Cretan hoteliers united against offshore wind farms
The state’s proposal to place offshore wind farms off Crete has united the island’s hoteliers in support of the preservation of the natural and manmade landscape.
The state’s proposal to place offshore wind farms off Crete has united the island’s hoteliers in support of the preservation of the natural and manmade landscape.
Politician Eva Kaili, who is being investigated over corruption allegations dubbed Qatargate, could face legal repercussions if she speaks to the media about the scandal, Brussels-based news site POLITICO has reported.
A former Thessaly regional governor, Kostas Agorastos, is to be prosecuted over charges of dereliction of duty and other misdemeanors in relation to works conducted at the site of the deadly Tempe train disaster, the region’s prosecutor’s office has announced.
A second hospital death in a week is being attributed to a very invasive form of streptococcal disease that infects the respiratory tract.
A traffic policeman who became an Athenian icon for the cool and efficient manner with which he saw motorists in the capital’s northern suburbs through some of the most nightmarish traffic snarls of the late 1980s and through the 1990s has died, according to a social media post on Tuesday.
The Greek-owned, Marshall Islands-flagged Star Nasia, managed by Star Bulk Carrier, was damaged by an explosion at 1115 GMT, a Greek shipping ministry official said, adding that its crew were not injured.
Greek Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis met on Tuesday with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres’ new personal envoy for Cyprus, Maria Angela Holguin Cuellar.
Protesting farmers have agreed to step up their mobilizations across the country by blocking national and provincial roads as well as motorway toll stations from Wednesday. At a meeting in the town of Nikaia in Larissa, farmer representatives also agreed to organize a tractor rally in Athens next week.
Police have announced the arrest over the weekend of two men on separate charges of sexually abusing minors. On Saturday, a 55-year-old Greek national was arrested on a warrant issued after an investigation found he had attempted to rape his daughters while her mother was not at home.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, President of the Parliament Konstantinos Tasoulas and ministers toured the Bank of Greece’s vault which was recently upgraded with new security systems.