Aegean to use Hellenic Petroleum’s sustainable fuel
Αegean Airlines and Hellenic Petroleum on Tuesday signed a strategic deal for the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), effectively putting Greece on the green air transport map.
Tsipras confident ‘political change has already started’
SYRIZA leader Alexis Tsipras declared that “political change has already started,” during a rally at the main square in Peristeri, western Athens.
Economic measures in pipeline for TIF
Pension hikes from January 2023, a gradual return of retroactive payments to pensioners amounting to 2.6 billion euros, a new increase in the minimum salary and tax breaks are among the measures Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to outline in his keynote speech at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF) in September.
Covid-19: Weekly infection numbers increase by 18%
The week from July 4-10 saw 13,623 new coronavirus cases per million people, an 18-percent increase on the previous week, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said on Tuesday, in the first of its new weekly reports that replace its daily bulletins.
Skrekas briefs Tsunis on energy contingency plans
Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas briefed US Ambassador George Tsunis on Tuesday on the government’s contingency plan in the event of Russia cutting off its supply of natural gas.
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State Department: ‘sovereignty and territorial integrity of Greece not in question’
“The sovereignty and territorial integrity of Greece is not in question. Our position on this issue is clear,” a State Department spokesperson said, following the display at the weekend of a map depicting large Greek islands as Turkish by Devlet Bahceli, an ally of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
An obsession with elections
At the end of 2014 things were pretty much as described by the vice-president of the former SYRIZA-Independent Greeks government coalition, Yannis Dragasakis, in his recent article “The truth about 2015” (in Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper, published on July 9.).
Cars hit wild boars, 2 people killed in road pileup
A three-car pileup caused by a pack of wild boars in northern Greece killed two people and left four more hospitalized, police said Tuesday.
Τurning a crisis into an opportunity
It was nearly 10 years ago when I flew to Athens together with US President Bill Clinton and a group of friends, united for a common cause. At the time, Greece was in crisis and a newly elected government was in power.