News archive of March 2015

The SYRIZA-led government is expected to submit a proposal for a parliamentary committee to examine the handling of the Greek debt crisis by previous administrations.

Psarantonis, a talented Greek composer, singer and performer of lyra, the emblematic bowed string instrument of Crete will contribute with his heavenly music in the creation of the original film score for Loin des Hommes (Far From Men) - a French film written and directed by David Oelhoffen.

Two suspected members of an outlawed far-left group were killed by security forces after they took a prosecutor hostage at Istanbul's Ça?layan Courthouse on March 31.

Suspected members of the outlawed Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP-C) have taken prosecutor Mehmet Selim Kiraz hostage at Istanbul courthouse in connection to the case into the killing of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan.

Gunshots have been heard at the building.

A Croatian NGO set up to lobby for the rights of people with loans in Swiss francs on Monday announced street protests in April while calling for the resignation of the national bank chief.

The Association Franak said that the governor of Croatian national bank, HNB, Boris Vujcic, should step down, Ivan Kontrec, from the Association, told a press conference.

Mehmet Selim Kiraz, a public prosecutor leading the probe into the death of Gezi victim Berkin Elvan, has been taken hostage by members of the The Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front (DHKP/C) in an Istanbul courthouse.

Shocking images have been circulating on the Internet over the last hour, showing a man holding a gun to the head of Kiraz.

Montenegrin police have arrested two fan suspected of throwing a flare at Russian goalkeeper Igor Akinfeyev at last Friday's chaotic football match, which had to be called off before time.

A senior member of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc announced Tuesday he was stepping down in a dispute over the government's response to Greece's debt woes.

Peter Gauweiler, a well-known euroskeptic and outspoken critic of euro bailout funds, said he was quitting both his seat in parliament and his position as his Bavaria-based party's deputy leader.

Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said the Hague Tribunal’s decision to release Serbian Radical Party leader Vojislav Seselj and then recall him to custody was intended to undermine his government.
 
 

By John O'Donnell & Paul Carrel

FRANKFURT - A Greek departure from the euro could expose the European Central Bank to losses on tens of billions of credit, a hole Germany and other euro members may have to fill.