Environment and Energy Minister Thodoros Skylakakis and Deputy Environment and Energy Minister Alexandra Sdoukou signed on Friday a ministerial decision promoting self-consumption of energy, either individually by all citizens and businesses of the country or jointly (by apartment buildings).

Consumers in Athens, as well as Patra and Agrinio, are left aghast by the emergence of brick-and-mortar shops supposedly by Shein.

Government spokesperson Pavlos Marinakis commented on Thursday on the increase in declared overtime in the Ergani system after the implementation of the digital labor card, saying this had risen in the first seven months of 2024 compared with the previous year.

The armed forces’ staffing problems are urgent and the incentives being planned by the government are positive.

Doctors of the National Health Service (ESY) who are posted in remote areas and places with problems will be able to earn up to 7,200 euros gross per year in addition to their basic salary, according to a joint decision signed by the ministers of health and finance, Adonis Georgiadis and Kostis Hatzidakis. 

The Athens Exchange (ATHEX) general index closed at 1,443.13 points.

This is not the first great turnaround in policy by Recep Tayyip Erdogan. However, the exchange of niceties with the Egyptian president whom, until recently, he was calling a “putschist” and “dictator,” has special significance.

A Greek and Cypriot series dealing with Turkey’s invasion of Cyprus in 1974 will not be broadcast outside Greece on Netflix following lobbying from Turkey, Turkey’s TV watchdog has claimed.

National Bank and Alpha Bank are reducing commissions in selected categories of transactions.

The governments of Greece and Cyprus will meet on September 10 in a last-ditch attempt to salvage a multi-billion euro electric cable project, which if completed, would be the world’s longest linking Europe to the Middle East.

The Athens Conservatoire, now completed, has become a destination not only for the city’s music and dance community but also for the broader cultural, business and political ecosystem of Athens.

The Labor Ministry will focus its efforts to increase employment on the large pool of more than 4.2 million people who are outside the labor force.

In what some EU leaders at the time called a hijacking, the three used a false bomb threat to divert the plane which was traveling from Athens, Greece, to Vilnius, Lithuania on May 23, 2021.

Like ghosts from the past, sunken villages at the bottom of water reservoirs are not meant to be seen. But the ruins of Kallio in the mountains of central Greece are becoming very much visible – and they have a warning to deliver.

The Ministry of National Defense, in partnership with the Ministry of Education, is looking for ways to make a career in the armed forces more appealing to young people who fill out applications for national university entry exams.

A 64-year-old man has appeared in court in Thessaloniki on charges of violating personal data after he was caught secretly filming a 18-year-old female fellow passenger with a cell phone on a train.

Police in Mykonos and Athens have arrested four people on suspicion of membership of a gang that operated protection rackets in the two locations.

Athens taxi drivers will pull off the capital’s streets on Monday, their union, SATA said.

The summer of 2024 was the hottest on record in Greece, according to the preliminary data from the Meteo weather service of the National Observatory of Athens.