No well-functioning state can tolerate illegal and antisocial behaviors as supposedly customary, local peculiarities. No state can have, within its ranks, police officers who “turn a blind eye” to such behaviors that sometimes turn lethal. The public’s sense of safety, including road safety, depends on everyday events and actions. Those who appear not to have …
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The Greek stock market had a positive day from start to finish on Tuesday, with the benchmark recovering some of the ground it had lost on Monday. The selective moves by traders, targeting bank stocks and other important blue chips such as Titan Cement and OPAP, brought the main index of Athinon Avenue closer to …
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 …