The price of power
International energy rates have contracted, as have domestic ones. Nevertheless, the price of electricity in Greece remains among the highest in Europe.
International energy rates have contracted, as have domestic ones. Nevertheless, the price of electricity in Greece remains among the highest in Europe.
Nikos Michaloliakos, the formerly powerful leader of the now defunct neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party, has been conditionally released from prison after a decision by the judicial council of Lamia in central Greece.
Turkish exporters with firm orders are looking at ways to send their goods to Israel via third countries after Turkey halted bilateral trade, four export company owners told Reuters, saying the decision had caught them by surprise.
Traffic has eased on the major thoroughfares out of Athens after the Easter exodus from the capital peaked on the afternoon of Good Friday.
The time demands that the European Union acts. The problems are evident, from the two wars on its borders and the climate crisis, to the demographic collapse of member-states and the tremors in the international system of political and economic governance.
The European Central Bank is “most likely” to cut interest rates just three times this year as stronger-than-expected economic growth supports inflation, ECB policymaker Yannis Stournaras has said.
North Macedonia will vote on May 8 in parliamentary elections in which support for the opposition has been buoyed by frustration about the failure to join the EU, falling living standards and alleged corruption.
A wildfire broke out in low vegetation in Viotia, northwest of Athens, on Friday.
Easter and its central message of the resurrection “serves as the motivation for the struggle against the presence of evil and its consequences in the world, acting as a powerful transformative force,” Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew has said in his Easter encyclical.
A 25-year-old man was arrested in the city of Larisa, central Greece, on Friday after he was spotted walking naked in the town center, local media reported.