Results from this year’s US midterm elections have given Americans and the world a welcome bit of good news: The candidates threatening the integrity of US political institutions and future elections were soundly defeated.
Greek shipowners have this year invested over $5.6 billion in second-hand oceangoing ships, but at the same time they have collected more than $5.2 billion from sales of their own ships.
Next year’s tourism receipts are projected at 95% of 2022’s, which reached similar levels to those of 2019 – i.e. a little over 18 billion euros, based on the state budget forecasts.
Social security debts created in the period between 2006 and 2012 without procedures for their collection having yet been initiated by the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) and the Center for the Collection of Social Security Debts (KEAO) are being written off.
German weekly Der Spiegel on Friday published a lengthy retraction, admitting that it “made mistakes” in reporting the alleged death of a 5-year-old Syrian girl while she and other refugees found themselves stranded on a small islet in the middle of the Evros River, on the Greek-Turkish border.
Renowned professor Manolis Andronikos had once called it the “national archaeological museum of northern Greece.” He wasn’t far wrong either.
With its threat to Greece about not extending its territorial waters south of Crete, Ankara is attempting to prevent its looming exclusion from the Mediterranean.
Household deposits in Greece fell by 409 million euros in November, compared to an increase of €121 million the previous month, according to data the Bank of Greece released on Thursday.
The city of Athens will welcome the New Year with live music at Syntagma Square on Saturday night and an all-night party with DJs at the Varvakeios Municipal Market.
Even by the standards of Turkey’s and Greece’s frequently strained relations, it was a remarkable escalation. Speaking to youths in a Black Sea town, Turkey’s president directly threatened his country’s western neighbor: Unless the Greeks “stay calm,” he said, Turkey’s new ballistic missiles would hit their capital city.