Line 3 to Piraeus ready in coming days
The extension of Line 3 in Piraeus will be operational within the next few days, according to Giorgos Karagiannis, deputy minister of infrastructure and transport.
EU chief: New Greece-Bulgaria gas pipeline ‘means freedom’
The president of the European Union’s executive arm traveled Saturday to Bulgaria for the opening of a natural gas link between the country and Greece, emphasizing the EU’s determination to stop relying on Russian energy imports.
In absence of EU gas price cap, some countries plan to propose their own
A group of European Union countries will take the unusual step of drafting their own legislative proposal for an EU gas price cap, Poland’s climate minister said on Friday, amid scepticism from Brussels over the idea.
September inflation at 12.1%
In September the European Union-harmonized consumer price index in Greece reached its highest point since the country entered the eurozone, climbing to 12.1% from 11.2% in August, according to estimates Eurostat announced on Friday.
State must hold on to ammunition
The government will submit next year’s first draft budget on Monday, providing for a primary deficit lower than the 2% of GDP forecast in the Stability Program this year, but also a surplus below 1% of GDP (against 1.1% of GDP forecast in the Stability Program), Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Friday.
Putin and Erdogan share common handbook
Following Vladimir Putin’s decree, we have entered a third and more dangerous phase of the conflict, with partial conscription and the early referenda constituting an admission of defeat on the part of the Kremlin, seven months after military operations began.
Police smash online fraud gang
Police in northern Greece say they dismantled a criminal gang that committed at least 33 cases of fraud across Greece over a seven month period in 2020 and 2021.
Turkey revisits island status in UN letter
The allegations that the demilitarization of the islands of the east Aegean and the Dodecanese, from Samothraki to Kastellorizo, is a condition for Greece’s sovereignty over them are reiterated by Turkey’s permanent representative to the UN, Feridun Sinirlioglu, in a letter to the United Nations on September 17.
Bulgaria’s GERB party expands lead ahead of Sunday’s election
Bulgaria’s center-right GERB party widened its lead over its main rival, the reformist We Continue the Change (PP), as the country heads into its fourth parliamentary election in less than two years, opinion polls showed on Friday.
Sweden moves closer to NATO, lifts arms embargo on Turkey
Would-be NATO member Sweden on Friday announced it will allow exports of arms to Turkey, which had threatened to block the Scandinavian nation’s application to join the 30-member defense alliance.