News archive of July 2019

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and MHP leader on July 31 discussed domestic politics as well as foreign policy issues.         

As she walked in looking poised and cool despite the summer heat, British Hellenist Dr Jennifer Wallace, who is senior lecturer and director of studies in English at Peterhouse, Cambridge, seemed right at home in the classic family restaurant in the upscale Athens district of Kolonaki.

A test run of the SMS system linked to the 112 European Union emergency number was conducted successfully on Wednesday by the General Secretariat for Civil Protection, Digital Policy Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said.

The trial run was focused on Syros with residents and visitors to the island receiving a text message as part of the test.

The director of the National Revenue Agency (NRA) Galya Dimitrova will not resign due to the leakage of data from the information arrays of the revenue administration, which affected more than 5 million Bulgarian citizens.

"Minister Goranov wants decisions from me, not resignation," Dimitrova said at a briefing.

Turkey should take steps to maintain its national security, main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu, said elaborating on a possible Turkish incursion in the east of Euphrates.

"The traffic to Greece increased by 25%, '' Interior Minister Mladen Marinov said during parliamentary scrutiny, BTA reports. In 65% of the cases, there are children under the age of 18 who are subject to a special check-up. The traffic is most intensive during the weekends at Kulata and Makaza border checkpoints.

This was stated by Avdullah Hoti, the head of the parliamentary group of the most influential Kosovo opposition party, the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo (DSK).
Hoti told the Pristina-based Express daily that he believed the consultation was a waste of time.

Resolute Castle 19 multinational exercise ended on Wednesday, at the Cincu military base, in Brasov County, with a ceremony at the headquarters of the Getica National Joint Training Centre.

Two tax inspectors came under attack in the Cretan port of Rethymno on Wednesday after attempting to conduct a check on a truck driver.  

After the inspectors asked to see his goods and invoices, the driver allegedly lashed out at them inspectors -  a 58-year-old man and a 55-year-old woman.   

Srdjan Djokovic in the interview for RTS confirmed "Novak Djokovic" Museum will be opened in Knez Mihailova Street.
"We are going to open the museum at the center of the city. There is a huge interest on the part of both local and foreign tourists, particularly Chinese. Novak is highly popular in China", Djokovic Senior told RTS.