Arms-smuggling policemen busted in operation on Crete
eKathimerini — Five police officers have been arrested for their role in a ring which smuggled weapons and ammunition in packages containing frozen meat, after […]
Month: June 2016
Major slide in VAT takings from popular Greek islands
eKathimerini — The General Secretariat for Public Revenues has found that value-added tax revenues plunged by about 40 percent in the first five months of […]
BREXIT : Jean-Claude Juncker is profoundly angry with Britain
Source: The Telegraph — In Brussels, they have been ready to say goodbye to Britain for a long time. Britain had been half-way out the door […]
Pan-Orthodox Council in Crete declares Orthodox Church unity
Sputnik — The Orthodox Church has declared its unity in the message of the Pan-Orthodox Council which took place in Crete on June 20-26. “The key priority of the Council […]
John Pilger: Why the British Said No to Europe
John Pilger / TeleSUR — The majority vote by Britons to leave the European Union was an act of raw democracy. Millions of ordinary people […]
Europe’s airports call for EU and UK aviation markets to remain integrated
GTP.gr — The European airport trade body, ACI EUROPE, called for the EU and UK aviation markets Friday to remain fully integrated in the future – […]
Brexit Vote: Berlin might be on the verge of a nervous breakdown and doesn’t know it
KeepTalkingGreece.com — According to German dailies Die Welt and Handelsblatt that have obtained a copy of the “German strategy regarding Brexit“, the 8-page long document […]
Refugee centre on Lesbos forced to close and British owners hit with €10,000 penalty
The Mirror — Neck deep in freezing waves, Philippa Kempson battled to pull a little boy from a sinking boat crammed with 80 people. Terrified […]
Three arrests for forged travel documents at Crete airport
eKathimerini — Two Syrian nationals and a woman from Cameroon were arrested at the Nikos Kazantzakis Airport in Heraklion Saturday, for attempting to board flights […]
A year after Grexit scare, Greece faces Brexit fallout
DW — There has been little sympathy for the EU in a country that is constantly faced with the effects of its policies – from […]
Tsipras blames Brexit on austerity, deficiencies in EU leadership
Reuters — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, whose own rebellion against European Union policy brought the bloc to a crisis last year, said on Saturday […]
Fear will never build a long term project: Jean Claude Juncker must go.
Huffington Post /Georges Ugeux — By putting the debate on economic issues, British leaders have made the Brexit debate an economic one while it is […]
German reaction to the UK’s Brexit vote
Fortune — The global reaction to the U.K.’s decision to leave the EU is generally one of shock. But the reactions of politicians and business […]
Greek PM: EU needs ‘change of course’ in light of British exit vote
The Washington Times — With many speculating that his country might be the next to defect from the European Union, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras […]
Varoufakis: Brexit won’t shield Britain from the horror of a disintegrating EU
The Guardian — Leave won because too many British voters identified the EU with authoritarianism, irrationality and contempt for parliamentary democracy while too few believed […]