Author: Irini Petrou

After wildfires shut down a valuable sector of the country’s economy, Greece is ready to rebuild. Recent wildfires spreading across southern Europe sent tourists visiting Greece into a state of emergency last month. Made worse by extreme heat and dry conditions, the fire threw a devastating wrench into the country’s plan for continued economic growth. Through the summer seasons, Greece’s tourist destinations, like the island of Rhodes where the first started, bring in billions of dollars worth of revenue. The country’s Prime Minister Kryiakos Mitsotakis sat down with ‘Good Morning Britain’ to update tourists on the area’s current condition. He also…

The two sides went back and forth in the opening quarter as Daube, Irving, and Ryder Dodd cashed in for Team USA opposite three scores from Greece to head to the second period tied 3-3. An exclusion against Greece opened the second quarter and Daube converted, beginning a dominant period for the Americans. From there, Irving scored the next three for Team USA before Daube and Ben Hallock closed the quarter with a pair of goals. Konstantinos Genidounias had one of his four goals for Greece in the quarter and the United States led 9-4 at halftime. Genidounias had another on a penalty shot to begin the second half before over…

the Intersucho portal – a collaboration between CzechGlobe, Brno’s Mendel University and the State Land Office – reported that virtually the entire territory of the Czech Republic was in some kind of drought condition, with almost 35 per cent facing the two worst degrees. Unhappily, that dire situation is becoming all too frequent, not only in Czechia but to varying degrees across the rest of Central Europe too, as climate change exacerbates existing problems such as poor infrastructure, wrongheaded or absent government policies, and the baleful legacies of Communism. Take leaky pipes. While not as bad as Europe’s worst offenders Italy, Bulgaria…

Nobody does “No” better than the French. Charles De Gaulle said “Non” twice to Britain’s bid to join the European Economic Community; Jacques Chirac said “Non” to the Iraq war; and Emmanuel Macron this week gave a thumbs down to Fiona Scott Morton, the American Yale academic selected for the post of top economist at the EU’s powerful competition directorate in Brussels. L’affaire Scott Morton may seem trivial in comparison to the (still unresolved) debate over Britain’s place in Europe or armed conflict in the Middle East, but the French veto of the first foreigner to take up the post says an…

Greece and Israel reiterated their willingness Thursday to further improve relations. Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis maintained that the two countries share a common will to boost close strategic relations, which is “based on common values and principles such as the tackling of antisemitism.” Regarding the latest escalation between Israel and Palestine, he expressed Athens’ concern before condemning terrorism in all forms. “We are in favor of a mutually accepted solution for the Palestinian issue, as we believe that it would serve both sides and people’s interests,” Gerapetritis said at a news conference alongside his visiting Israeli counterpart, Eli Cohen.…

The sea sent a chilling message in the middle of June, following two horrific accidents. The first: a vessel carrying 750 people across the Mediterranean, fleeing the hell of their countries towards what they believed would be a place of safety. Crammed onto a fishing trawler, they’d paid the smugglers everything they had to secure a spot. The boat is nameless, was old and rusty, with enough room for a quarter of the number that was onboard. Passengers set off from Tobruk on Libya’s eastern coast, unaware the smugglers had tricked them when they said the ship was safe and assured them they would reach their…

“In connection with the murder of a 27-year-old Polish woman in Greece, I have ordered the opening of an investigation,” Zbigniew Ziobro, Polish Minister of Justice, announced. The case is to be handled by the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Wrocław, south-western Poland. “Prosecutors will immediately apply to Greek investigators for the transfer of evidence,” the minister tweeted on Monday. Anastazja Rubińska went missing on Monday, June 12, on the Greek island of Kos, where she was working at a hotel. On Sunday, Greek media reported that the body of the 27-year-old Polish woman had been found. The corpse was found…

High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina Christian Schmidt on Tuesday slammed Serb leader Milorad Dodik for his remarks that officials are seriously considering the independence of Republika Srpska. Schmidt’s remarks came after Dodik insisted that immovable properties belonged to the entity or he would separate Republika Srpska from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Dodik is the leader of Republika Srpska, one of the country’s two entities, the other being the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ”Bosnia and Herzegovina’s sovereignty and territorial integrity cannot be questioned. I do not accept the ugly actions taken in this context,” Schmidt said at a press conference…

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán held talks in Belgrade on Saturday with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic. The main topic of the meeting was the intensification of defense industry cooperation between the two countries. The parties reviewed the possibilities of military cooperation between Hungary and Serbia and concluded that in the coming years, the way would be opened to take cooperation in the defense industry and the development of the armed forces to a new level. Viktor Orbán and Aleksandar Vucic discussed the European security situation, the latest developments in the war in Ukraine, and the prospects for the European integration of the Western…

The recent public intervention by the Founding Council of the Hellenic Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HACCI) National Federation, regarding the restrictive prerequisites set by the Greek state to the Greek diasporas in general, and to the Greek Australians in particular, to exercise their voting rights in the upcoming May 21st parliamentary elections in Greece, raises a number of issues worth exploring. HACCI’s main requests, as put to the political leadership of Greece, are the following: – Given the vastness of Australia, there is a need for the establishment of at least one voting centre per state. As thing…