Joint US-Greek exercise gets under way
The Poseidon’s Rage 22 bilateral military exercise, with the participation of forces from Greece and the United States, began on Monday and included 10 F-35 jets and 14 F-15s.
Ethnomusicologist Christopher C. King receives honorary Greek citizenship
Grammy-winning producer, writer and ethnomusicologist Christopher C. King who made the traditional music of Epirus and its famous dirges’ known all over the world, was presented with an honorary Greek citizenship at a ceremony held at Maximos Mansion, the prime minister’s office, on Monday.
Demand for new tax deadline
Tax declaration submissions continue at a particularly slow pace, with taxpayers and accountants expecting another extension.
EU insists on targeted support
Eurozone finance ministers gave Greece and the rest of the bloc a clear signal in the direction of fiscal adjustment on Monday after the last Eurogroup meeting before the summer vacation.
Taxpayers set to benefit from all extra fiscal space, says FinMin
Additional fiscal space will be created in the summer, which will be returned to the citizens in its entirety, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras stated.
PM: Erdogan must make position clear
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to clarify whether he shares the stance of his junior coalition partner, Devlet Bahceli, who was shown in a photo at the weekend holding a map depicting large Greek islands, including Crete, as Turkish.
Widespread tourism benefits
Tourism is proving the main factor offsetting the effects on the Greek economy from the global energy and inflation crisis, as its dynamic recovery this year, possibly at levels 10% higher than the record year of 2019, is creating expectations for higher-than-expected growth.
TUI sees record demand for the Greek destination
Holiday group TUI expects the highest level of demand for Greece on record this year, its director of communications, Aage Duenhaupt, said on Sunday.
Goose bumps build for the Webb’s 1st snapshots of the universe
On Tuesday morning, NASA will show off the first pictures and data from the new James Webb Space Telescope. That will bring to an end some 30 years and $10 billion of planning, building, testing and innovating, followed by six months of terror, tension and anticipation.
Corinth Canal busy as ever after reopening
Some 200 crossings through the Corinth Canal were recorded last week, following its reopening on July 4 after substantial landslides over the last couple of years and the completion of the first part of repair works that followed, Corinth Canal SA General Director Georgios Zouglis said over the weekend.