The Greek government’s strategic priority in tourism is strengthening high-quality investment plans and promoting green entrepreneurship for high-added value, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said in an interview with Newsweek magazine.
The government is “absolutely committed” to a just green transition from lignite use in West Macedonia, while he is personally, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Friday after a four-hour meeting with representatives of local government, scientists and unions in Kozani.
The benchmark of the Greek stock market only recovered a third of its losses registered on Friday in Monday’s session, but even that rise was welcome in the context of the previous days’ decline.
The annual Interactive Marketing Conference (IMC) by IAB Hellas is this year taking place from 4 till 7 p.m. on Wednesday, December 1, at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Athens.
The symptoms of the new Omicron variant of Covid are mild but the cases also include young people in South Africa, National Vaccination Committee chair Maria Theodoridou said on Monday.
Judicial delays are one of the main reasons many investors stay away from Greece.
Visitors from non-European Union countries to Greece this year spent 32% more on average on their tax-free purchases than in 2019 – the record year for Greek tourism – according to data from Global Blue, a tax rebate service company.
Greece and Bangladesh on Monday signalled their wish to establish a framework to facilitate legal migration to and the return of undocumented migrations from Greece.
A powerful storm pounded Istanbul and other parts of Turkey on Monday, killing at least four people and causing havoc in the city of 15 million people, reports said.
Several ferry schedules were cancelled on Monday due to high winds of up to force 8 in the Aegean Sea and force 9 in the Ionian Sea.