Two men arrested by police on Friday in relation to an assault of a participant in a pro-Russian motorcade in Athens on Sunday, April 3, face charges of attempted murder, insulting the symbols of another state, racially motivated crime, damaging property, disobedience and violations of the law on weapons.
The soaring prices of energy products and raw materials have resulted in the trebling of the trade deficit: Although exports posted a significant increase in February, mainly thanks to the rise in the price of fuel Greek enterprises sell abroad, imports that are always greater in absolute figures grew by almost three times as much.
The European Union has launched a platform for European Union countries to jointly buy gas and liquefied natural gas as they seek to cut reliance on Russian fuels and build a buffer against supply shocks.
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake struck near the city of Thiva in central Greece at 12.45 p.m. on Friday, according to the Geodynamic Institute of the National Observatory of Athens.
Greece has received a 3.6 billion euro ($3.9 billion) payment out of its allotted 30.5 billion from the European Union’s pandemic recovery fund.
The future of democracy, particularly in a post-Ukraine-war world, was the main subject of a conversation between former prime minister of the United Kingdom Tony Blair and Executive Editor of Kathimerini Alexis Papahelas at the Delphi Economic Forum on Friday.
The Ioannina police department in northern Greece have launched an investigation after discovering a cache of weapons and explosives near the Albanian border.
Bulgaria and Romania requested and obtained access to the DESFA Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) station in Revythoussa off Athens, sources inside the Environment and Energy Ministry said on Friday.
The regular policing of Greek universities will be restricted to the country’s more expansive campuses, as it has been deemed excessive to deploy the newly established force to the dozens of university facilities scattered across the capital and other cities.
A drummer who collaborated with a popular Greek rock band faces fresh charges for sexual offenses against minors. He has already received a sentence of 12 years in prison from a court of first instance for sexually abusing a 6-year-old.