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Cyprus
Marios Demetriades: Cyprus to Revise Existing Telecommunication Law
Cyprus may agree with the revision of existing telecommunications legislation in the EU, as long as new measures are targeted and fully justified, said Minister of Transport, Communications, and Works Marios Demetriades, during the EU Council for Telecommunications and...
Economy
Eurogroup Highlights: An All-Night Thriller as Greek Debt Almost Divided Europe
Eurozone ministers locked horns for almost twelve hours at Eurogroup discussions aimed at unlocking the next tranche of bailout money for Greece. Athens entered the meeting hoping to receive an 11-billion-euro tranche of bailout funds in the second installment of...
Greece
Dimitris Avramopoulos: Imperative to Speed Up the Refugee Relocation Program
Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday it is imperative to speed up the refugee relocation program from Greece. His statements were made after the end of the meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels.
“There’s no...
Greece
Nadia Murad Basee Taha Visits Refugees and Migrants in Greece
Nadia Murad Basee Taha, who managed to escape from ISIS, wants to become the voice of the refugees seeking legal ways to Europe.
The Yazidi rights activist is paying a visit to Athens these days to offer support to the...
Crime
European Council: Gaps in EU Security Against Terrorism
A European Council report on protection from Islamic terrorism says that there are security gaps making Europe vulnerable to Islamic State attacks.
The report was completed on March 1, weeks before the ISIS terrorist hits in Brussels that left 31...
Greece
Brussels Attacks: Key Evidence Found in Athens Flat Used by Paris Attack Suspect
A computer and a memory stick containing maps of the Brussels international airport were found in an apartment in Athens where one of the suspected Paris attacks organizers was staying, Belgian media reported on Saturday.
Abdel Hamid Abaaoud, the organizer...
Greece
Aegean Airlines Cancels Flights to Brussels on March 26-28
Aegean Airlines on Thursday announced the cancellation of all scheduled flights to and from Brussels on March 26-28 as the airport will remain closed. The airline said that it will instead carry out emergency flights to and from Lille...
Crime
EU Ministers Ask for Fast Completion of Legislation to Tackle Terrorism
European Union's justice and interior ministers who met in Brussels on Thursday following the terrorist attacks in the city said they want to speed up the completion of legislation that will tackle terrorism.
“We stand determined in our common fight...
Europe
EU Heads of State, Institutions Say Brussels Terror was ‘Attack Against Open Society’
The EU heads of state or government and the leaders of EU institutions issued a joint statement on Tuesday condemning the terror attacks in Brussels, noting that it was an attack against its open democratic society.
“The European Union mourns...
Greece
ND Leader: Αttacks in Brussels are an Attack Against All the Peoples of Europe
Main opposition New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday expressed his deep condolences to the families of the victims and the Belgian people, who today mourn, noting that "we mourn with them."
In a statement, the president of ND stressed...