Turkey breaks off high-level talks with Greece as rift grows
Turkey will no longer hold high-level talks with neighboring Greece, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday amid rising tensions between the traditional rivals.
Scholz calls on Turkey to refrain from provoking Greece
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has called on Turkey to exercize restraint towards Greece as tensions between the two countries have flared, a German government spokesperson said on Wednesday.
Peloponnese vulnerable to climate change impact
The Peloponnese will be vulnerable to the effects of rising temperatures, declining rainfall and increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather conditions in the coming decades, according to a study by the Research Center for Atmospheric Physics and Climatology of the Academy of Athens in collaboration with local authorities.
Hagia Sophia conversion ‘healed a wound,’ says Erdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday said that the conversion of the world-famous Hagia Sophia museum in Istanbul – originally founded as an Orthodox Christian cathedral – into a mosque had “healed a wound in the heart of the conquest.”
Erdogan says Turkey will no longer hold bilateral talks with Greece
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday he told colleagues to no longer hold bilateral talks with Greece, the latest reversal after having resumed talks last year to address their differences in the Mediterranean after a five-year hiatus.
Prices surge 10.7% in May
Prices in Greece jumped again in May, in line with the soaring inflation in the rest of the eurozone, as Eurostat on Tuesday reported a 10.7% annual increase in the European Union-harmonized index of prices in this country.
Greece won’t be lured into escalation with Turkey, Foreign Ministry says
Greece has said it will not be drawn into an escalation with Turkey, however adding that the country remains committed to defending its national interests.
Only 24% of SMEs have e-store
Only one in four Greek small enterprises has an electronic store or is hosted on an online marketplace, even though that was the only way to make sales over long periods of time in the first couple of years of the pandemic.
Breakthrough infections may be less contagious
Fully vaccinated individuals who get infected with the coronavirus spread the infection to fewer people and are contagious for less time compared to people who are partially vaccinated or unvaccinated, a small study from South Korea suggests.
Store rentals are flourishing
Consumer confidence may be suffering due to price hikes across the market, but demand for store rentals in popular locations has been continuing its steady recovery in recent months.