Europe

European Union members Latvia and Greece are the first countries in the 28-member bloc to make use of an opt-out law, allowing them to decide whether or not to grow genetically modified (GMO) crops. As reported by the social media...

Latvian prime minister, Valdis Dombrovskis, has praised Greece's Latvian ambassador Chryssanthie Panagiotopoulou for her work in promoting bilateral relations in forestry investment as well as other investment areas. Ms Panagiotopoulou stressed her belief that Latvia should become a positive example...

The national football team of Greece will play against Croatia, Israel, Georgia, Latvia and Malta during the classification matches for the European Championship, which will be held in Poland and Ukraine in 2012. Not for the first time in the...

The war in Ukraine has brought the military balance in Europe between Russia and NATO back to the forefront of geostrategic thinking. After the end of the Cold War and the demise of the USSR, Eastern Europe's geostrategic importance as...

Greece and Turkey on Thursday will formally join the European Sky Shield Initiative (ESSI), a German-led missile defense project, according to Minister of Defense Nikos Dendias. ESSI is a project to build a ground-based integrated European air defense system that...

Russia claims Ukraine launched drones against targets in six Russian regions, including an attack on an airport in the western city of Pskov. The city is located near the borders of Latvia and Estonia, where military transport aircraft were...

The EU could invest frozen Russian assets according to proposals being discussed by European officials in Brussels. The assets, which were frozen as part of the Western sanctions package against Russia, would primarily be used for reconstruction purposes in Ukraine....

Greeks drastically cut down on alcohol consumption during the 2010 to 2019 decade, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) said in a report released on Monday. Greece ranks in the penultimate position of the European list, exhibiting the...

Two Russian missiles are reported to have missed their target in Ukraine and hit a farm in Poland instead. According to CNN, the projectiles landed at a small landholding in Przewodów near the Polish border with Ukraine. The news agency also...

Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis repeated a call for European action to cap gas prices in an article published by Bloomberg on Monday. While such a cap carried risks, he said, Europe must “take back control of its gas market" and...

Greece along with another fourteen EU member states has called on the European Commission to impose a price cap on gas imports to tackle the energy crisis in Europe. As soaring energy bills threaten to undermine popular support for governments,...

US President Biden paid respects to Queen Elizabeth who died on September 8th, as dozens of world leaders arrive in London for the funeral on Monday. Biden has said the Queen reminded him of his mother. “She had that look, like...

The UK is facing a diplomatic backlash over VIP travel arrangements for Queen Elizabeth's funeral, with many world leaders now seeking special permission to bypass arrangements, according to The Times. The Foreign, Commonwealth, and Development Office (FCDO) has said that...

Greece ranks in the top third in the whole of the European Union in terms of "healthy life years," according to a new study. This is quite a notable feat for a population with one of the highest smoking...

Russia has suffered up to 40,000 casualties, and between 7,000 and 15,000 deaths, in Ukraine, a senior NATO military officer announced on Wednesday. The term "casualty" includes all soldiers who have been injured, killed, or captured in battle. Wednesday's estimate is...