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European Commissioner for Values and Transparency Vera Jourova gives a press conference on the Media Freedom Act at the European Commission in Brussels, Belgium, 16 September 2022. EPA-EFE/STEPHANIE LECOCQ

A C-27 transport aircraft of the Hellenic Air Force took off on Monday afternoon from Aswan Airport in Egypt to Djibouti to collect the Greeks who have been transferred there from war-torn Sudan.

The flight back to Greece is most likely to depart for Greece on Tuesday.

The Minister of Innovation and Growth Alexander Pulev and President Rumen Radev will participate in the ceremony of Bulgaria's accession to the European Battery Alliance, organized by the Bulgarian Investment Agency (BAI) and the European Battery Alliance (EBA).

At the event, BAI and EBA will sign a declaration for Bulgaria's accession to the Alliance.

Twenty-one bodies have been exhumed in Kenya while investigating a cult whose followers are believed to have starved themselves to death, police sources said Saturday, warning the toll could rise.

Alexandra Voudouri, Kathimerini's Brussels correspondent, joins Thanos Davelis to look at the series of proposals put forth by the EU Parliament aimed at finally ending years of standoff over how to manage migration, and break down what this means for Europe and frontline states like Greece.

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias welcomes the recent thaw in Greek-Turkish relations but reiterates that Athens remains cautious.

The majority (70%) of people born in the 1980s in Greece achieved a higher level of education than their parents as a result of the significant expansion of the educational system over the last four decades, according to a study by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE) think tank. 

On Thursday, April 20, in two readings, the Saeima of Latvia adopted a law "On the ban on holding certain public events on May 9", banning all celebrations and celebrations on that day, with the exception of Europe Day events. When for such public events a permit issued by the municipal authorities is required, but in the text this right is taken away from them.

At exactly 3 p.m., the consultations of the representatives of GERB-SDS with president Radev began within the framework of the constitutional procedure for handing over a mandate to form a government.

European Union lawmakers on Thursday approved a series of proposals aimed at ending the yearslong standoff over how best to manage migration, a conundrum that has provoked one of the bloc's biggest political crises.