High-stakes poker in the East Med
The deadline approaches for bids on hydrocarbon exploration south of Crete and in parts of the Peloponnese, with submissions due September 10.
The deadline approaches for bids on hydrocarbon exploration south of Crete and in parts of the Peloponnese, with submissions due September 10.
A Thessaly livestock farmer and his partner, a former New Democracy candidate, are under investigation over subsidies worth millions of euros, amid a social media storm linking them to alleged irregularities.
Greece has sent two firefighting planes to southern Albania to help battle a blaze in the region, authorities said on Monday.
The Nikos Kazantzakis Airport in Iraklio, Crete, is Greece’s second busiest in the summer, with a daily average of 350 arrivals and departures, and is used by 110 airlines.
The funeral of Lena Samaras, daughter of former Greek prime minister Antonis Samaras and his wife Georgia Kretikos Samaras, was held on Monday at Athens’ First Cemetery.
One of our favorite summer games was “Operation Rose” – as we called it – planned down to the last detail. We would stage “raids” on people’s gardens to cut roses, while one of us kept watch.
One person was killed on Sunday when an earthquake of magnitude 6.1 struck northwestern Turkey’s Balikesir province, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding 29 people were wounded and 16 buildings collapsed.
The Thessaloniki Chamber of Commerce and Industry is asking the independent revenue authority to monitor trucks coming from and going to Bulgaria for illicit imports and exports.
Panagiotis Terezakis, CEO of Hellenic Railways (OSE), is not expected to retain his position, even on an interim basis, in the reorganized OSE, which is responsible for maintaining Greece’s rail infrastructure.
Firefighters on Monday contained a wildfire that broke out in the Oinoi area of western Attica in the early hours of the day, authorities said.