Greek and Israeli delegations met in Athens on Monday to discuss speeding up the construction of the EuroAsia Interconnector, a submarine cable connecting the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel.
Referring to the upsurge in incendiary statements emanating from Ankara, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday that he hopes the tension doesn’t spill over to the ground level, adding, “This rhetoric leads us nowhere.”
The government is on Wednesday going to announce new incentives to general government entities for reducing energy consumption, with Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas and Alternate Finance Minster Thodoros Skylakakis also calling on all public buildings to raise their air conditioning level to 26-27 degrees Celsius.
Brussels supports Greek efforts for a green transition in shipping away from lignite dependence, European Commissioner for Transport Adina Valean said on Monday at the opening of Posidonia 2022 in Athens.
Uncertainty among shipowners and investors regarding the regulations imposed on the shipping industry by regulators within it and outside leads to investment reluctance from all parts, a leading shipping forum heard on Tuesday at Posidonia 2022, currently under way next to Athens International Airport.
Turkey’s lira slipped 1.1% against the dollar on Tuesday to set a record closing low as concerns over rampant inflation were stoked by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s pledge to continue cutting interest rates.
As Greece inches closer to summer, its inhabitants are once again confronted by the third, oft-forgotten, certainty along with death and taxes, seasonal wildfires.
Alyssa Blackburn, a data scientist at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, has spent several years performing digital detective work with her trusty lab assistant, Hail Mary, a shiny black computer with orange trim.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will pay a visit to Pristina on Wednesday for talks with Kosovo President Vjosa Osmani-Sadriu, as well as Besnik Bislimi, first deputy prime minister for European integration, development and dialogue and chief negotiator in the Pristina-Belgrade Dialogue.
Tuesday was a day of clear decline for the majority of Greek stocks, despite the effort made during the closing auctions to moderate losses for the day.