NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said that talks with Greece and Turkey on “establishing an enhanced deconflicting mechanism” in the Eastern Mediterranean are under way but have not reached an agreement.
The latest surge in the coronavirus pandemic in Greece is showing a tendency toward stabilization but deaths and intensive care hospitalizations, especially among young people, are on the rise, the country’s Covid Observatory said in its 13th report on Friday.
As firefighters battled large blazes on the Ionian island of Cephalonia and in the Peloponnese Thursday, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias warned that Friday will be the riskiest day for wildfires so far this summer.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg on Friday said that talks with Greece and Turkey on “establishing an enhanced deconflicting mechanism” in the Eastern Mediterranean are under way but have not reached an agreement.
The trial into the alleged criminal activities of the Golden Dawn party came to a close on Friday, with the president of the bench saying that the court would reconvene on October 7 so that judges can deliver their verdicts.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s initiative on Thursday comprised a set of “technical” proposals to avert a military incident in the Eastern Mediterranean and not an agreement between Athens and Ankara to resume talks, the Greek government spokesman said on Friday.
Turkey “is undermining efforts for dialogue with violations of international law and our sovereign rights,” Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou said on Friday.
Greece’s biggest power utility Public Power Corporation (PPC) said on Thursday its second-quarter core profit more than tripled from a year earlier, helped by a plunge in oil and gas prices this year.
The French and the Poles constituted the two big surprises of the summer for Greek destinations, according to provisional data on foreign tourist arrivals in Greece.
The Greek bourse shook off the unprecedented 15.2% annual contraction of the economy in the second quarter announced on Thursday, as it had been largely priced in.
In mid-September property owners will find out their Single Property Tax (ENFIA) dues for this year, with the first installment set for payment by the end of this month.
Five consortiums submitted offers on Wednesday in the 515-million-euro tender for the creation of an integrated online system for security documents.
The Greek political class kept the wheel steadily pointing West, even after the change of government of 1967, which was the most anti-Western period in our history.
The Anargyrios and Korgialenios School of Spetses (AKSS) has announced its intention of launching a 10-day yearly international music academy starting in summer 2021.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has decided to build the first ground station of the ambitious ARTES ScyLight program next to the Helmos Observatory in Achaia, the National Observatory of Athens’ largest research center.
August turned out to be very difficult for Greece, which is ironic given that’s it is normally a month of rest and relaxation. The rapid rise of new coronavirus infections caused widespread and intense concern.
An alien species of fish has been recorded in Greek seas, according to the Archipelagos Institute of Marine Conservation. The Cheilodipterus novemstriatus (the Indian Ocean twospot cardinalfish) was spotted several times during August.
Twenty-two new parking spaces for vehicles of people with disabilities are being created in central parts of the Greek capital, according to the Municipality of Athens.
The Greek national team began its UEFA Nations League campaign with a goalless draw against Slovenia in Ljubljana on Thursday.
The Olympic flame is going on display in Tokyo, just a short walk from the new National Stadium where it was supposed to be burning a month ago.
Serena Williams was sent spinning out of the Western and Southern Open by Maria Sakkari on Tuesday after the Greek rallied from a set down to beat the 23-times Grand Slam champion 5-7 7-6(5) 6-1 and reach the quarter-finals.
“The Last Monk of the Strofades,” on show through September 27 at the Benaki’s Museum of Greek Culture, presents the product of a collaboration between American photographer Robert A. McCabe and Greek journalist Katerina Lymperopoulou on the fortified monastery on Stamfani, the larger of the two Strofades islets off Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea, which was shut down in 2018 due to earthquake damage.
