12.04.2018
Mirage 2000-5 crashes north of Skyros island, pilot dead
The Mirage fell slightly before landing and after completing its mission in the Aegean. In the morning it was in a state of readiness and was alerted for a scramble.
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12.04.2018
Editorial: Clouds gathering
Instead of opting for a programme that entails fiscal measures and cheap money, if necessary, the government prefers a programme with measures and costly borrowing
11.04.2018
Aegean islands grapple with 15,000 migrants, 30 percent first quarter hike in arrivals
Data on arrivals this year, combined with the war in Syria, have raised fears in Athens of a renewed migrant crisis, which until now had been contained by the EU-Turkey migration agreement.
11.04.2018
Basic funder of Noor-1 arrested in Turkey
The arrest six days ago in Istanbul of a major Turkish drug trafficker, Sherif Zindashti, who is considered the basic funder of...
11.04.2018
Editorial: Dual obligation
It is inconceivable for the government to deny citizens this basic right, which is fundamental in any well-governed state, to allow untrammeled crime, and to leave the citizenry unprotected.
10.04.2018
Turkish thriller: Alleged Gulenist imam arrested on Greek-flagged ship
The 48-year-old imam, Murat Elmas, is accused of being a member of Islamist cleric Fethullah Gulen’s religious movement, branded a terrorist organisation and named FETO in Turkey.
10.04.2018
Editorial: Provocation
It is true that the path from an authoritarian regime, such as that in Hungary after WWII, to one of democratic maturity, is a long one. Still, it is equally true that on this road, the old democracies of Europe have much to teach.
06.04.2018
Initiatives needed to address aging, shrinking of Greek Army
What is required, army sources say, is a comprehensive plan that would include making it mandatory to begin military service at age 18, the voluntary enlistment of women, and the hiring of professional soldiers.
06.04.2018
Editorial: Accounting
The government may hope that it can conclude a good debt relief agreement, but it is obliged to be prepared for a less favourable scenario.
05.04.2018
Ankara toughens policy on Evros border incidents
The document was drafted over two weeks after the capture of the two Greek officers in Kastanies, Evros, but may explain why efforts by the Greek commander to resolve the 1 March incident with his Turkish counterpart failed.
05.04.2018
Editorial: Unsuitable
The prime minister has a national duty, a duty to the country, to do what is necessary to check his uncontrollable defence minister.
04.04.2018
FYROM issue on new course, with plans for international accord
Party leaders who were briefed by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on the progress in FYROM naming talks were given the impression that...
04.04.2018
Editorial: Out of control
The prime minister looks on from the sidelines, as his ruling coalition partner plays, for purely electoral reasons, the game of Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, pouring fuel in the fire that the Turkish leader is trying to set, and continuing to exploit patriotic sentiment.
03.04.2018
Greek Police log records two residential break-ins daily
New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis blamed Syriza’s abolition of the Delta police motorcyclists’ rapid reaction unit, and a law to decongest prisons passed by ex-justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos, as two causes for the high incidence of violent crime
03.04.2018
Editorial: Mission
No citizen would reach the point of defending himself with his own means, placing his own life in danger – as occurred recently with an octogenarian – if the state and police had fulfilled their mission at all levels.
02.04.2018
Beyond disputing, Ankara declares Imia islets are Turkish
The Turkish government is directly rejecting Greek sovereignty over the Imia islets, declaring them Turkish and expressing objections to the inclusion of 2,000 Greek rock islets in the Aegean in the European Union’s Natura 2000 programme.
02.04.2018
Editorial: Flip-flops
In our region, nationalist salvos are impermissible, just as complacency is unpardonable. The combination of the two is even more dangerous.
30.03.2018
Vienna FYROM talks keep hope alive on Athens, Skopje settlement
UN mediator Nimetz described the “constructive” talks as cause to be optimistic about the future, as regards the name issue, but he noted that there are a number of open and thorny technical issues
