Microsoft vs Greek red tape
It took Microsoft no less than four years to get the first construction permit for the main building of its first data center in Greece, which will be built at Spata, eastern Attica.
It took Microsoft no less than four years to get the first construction permit for the main building of its first data center in Greece, which will be built at Spata, eastern Attica.
Israel’s Minister of Energy, Eli Cohen, held a phone call on Thursday with the Cypriot Minister of Energy, Commerce, and Industry, George Papanastasiou, regarding the Great Sea Interconnector, calling the project a “top priority.”
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday that a German plan to impose tighter checks at its land borders amounted to unilaterally scrapping Europe’s open-border Schengen zone and would burden frontline states such as Greece.
Police in the northwestern city of Grevena have arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of currency forgery.
GEK Terna has signed a 3.3 billion euro deal for the lease of a toll highway in Athens, two sources with knowledge of the matter have told Reuters.
A secondary school in the Cretan city of Hania was evacuated Thursday morning after an anonymous caller said a bomb had been placed in the building.
Property owners with assets over 500,000 euros, as well as businesses with a turnover of over €500,000 per year, will be left without state support if they are not insured against natural disasters.
Three months after he was remanded in custody on charges of assaulting his wife, prominent criminal lawyer Apostolos Lytras has been granted conditional release.
According to the Hellenic National Public Health Organization (EODY), eight more deaths from the West Nile virus occurred between September 4 and 11, bringing the total number of deaths from the virus to 25.
A Thessaloniki prosecutor filed felony charges on Thursday against a 46-year-old who, allegedly driving under the influence, struck and severely injured a couple and their two-year-old child in Thessaloniki.