Alexi Friedman
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"Police said the suspect is believed to have used the same trick on passengers at least 56 times over the previous 5 days." I'm waiting for the taxi drivers union to stage a major rally decrying this driver's behavior...still waiting. https://t.co/v6PourVxI4
ekathimerini.com
An Athens taxi driver has been arrested on suspicion of regularly overcharging customers by keeping on the overnight increased fare system all day, police said Wednesday.
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The government “seems to believe that journalists have an obligation to praise the prime minister without fail and to showcase the work being done by ministers with press releases.” https://t.co/KxE1Dof48x
ekathimerini.com
There’s evidently something the government doesn’t understand about the role of the press.
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“Of course, it’s not news that Vladimir Putin is a killer, but now we have yet another direct piece of proof.” https://t.co/qLZfA2hfJv via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
The toxin was found in the body of the Russian dissident Aleksei A. Navalny, who died in prison two years ago, five governments said, challenging Russia’s official account.
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“The threat has been neutralized,”Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said. You buffoon. You racist clown. You are the threat, fabricating a story that Mexican drug cartels sent the drones. Have you no shame? https://t.co/lvHujoCQwk via @NYTimes
nytimes.com
People familiar with the episode said the use of the technology was not coordinated with the Federal Aviation Administration. Officials targeted what they thought was a drug cartel drone, but turned...
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"Police said they were asked what soccer team they supported before being stabbed." ...This is the same thing that happened to Alkis Kambanos in Thessaloniki, except he died. The people who do this aren't fans. They're simply criminals. https://t.co/SINJddcNkH
ekathimerini.com
Two men suffered stab injuries in the Athens district of Galatsi late Saturday in what police are investigating as a soccer hooligan-related attack.
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"They are lying in the manner of authoritarian regimes that require people to accept lies as a demonstration of power." ...Because the Trump admin. is an authoritarian regime. No need to qualify it with "in the manner of." https://t.co/HgjKdLaOZ5 via @NYTOpinion
nytimes.com
The Trump administration is once again engaged in a perversion of justice.
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This is not just "what authoritarian governments do." This is an authoritarian government and this is what it's doing. https://t.co/78X4vbkoIH
apnews.com
Press freedom advocates are concerned this week's raid on a Washington Post journalist's home will deter reporting on government actions and silence whistleblowers.
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Fascinating deep dive from @nstamouli on the many causes of Greece's worsening housing affordability crisis. https://t.co/gIa62PRQSL
ekathimerini.com
Explosive increases in rents and housing prices, a shortage of available apartments and subsidy schemes that tend to exacerbate rather than improve the situation.
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"One of the protesters’ leaders, Giorgos Botas, illegally received €49,000 in farm subsidies from 2019-2024 for supposedly growing crops on rented land that appears nowhere on the national property registry." https://t.co/IAGCupMnsY
ekathimerini.com
The government is convinced that highway blockades by protesting farmers will last at least until the Feast of Epiphany, a national holiday observed on January 6.
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"Most of the leaders of the protest movement...are members of, or allied with, the Communist Party. It is no wonder that many of their non-negotiable demands would involve flagrant disregard of European Union rules." https://t.co/AiDJh0aqLK
ekathimerini.com
Even as the ruling conservative New Democracy triumphed in back-to-back national elections in 2023, more than doubling the score of its nearest rival, farmers stood out for the overwhelming support...
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"Police identified the alleged ringleader as a 47-year-old agricultural unionist & president of a farming cooperative in the Iraklio region of Crete...his wife, a lawyer, also filed false subsidy applications in 2025." https://t.co/MGgdjCYPXH
ekathimerini.com
Several alleged members of a criminal organization dismantled by Greek police over the weekend went on to submit agricultural subsidy applications containing false information to Greece’s state...
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Farmers unions are organizing tractor protests, meanwhile: "A farmers’ union official is described as the central figure, with accountants, a lawyer and agricultural producers also suspected of helping secure subsidy payments through false declarations." https://t.co/6rhvqrHY1p
ekathimerini.com
Police on Friday launched an investigation into a new case of alleged fraudulent farm subsidies on the southern island of Crete involving the country’s beleaguered farm-payment agency OPEKEPE.
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"Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis hailed the election as 'a day of pride for the country, for the government and all citizens.'" https://t.co/eLb20EAsqK
ekathimerini.com
Greece’s Minister of National Economy Kyriakos Pierrakakis has been elected president of the Eurogroup, securing the post unanimously after Belgian Finance Minister Vincent Van Peteghem withdrew his...
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"The payment delays have come as authorities review all requests following revelations of widespread fraudulent claims for EU farm subsidies." https://t.co/ij5l4dTJAh
apnews.com
Angry farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies have swarmed onto an airport tarmac on the southern Greek island of Crete.
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This Greece in a nutshell: The bidding process to update the state's automated contracts system -- to crack down on favoritism & corruption -- was itself corrupt. https://t.co/kdeSIlzb0q
ekathimerini.com
A team from OLAF, the European Union’s anti-fraud office, has visited Greece in recent days, asking for data from the General Secretariat of Information Systems.
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