News archive of May 2024

The president of the Republic of Cyprus, Nikos Christodoulides, and the emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, on Tuesday expressed their mutual commitment to enhancing bilateral relations during the emir's first official visit to Cyprus.

Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Christos Staikouras outlined the significant infrastructure projects under way in the regional unit of Evros during a press conference in Alexandroupoli, on Tuesday.

This event was part of his tour in the region of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace.

This may sound a bit weird, but when I think about my adolescent years, I sometimes associate them with the faint smell of sewage.

You see, when I was in high school, my family lived on the South Shore of Long Island, where few homes had sewer connections. Most had septic tanks, and there always seemed to be an overflowing tank somewhere upwind.

The Greek stock market showed on Tuesday the phenomenon described in bourse jargon as "sell in May and go away," with stocks suffering losses, turnover remaining below the 100-million-euro mark for a second day in row, and only Coca-Cola HBC, which is less affected by domestic trends, containing the losses of the main and the blue chip index.

The facts are known. Some employees who are also trade unionists intervened to shut down the server at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens last February as an act of solidarity with students who occupied faculties, preventing students from completing online examinations. 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, met in Maximos Mansion on Tuesday with a delegation of the Chicago Council of Global Affairs, headed by President Ivo Daalder and Hellenic American Leadership Council Executive Director Endy Zemenides.

At a time when demand for programmers and specialists in the IT sector is causing a headache for several foreign companies, Greece still does not employ many workers in this sector.

George Provopoulos, a former Governor of the Bank of Greece, died Tuesday. He was 74.

The cause was cancer, Greek media reported.

June's European Parliament elections could see a low turnout, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has warned.

"The risk of abstention is real, especially as the European elections are being held at the same time as national or local elections," he said, in an interview with STAR TV.

Former US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said he hopes that Turkey will revise its decision to convert the Chora church from a museum into a mosque.