The United States supports projects such as the connection of electricity grids between Greece and Egypt and Israel and Cyprus and the latter’s connection to the mainland EU grid, a State Department spokesman told Greek correspondents Sunday.
Alekos Fassianos, one of the most important modern Greek painters, died Sunday at his home after a long illness, the state news agency ANA reported. He was 86.
The car sales market had a much better year in 2021 than it did in the first year of the pandemic, as the number of new cars sold rose 24.6% from 2020 to return above 100,000 vehicles.
Health authorities announced 10,783 new cases of the coronavirus during the 24-hour period ending at 3 p.m. Sunday.
The 5.4-magnitude earthquake that rattled Greece early Sunday afternoon comes from one of the largest, most active geological faults in Greece, an expert tells Kathimerini.
“If this project is practically feasible, [if] we can meet the great geological challenges and, at the same time, it is financially viable, there is the political will to implement it,” Cypriot President Nicos Anastasiades said in an interview with Kathimerini.
Diplomatic sources available to Kathimerini have stressed on Sunday that Greece has not moved from its longstanding position that the expansion of territorial waters to 12 nautical miles is an inalienable sovereign right, as expressly set out by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
In a statement to Kathimerini, President of the Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, has signaled Greece’s desire for peaceful coexistence with Turkey, stressing however that Athens will resolutely defend itself. Her statement came as a response to the furious reaction of the Turkish Foreign Ministry last week after the President referred to the massacre of the Greeks…
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias stated their support for the Greek minority of Imbros on Sunday during an annual event organized by the Imbros Association of Athens.
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 struck south of the monastic community of Mt. Athos on Sunday afternoon. The quake even rattled Attica, 225 kilometers away.