Eighty-seven migrants rescued from boat off Paxos islands
A total of 87 migrants were rescued on Friday from a sailboat that was drifting southwest of the islands of Paxos, in western Greece, by two ships that were sailing nearby.
EU official: East Med gas can wean bloc off Russian energy
Natural gas from undersea deposits in the eastern Mediterranean can help replace Russia’s diminished supply of the fossil fuel to Europe at an “accelerated pace,” the European Union’s energy commissioner said Friday.
Local RES market in overhaul
The Greek renewables market is heading for a complete reform, with major domestic and foreign energy groups as the protagonists making their plans for the aftermath of the current energy crisis and the need to accelerate the growth rate of cleaner forms of energy.
Two officers charged with gang rape of 19-year-old woman
Two police officers of the DIAS motorcycle squad were charged with raping a 19-year-old woman in Omonia police station in the early hours of Wednesday morning.
Justice keeps moving at a snail’s pace
Despite all the promises of reform and the solemn declarations of successive officials that justice delayed is justice denied, that is exactly what’s happening with Greece’s justice system. It is not just the successive requests of trial postponements, usually made by lawyers who have to divide their time between several cases on trial, it is…
Migrant boat in western Greece issues distress signal
A vessel with an unspecified number of migrants aboard called for help on Friday while sailing 47 miles off the town of Preveza in western Greece, a Coast Guard spokesperson said.
Two old Athens cinemas await site restoration to reopen
It will be a long time before the venerable Attikon and Apollon cinemas in central Athens will open again to the public.
Architects oppose historic school’s transformation
Plans to transform a historic trade school in downtown Athens into yet another hotel have prompted reactions from a group of architects, which has submitted emergency motions to the ministries of Culture and Environment for work to cease and the building to be listed for conservation.
Departure time for major railway projects
Significant works for the improvement and expansion of the national railway network of Greece are expected in the next five years, as in the next couple of months the government is set to draft its strategic timetable for railway investments in 2023-27.
Frontex says damning report findings ‘practices of the past’
The European Union’s border agency on Friday sought to put a damning report highlighting its involvement in covering up alleged migrant pushbacks from Greece behind it, saying that any wrongdoings are “practices of the past.”