Greece and Turkey aim to extend the positive atmosphere in their bilateral relations beyond the moratorium on military exercises in the Aegean Sea as they explore further possibilities for normalization.
An updated US proposal to sell four Landing Craft Support ships to Greece has reopened the debate over the Hellenic Navy’s procurement program.
It’s midday on Friday, July 7, and the phone rings on the desk of Vasileios Bikas, the coordinator for foreign detachments at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Hellenic Fire Corps Training Center.
Wildfires burned for a third day west of the Greek capital Athens on Wednesday, as authorities braced for a new heatwave stoking tinderbox conditions across the country.
Six of the eight investment schemes that participated in the final phase of the tender for the new Attiki Odos concession contract submitted binding financial offers by Monday’s deadline.
Two major wildfires were burning west of Athens for a second day in a row Tuesday, burning dozens of houses, animals and threatening an oil refinery late at night, authorities said.
Wednesday brought no respite to the hundreds of firefighters, volunteers, municipal workers and military personnel who spent all night battling major wildfires in West Attica and Corinthia – raging for a third day – and a new blaze on the southeastern Aegean island of Rhodes.
Hotel arrivals grew 74.4% in 2022 compared with the previous year, while overnight stays rose by 79.7%, the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) said in a report on Tuesday.
An annual increase of 5.78% was recorded in the price index for construction materials for the period January-June 2023 compared to the same period in 2022, according to data published by the Cyprus Statistical Service (CyStat) on Tuesday.
Cyprus’ Ministe of Energy, Commerce and Industry George Papanastasiou has set the goal of having a solution to the issue of energy storage within the next 18-24 months.