02/07/2022 - 08:14:01
Greece's national railways operator TrainOSE was renamed "Hellenic Train" at a presentation attended by Greek and Italian ministers held in Athens on Friday. The new name and logo were presented by Greek Transport Minister Kostas Karamanlis, alongside Finance Minister Christos Staikouras and Italy's Finance Minister Daniele Franco. Also present were Hellenic Train's parent company 'Trenitalia' President Luigi Corradi, President Luigi Ferraris of the subsidiary company Ferrovie Dello Stato Italiane (which owns TrainOSE), and Hellenic Train's president Dario Lo Bosko and its CEO Maurizio Capotorto. Italy's Transport Minister Εbrick Giovannini also addressed the presentation remotely, while Italian Ambassador to Greece ...
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A prominent figure in Greek publishing and former chairman of the Lambrakis Press Group (DOL), Stavros Psycharis has died at the age of 77, his son Andreas announced in a social media post on Tuesday.According to reports, Psycharis died in his sleep in his home in the east Attica resort town of Porto Rafti, where he had retired to in recent years due to ill health.
Greece secured two important exemptions in the agreement on gas consumption cuts approved on Tuesday during an extraordinary meeting of the EU Council of Energy Ministers. These deviations do not eliminate the negative consequences of the agreement on Greece’s energy system and economy, but they do limit them significantly and leave room for effective management.
"We will stand at the side of every Greek man and woman until this storm passes, until we emerge victorious once again. All together!" Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement concerning the activation on Friday of the Power Pass payments to consumers, which offset a part of the increase in their electricity bills since last December.
"We will stand at the side of every Greek man and woman until this storm passes, until we emerge victorious once again. All together!" Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in a statement concerning the activation on Friday of the Power Pass payments to consumers, which offset a part of the increase in their electricity bills since last December.
"After the Power Pass deceit, with working class households seeing mere crumbs in their bank accounts in comparison with what they paid, comes today's even greater mockery from Mr Mitsotakis, who speaks of relief and correcting injustices," the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said on Friday, regarding statements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about the Power Pass payments.
"After the Power Pass deceit, with working class households seeing mere crumbs in their bank accounts in comparison with what they paid, comes today's even greater mockery from Mr Mitsotakis, who speaks of relief and correcting injustices," the Communist Party of Greece (KKE) said on Friday, regarding statements made by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis about the Power Pass payments.
Mostly fair weather and northerly winds are forecast for Saturday. Wind velocity will reach 7 on the Beaufort scale.
Greece on Friday sent two Canadair firefighting aircraft to assist France in the battle against wildfires ravaging the country, in response to a request made by French authorities via the European Civil Protection Mechanism and rescEU. The wildfires are mostly raging in the northwest of France, where 6,000 people have been evacuated from their homes as a precaution.