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Greek public prosecutor Ekaterini Tsironi has dismissed charges against nine Egyptian men accused of causing a shipwreck that killed hundreds of migrants last year, telling the court Greece lacked jurisdiction. Shortly after the trial opened in the southern city of Kalamata, Tsironi recommended that the charges be dismissed, saying that Greek jurisdiction could not be established because the overcrowded trawler sank outside Greek territorial waters. Nine men were due to go on trial, accused of causing the worst migrant shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea for ten years. Human rights groups had a...
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Greek 17-year-olds will be able to vote for the first time in the upcoming 2024 European elections. Three students from a school in Athens express their concerns and hopes for the continent in an interview with Euronews, ahead of the June poll. "It's a very good opportunity for us, as young people aged 17, to influence the direction of Europe. Through our votes, we can help reshape the European Parliament by electing representatives who better reflect our ideas and our will for Europe, the Europe that we want to see in the future," Simela Mavromati, a student in Athens, told Euronews. Star app...
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Just a year ago, a summit meeting of the leaders of Turkey and Greece would have created sensational news. But when President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan hosted Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Ankara this week, it was almost a routine talk between neighbours. The meeting was their fourth in 10 months as the two leaders try to put an end to decades of mutual animosity by focusing on trade, tourism, energy and repairing cultural ties, among other areas. “In the critical area of migration, the cooperation between our two countries and especially between the police and the coast guard is paying off...
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The swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected President of North Macedonia, Gordana Davkova Siljanovska, caused an uproar in Athens, Brussels, and many other European capitals. Not because she is the first-ever female president of the country or because she just won a landslide victory. It also wasn't about something she said. Actually, it was about what she did not say. While taking her oath of office, President Davkova omitted the directional adjective "North" and said just "Macedonia" despite signing a formal oath under her country's constitutional name on the same day. Yet, given that she ...
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The leaders of Greece and Türkiye met on Monday for talks aimed at underlining their efforts to put aside decades-old disputes, but they also revealed deep divisions over the Israel-Hamas war. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara following the two-hour face-to-face summit, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan jumped on comments by Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in which he described Hamas as a terrorist organisation. “I do not see Hamas as a terror group,” Erdogan said. “I see it as a group of people trying to protect their own land.” He said that Türkiye was currently treating ...
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Ahead of the EU elections, the current centre-right government in Greece maintain their popularity one year after the national elections. However, Prime minister Kiriakos Mitsotakis' Nea Demokratia, the European People Party's political affiliate in Greece, leads the polls among Greeks citizens, according to the Euronews superpoll. It comes ahead of the EU elections in June, predicting that the current centre-right Government will maintain its position It is an exception in European politics as almost all ruling political parties are set see losses, the opinion polls report. The moderate conse...
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Destinations across Europe are battling overtourism - visit Venice and you’ll have to pay an entry fee, book for Amsterdam and you’ll be asked to take a quiz about your holiday activities, head to the Canary Islands and you might see graffiti telling tourists to go home. It’s no surprise then that many travellers are seeking out lesser-trod alternatives away from the crowds. You might not get to see iconic landmarks or eat in raved-about restaurants, but you’ll find space, peace, lower prices and a few surprises. Here are the best places for escaping the crowds, according to users of Reddit’s ...
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Greece’s fire season officially starts in May, but dozens of fires have already been put out over the past month after temperatures began hitting 30 degrees Celsius in late March - considerably higher than previous spikes recorded over the past decade. “It’s actually already summer for us,” said Fire Lieutenant Colonel Ioannis Kolovos during a recent training exercise. “The truth is that the fire season has started prematurely and has been extended over the last five years.” His 10-member elite fire crew from the 1st Wildfire Special Operation Unit bristles with tools needed to hold back fires...
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Workers and activists around the world marked May Day with largely peaceful protests on Wednesday over rising prices and calls for greater labour rights. Pro-Palestinian sentiments were also on display. Police in Istanbul used tear gas and fired rubber bullets to disperse thousands of people who tried to break through a barricade and reach the main Taksim square in defiance of a ban. Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said at least 210 people were detained. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government has long declared Taksim off-limits for demonstrations on security grounds. In 1977, unidentified...
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Researchers at the University of Pisa have discovered a narrative purporting to tell the final hours of Plato, one of Ancient Greece’s greatest philosophers. The narrative was found in a papyrus scroll that had been almost completely destroyed in the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79AD. In the text, it tells the story of the philosopher, a disciple of Socrates, who died in 348 BC. The Greek philosopher died in bed as he listened to a Thracian slave girl play him the flute, it suggests. AI helps decode scrolls destroyed during the Vesuvius eruption60 years on: What do we know about the Derveni P...
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