Greece will offer help to Bulgaria after Russia cut off its gas supply, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told his Bulgarian counterpart on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed the issue by phone.
Russia’s warning it was shutting off gas supplies to Bulgaria over demands to change the payment scheme is a grave breach of a current contract and amounts to blackmail, Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov said on Wednesday.
Greece on Wednesday opened the book-building process for the reissue of a 7-year bond, originally issued in April 2020.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called an emergency meeting at Maximos Mansion on Wednesday at 3.30 p.m. after Russian energy giant Gazprom halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland.
State budget tax revenue rose 15.6% in March compared with budget targets, to total 3.385 billion euros, reflecting more efficiency in tax collection, the Finance Ministry said on Tuesday.
Athens has welcomed the re-election of Emanuel Macron to the presidency of France, after his victory over Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s runoff.
The influential chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee criticized Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday for failing to condemn Turkey’s decision to convict philanthropist Osman Kavala to life imprisonment, a verdict seen as symbolic of President Tayyip Erdogan’s crackdown on dissent.
A 3.5-magnitude earthquake rattled the city of Kalamata in the southern Peloponnese on Wednesday.
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni met in Sydney with the two national committees of Australia that have been working systematically for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece.
Health experts are not ruling out the possibility of acute cases of a hepatitis syndrome identified in Europe, the UK and the US afflicting children in Greece.