News archive of September 2023

Net energy from renewables and large hydroelectrics in the first eight months of 2023 reached an all-time high of 16,683 gigawatt-hours, according to data from Greece's transmission system operator, ADMIE, processed by The Green Tank.

BELGRADE - Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday he had had an excellent meeting with Chen Wenqing, a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and secretary of the Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission of the CCP Central Committee.

Vucic thanked China for supporting the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Serbia.

EU member Cyprus wants Brussels to offer financial and technical aid to Lebanon to help it cope with an influx of Syrian refugees and keep them from reaching the island, its interior minister said on Wednesday.

This summer it became known that more than 2,000 items were stolen from the British Museum over a long period of time.

BANJSKA - After four days, the road in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija, was reopened to traffic on Wednesday and Pristina's special police allowed entry to the village, a Tanjug reporter on the ground said.

The so-called Kosovo Police said last night it had completed an operation of checking the area.

High levels of gas storage, lower energy prices and new sources of fuel mean Europe is heading into a second winter with scarce Russian gas in a more comfortable position than a year ago.

Day 581 of the invasion of Ukraine. Summary of key events in the last 24 hours:

Over a third of Greece's underground water is of poor quality, according to the 2022 annual report from the Hellenic Survey of Geology & Mineral Exploration (EAGME). 

BELGRADE - Serbian Defence Minister Milos Vucevic said on Wednesday Serbia was quite disappointed with Kfor's reaction during Sunday's events in Banjska, a village in the north of Kosovo-Metohija.

The new leader of the opposition, Stefanos Kasselakis, began his tenure as leader of the left-wing SYRIZA party by making some modest personnel changes that have already resulted in pushback.

Also, Kasselakis failed to persuade his main rival for the party leadership, lawmaker Effie Achtsioglou, to take any leadership role in the party or the parliamentary group.