National security

Violence breaks out at universities in Athens and Thessaloniki

Violent clashes erupted at the Agricultural University of Athens in the Votanikos district in the first hours of Sunday, resulting in the torching of two buses and a car.

According to state-run broadcaster ERT, around 1:00 a.m., 40 individuals attending a concert at the university took to Athens Avenue, setting fires and hurling stones at passing vehicles.

Turnstiles consigned to the museum of the Metapolitefsi

Some time ago, during his previous term in office, the prime minister had called a meeting of ministers, state officials and university rectors to discuss the issue of security at public universities. The scheme for a campus police force was very much "alive" at the time; it was, in fact, one of ruling New Democracy's key policy announcements.

40 years in prison for ex-CIA coder who leaked hacking tools to WikiLeaks

A former CIA programmer was sentenced to 40 years in prison on Thursday for leaking the U.S. spy agency's most valuable hacking tools to WikiLeaks.

Joshua Schulte, 35, was found guilty in 2022 of espionage and other charges in what the CIA called a "digital Pearl Harbor" — the largest data breach in the history of the intelligence agency.

With the right wage

Greece has invested many billions of euros in the procurement of new weapons. All this will not achieve much if we have these very expensive next-generation systems but not the staff to support them - staff who must be highly trained and paid on a par with the private sector. 

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