News archive of December 2018

Official employment of non-Greeks in Greece has been in decline in recent years, contributing to a wave of departures by foreign nationals from the crisis-hit eurozone country and compelling many to seek work off the books, recent research by an Athens-based think-tank has shown.

Municipal garbage collectors in the northern port city of Thessaloniki will be gathering outside City Hall on Monday as part of a three-day strike that began on Sunday.

According to their union, the workers are protesting delays in overtime payments as well as the failure of the municipal authority to provide them with safety gear while on the job.

Bucharest, Dec 2 /Agerpres/ - President Klaus Iohannis sent a message on Sunday on the occasion of Hanukkah holiday, the text being presented by presidential adviser Sergiu Nistor at the Choral Temple in Bucharest.

A high-ranking EU official warns that, despite some improvements, the situation in refugee camps in Moria, on the island of Lesbos, and, even more so, in Samos is still dire and Greece could face sanctions in 2019.

A 54-year-old Argentine woman who was lured into war-wracked Syria two years ago on a marriage promise was finally on her way home on Dec. 1, a Syrian rebel official said.

In an interview with Kathimerini, Indo-Canadian billionaire Prem Watsa, head of Fairfax Financial Holdings, expresses optimism that Greece can achieve a strong economic recovery in the coming years.

Apart from Eurobank and Grivalia Properties REIC, a Greece-based real estate investment company, Watsa has also invested in the Eurolife ERB insurance group and other companies.

Pope Francis lit a candle at the Vatican on Sunday for victims of conflicts around the world, and in particular the children of war-torn Syria, reported AFP.

"Advent is a time of hope. Right now, my hope is for peace for the children of Syria, tormented by a war that has lasted eight years," he said after the Angelus prayer.

Today in the morning hours in the plains will appear low lay clouds or fog, which will remain in the western part of the Danube plain almost all day long. Above the rest of the country it will be mostly sunny.

France will consider imposing a state of emergency to prevent a recurrence of some of the worst civil unrest in more than a decade, a government spokesman said on Sunday, as peaceful protestors were urged to come to the negotiating table, writes the Guardian.

Turkish Parliament Speaker Binali Yıldırım and main opposition Republican People's Party's (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu held a snap closed-door meeting in parliament on Dec. 2.