Alternate Finance Minister Thodoros Skylakakis said on Thursday the government has issued its initial approval for business loans offered through the Recovery and Resilience Fund amounting to 1.9 billion euros.
Cyprus’ international investment position (IIP) recorded a small improvement at the end of first quarter of 2022, while its net external debt was down 2.23 billion euros, despite the deterioration in the current account balance.
Greece’s national railway operator TrainOSE was renamed Hellenic Train at a presentation attended by Greek and Italian ministers in Athens on Friday.
Our neighbor Bulgaria is languishing in an endless political crisis, from which the way out is not quite visible. A few days ago, the pro-Western coalition government of Kiril Petkov collapsed, taking with it his vision of reform.
It has been 100 years since my father and his family left the beautiful Bosporus in Constantinople. No one likes to suddenly leave their home, but they had been included in the “exchange of populations,” as it was quaintly called, between Turkey and Greece.
Turkey’s media watchdog has banned access to the Turkish services of US public service broadcaster Voice of America and German broadcaster Deutsche Welle, prompting complaints of censorship.
The Mixed Jury Court of Athens unanimously accepted the request to conditionally release the well-known actor Petros Filippidis, who is on trial on rape and attempted rape charges, from temporary detention.
Bulgaria’s president on Friday handed the mandate to try and form a new government to the country’s finance minister as the Russian ambassador to Sofia threatened that Moscow would fully sever diplomatic ties.
Twelve artists from different parts of the world comment on technology’s ability to erase cultural boundaries and efforts to build walls to protect cultures against its onslaught.
Covid-19 remains an insidious and dangerous disease. We all want to leave it behind for the reason that it has ruined our lives over the two-plus years of the pandemic.