Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has claimed that the “problems of Western Thrace” was the “main issue” he raised with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at their meeting on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Vilnius.
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The governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, described the recovery of investment grade as a big challenge for the Greek government at the moment, stating however that he is confident that it will happen this year and will bring more direct foreign investments.
An employee of power transmission operator ADMIE has been hospitalized after being electrocuted while cutting branches near power lines in the northwestern region of Florina. State broadcaster ERT said the accident happened after a branch fell on a high voltage cable.
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New wind power farms with a total energy capacity of 252.5 megawatts and a total investment of 260 million euros were connected to the country’s electricity grid in the first half of 2023, the Hellenic Wind Energy Association (HWEA) said in a report.
An Albanian court has rejected the appeal by Fredi Beleri, the mayor-elect of Himare in southern Albania and an ethnic Greek, who was seeking release under restrictive measures.
Euclid Tsakalotos, who served as the minister of finance from 2015 to 2019, has announced his candidacy for the leadership of SYRIZA following the resignation of Alexis Tsipras.
Greece will shut the ancient Acropolis for a few hours on Friday to protect visitors to one of the world’s most famous archaeological sites from a heatwave enveloping Athens and other countries in southern Europe.