News archive of March 2019

Clocks move forward an hour on Sunday at 3 a.m., marking the start of summer time.
The European Parliament recently approved the scrapping of the time change from 2021.
A European Union survey last year showed that more than 80 percent of Europeans were against the clock changes. 

Police said on Saturday morning that they had arrested two individuals, aged 32 and 24, in connection with a series of Molotov cocktails attacks against riot police units in the wider Exarchia area in central Athens shortly after midnight on Friday.
According to reports, police responded to the attacks launched by a group of hooded individuals with tear gas.

More than 50 foreign nationals were arrested in Thessaloniki during a joint operation by the Aliens Bureau, the police and the city's local authority, reports said on Saturday.

Ahead of May's European Parliament elections, former socialist prime minister Costas Simitis has lambasted the ruling SYRIZA party as opportunistic and for siding with the right and far-right of the political spectrum to gain power.

The government is providing 400,000 special wage grid workers and pensioners who have received retroactive payments for cuts made as part of austerity measures with another pre-election handout, by exempting the sums they were awarded last year from the solidarity levy.

Tens of thousands of Gazans gathered at the Israeli border on March 30 to mark a year since protests and clashes erupted there, testing a fragile truce only 10 days ahead of an Israeli general election.

British Prime Minister Theresa May on March 30 mulled a possible fourth attempt to get her Brexit agreement through parliament, faced with the growing risk of a chaotic no-deal exit in less than two weeks' time.

Turkey's defense minister and chief of general staff on March 30 inaugurated a center in southeastern Şanlıurfa province that would manage possible military operation against terrorists east of the Euphrates River in Syria.         

Turkish TV series have drawn great interest in Israel in recent times, Israeli media reported.          

The voters will choose from 12 political parties competing in the local elections.