Covid: 7,463 new cases, 34 deaths, 244 intubated
Health authorities announced 7,463 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday, a slight decline on Thursday’s figure of 7,580.
Health authorities announced 7,463 new coronavirus infections for the 24-hour period ending 9 a.m. Friday, a slight decline on Thursday’s figure of 7,580.
The head of the European Union’s border agency Frontex, Fabrice Leggeri, has offered to resign, a source told Reuters on Friday, after accusations that the body mistreated migrants on the external frontiers of the bloc.
The archaeological site at Ancient Nemea will become the second heritage attraction in Greece to be awarded the EU’s Heritage Label, the Culture Ministry announced on Friday.
Nektaria Stamouli joins Thanos Davelis to look at how the Balkans are breaking their energy dependence on Russia, and the central role Greece is playing in this effort.
The poisoning of wildlife in Greece and more widely in the Balkans remains common, with the Ornithological Society saying the vulture population in the region has suffered the largest decline.
Turkey accused Greece of instigating tensions again Friday, with security sources saying that Greek fighter jets had violated its airspace 30 times in the past three days.
Mountainous and remote, the Greek-Bulgaria border once formed the southern corner of the Iron Curtain. Today, it’s where the European Union is redrawing the region’s energy map to ease its heavy reliance on Russian natural gas.
Greece has frozen plans for a next round of confidence building measures (CBMs) with Turkey at the level of defense ministries, following a barrage of Turkish overflights in the eastern Aegean.
The Information Society and the National Defense Ministry have launched a tender for the digitalization of some 380,000 air photos from around the country dating back to as early as 1938.
There are four main reasons why the Greek economy will remain robust amid the global energy crisis and the war in Ukraine, UBS said in a report on Thursday, adjusting its estimate for the expansion of Greece’s gross domestic product in 2022 from 5.5% previously to 4%.