During a Saturday visit to a supermarket in Athens Saturday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis received a comprehensive briefing on the progress of the “permanent price reduction” scheme.
Forty-one migrants, who disembarked from a yacht off the coast of Vravrona in eastern Attica, were found by the coast guard on Friday morning. Coast guard officials said 33 men, 4 woman and 4 minors were on board the vessel.
Gale-force winds have led to a ban on ferry sailings at many ports. Services to the Cyclades from Rafina have been cancelled, while the service to Marmari, Evia, is operational. There were no morning sailings from Lavrio.
A deal reached this month by Italy with Albania to build centres for migrants coming ashore by sea could serve as a blueprint for other EU countries, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Friday.
More than 25,000 people marched through central Athens on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship.
“The third important link in the chain, in addition to controls and targeted interventions, is the interventions to increase citizens’ income,” government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said in an interview with Skai TV on Friday morning, talking about the government’s initiatives to address high prices.
Denmark-based Leo Pharma has announced a cooperation agreement with Greek pharmaceutical company Vianex for the production by the latter of standard unfractionated heparin and low molecular weight heparin.
Less than 24 hours after setting foot on the pier of a southern Italian port, 60 people who’d survived a perilous boat journey from Libya were served with expulsion orders.
The Greek state budget recorded a primary surplus of 5.8 billion euros, on a cash basis, in the January-October period this year, after a primary deficit of €859 million in the same period in 2022, the Bank of Greece said on Friday.
Turkish Defense Minister Yasar Guler expressed his satisfaction with Greek-Turkish contacts, while at the same time insisting that Ankara will “protect its rights and interests” within the context of the “Blue Homeland” doctrine.