This week’s snowstorm and the huge problems it created in Athens once again highlighted in the most unpleasant way the chronic weaknesses and functional shortcomings of Greece’s much-berated civil protection apparatus.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s investments in Greece totaled 838 million euros last year, it said on Thursday, making the country one of its top five funding recipients.
Police arrested a 40-year-old man in an Athens hotel on Friday on suspicion of sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl who was with him.
A prosecutor in Kozani has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation into possible offences in the case of a 41-year-old pregnant woman who was unable to receive emergency hospital treatment after the seven-week-old fetus she was carrying had died but remained in utero.
The summer wildfires and the snowstorm that hit Greece this week demonstrate that Greece “must as soon as possible acquire or rather establish a modern and effective crisis management system,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou told the prime minister on Friday.
Heavy rain and storms can be expected in central and southern parts of the country from Friday night until Sunday, National Meteorological Service (EMY) warned in an emergency bulletin issued on Friday.
“I saw him in my sleep again.” It’s an experience shared by many of those who knew and worked with Theo Angelopoulos.
French hotel investor and operator Boissee Finances is making a dynamic entry into a new tourism market in Athens that so far only short-term rentals have tapped.
After this week’s heavy snowfall, meteorologists on Thursday forecast showers and storms sweeping in from the northwest, warning of floods.
Gastrade said on Friday a final investment decision had been made on developing a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal off the northern city of Alexandroupoli, the last step before building the project begins.