The sudden increase in prices has pushed the Greek dairy market close to collapse, while at the same time there is no sign of any price drops, despite the pressure being exerted by the dairy industry to reduce producer prices.
Despite the police dismantling various illegal gambling rings from time to time, other gambling activity that is not legal – i.e. without licensing – is flourishing in Greece.
Work has recently begun on the construction of a jetty as part of the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Receiving and Regasification Terminal near the port of Vasilikos in Cyprus.
The new president of Cyprus met informally with the leader of the breakaway Turkish Cypriots on Thursday to test the waters on reviving stalemated talks to end the island’s ethnic division, which has been a source of instability in the east Mediterranean for decades.
Aegean Airlines has simplified the boarding process on domestic Greek flights through the personal identification details uploaded from the Gov.gr Wallet application to its Digital ID application as of Thursday.
The transparency of the social security system is a condition for its reliability and, ultimately, its effectiveness.
The Greek stock market immediately rebounded on Thursday after Wednesday’s sharp decline, recovering almost all of those losses and proving that the growth momentum is nowhere near over yet.
Former premier Kostas Karamanlis announced he will not run again as a lawmaker with the cοnservatives (in his words, “it’s time to complete my parliamentary career”), at a time when he felt that his move would cause the least damage to ruling New Democracy.
Turkey has stepped up plans to house victims of the devastating earthquake which struck its border region with Syria, the interior minister said, as the combined death toll in the two countries crept towards 50,000.