Responding to an apparent escalation in Turkish moves to push migrants into Greece over land and sea, the Council for Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA) decided on Tuesday in favor of additional measures for the protection of the country’s borders.
A significant rise in the price of electricity announced by state-controlled Public Power Corporation (PPC) for September forced the government to raise its electricity subsidy for September to 1.9 billion euros, from €1.1 billion in August.
Energy group Mytilineos announced the acquisition of electricity provider Watt+Volt for 36 million euros. According to its announcement, Mytilineos will pay €20 million in cash and €16 million in Mytilineos shares, at €17 per share.
For Valentyna Tkachenko, mere mention of the Zaporizhzhia power plant triggers tears of anguish. Like many around the world, she has been anxiously following the news about the fighting around the nuclear plant in southern Ukraine – but unlike most, she has seen a nuclear disaster unfold around her firsthand.
More than 50 sheep were killed in the region of Vlacha in Metsovo, northern Greece, after they were struck by lightning during a midday thunderstorm on Tuesday.
An electronic platform for the declaration of unlicensed buildings in forests and woodlands is reportedly on course to open in the coming days.
The government hopes to announce the new minimum wage by April 2023 and put it into effect in May, that is, prior to the next general election.
In a message to Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the occasion of the country’s Independence Day on Wednesday, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated that Greece “we will continue to stand by Ukraine.”
The political climate in Greece leaves little room for optimism, but its political parties really need to resist the urge for a toxic clash in Parliament, if only in the final hour.