from the evening hours. A further weakening of these weather phenomena is anticipated on Wednesday. However, frost …