It was seen as no surprise in Greece that the final decision on the appeal of jailed ethnic Greek mayor Fredi Beleri was deferred on Friday to the Special Court of Appeal of Tirana later this month, namely on June 25.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Saturday outlined the guidelines for his conservative administration during the first cabinet meeting after the previous day’s reshuffle, sending a strong message against complacency and arrogance.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has sought to rekindle his center-right government’s spark with a reshuffle on Friday, excluding 11 members.
Determined to maintain the initiative on the internal party front, PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis is said to be ready to launch procedures for leadership elections.
The swearing-in ceremony for the new government members took place on Friday, in the Presidential Mansion and was attended by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and President Katerina Sakellaropoulou.
The crew of a Greek-owned vessel Tutor that was damaged in an attack by Yemeni Houthi militants in the Red Sea should be rescued within the day although one sailor is still missing, officials in the Philippines had said.
A special appeals court in Albania has announced that it will made a final decision on June 25 in the case of jailed ethnic Greek politician Fredi Beleri, who was elected to the European Parliament as a candidate in Greece for the ruling New Democracy party.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Friday to boost the government’s battle with a cost-of-living crisis, but kept his foreign and finance ministers in place to show policy continuity.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has reshuffled his conservative government, overseeing the departure of four ministers and seven deputy ministers. Below is the full list of his new set of ministers and their deputies.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis appointed on Friday a new development minister and replaced his labor minister in a cabinet reshuffle aimed at helping Greece deal with a high cost of living.
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A cabinet reshuffle will be announced Friday at 11.30 a.m., according to the prime minister’s office.
Athens is waiting to see how the Turkish Petroleum Research Organization (TPAO) research vessels will move in the northeastern Aegean Sea, within Turkish territorial waters.
A cabinet reshuffle is expected in Greece as soon as Friday, according to local media reports.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis stressed the importance of safeguarding the European path of all the countries of the Balkans and the wider region in a period of tough challenges.
A spokesperson for Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis denied on Thursday that Mitsotakis was seeking Ursula von der Leyen’s post as president of the European Commission.
SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis told his party’s parliamentary group on Thursday that he will be a candidate for leadership in the event that a broader body of the center-left is created via a consensus of democratic forces.
State-owned Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) has submitted a request to conduct hydrocarbon exploration surveys in the Aegean Sea, the Turkish Energy Ministry said in an announcement, published on Thursday.
The majority of Greek voters who turned up for the European Parliament elections last Sunday showed a preference for male candidates over the age of 50, who have a background as journalists and a university degree.
A seafarer on the Greek-owned bulk carrier Tutor was killed in Wednesday’s Houthi attack against the ship, it was reported on Thursday.
The joint American-Greek military training exercise, which had been taking place since May 20 in the wider Attica area, concluded on Thursday, the Hellenic National Defence General Staff (GEETHA) announced.
A $23 million deal between Turkey and the United States for the purchase of F-16 fighter jets has been given the green light by Washington, the state-run Anadolu Agency quoted Defense Ministry sources as saying on Thursday.
A lawmaker with socialist PASOK said on Thursday the party needs to establish “what went wrong” following disappointing results in the recent European elections.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels launched a boat-borne bomb attack against a commercial ship in the Red Sea on Wednesday, authorities said, the latest escalation despite a U.S.-led campaign trying to protect the vital waterway.
The changes in the cabinet have reportedly been postponed to the beginning of next week, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis being in no hurry as he weighs all his options very thoroughly.
There are no agreed maritime borders at the mouth of the Evros River in northeastern Greece, according to a navigation notice (Navtex) issued by the Izmir Hydrographic Service Station in Turkey in response to a Greek Navtex reserving an area of the estuary, within Greek territorial waters, until June 22 for scientific research by the R/V Alkyon vessel.
The rumbling since Sunday’s European election – in which socialist PASOK remained stranded in third place, with only a slight increase in its percentage – was finally given voice on Wednesday by senior party official Odysseas Konstantinopoulos, who openly raised the issue of Nikos Androulakis’ leadership, calling for the immediate launch of procedures leading to elections for a leader in 2024.
The former prime ministers of Greece and North Macedonia, Alexis Tsipras and Zoran Zaev, who signed the landmark Prespes Agreement in 2018, have called on the leadership in Skopje to respect the terms of the deal.
US ambassador to Turkey Jeff Flake on Wednesday said that the US military buildup at the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli, just a few kilometers from the Greek-Turkish border, has nothing to do with Turkey but with the war in Ukraine.
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