Nkos Efstathiou, an Athens-based journalist and author of a best-selling biography on Olympic Champion Pyrros Dimas, joins me to look at the buzz around the Olympics in Greece this summer, and break down whether Greek sport – which took a hit during the crisis – is bouncing back.
The National Economy and Finance Ministry announced late on Thursday the extension by one to two weeks of the deadlne for the uploading of tax returns for last year’s incomes.
The future of an electricity cable linking the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel will be cleared up next month when a ruling is expected on whether Cypriot consumers would pick up the tab for the cable’s four-year construction costs, Cyprus’ energy minister said Thursday.
Metro rail services to and from Athens International Airport have been restored, according to an announcement from the Athens Urban Rail Transport Company (STASY).
New residential development investments, totaling 300 million euros, are expected at Elliniko.
Metro services to Athens International Airport were disrupted on Friday due to a mechanical issue.
The Olympic Games aim to bring nations together to compete in the spirit of friendship, but sometimes countries get banned from this show of goodwill. The 2024 Paris Olympics features a notable case, with Russia having faced an IOC ban since 2022, when Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
This week saw tensions between Greece and Turkey reach levels we have not seen since 2022 in the Aegean as Turkey sent its warships into an area south of the Greek islands of Kassos and Karpathos.
Two suspects have been arrested in connection with an armed robbery at a nursing home in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, in April 2020.
After the naval incident in the southeastern Aegean, where a flotilla of Turkish ships gathered near two Greek islands, Kassos and Karpathos, claiming that a research ships had violated its continental shelf, Turkey insists that it was the one that gave the ship permission to conclude its research and depart, implying that the Greek navigational…