In a pointed Gerapetritis Libya criticism, news site Lawandorder.gr has accused Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis of letting eastern Libya drift towards Turkey before a key maritime vote. Its column appeared on Thursday 22 October under a pen name. It followed the decision by Libya’s eastern-based House of Representatives on 20 October to approve the 2019 …
Authorities seized more than 18 kilograms of cocaine from a car arriving at Lavrio port, southeast of Athens, on Tuesday morning and arrested the vehicle’s driver, a British national, on suspicion of violating Greece’s drug laws. Source link
Greece will renovate dozens of Athens rail stations on the suburban railway and Metro Line 1, making them cleaner and more accessible, Alternate Minister George Kotsiras said. The Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport wants a cleaner, more functional network. Alongside frequent and reliable services, it aims to make public transport more attractive. “We are seeking …
Legal proceedings for the final three defendants in the alleged Greek basketball match-fixing case lasted around 10 hours on Monday, ending late in the evening, with chief referee Ilias Koromilas remanded in custody, and referee Vasso Tsarouha and former referee Tasos Piloidis both placed under house arrest with electronic monitoring. Source link
Greece recorded a primary budget surplus of €7.554 billion in the January-September 2026 period, exceeding the government’s target of €5.129 billion, as stronger-than-expected tax revenues, particularly from value-added tax (VAT) and income tax, boosted public finances, according to final execution data released by the Ministry of National Economy and Finance. However, after adjusting for delayed …
In Greece, the new energy turmoil is particularly intense in the wholesale electricity market. Source link
Greek Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis and Freedom of Sailing party leader Zoe Konstantopoulou exchanged personal insults and accusations in Parliament during a heated confrontation over Georgiadis’s attendance at a meeting with Israeli officials in Athens on 12 October. Konstantopoulou accused Georgiadis of attending a “secret meeting” at the Athens Club with the Israeli ambassador, Israel’s …
By unseating longtime leader Aleksandar Vucic in Sunday’s election, Serbia’s student protest movement did what demonstrators in other European capitals can only dream of. Now, though, comes the gritty business of governing – something neither the students nor their handpicked candidates have any experience of. Source link
Robots are moving beyond laboratories and science fiction into warehouses, hotels, industrial facilities and rescue operations, as advances in robotics create new opportunities for businesses and society, according to Pavlos Tsiapos, founder and CEO of AVRION Robotics. “Humanoid robots have left the studios and even the robotics laboratories and entered the present,” Tsiapos said. “They …
The government and opposition parties clashed on Monday over the Greece-Cyprus electricity interconnector, tax evasion cases and an agreement on Mount Sinai’s monastery. Source link