News archive of December 2016

Two recent opinion polls from two different sources point to more or less the same findings: a lead for opposition New Democracy and its leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis, an increasing grudge against SYRIZA (surveys show that 77 percent of the party's supporters do not approve of the government's performance), a sense of pessimism regarding the future as well as a certain ambivalence with regard to t

Greece's European partners have finally realized just how dangerous Turkey's verbal outbursts and revisionist aspirations really are.

A European Commission statement regarding the need for compromise over European Union member-states' territorial waters and air space, which was released Friday, is significant.

Iran's supreme court has upheld the death penalty against Iranian businessman Babek Zanjani for corruption, the judiciary said on Dec. 3, a sentence critics say will mask the identity of senior officials who supported him. 

In a wide-ranging interview with Bloomberg News Editor-in-Chief John Micklethwait in New York on Friday that touched on topics from women’s issues to Brexit, International Monetary Fund’s managing director made it clear that politicians need to develop new ways of promoting open markets that rely on small trade deals, helping those who feel left out.

Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu visited Dec. 3 the district which was hit by a fatal fire on a girls' dormitory. 

Granted, the stuff isn’t Shakespeare, but who would have ever thought of using technology to get a generation that doesn’t read hooked on books, simply by delivering a story via text message?

New entrepreneurship in Greece reflects the basic structure of the Greek economy, which is based on the operation of very small enterprises with a limited contribution to employment, according to an annual report on entrepreneurship conducted by the Foundation for Economic and Industrial Research (IOBE).

President Rosen Plevneliev and outgoing Prime Minister Boyko Borisov have pondered an option to keep the current government in office until the new head of state takes over in January, daily 24 Chasa says, citing its own sources.

The scenario has been tabled after Borisov's final decision to return the mandate to Plevneliev on Friday.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke by phone with President Tsai Ing-wen of Taiwan, but China, which considers the self-ruled island its own, said it was confident Washington's "one China" policy would not change.

Germany has amended the benefits arrangements for citizens of other EU member stattes, Bulgarians and Romanians included, according to DW.

Nationals of EU countries will only been given benefits after having spent five years in the country, acording to DW.