News archive of December 2016

Deputy Education Minister Dimitris Baxevanakis told Parliament Friday that the "small minority of students" conducting sit-ins at schools across the country must no longer be tolerated and no longer be "told what they want to hear."

Lavrentis Lavrentiadis was found not guilty Friday, along with six co-defendants, by an Athens court of the charge of the attempted murder of a hotel owner in 2012.

According to the prosecuting attorney, the attempt occurred in June 2012, when an explosive device was placed in a plant pot at the house of Athinagoras Andreadakis in the Vouliagmeni suburb of Athens.

Ferries will remain docked in ports across Greece Saturday as seamen conclude a 48-hour strike in protest at the latest round of cuts to pensions and job insecurity.

The Athens Council of Appeals Court Judges will on Tuesday hear the appeals against extradition of three of the eight Turkish military officers who fled to Greece in July following a failed coup in Turkey.

Farmers are expected to drive their tractors to the Axios bridge near Idomeni in northern Greece Saturday morning before continuing to the Evzoni crossing near the border with the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia as part of a protest against the government's ongoing austerity drive.

PHOTO: TANJUG/ MARKO DJOKOVIC

BELGRADE - Kosovo PM Isa Mustafa was on Friday smuggled into northern Kosovo by NATO along a migrant route, says the head of the Serbian gov't Office for Kosovo-Metohija, Marko Djuric.

The Serbs do not want Mustafa in northern Kosovo, which they demonstrated by putting up roadblocks, he said.

While the IMF has asked for 4,2 billion Euros worth of austerity measures for 2019-2020, a government official assessed that neither the Syriza government nor any other can sign off on it in the event that the demand for a primary surplus of 3.5% in 2019-2020 still stands.

Former right-wing LAOS MP Thanasis Plevris left hospital Friday after recovering from near-fatal septic shock caused by a severe respiratory infection.

The lawyer, who contracted the infection while undergoing a routine medical procedure three weeks ago, has called for an investigation into reports that many hospitals are "germ-infested."

The Greek Finance Ministry's General Secretariat for Information Systems has announced that the ministry's online Taxisnet system will not be operating on Saturday or Sunday due to upgrading work.

Unlike most company chiefs in Italy, the head of state railway operator Ferrovie dello Stato says he is not too worried about a December 4 referendum that could unseat Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's government.