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The tender for the Andreas Lentakis Government Park project will begin in the first quarter of the year, at the facilities of now-defunct Pyrkal plant in the Municipality of Dafni-Ymittos, southern Athens, where nine ministries are planned to relocate.

As part of the moves to strengthen the European defense industry, based on the increased need for defense equipment resulting from the war in Ukraine, Hellenic Defense Systems (EAS) will, sources say, receive €60-80 million in funding from the European Defense Fund to increase production of 155mm projectiles.

The strategic collaboration of Greece's Hellenic Defense Systems (EAS) and Germany's Ηeckler & Koch (ΗΚ) was presented at an event held on Thursday.

Greek Defense Ministry Nikos Panagiotopoulos on Thursday stressed the government's commitment to boosting the country's flagging defense industry.

Greece's state assets fund appointed Polychronis Griveas and Elias Athanasiou as the new president and CEO, respectively, of troubled state-owned Hellenic Post (ELTA), during Thursday's general meeting.

Griveas previously headed the management of Astir Palace Vouliagmeni and Athanasiou was CEO of Enterprise Greece, the state-owned body that promotes Greek exports.

An Athens prosecutor on Tuesday ordered an emergency probe into the causes of a fire at a recycling plant in Aspropyrgos, southwest of Athens, which covered the Greek capital and the port city of Piraeus in noxious fumes from melting plastic and other packaging material for the fourth day on Tuesday.

Greece’s troubled state-controlled Hellenic Defense Systems (EAS) received a boost Thursday when it signed an 18.5-million-euro agreement to supply 40mm ammunition for the Greek military’s Apache helicopters.