Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias told the debate on the state budget in Parliament on Friday that tourism will continue to play a key role in economic growth and all the ministry’s actions are aimed in this direction.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins Thanos Davelis to break down why this latest move by Egypt’s president to unilaterally declare Egypt’s EEZ with Libya is significant for Greece, and look at the message it sends to both Ankara and the Tripoli-cased government in Libya.
The candidacy in the UNESCO World Heritage List of the archaeological site of Nikopolis in northwestern Greece and preparations to this end were the subject of a meeting to coordinate projects and actions at the Ministry of Culture between Minister Lina Mendoni, Regional Governor of Epirus Alexandros Kachrimanis and Preveza Mayor Nikos Georgakos.
Lawyers have been abstaining from providing legal aid for three weeks in response to not having been paid for their services for more than three years.
J.P. Morgan has entered into an agreement to acquire a 48.5% stake in Athens-based payments fintech Viva Wallet for over 800 million euros, reports said Saturday.
In response to requests made by independent MEP Giorgos Kyrtsos and journalist Tasos Telloglou, the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) conducted an investigation at Cosmote on Friday which, sources confirmed, showed decrees were issued for lifting the confidentiality of their phone communications.
A lot appears to have taken place on the front of Greek-British relations over the past two weeks.
The Vatican announced Friday that Pope Francis has chosen to return to Greece the three fragments of Parthenon sculptures that have been kept in the Vatican Museums for centuries.
Following the successful reunification of the Fagan fragment earlier this year, Professor Nikolaos Stampolidis, General Director of the Acropolis Museum, has announced the imminent return of three fragments of the Parthenon frieze, held in the collection of the Vatican Museums since the 19th century.
Bidding to put the political onus on ruling New Democracy and SYRIZA, socialist leader Nikos Androulakis said the two parties must lay out their cards, pledging to move immediately after the elections, not in a general and vague way, but by agreeing on specific convergences on a government program.