The way that Greece will be able to exercise its sovereign rights under the international law of the sea without causing any additional friction with its neighbours remained “an open issue”, Alternate Defence Minister Dimitris Vitsas said on Wednesday, in a radio interview.

The Greek Government Council for Foreign Policy & Defence convened on Wednesday afternoon.

A 25-year-old man had spread terror in the Ambelokipi neighborhood, assaulting women.

Greek lawmakers on Tuesday approved by majority the country’s 2018 budget, which the government said would be the last under bailout terms which have held the country in a stranglehold of austerity for eight years.