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A bill expected to be approved by Parliament on Thursday will mandate that new identity cards include a Personal Identification Number (PIN) for each citizen. The measure is designed to streamline interactions between individuals and public services. Under the new amendment, existing ID cards will remain valid until they expire or are replaced. The rule …
[Shutterstock] The Hellenic Center for Defense Innovation (HCDI) has issued two new calls for expressions of interest – one for the development of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for cargo transport and another for a transient voltage suppression system to protect critical ship equipment from sudden voltage fluctuations. Earlier in March, the HCDI also invited …
Following the EU leaders’ summit on Ukraine held in Paris, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced that Greece is not prepared to join a group of nations sending troops to Ukraine. “Greece is not among the countries ready to send troops to Ukraine as part of a ‘coalition of the willing,’” Mitsotakis stated. He noted …
Former prime minister Alexis Tsipras presented four proposals for enhancing the European Union’s strategic autonomy during a lecture at the Center for European Studies (CES) at Harvard University on Tuesday. This was the first in a series of lectures Tsipras is to deliver at the American university. In a discussion moderated by Professor Peter Hall, …
A worker walks over the pipeline that transports seawater to filters at Europe’s largest desalination plant for drinking water located in Barcelona, Spain, May 16, 2023. [Emilio Morenatti/AP Photo] Cyprus plans to subsidize construction of private desalination plants at hotels to ensure the tourism-reliant island nation has enough fresh water too see it through busy …
[Giorgos Zachos/Intime News] Eleven New Democracy MPs have submitted a question in parliament asking what measures the government intends to take against what “aggressive real estate and business purchases in remote areas by Turkish capital appearing as Greek or European businesses.” The signatories, among them former minister Evripidis Stylianidis, Charalampos Athanasiou and Giorgos Karasmanis, state …
The European Commission has issued formal notices to Greece and other EU member states for failing to transpose three key directives on energy and the economy into their national legislation. Member states now have a two-month deadline to align their national laws with EU requirements. If they fail to do so, the commission may issue …
Turkish authorities deported a BBC News correspondent on Thursday after detaining him for 17 hours and branding him a “threat to public order.” Mark Lowen, who was the BBC’s Greece correspondent for much of the Greek financial crisis, from 2011 to 2014, had been in Turkey to cover mass street protests triggered by the arrest …
A Turkish national and doctoral student at Tufts University has been detained by US Department of Homeland Security agents without explanation, her lawyer said Wednesday. Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, had just left her home in Somerville on Tuesday night when she was stopped, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai said in a petition filed in Boston federal court. Video …
The European Commission will assess US President Donald Trump’s announcement for tariffs of up to 25% on automotive imports, it said late on Wednesday, together with other measures the US is looking at in the next days. “As I have said before, tariffs are taxes – bad for businesses, worse for consumers equally in the …