Faltering Turkish exports prospects to hurt inflation fight
Turkish exporters are downwardly revising year-end targets in a move that could derail the government’s plan to tame inflation, which neared 80% in July.
Fire breaks out near Elefsina toll station
Firefighters were trying to put out a blaze that broke out in low-lying brush near the Elefsina toll station on the Athens-Corinth national highway on Friday morning.
Wildfires in Europe burn second-biggest area on record
Wildfires raging through Europe this summer have burned the second-largest area on record, even though the region is only halfway through its typical fire season, according to data from the European Union’s Joint Research Center.
‘Mr Bitcoin’ extradited by Greece to the US
Russian money launderer Alexander Vinnik was put on an airplane to the United States on Thursday after being extradited by Greece, where he was arrested while on holiday with his family in 2017.
Greece failing to provide adequate geriatric care
The Hellenic Society for the Study & Research of Aging is calling on the state, the academic community, the medical world and the public to take initiatives for the institutionalization of geriatrics in Greece.
US Congress delegation pays official visit to chief of Armed Forces in Athens
A delegation of US House of Representatives members led by Congressman Jason Crow paid an official visit to the Greek National Defence General Staff chief, General Constantinos Floros, at the ministry northeast of Athens on Thursday. At the Defense Ministry, Floros underlined the significance of the continuous and dynamic development of the Greek-US strategic relationship,…
Niarchos Foundation bankroling three pioneering new hospitals
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Health Initiative will pay about $750 million for the design and construction of three new, state-of-the-art hospitals.
Greece bracing for Turkish drilling announcements
Athens was on standby on Thursday in view of the imminent announcements by Ankara regarding new exploratory drilling by the Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) as to where the Abdulhamid Han drilling vessel will move in the Eastern Mediterranean.
New support measures to be announced at TIF
The government is preparing a supplementary budget that will include further subsidies to households and businesses without changing its primary deficit target of 2% of GDP, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Thursday. According to sources inside the Treasury, the extra funding will be possible without revising the fiscal targets because Greece’s GDP will be…
Who is that Hellene?
The day before Kyriakos Mitsotakis made history as the first Greek prime minister to make a presentation before a joint session of the US Congress, with the elaborate ceremony afforded US presidents, he was introduced at Georgetown University by Michael Psaros.