Greece is moving forward with a long-planned electricity interconnection with Cyprus, despite Turkey’s objections. The project, involving France and Italy, is set to begin underwater surveys outside national waters, in areas contested by Ankara under the illegal Turkey-Libya maritime pact.
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has warned UK travellers of “widespread disruption” to public services in Greece on February 28 due to large-scale protests across the country.
Seismic activity between Santorini and Amorgos continues to gradually subside, both in terms of daily frequency and maximum magnitude, according to the latest report from the Interdisciplinary Risk Management Committee of the University of Athens.
The resumption of activity at the Neorion Shipyards on the island of Syros has sent a message of a total restart, not only of the Cyclades islands and the shipbuilding industry, but of the Greek economy, the country’s national economy and finance minister, Kostis Hatzidakis, stated on Monday during his visit to the ONEX-operated facilities.
Greece’s minister of environment and energy, Thodoros Skylakakis, announced on Monday the international tender for the granting of hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation rights in the marine areas “A2” and “South of the Peloponnese,” in the southern Ionian Sea.
The government has canceled the tender process citing public interest reasons.
Consumers in Cyprus felt the pinch in January as the prices of 26 staple products rose.
The inner core at the center of the Earth, a ball of iron and nickel about 1,500 miles wide, may not be perfectly solid.
A first-of-its-kind project will use a swarm of small, independent submersibles to monitor, protect and provide data on offshore artificial reefs off Cyprus whose purpose is to attract new marine life in otherwise barren sections of sea, officials have said.
Real estate professionals’ estimates about new house price hikes due to the second cycle of the “My Home” program have been confirmed.