In a phone call on Tuesday Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias thanked his Moldovan counterpart Nicu Popescu for Moldova’s assistance in Greece’s evacuation operations from Ukraine and for facilitating his visit to Odessa.
Cyprus’ foreign minister pitched to his Greek and Israeli counterparts on Monday the creation of an east Mediterranean firefighting hub aimed at quickly addressing huge summer wildfires that could overwhelm any single country.
Motor Oil group signed two business cooperation agreements in the fields of renewable energy sources and in particular offshore wind parks and liquefied natural gas with the United Arab Emirates during the Greek prime minister’s official visit to Abu Dhabi on Monday.
A 35-year-old man was left injured on Tuesday after he was shot at by an elderly man using a rifle. The incident took place near the church of Agios Panteleimonas in Chersonissos.
European Union exports of recyclable raw materials, including waste, scrap and other byproducts, hit a record high of 40.6 million tonnes last year, the bloc’s statistics office said on Tuesday.
An abrupt halt of Russian gas exports could see economies in emerging Europe, central Asia and north Africa slide back to pre-pandemic GDP levels, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) warned on Tuesday.
More than 1.2 billion euros will go to offering skills and employment to over half a million workers and jobless people in Greece through European resources in the next few years, European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas and Labor Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said.
The new United States Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis presented his credentials to President Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Tuesday morning. Following the ceremony held at the Presidential Mansion, Tsunis held a brief conversation with Sakellaropoulou and expressed how moved he was by his return to the land of his parents.
Greek health authorities announced 6,416 new reported cases of Covid-19 on Tuesday, more than double the 2,819 reported on Monday. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also announced 27 virus-related deaths and 196 intubated patients being treated in Intensive Care Units.