News archive of January 2019

Several property owners in Greece have seen their monthly incomes from rent shoot up by as much as 105 percent in the last couple of years, thanks to the growing popularity of homesharing.

The decade-long financial crisis has resulted in a dramatic decline in the size of the country's most productive population group, and the phenomenon shows no sign of abating.

The changes in the leadership of the Hellenic Armed Forces must not be delayed any longer.

It is important to clear up the current ambiguity in this area, to respect the established procedures and stop the uncertainty.

We are at a particularly crucial juncture which requires any decisions to be taken swiftly and fairly.

In response to the Prime Minister's statement about extremists being behind Sunday's clashes during the protest rally against the Prespes deal, both the opposition leader and a former ally took Tsipras to task, on Twitter.

For many years our main concern was to prove a given, namely the Greekness of ancient Macedonians, driven by the delusion that this would have an effect on the international stage. In other words, we thought that it would convince third countries not to recognize the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) as "Macedonia" and curb accusations of chauvinism against Greece.

Democratic Left (DIMAR), a small leftist party created as a result of a breakaway from Syriza back in 2010, has voted to approve the Prespes deal.

Conservative opposition New Democracy squarely put the blame on the government for the clashes that led to the dispersal of Sunday's protest against the Prespes deal and asked for the resignation of the ministers in charge of the security forces.

A statement from Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras' office blames "extremist elements and members of (extreme-right party) Golden Dawn" for the clashes during the rally against the Prespes deal.

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has said the Turkey-backed Operation Olive Branch into Syria's northern district of Afrin has eliminated "all terror groups" there.

The children of Syrians who have taken refuge in Turkey say they feel Turkish and do not want to go back to Syria, a country they have no memory of.