Emergency crews were for a second day on Friday battling to contain a wildfire raging in the Dadia National Park, the country’s largest Natura 2000 site and home to the only blackbird colony in the Balkans, in the northeastern border region of Evros.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to look at what’s at stake as Turkey prepares to launch new drilling operations in the Eastern Mediterranean, and break down the key takeaways from the Greek Defense Minister’s visit to the US.
A member of the Neos Voutzas Volunteer Fire Department, east of Athens, tracks the location of a fire truck during a blaze on the mountain of Penteli earlier this week.
Alpha Bank, one of Greece’s four largest lenders, said on Friday it signed a binding agreement to sell a 400 million-euro portfolio of unsecured bad loans to Hoist Finance AB for €34 million.
Registered unemployment totaled 921,647 in June, down 0.52% from May (921,647) and down 2.85% compared with June 2021, the Public Employment Service (DYPA) said in a report on Wednesday.
Combating this week’s wildfire in Mount Penteli came with a high difficulty level, mainly because of adverse weather conditions: dry, hot and with strong winds. Nevertheless, the state apparatus stepped up to the task. Its reaction showed that it has built up considerable experience from previous mistakes and remedied much of the shortcomings in terms…
At what point do we realize that the dangers which our country faces are so serious that we must deprive ourselves of the pleasures of our extreme domestic political rivalry in order to deal with them?
Buyers dominated the entire week at the Greek stock market as the benchmark posted an increase for a fifth session in a row on Friday, alongside a significant decrease for Greek bond yields.
The response to the wildfire that broke out in Penteli north of Athens was almost immediate, Kathimerini has learned. The blaze started at 5.19 p.m. on Tuesday at the Vayati location and within 25 minutes the Fire Service has mobilized 15 water-dumping aircraft.
A fire broke out on Friday afternoon among low vegetation near Moria, on the island of Lesvos.