News archive of January 2023

Actors and theatre workers have called a 48-hour strike on Wednesday and Thursday in protest at a draft government bill on pay in the sector.

The Panhellenic Federation of Theatre said that under the proposed law, the "remuneration of artists in the wider public sector and in private entities will not be determined by collective labor agreements but by the respective government."

The comments come amid speculation about Washington's possible involvement in a recent drone attack on an Iranian military factory.
"Using the military option at any level means US entering into war," Tehran's permanent mission to the UN told Newsweek on Monday. Iran currently considers such a possibility to be weak, according to the statement.

BELGRADE - Air Serbia will commence direct flights between Belgrade and Cairo on May 15.

The Serbian national airline will be operating flights to the capital of Egypt three times a week, every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, while flights from Cairo to the Serbian capital will be operated on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, Air Serbia announced in a statement.

Firefighters and police in Crete have retrieved the body of an unidentified man from Aradena gorge, after the remains were spotted by a hiker as he was crossing a metal bridge over the ravine.

According to information from the Hania bureau of state broadcaster ERT, the body is that of a middle-aged American citizen, whose car has already been found.

Greece "is only one notch below investment-grade status," a performance that is expected to attract more inward investment, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has told students at the University of Tokyo's School of Public Policy.

BELGRADE - Serbian Parliament Speaker Vladimir Orlic has called for Thursday, February 2, a special parliament session on a Report on the Talks Process with the Interim Self-Government Institutions in Pristina from September 1, 2022 to January 15, 2023, tabled by the Serbian government.

The stadium of Ancient Nemea will reopen on Wednesday to visitors, local MP and Alternate Development and Investments Minister Christos Dimas said on Tuesday.

The 4th-century BC stadium in Corinthia had shut down over a lack of security.

Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou participated in the action of the Streetwork group of the Organization Against Drugs (OKANA) in central Athens on Monday. The team distributed safer use kits to drug users on the street as well as a Covid-19 personal protection kit, a snack and clothing.

The note says that Washington believes that the issue of entering the so-called Kosovo's membership of the Council of Europe should not be put on the agenda of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, "Euronews Serbia" has learned from diplomatic sources.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic met with Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik on Tuesday to inform him of all Western initiatives regarding Kosovo-Metohija and the overall situation in Serbia's southern province.