Italy on Friday alerted Greece to a vessel holding dozens of migrants sailing off the southern coastal town of Pylos, two sources said, just two days after an overcrowded fishing boat sank nearby killing at least 78 people.
A Migration Ministry team established to assist in the effort to identify the victims of Wednesday’s shipwreck will begin taking calls on Saturday. The Disaster Victims Identification Team telephone center, which will operate from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. daily, will be able to deal with calls in English, Arabic, Pashto and Urdu.
Experts warn that many regions in Greece will become unfit for viticulture by 2050 due to climate change. Indeed, if the climate crisis worsens by the end of the century, few vineyards will remain, primarily in higher-altitude locations.
The likely sale of retail chain Kotsovolos is expected to create a new landscape in the domestic market of electrical and electronic household appliances, especially since it is its biggest player.
In the first quarter of 2023, the value of bad loans that have been transferred to funds and are managed by servicers amounted to 70.6 billion euros, registering a decrease of €96 million compared to the fourth quarter of 2022.
The main reasons why Israeli and Turkish investors invest in the Greek property market are the political and economic stability and the attractive sales prices compared to those in their own countries.
“Peter the Great talked about a Russian window on Europe. Putin just smashed that window,” says Mark Beissinger, Henry W. Putnam Professor in the Department of Politics at Princeton University and an expert in social movements and post-communist politics, who addressed an audience of academics and students at the Princeton Athens Center on May 29.
Many of us are desperate to travel this summer after a pandemic stifled our plans for years. But travelers — and I’m sorry to be a killjoy — should beware: Those seemingly cheap plane tickets or hotel rooms advertised online may be a trap to make you spend more than anticipated.
At a meeting with Greek Ambassador in Nicosia Ioannis Papameletiou on Wednesday, Cyprus’ Deputy Minister for Shipping Maria Hadjimanolis announced that bookings for the Cyprus-Greece maritime connection have surpassed 10,000 since the line began operating.