The incessant bickering on social media propagates and demonstrates what we have been observing for years: that those who don’t want something to happen invoke some weighty and often pompous argument to agree with a proposal but to also express so many reservations as to undermine any change.
Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday he did not “at the moment” expect the Ukraine crisis to derail Greek economic growth.
Police on Tuesday said they detained 80 non-nationals because they did not have residence papers in the seventh so-called sweep in central Athens in as many days.
The Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (IGB) pipeline is a tremendously significant project, said Greece’s Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas, speaking in the northern Greek city of Komotini on Monday, where he visited the project’s measuring station.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias spoke about the contribution of Greek tourism and its added value to the Greek economy, entrepreneurship and mainly to trade, during his speech at a meeting of the Athens Chamber of Commerce and Industry board.
Main opposition party SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance criticised on Tuesday a government amendment that would give the National Council for Radio and Television (ESR), the country’s independent TV and radio regulator, powers to impose fines on newspapers, noting that this creates a “dangerous framework of censorship” and clashes with the constitution.
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday that he wants to lead a humanitarian mission into the besieged city of Mariupol in Ukraine where thousands of ethnic Greeks live.
Greek health authorities announced 26,785 new cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday during their daily briefing, up from 23,529 on Monday. However, there were significantly fewer virus-related deaths with 34, down from 58 on Monday.
Leaders from European Union countries will agree at a summit this week to jointly purchase gas, liquefied natural gas and hydrogen ahead of next winter, according to a draft of their summit statement.