Greece’s two refining companies – Hellenic Petroleum and Motor Oil – are skeptical to say the least of a European Commission proposal for an extraordinary levy on the profits of 2022, which the Greek government reportedly supports and plans to adopt regardless of whether it becomes mandatory for member states.
The effort required to adapt to the new reality of the energy crisis, caused by the war in Ukraine and the global climate crisis, is enormous.
Celebrating its 10th anniversary, the Navarino Challenge comprises more than 30 activities taking place at the Costa Navarino resorts and the seaside town of Pylos in the southwestern Peloponnese.
I know I’m going to anger a lot of people with the next sentence but some things need to be said. We owe a thank you to our insufferable, difficult, grumpy fellow citizens who fought battles many years ago to protect the environment in our country.
A very interesting session at the Greek stock market on Wednesday saw stocks nosedive and then recover most of the lost ground, while traders had a wide range of options among blue chips, with several winners and losers to choose from.
The majority of Turks believe that the current tension between their country and Greece is a pre-election ploy, an opinion poll published on Wednesday suggests. Just over half (51.5%) of the respondents to the MetroPoll survey said that they felt that the tension was “an attempt to create an agenda for the elections.”
Turkish political leaders were bidding to outdo each other on Tuesday in the use of aggressive rhetoric targeting Greece. Apart from the members of the government of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, extreme voices of other representatives of the political spectrum are becoming more and more frequent.
In comments made to a TV panel discussion on home heating and the energy crisis on Tuesday, Alternate Interior Minister Stelios Petsas said that “whoever doesn’t adjust, dies.”
Announcements by the ministers involved are to be made on Thursday regarding a programme to restart housing policy, in line with what Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the 86th Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF), Labor and Social Affairs Minister Kostis Hatzidakis told the state broadcasting television channel ERT3 on Wednesday.