News archive of June 2018

Authorities in Rethymno, Crete, on Thursday said they had found a 55-year-old Russian woman who had been swept up by strong currents off the coast of Adelianos Kambos the previous day.

The woman was spotted by a border patrol aircraft clinging to an inflatable water mattress that helped keep her afloat for some 14 hours amid high winds and choppy seas.

Turkey has taken on the task to renovate a train station in Lebanon's Tripoli, located on the Hejaz Railway, which was built by Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid II between 1900 and 1908.

In an interview with the daily Politika, Avramopoulos said that the EU has not spoken to African or Western Balkan countries about establishing migrant centers in Africa or on European soil, but outside the EU. Asked if there was a plan in the EU for such centers to be in Serbia, Avramopoulos replied, "No, not at all."

I will not focus the substance of the name deal reached between Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his counterpart in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) Zoran Zaev, which was sealed in the Prespes Lake region last week - with all its positive and negative aspects. 

On the defensive after seeing the coalition's majority reduced again this week, government officials on Wednesday branded an attempted attack on the office of a coalition MP as part of a scheme to destabilize the administration but were silenced when the anarchist group Rouvikonas took responsibility for the incident. 

The Athens metro was once considered an example to be emulated, in all respects. 

It was embraced wholeheartedly by all Greeks as a modern and efficient form of transport.  

However, this was not the case with the country's politicians who have continually failed to show it the care and respect it deserves. 

Tripsta SA, the parent company of travel sites Airtickets.gr and Travelplanet24, announced on Thursday the suspension of all new ticket sales as part of a radical restructuring of the Greek-owned firm, which has also resulted in the sacking of 180 employees from Athens headquarters.

"If it's possible that I became speaker, it's possible that a certain kind of unexpected coalition could be formed which today might seem like a mission impossible," Tonin said in an interview with the STA.

With the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) accelerating works to shape the new administrative system following the June 24 polls, all eyes have now turned on the potential owners of 140 key positions in the state apparatus and the AKP management under the rule of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

A Greek Supreme Court prosecutor has called for the retrial of the country's former statistics chief, convicted a year ago for alleged breach of duty in a highly politicized case.

Andreas Georgiou had appealed against the lower court's decision, which gave him a suspended two-year prison sentence. Earlier, another court had cleared him of the charges.