PM to chair border security meeting
Border security in Evros will be the focus of a meeting of the Governmental Council for National Security (KYSEA) on Tuesday, chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
Plan in pipeline to protect, showcase Acropolis walls
Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said on Monday that the main objective of a strategic plan for the Acropolis’ fortification walls is to create a roadmap of the interventions needed to ensure their stability and to highlight their archaeological and historical value.
Group claims DESFA cyber attack
A group of cyber extortionists, which the FBI has linked to attacks on at least 52 organizations and companies in the US, claimed responsibility for the recent cyber-attack against the National Gas System Operator (DESFA) in Greece.
Record electricity prices a major headache for gov’t
Wholesale electricity prices are reaching record levels every day, throwing off the government’s spending plans.
Live performance is back. But audiences have been slow to return
Patti LuPone, Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig came back to Broadway.
Smugglers’ perilous route to Italy
Bidding to bypass Greek shores and avoid possible deterrence, many people smugglers are now heading directly to Italy from Turkey’s Aegean coast, with all the additional perils this entails.
Drawing the right conclusions
Every crisis also presents an opportunity, goes the old cliche. But it is also true. In Greece we unfortunately tend to follow every crisis with an endless slanging match over who is to blame and who said what that rarely translates into tangible lessons for the future.
Pocket of stability
Greece is a pocket of stability with positive prospects. Meanwhile, many governments and political systems in the country’s wider neighborhood are in turmoil.
German tourist family attacked on Crete, search for perpetrators under way
A manhunt has been launched on the island of Crete to find the perpetrators of an attack at the weekend against a family of German tourists in the community of Mylopotamos.
Bulgaria says talks to resume, Russian gas supplies are ‘inevitable’
Bulgaria’s interim energy minister said it was “inevitable” that the Balkan country would discuss resuming gas deliveries with Russia’s Gazprom that were halted in April, after the government promised to secure adequate supplies for the winter.