Inflation is at the back of the ministry’s mind in every initiative, and rightly so. Together with the election and the potential difficulties of forming a government, they represent the biggest risks of upsetting economic policy next year.
The navigation warning (Navtex) issued by Greece Saturday expanding the area of seismic surveys for oil and natural gas deposits off the coast of Crete was in response to a request by US oil firm ExxonMobil, which has been granted exploration rights, but also serves a geopolitical purpose.
The government has decided to make some changes to the draft bill on surveillance and wiretappings as the result of the public consultation process.
Three days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, leading scholar Robert Kagan published an article titled “What we can expect after Putin’s conquest of Ukraine.” Seven months later, the Ukrainian military armed by a US-led coalition has proved many pundits wrong.
Cyprus has recorded some progress in improving its level of compliance with Financial Action Task Force (FATF) standards on combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism, but moderate shortcomings remain, the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Moneyval) said on Friday.
The government announced on Friday it will spend another 435 million euros next month to support households and companies facing extremely high electricity rates, but data show Greeks are increasingly saving on energy consumption with tangible results.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is in London to attend a Greek Investment Conference jointly organized by the Athens Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley, will meet with King Charles III at the Windsor Castle Monday evening.
The internet is where the heart of the most powerful communities beats, according to the findings of a Solid Havas survey conducted in 30 countries, including Greece, on the impact of communities in the digital age.
The need to provide additional financial incentives to doctors in the intensive care units of public hospitals has been stressed in comments to Kathimerini by Dimitris Georgopoulos, professor of pulmonology and intensive care at the University of Crete and until recently director of the ICU at Iraklio University Hospital.
A 60-year-old man died after his car fell into a gorge in a wooded area on Sunday in the monastic state of Mt. Athos.