As Greece braces for a weeklong heatwave dubbed “Cleon,” the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry called an emergency meeting at its headquarters in Athens on Tuesday morning to address the measures that will be taken to shield the public from its effects.
Staff and patients – including a woman in labor – had to be evacuated after a fire broke out in a medical clinic in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday morning.
The government is trying to solve the conundrum of the high-priced ferry tickets this summer, in cooperation with coastal shippers.
Greek Defense Minister Nikos Dendias was heading to Lithuania on Tuesday to attend the North Atlantic Council meeting of NATO defense ministers in the capital, Vilnius.
Hailing a “historic day,” NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Monday evening that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has agreed to proceed to forward the Nordic country’s accession protocol to the North Atlantic Alliance for ratification by the Turkish parliament “as soon as possible.”
The initiatives that Minister of National Economy and Finance Kostis Hatzidakis will immediately undertake for the financial sector are moving along four main axes.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid a visit on Saturday to the worksite of the former Minion store in Omonia Square, which is being turned into a green mixed-use building including both a hotel and offices.
The package of relief measures announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Parliament this past week as part of his policy statements will be introduced in three stages: this year, 2024, and 2025-2026.
The Greece-Bulgaria interconnector (IGB) will be a game-changer in the energy market, George Satlas, executive officer and board member of ICGB AD, the manager and commercial operator of the natural gas pipeline, told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency in an interview.
The Cooperative Bank of Hania general assembly has approved the start of turning the bank into a societe anonyme (SA), the bank said in a statement on Sunday.