Prime Minister Mistotakis’ recent participation at COP27 in Egypt and the latest announcements by Greece that it is exploring for hydrocarbons at sea have put a renewed focus on energy in the Eastern Mediterranean, specifically Greece’s role as a key energy player.
Food service companies have warned Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas that “unless there is more support to deal with the cost of energy during the difficult winter ahead, it is certain companies in the sector will shut down,” and now they are about to ask for help from the prime minister himself.
A court in western Greece sentenced a man to two years and seven months in prison on Tuesday for hitting a police officer on the head with a chair outside a court house in the town of Pyrgos, in the western part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The jail sentence was suspended.
The European Commission called on Wednesday for Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania to be admitted to the Schengen area to allow travel between these countries and most of Europe without border controls.
The tax administration is resorting to automatic procedures to pay off state debts faster, with the aim of bringing the pending tax refunds to taxpayers down to zero.
Archaeologists in Greece discovered in western Peloponnese the remains of a temple-shaped building that could be a lost sanctuary of ancient god Poseidon, the Culture Ministry said.
Greece’s shipping ministry said on Wednesday that two Greek-flagged vessels seized by Tehran in May have been released after months of negotiations between the two sides.
A 47-year-old man from the city of Volos in central Greece was handed a 29-month suspended jail sentence and ordered to pay a fine of 1,200 euros for hitting two women who tried to help his wife while he was beating her.
A 39-year-old woman who was injured at the deadly explosion in Istanbul last Sunday, will undergo surgery to remove a fragment of glass from her leg and repair a tibial fracture, the hospital in northern Greece where she is being treated announced on Wednesday.
Greek officials were positive about the short meeting between the presidents of the United States and Turkey, Joe Biden and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, on the sidelines of the G20 meeting in Bali. Despite, or more likely because of, the tense relationship with its nominal NATO ally to the east, Greece has steadfastly held the view…