The Environment and Energy Ministry is for the first time hiring 340 permanent employees for the management of protected Natura 2000 areas in Greece, following an initiative by Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis, the ministry announced on Thursday.
Hundreds of thousands of Greeks took to the streets across the country on Friday, marking two years since the tragic Tempe train disaster that claimed 57 lives.
The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militia will heed its jailed leader Abdullah Ocalan’s call for disarmament and declare an immediate ceasefire, a news agency close to the group has cited it as saying, in a major step toward ending a 40-year conflict with the Turkish state.
Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis said on Thursday that food inflation in Greece has been hovering around zero in recent months and is, according to official data released by Eurostat, the lowest in the eurozone.
The European Investment Bank is providing the Cypriot government with a 72-million-euro loan for a new national archaeological museum in the capital Nicosia.
Alpha Bank said on Thursday it has reached a binding agreement to buy small Cypriot lender AstroBank for just over 200 million euros.
Piraeus Bank announced on Friday that its biggest stakeholder, Paulson & Co, has reduced its stake to 13.62%