News archive of October 2017

On Sunday September 24, 2017, the Pan-Pontian Federation of USA and Canada in collaboration with another 15 organizations celebrated the publication of the new book “Genocide in the Ottoman Empire: Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks, 1913-1923”, at the Hellenic Cultural Center in Astoria.

An EU spokesperson has denied that the standards applicable to Catalonia and Spain are different from those applicable to Serbia in the case of Kosovo.

Maja Kocijancic on Tuesday stressed that international law is "universal" and that the EU "respects it fully."

Dionysis Tsaknis has resigned as chairman of ERT after just two years at the helm of the country's state broadcaster.

Reports said Tsaknis, a popular Greek singer-songwriter, stepped down after disagreeing with the makeup of the new board of directors appointed by the government.

It was not clear who will replace Tsaknis.

The firm belief that a historic opportunity was missed in Crans-Montana, is expressed by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, in a report for his good offices mission on Cyprus.

Greece has won an appeal over objections from forestry officials to a major tourism project in Athens that forms part of its third international bailout, overcoming one of the obstacles to turning the site into one of Europe's biggest coastal resorts.

Police are still uncertain on the cause of journalist Kim Wall’s death, despite the ongoing investigation revealing that she was stabbed several times.

Before he mowed down concertgoers from a perch high in a hotel tower, Stephen C. Paddock created a ring of surveillance around him, with video cameras in his suite and in the hallway, law enforcement officials said on Tuesday. But investigators were still at a loss to offer a motive for the massacre.

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As the Croatian government prepares to spend more on 1990s war veterans, as well as purchasing 12 military jets and covering debts in the health sector, it risks increasing the country's budget deficit, experts warned.

Greece has appointed Riccardo Lambiris as the new chief executive of its privatization agency, which is trying to sell assets to comply with the terms of the country's bailouts.