Greece on Monday signed lease contracts for four offshore areas off Crete and the Peloponnese with the joint venture of Chevron and Helleniq Energy, which was named a preferred investor in October.
Taxi drivers are escalating their protests as the Attica Taxi Drivers’ Union (SATA) announced a three-day strike from Tuesday through Thursday across the greater Athens region. Drivers from other parts of Greece are expected to join the strike on Wednesday and Thursday.
An armed man robbed a supermarket in Piraeus shortly before 9 a.m. Monday, threatening a cashier with a gun and fleeing with an undisclosed amount of money, authorities said.
Unknown vandals attacked the National Resistance Memorial of Kaisariani, a former shooting range where 200 Greek resistance fighters were executed by Nazi occupation authorities on May 1, 1944.
Greece will sign four hydrocarbon exploration agreements with US energy giant Chevron on Monday, sealing a deal aimed at unlocking vast offshore gas potential south of Crete and the Peloponnese.
Only 17% of prospective buyers can allocate more than €200,000 to purchase housing, per a new University of Macedonia survey. Just 6% are able to top €300,000.
If the word “tragedy” had not become so worn by overuse, it would perfectly describe the deadly shipwreck off Chios earlier this month, caused by the collision of a Coast Guard patrol boat with a dinghy carrying dozens of migrants.
The Acropolis Museum will see the signing of lease contracts for four marine areas in Peloponnese and Crete with the joint venture of Chevron and Helleniq Energy.
Photographs believed to depict moments from the execution of 200 Greek resistance fighters by Nazi occupation forces in 1944 have surfaced for sale on eBay, appearing publicly for the first time 82 years after the event.
“Ferto” (Bring it) by Akylas (born Akylas Mytilinaios) will represent Greece at the 70th Eurovision Song Contest in Vienna after winning the country’s national selection, Sing For Greece.