OPEKEPE scandal returns to parliament

Lawmakers will convene connected Monday day to statesman investigating the OPEKEPE cultivation subsidies scandal. The probe will screen the play from 1998 to the present, arsenic the authorities bulk decided.

The committee has an archetypal three-month deadline to submit its findings, with the anticipation of extensions if needed. Meetings are expected to beryllium tense, arsenic the full absorption questions the ruling New Democracy party’s committedness to a thorough investigation.

Meanwhile, caller transgression cases implicating parliamentarians successful amerciable cultivation subsidy schemes are expected to scope parliament successful the coming weeks oregon months. European delegated prosecutors are examining which interventions by MPs progressive amerciable enactment alternatively than morganatic parliamentary duties.

Turkish Navtex

Through a Navtex notice, Ankara announced that starting Monday and continuing for ten days, its oceanographic probe vessel, the Piri Reis, will behaviour technological surveys successful parts of the Aegean Sea, including areas within Greek territorial waters.

In response, Athens issued its ain naval directive, stating that respective of the areas where the Piri Reis is scheduled to sail autumn under Greek jurisdiction for Navtex issuance.

Patriarch Bartholomew visits the US

The authoritative visit of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew to the United States begins connected Monday. The trip will see nationalist events successful Washington, DC, New York City, and Long Island, New York.

He is expected to conscionable President Donald Trump successful the Oval Office connected Monday.

Costa successful Athens and Nicosia

On Monday morning, European Council President Antonio Costa met with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis successful Athens. Later successful the day, helium is scheduled to conscionable Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides successful Nicosia, followed by a gathering with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni successful Rome.

Migration

Over the weekend, astir 800 migrants arrived successful Crete, which remains ill-prepared to grip the influx. More than 1,100 migrants are presently being held successful an improvised installation successful Agia, Hania, with respective 100 having stayed there since aboriginal August under inadequate conditions. Local authorities person warned of wellness and information risks.

Last week, Migration Minister Thanos Plevris said authorities measures had led to an 80% driblet successful migration flows.

Tempe protest

Relatives of victims of the Tempe train clang and survivors are calling for a protestation gathering connected Tuesday greeting astatine the Larissa courthouse, successful the bureau of the main prosecutor.

Libya 

On Wednesday, Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will conscionable with the acting overseas curate of the Libyan Government of National Unity, Taher Salem Al Baour, successful Tripoli. Athens aims to resume talks with Libya connected the delimitation of their exclusive economical zones and continental shelves, which person been frozen since 2010.

The gathering comes conscionable days aft Greece submitted a effect to Libya’s latest diplomatic enactment to the United Nations, which asserts claims successful the eastbound Mediterranean under the Turkey-Libya maritime accord.

Among different points, the missive rejects Tripoli’s claims, noting that the memorandum is legally invalid due to the fact that the two countries bash not stock other coastlines and so cannot found communal maritime boundaries. Athens besides emphasized that the statement violates the United Nations Convention connected the Law of the Sea, disregarding the sovereign rights of Greek islands, peculiarly Crete and the Dodecanese.

New Democracy

The ruling enactment will conscionable connected Thursday to elite a caller caput of its parliamentary radical pursuing the decease of Apostolos Vesyropoulos successful August. Mitsotakis has nominated MP Maximos Charakopoulos for the position.