Greece can play very important role for the energy security of the Southeast Mediterranean, according to Geoffrey Pyatt, US Assistant Secretary of State for Energy and former US Ambassador to Greece.
More than 12,000 lightning strikes were recorded across the country by midday Thursday, according to the National Observatory of Athens’ Zeus lightning detection network.
Seven employees from the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) are being summoned by the prosecutor as suspects for violating confidentiality rules by leaking audio recordings between a train driver and a stationmaster immediately after the railway crash at Tempe in central Greece in February 2023.
Michalis Pikramenos has been named president of the Council of State, Greece’s top administrative court. Pikramenos, a strong advocate for reforms in the country’s justice system, had served as vice president for the past six years.
A day after conservative MP Lefteris Avgenakis was officially expelled from the New Democracy parliamentary group following footage showing him assaulting an airport employee, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis criticized manifestations of arrogance among the political class for undermining public trust in the political system.
A Greek coastguard vessel came under fire from a boat carrying undocumented migrants in the eastern Aegean, according to reports Friday.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greece’s conservative prime minister, has congratulated Keir Starmer after his Labour party achieved a landslide victory in the UK’s general election, ending 14 years of often tumultuous Conservative government.
A police officer who was arrested for participating in a criminal organization that imported drugs, cellphones and money into Ioannina Prison in northwestern Greece was suspended by Hellenic Police Headquarters on Thursday.
Despite a widespread perception that the fire situation has improved this year, the data paint a different picture.