ATHEX: Minor drop keeps week in the black
The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 1,443.13 points.
National and Alpha slash commissions
National Bank and Alpha Bank are reducing commissions in selected categories of transactions.
Poland charges 3 Belarusians who forced diversion of plane from Athens to Minsk in 2021
In what some EU leaders at the time called a hijacking, the three used a false bomb threat to divert the plane which was traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania on May 23, 2021.
Need to expand the workforce
The Labor Ministry will focus its efforts to increase employment on the large pool of more than 4.2 million people who are outside the labor force.
The Athens Conservatoire: An agora for modern times in the heart of the capital
The Athens Conservatoire, now completed, has become a destination not only for the city’s music and dance community but also for the broader cultural, business and political ecosystem of Athens.
Greece and a wary Cyprus to discuss electric cable project
The governments of Greece and Cyprus will meet on September 10 in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a multi-billion euro electric cable project, which if completed, would be the world’s longest linking Europe to the Middle East.
Police bust protection rackets in Mykonos and Athens
Police in Mykonos and Athens have arrested four people on suspicion of membership of a gang that operated protection rackets in the two locations.
Man, 64, in court for secretly filming woman, 18, on train
A 64-year-old man has appeared in court in Thessaloniki on charges of violating personal data after he was caught secretly filming 18-year-old female fellow passenger with a cell phone on a train.
Making military academies attractive
The Ministry of National Defense, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, is looking for ways to make a career in the armed forces more appealing to young people who fill out applications for national university entry exams.
Ruins of a long-sunken village emerge as drought saps a vital reservoir
Like ghosts from the past, sunken villages at the bottom of water reservoirs are not meant to be seen. But the ruins of Kallio in the mountains of central Greece are becoming very much visible – and they have a warning to deliver.