Rural Development and Food Minister Margaritis Schinas, and his Cypriot counterpart Maria Panayiotou, agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation to address the veterinary crisis of foot-and-mouth disease during their meeting. According to the Ministry of Rural Development and Food, both sides emphasized the need for closer coordination between the relevant authorities in Greece and Cyprus, based …
Authorities have arrested a 16-year-old and a 20-year-old in connection with a series of robberies and attempted robberies targeting mini markets in Athens’ northern suburbs in April, police said. After giving statements to authorities, the two were released under restrictive conditions, including mandatory appearances at a police station. They were apprehended last week after a …
How people with disabilities are treated is a good way to measure how civilized a country is. The government on Monday announced a package of measures that promises to make the day-to-day lives of our disabled fellow citizens a little bit easier. It is a meaningful step that must, however, have the right follow-through, as …
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has inaugurated restoration works on three Roman monuments at the ancient Olympia archaeological site: the Early Christian Basilica – built over the workshop of the sculptor Phidias – the South Baths complex, and the Leonidaion Baths. The works were funded with €3.6 million through the Recovery and Resilience Fund. [Culture Ministry] …
File photo. A teenager has been arrested in the outskirts of Athens on suspicion of defrauding an elderly couple out of jewellery and gold coins worth thousands of euros using a common phone scam, authorities said Tuesday. A police statement said the 19-year-old suspect was arrested Saturday in Zefyri, on the capital’s northwestern fringes. He …
The world keeps getting messier, and Turkey’s external posture is becoming correspondingly blurred. What we witness is a calibrated attempt to carve out space against the slow drift toward isolation, rather than a settled, coherent strategy. By the end of April, four interlocking diplomatic moves crystalized this unsettled choreography, producing a picture that is clear …
A regional train service between the towns of Florina and Edessa in northern Greece will be restored in the coming weeks after being suspended for more than three years, authorities said Tuesday. The Infrastructure and Transport Ministry said in a statement that by the end of May two trains will run every day in either …
Greek health authorities are set to carry out a series of contacts to determine whether a Greek national aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius, where three passengers have died in a suspected hantavirus outbreak, resides in Greece or abroad. This piece of information will determine the next steps, including any contact tracing measures that may …
The suspect’s scooter appears in this undated police handout photo. [Handout/Hellenic Police] A food delivery rider was formally charged Tuesday over a string of drive-by stoning attacks that targeted women walking in the affluent northern Athens suburbs. The 28-year-old suspect, who is a Pakistani national, was arrested on Monday in Nea Erythraia, where many of …
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew made an appeal for peace in a reference to the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine on Tuesday, during an official visit to Athens where he addressed Greek lawmakers for the first time in 25 years. “It is a fact that the modern version of so-called realpolitik has completely taken …