Despite a greater percentage increase in Cypriot exports compared to imports, the island’s trade deficit increased in 2021 by 349 million euros compared to 2020, reaching €5.24 billion, with the European Union being the main source of goods to Cyprus with €5.51 billion of total imports.
Fears of further aggravation in relations between Russia and the West drove Greek stock prices lower too on Wednesday, just like in the rest of the eurozone.
Many uncertainties lie ahead, a situation which really does not help. One major uncertainty concerns the war in Ukraine.
The Greek state has pledged to support the victims of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Good intentions are not good enough, however.
One after another, supermarket chains are introducing limits on the number of packages of popular flour and sunflower oil a customer can buy.
Ukrainian children who fled the ongoing war in their country are attempting to restart their interrupted education at a state school in central Athens that opens for the refugees on Saturday mornings.
After a week of wet and gloomy conditions with a wintry chill, meteorologists are promising a spell of spring weather starting on Thursday and lasting through the long weekend.
A 73-year-old man from Rhodes has confessed to the sexual abuse of his 49-year-old daughter, who has an intellectual disability. Police had taken the man in for questioning to answer allegations of rape, sexual abuse of a person with intellectual disability and incest
Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov appeared anxious during an inspection with Greek Energy Minister Konstantinos Skrekas at the construction site of the Greek section of the Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria pipeline in Komotini, northern Greece, on Monday.