Sparks fly over wiretapping witnesses
Tension boiled over on Thursday during a preparatory meeting to discuss the list of witnesses that will be summoned by the parliamentary committee of inquiry tasked with investigating Greece’s wiretapping case.
Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum heading north
The 2023 Posidonia Sea Tourism Forum will be held in Thessaloniki next spring, as the organizers of Greece’s premier cruising and yachting conference have decided to move the biennial event away from Athens for the first time since its inception 11 years ago.
ECB rate hike troubles mortgage holders
Households face a 50-euro increase in the monthly tranches of their floating-rate mortgages as a result of the 75-basis point hike in the basic European Central Bank interest rate that led to the rise of the 3-month Euribor to 0.816%.
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Maraveyas Beach Bash | Attica | September 10
Upbeat singer and TV music show presenter Kostis Maraveyas is throwing an end-of-summer bash at the First Voula Beach this weekend, inviting special guests from the roster of popular and emerging local talent.
First pair of upgraded F-16s due on Monday
In what is considered another milestone in the process of strengthening the Hellenic Air Force’s capabilities, the first two fully upgraded F-16 Block 72 Viper jets out of a total of 83 will arrive at the Hellenic Aerospace Industry site in Tanagra on Monday from the Lockheed Martin facility in Fort Worth, Texas.
Stoltenberg and Blinken call for dialogue between Greece and Turkey
Greece and Turkey should engage in dialogue to defuse the tension between them, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said on Friday.
Unemployment’s vicious cycle
Growth alone cannot solve the problem of the long-term unemployed at its core.
Minister: 15 EU states now support Greek proposal to cap wholesale gas prices
Fifteen EU members now support Greece’s proposal to cap wholesale prices in the gas market, Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas said on Friday.
One more MP files complaint over attempted phone hacking
A lawmaker in the main opposition SYRIZA party filed a complaint with the top court’s prosecutor on Friday over what he said were repeated attempts to infect his mobile phone with the Predator malware, the latest incident in a phone-tapping scandal.