Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is heading to Brussels on Thursday to participate in a crucial EU summit that seeks to adopt joint measures to contain an energy crisis that has already dented the bloc’s economy.
This week is largely seen as crucial for European leaders as they work to make sure rising energy prices and short supplies do not further tank their struggling economies while keeping all 27 members united in their opposition to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Police on the island of Lefkada in western Greece were searching for a man and a woman that went missing on their way to a honey producer’s shop on Wednesday, local press reported.
The French Institute of Athens (ifa.gr) is paying tribute to one of the world’s greatest pioneers in biology, microbiology and chemistry, with an exhibition on the occasion of the bicentenary of his birth.
The legendary star catalog drafted by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus which had been feared lost has been found hidden in a medieval parchment that originated in the library of the Greek Orthodox Monastery of St Catherine in Sinai, Egypt.
A Greek-French treaty to prevent double taxation was approved in its first reading by parties in the Parliament on Wednesday and will head to plenary for final ratification.
A 79-year-old pilot was killed on Wednesday when his single-engine airplane crashed at noon near the highway connecting Athens to the central Greek city of Lamia, in the vicinity of Perneri airport in Thiva.
More than 50 businesses and dozens of homes were damaged during last Saturday’s deadly flood in the area of Iraklio on the island of Crete, according to the data available so far.
The deepening of the bilateral cooperation between Greece and Azerbaijan in the natural gas sector was discussed at Environment and Energy Minister Kostas Skrekas’ meeting on Tuesday in Baku with his Azeri counterpart.
Youth unemployment in Cyprus, which concerns people aged between 15 and 29 years old, rose to 14.2% last year from 13.3% in 2020, remaining above the EU average of 13% in 2021, according to data released by Eurostat, the statistical service of the European Union.