Posts tagged with "Greece"

With eye on re-election, Tsipras rolls dice on Skopje issue Greece

With eye on re-election, Tsipras rolls dice on Skopje issue

May 23rd, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras is taking a big gamble in trying to settle a decades-old name dispute with neighbouring Macedonia (FYROM) which could backfire in a pre-election year among voters already jaded by his economic austerity policies. With about 15 months until the next election is due, the 43-year-old leftist leader has...
Police checking Cypriot link to Greek illegal cigarette factory Cyprus

Police checking Cypriot link to Greek illegal cigarette factory

May 21st, 2018 Greek authorities are working with their Cypriot counterparts to determine whether an elderly couple are the leaders of an organisation which operated one of the biggest factories of illicit cigarettes busted by police in Mesoyia Attikis on Saturday. The couple, a man aged 82 and his 76-year-old wife, are of Cypriot descent and are so...
Kotzias to discuss Cyprus problem during meetings in the US Cyprus Talks

Kotzias to discuss Cyprus problem during meetings in the US

May 19th, 2018 Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias will discuss the Cyprus problem during the contacts he will hold next week with high ranking officials of the US government and the United Nations, in Washington and New York. Kotzias, who arrived on Friday in Washington, will hold a meeting on Monday with his American counterpart Mike Pompeo...
Cyprus, Greece and Malta coordinate to strengthen voices on shipping Business

Cyprus, Greece and Malta coordinate to strengthen voices on shipping

May 19th, 2018 Cyprus, Greece and Malta on Friday enhanced already-close cooperation on shipping matters, at their 6th trilateral meeting, in Nicosia, aiming to strengthen their collective voice in the EU and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Natasa Pilides, Deputy Minister of Shipping chaired the meeting with her two counterparts,...
Cyprus to set up coastguard with Greek help Cyprus

Cyprus to set up coastguard with Greek help

May 17th, 2018 The government said Thursday it planned to set up a coastguard in cooperation with Greece, which will initially provide the know-how. The announcement was made on Thursday by Justice Minister Ionas Nicolaou after a meeting with Greek Shipping Minister Panayiotis Kouroumblis. The minister said the coastguard will assume all the...
Top Greek judge resigns over pension cut leaks Greece

Top Greek judge resigns over pension cut leaks

May 16th, 2018 The head of Greece's top administrative court quit on Wednesday over leaks to the media of its deliberations on a new round of pension cuts and took aim at the austerity measures attached to Greece's international bailouts. Greek newspapers have reported on plenary sessions by the Council of State over pension cuts planned for 2019,...
Greece says 'still far' from a deal with Skopje over name row World

Greece says 'still far' from a deal with Skopje over name row

May 15th, 2018 Greece said on Tuesday it was "far away" from resolving a decades-long dispute over FYROM's name despite progress in talks between the two neighbours. The row erupted in 1991 when FYROM declared independence from Yugoslavia as it disintegrated. Greece refuses to recognise it under the name Macedonia, saying this implies a territorial...
US filmmaker offers roadmap to boost local industry Cyprus

US filmmaker offers roadmap to boost local industry

May 13th, 2018 Greece is luring foreign filmmakers with tax incentives. Cyprus is poised to do the same. Hollywood cinematographer Steven Bernstein explains how it could work By Theo Panayides Steven Bernstein is a man with a plan – or a man with a dream, as they say in the movies. His dream is indeed movie-related, hoping to kick-start local...
Greek man, 28 found dead in Oroklini from apparent overdose Cyprus

Greek man, 28 found dead in Oroklini from apparent overdose

May 13th, 2018 A 28-year-old Greek man was found dead in an apartment in Oroklini late Saturday from an apparent overdose, CNA reported. After receiving a call, police went to the ground-floor apartment where they found the man who, according to police sources, had a syringe in his hand that most likely contained drugs. A second syringe was also...
Anastasiades off to Egypt for launch of 'diaspora return' progamme Cyprus

Anastasiades off to Egypt for launch of 'diaspora return' progamme

April 29th, 2018 President Nicos Anastasiades departs for Alexandria, Egypt, on Monday to launch the “Nostos The Return” initiative together with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos. From April 30 - May 6, the Egyptian government will host a group of second and third generation Egyptians who live in...
EU's Juncker says Turkey must release two Greek soldiers Greece

EU's Juncker says Turkey must release two Greek soldiers

April 26th, 2018 Turkey must release two Greek soldiers detained on Turkish territory in March, EU Commission President Jean Claude Juncker said on Thursday during a visit to Athens. Juncker also urged Athens and Skopje to settle a decades-old row over Macedonia's name. "I want to highlight the urgency in solving this matter," Juncker told Greek...
Greek PM Tsipras says Turkey risks moving away from Europe Greece

Greek PM Tsipras says Turkey risks moving away from Europe

April 23rd, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Monday ruled out any trade-off with Turkey in efforts to secure the release of two detained Greek soldiers and said Ankara appeared to be moving further away from Europe. The soldiers were arrested in March after crossing a densely forested part of the border in bad weather and face charges of...
Asylum-seekers and locals clash on Greek island of Lesbos FRONT PAGE

Asylum-seekers and locals clash on Greek island of Lesbos

April 23rd, 2018 Clashes broke out on Sunday between asylum-seekers and groups of locals on Lesbos, police said, in one of the most serious bouts of violence on the Greek island in months. Locals were protesting against a group of about 200 refugees and migrants who had camped out for days on a main square on the island's seaside promenade, a police...
The continued legacy of the Greek Junta Opinion

The continued legacy of the Greek Junta

April 22nd, 2018 By George Koumoullis WRITING an article about political, economic issues every fortnight, I find it difficult not to comment on the anniversary of the fascist coup in Greece (April 21, 1967) considering that we are still experiencing its tragic consequences today. How could I forget this anniversary when every morning I see...
New asylum-seekers free to travel from Greek islands Britain

New asylum-seekers free to travel from Greek islands

April 18th, 2018 A top Greek court has ruled that asylum-seekers newly arriving on Greek islands from Turkey should no longer be held there while their applications are assessed, court officials said on Wednesday. Asylum-seekers have been prohibited from travelling beyond five islands since March 2016, when the European Union agreed a deal with Turkey...
Greek court rules against extraditing Russian source in Maltese scandal Cyprus

Greek court rules against extraditing Russian source in Maltese scandal

April 12th, 2018 A Greek court on Thursday ruled against extraditing a former bank employee who ignited a political scandal in Malta when she became a source for an investigative journalist who was murdered last year. Maria Efimova, a Russian who left Malta for Greece last year with her family, surrendered to Greek police last month and was arrested...
Greek PM Tsipras tells cabinet to finish bailout marathon Greece

Greek PM Tsipras tells cabinet to finish bailout marathon

April 3rd, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged his ministers on Tuesday to intensify reform efforts as the country heads towards the anticipated conclusion of a three-year bailout programme in August. "There is no time for complacency, but we must intensify efforts to finish the marathon," he told a meeting of his cabinet. Athens is...
Greek PM urges Turkey to release two soldiers Greece

Greek PM urges Turkey to release two soldiers

April 3rd, 2018 Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras urged Turkey on Tuesday to release two Greek soldiers detained on Turkish territory in March and accused Ankara of escalating tensions. Greece maintains the soldiers crossed into Turkey by mistake while following the trail of suspected illegal migrants. Turkish courts have ordered their detention on...
Turkey’s energy wars and Greece’s Thucydidean trap Opinion

Turkey’s energy wars and Greece’s Thucydidean trap

March 25th, 2018 By Panayiotis Tilliros Sensing the power vacuum in the Eastern Mediterranean Turkey rushed in to fill it by issuing two illegal and void Navtex on February 2 and March 10 in its efforts to disrupt the Republic of Cyprus’ (RoC) hydrocarbon programme. Ankara met with no resistance and thus managed to prevent the Saipem 12000...
Cyprus and Greece's relations not directed against anyone, says Greek ambassador Cyprus

Cyprus and Greece's relations not directed against anyone, says Greek ambassador

March 25th, 2018 Cyprus’ relations with Greece and other countries in the region are not directed against anyone but convey a message of coexistence and cooperation and not threats and use of force, said Greece’s Ambassador to Cyprus, Ilias Fotopoulos. In a message on the occasion of Greek Independence Day, being celebrated on Sunday, he said...
National holidays and national myths Opinion

National holidays and national myths

March 25th, 2018 By George Koumoullis JUST like every year, we will once again be celebrating our two national days on March 25 and April 1 with church services, parades, school festivities, sports events and dances. The high point of all the events will be the pompous, ‘celebratory’ speeches that are repeated every year. Why, though, does the...
MEPs ask Greece not to deliver Efimova to Malta (Update 4) Cyprus

MEPs ask Greece not to deliver Efimova to Malta (Update 4)

March 20th, 2018 Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Ana Gomes on Tuesday asked Greek authorities to protect the life of surrendered whistle-blower Maria Efimova and that of her family. “It has come to my attention that Russian whistle-blower Maria Efimova, fearing for her life and the security of her family, walked into the Greek police, in...
Turkey has strayed from its European path, Greek defence minister says Cyprus

Turkey has strayed from its European path, Greek defence minister says

March 11th, 2018 Instead of following the desired European path, Turkey is following a new path, as manifested by its provocations both towards Cyprus and Greece, Greek National Defence Minister Panos Kammenos has said. In statements during a visit to the “Andreas Papandreou” airbase in Pafos accompanied by Cypriot Defence Minister Savvas...
Israel expects decision on Cyprus-Greece-Italy pipeline in 2019 Cyprus

Israel expects decision on Cyprus-Greece-Italy pipeline in 2019

March 9th, 2018 Israel expects a decision to go ahead with the construction of a 2,000 kilometre pipeline linking vast eastern Mediterranean gas resources to Europe to be made by early 2019, Israeli Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz told Reuters. The pipeline, which will cross from Israel and Cyprus into Greece and Italy in deep waters, would mark a...
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