News archive of December 2018

The lawyer representing eight police officers accused of brutality during an incident that ended with the death of 33-year-old Zak Kostopoulos in downtown Athens on September 21 has sent an out-of-court complaint to the chief of the Greek Police (ELAS) over the leak on Friday of the decision reached in an internal inquiry into the issue.

WASHINGTON, DC - The first US-Greece Strategic Dialogue this month highlighted the steadily improving bilateral relations between Washington, DC, and Athens.

The decision to grant a fifth furlough to Dimitris Koufodinas, the hitman of the now defunct November 17 terror group, was roundly condemned on Friday.

The regional governor of central Greece, Costas Bakoyannis, whose father was assassinated by the group in 1989, decried the decision.

The government failed to pay out the social solidarity income, hospital doctors and nurses' extra shift payments, as well as other allowances, so that it will have the necessary liquidity to distribute the so-called social dividend and cover the retroactive payments due to "special wage grid" workers and pensioners.

A 3-year-old girl suffered face injuries after she was attacked by a pitbull on Friday as she sang Christmas carols at a cafe in the suburb of Ilion, northern Athens.

According to reports, the girl, who was with her two siblings, was attacked by the dog after it managed to break free from its owner, who is also the owner of the cafe.

The prime minister of the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), Zoran Zaev, appears confident of mustering the support of the 80 MPs needed to ratify the name deal with Greece, telling his country's 24 TV channel on Thursday that he "genuinely believes it will be possible to get support from 85 or 90 lawmakers, if not more."

The decree by which the mandate of the head of the General Staff was extended was sent to the Official Gazette immediately after the reunion of the Supreme Council for Country's Defence (CSAT), and president Klaus Iohannis warns that the delay in publishing this decree "has serious consequences and draws judicial liability of all persons involved", the Presidential Administration says i

At the trial of ten suspected members of 'People's Eye' on Friday, Hashim Thaci accused the leader of Kosovo's main opposition party Vetevendosje, Albin Kurti, and one of its MPs, Glauk Konjufca, of being behind the organisation.

The construction of the transit center at Thriasio in western Attica is set to get under way after almost two decades of efforts in that direction.

The latest development concerns the selection of the Mytilineos group to construct the infrastructure of the center that will be developed and operated in the next 60 years by the consortium of ETVA VIPE with Goldair.

The Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) announced on Friday that its general index of industrial producer prices showed a 2.9 percent annual increase in November 2018, slowing down from the 5.5 percent yearly rise recorded 12 months earlier.

However, compared to October 2018, there was a 3.2 percent decline.