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Greeks who felt betrayed by SYRIZA on the Macedonia issue, can feel betrayed again. This time by the new government conservative New Democracy. “The Prespes Agreement is good,” two ministers in Mitsotakis cabinet acknowledged. Supporters of “Macedonia Is Greek” were already a bit shocked to hear the Prime Minister Kyriakos …
Read More »Golden Dawn Trial: Murderer claims Pavlos Fyssas “bent on his knife”
Giorgos Roupakias, the confessed murderer of antifascist rapper Pavlos Fyssas, appeared in court provocative, incongruous and cynical. “It was a simple manslaughter,” he claimed in his first testimony in public on a crucial day for the Golden Dawn trial. He further claimed that it was Fyssas attacked him first with …
Read More »Three injured when Cessna loses engine and makes emergency landing
The pilot of a single engine aircraft was slightly injured during an emergency landing at a rural road off the Egnatia highway near Grevena, West Macedonia, short before 9 o’ clock on Thursday morning. Slightly injured are also the two passenger on board of the Cessna. The Cessna with two …
Read More »Tasoulas elected Speaker of parliament with a record of votes
With a record of votes, Constantinos Tasoulas, a deputy of conservative New Democracy, was elected Speaker of the Greek Parliament. He received 283 votes out of 298 present lawmakers and broke the record of Speaker Zoi Konstantopoulou -now former SYRIZA- who was elected with 235 votes in 2015. The election …
Read More »Greece is pillar of stability in East Med and the Balkans, says Pompeo
Newly appointed Foreign Minister, Nikos Dendias, made his first official trip to …Washington for a meeting with US counterpart Mike Pompeo. Dendias invited Pompeo to visit Athens in the autumn for the second Strategic Dialogue between Greece and the US, an invitation the US saw positively was likely to be …
Read More »Civil Protection declares “state of emergency” in 11 municipalities for weather damages
The Civil Protection has declared “:state of emergency” 11 small and bigger communities and municipalities in West, Central and North-East Greece due to damages caused by the stormy weather on July 10-11 and 14, 2019. According to a statement issued on Wednesday, the Secretary-General of Civil Protection declared civil protection …
Read More »Activist attacked and threatened while filming donkeys abuse on Santorini
An animal activist and his camera man denounce that they were brutally attacked “wild group of ten, stick-wielding men:, while they were trying to film the abuse of donkeys on the island of Santorini. A South African animal welfare worker was brutally assaulted and threatened with death, when filming abuse …
Read More »Business with migrants: Policeman arrested on Kos, doctors on Samos
On two islands in the eastern Aegean Sea, Greek Police has cracked down illegal networks that were earning money from asylum seekers facilitating them either to fly to European countries or to be relocated to the mainland. On the island of Samos, it was doctors, nurses and other personnel that …
Read More »“Ebola virus did not cause Italian girl’s death,” say Greek Health authorities
Greek health authorities have dismissed media claims that a 17-year-old Italian girl died from Ebola virus in a hospital in Piraeus on Thursday. The teenager was having vacation with her parents on the island of Naxos when she suffered from high fever and hemorrhagic symptoms. She was rushed with helicopter …
Read More »Conservative ND scraps plans to take priests off the state payroll
Greece’s newly-elected conservative New Democracy government on Tuesday scrapped plans to remove priests from the state payroll, reversing a decision by its leftist predecessor that aimed to carve a clearer distinction between church and state. Priests in the powerful Greek Orthodox Church have been treated as civil servants in Greece …
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