Optimism for reopening of Halki seminary
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and Patriarchate officials are optimistic that the Theological School of Halki, shuttered by the Turkish government in 1971, will open sooner rather than later.
Air battle over €220 million
Route and terminal fees, i.e. the amounts paid by airlines to use Greek airspace, generate significant revenues, which are collected and remitted to Greece by Eurocontrol. Last year they amounted to €220 million.
‘Greek’ honey that isn’t as advertised
It has been at least four decades that middlemen import cheap honey of doubtful quality and mix it with locally produced ones to sell it as wholly Greek, beekeepers complain.
Alleged gunman Artemios Mintzas charged after street shooting spree
Australian police have charged a gunman who allegedly fired indiscriminately on a suburban street, leaving one person seriously injured and sparking a shootout with officers.
Saudi minister visits Greek counterparts
Development Minister Takis Theodorikakos and Saudi Minister of Industry and Mineral Resources Bandar Alkhorayef and National Industrial Development Center CEO Saleh Al-Solami met at the ministry in Athens and then paid a visit to the Onex Elefsis Shipyards on Monday.
Credit rating upgrade by Japan’s R&I agency
Japanese credit rating agency R&I announced on Monday the upgrading of Greece’s credit rating for issuances in both domestic and foreign currency by one notch to BBB, acknowledging the country’s continued strong growth, stable fiscal trajectory, improved public debt sustainability, and the enhanced stability of the financial system.
What a signal in a failed star’s clouds means for the search for life
On a brown dwarf dozens of light years from Earth, astronomers have detected trace amounts of phosphine, a molecule that on this planet is produced by living things.
Cypriot ship register grows 20% in two years
With Greece’s shipping industry having a strong showing in Limassol at the start of the biennial Maritime Cyprus 2025 fair, Cyprus has seen its national register grow a remarkable 20% in the last couple of years.
Mitsotakis to address SEV General Assembly, Tuesday
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address the Annual General Assembly meeting of members of the Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV) at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, at the Athens Concert Hall.
Greek, German central bank governors discuss EU economy
The governor of the Bank of Greece, Yannis Stournaras, on Monday met with his German opposite number, the president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, Joachim Nagel, at the Bank of Greece, as part of the German official’s visit to Greece.