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What is required, army sources say, is a comprehensive plan that would include making it mandatory to begin military service at age 18, the voluntary enlistment of women, and the hiring of professional soldiers.

The document was drafted over two weeks after the capture of the two Greek officers in Kastanies, Evros, but may explain why efforts by the Greek commander to resolve the 1 March incident with his Turkish counterpart failed.

Party leaders who were briefed by Foreign Minister Nikos Kotzias on the progress in FYROM naming talks were given the impression that the affair has taken a new course after recent talks. Kotzias had first brief Greek Communist Party leader Dimitris Koutsoumbas, and yesterday he briefed Movement for Change and Pasok leader Fofi Gennimata and […]

New Democracy leader Kyriakos Mitsotakis blamed Syriza’s abolition of the Delta police motorcyclists’ rapid reaction unit, and a law to decongest prisons passed by ex-justice minister Nikos Paraskevopoulos, as two causes for the high incidence of violent crime

The Turkish government is directly rejecting Greek sovereignty over the Imia islets, declaring them Turkish and expressing objections to the inclusion of 2,000 Greek rock islets in the Aegean in the European Union’s Natura 2000 programme.

UN mediator Nimetz described the “constructive” talks as cause to be optimistic about the future, as regards the name issue, but he noted that there are a number of open and thorny technical issues

Such cases have no real chance of reaching even the Council of Appellate Court Judges. They are manufactured with the sole aim of using them as a tool to smear all those who have been chosen to be political opponents.

Turkey's powerful National Security Council made clear that Ankara will continue to actively pursue its claims and interests in the Aegean and in Cyprus’ Exclusive Economic Zone.

The officers will remain in prison until further notice, without formal charges having been filed against them during their month-long incarceration.

A Greek source privy to the talks conceded that there are “technical difficulties” in pushing forward privatisation in the energy sector, and most particularly the law on the Public Power Corporation and the privatisation of its four lignite plants.

The controversial Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (AMPN) takeover of a company owned by founder Dimitris Melissanidis has been terminated.

An extraordinary mission readiness exercise that includes retaking rock islets captured by the enemy was ordered suddenly in the early hours this morning by Defence Minister Panos Kammenos and Greek military top brass.

Hopes for the release of the two officers pending trial were dashed today by a Turkish judge, who again rejected the petition of the lawyers, once again on the grounds that they have no residence in Turkey and are liable to flee.

The government has withdrawn from public consultation a law establishing draconian rules and astronomical fines and fees for pet owners and people who tend to stray animals, following a huge public outcry and a petition signed by 26,000 citizens as of last night. Raking in the money The law establishes huge fees and fines for […]

The increased “objective value” of properties – as the tax bureau calls it – will also hike a series of other property-related taxes – on the purchase of a property, on parents offering a property as a gift to their children, and on other gifts of property to third parties.

EWG chief Vijlbrief says that, “If Greece receives debt relief, or conditional debt relief, it is reasonable that creditors will seek to monitor reforms, to ensure that there are no reversals."

Among the limited but crucial articles that Alivizatos and his party want to amend is the article that opened the way for a law - the notorious law on ministerial responsibility - that provides an extremely brief statute of limitations on crimes committed by a minister while in office.

One of the lucky Bank of Greece pensioners who will benefit from the targeted exemption from the pension cuts that apply to all other retirees who work is Syriza MP Makis Balaouras, whose monthly salary as a parliamentarian is approximately 5,000 euros.

Erdogan threatened Cyprus in an address to his MPs, underlining that Ankara is closely monitoring Nicosia’s gas and oil exploration program, and that he will take all necessary steps to protect the rights of the Turkish Cypriots.