Shipping Minister Vassilis Kikilias has told the intergovernmental Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) summit in Athens that strategic American investments in Greek ports and shipyards can be expected in the coming months.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday hailed deepening energy cooperation with the United States, saying Greece is emerging as a key regional hub for natural gas and renewable power, a day after Exxon Mobil signed a deal to explore offshore Greek waters for natural gas.
The US has designated Greece as a central partner in its strategy to replace Russian natural gas in Western Europe with American liquefied natural gas (LNG), US officials said Thursday at the opening of the Transatlantic Energy Cooperation (P-TEC) meeting in Athens.
Last week, the 8th Paris Peace Forum was held in France. It was attended mainly by leaders from the so-called “Global South.”
This summer, amidst a season of sold-out concerts and a resplendent new production in Salzburg, Cecilia Bartoli also received another standing ovation – this time, not on stage, but on the civic platform.
Powerful storms battered parts of Iraklio and Hania on the island of Crete on Thursday, turning streets into raging torrents and flooding businesses.
They discussed enhanced cooperation with Washington on various points, including the carriage of liquefied natural gas and the naval academies.
During the World Travel Market 2025 in London earlier this week, Tourism Minister Olga Kefalogianni had meetings with leading representatives of the UK travel market who announced their plans to further increase flights from British airports to Greek destinations in 2026:
Turkey has flatly denied reports that its purchase of 20 Eurofighter aircraft comes with restrictions preventing their use against NATO allies like Greece, despite German assurances to the contrary.
Greece faces mounting challenges in replacing outdated identification cards before a critical August 2026 European Union deadline, with only 2.5 million of 9 million IDs issued since the program launched in September 2023.