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28 November 2022

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FINANCE

Inflation clouding 2023 budget

Inflation is at the back of the ministry’s mind in every initiative, and rightly so. Together with the election and the potential difficulties of forming a government, they represent the biggest risks of upsetting economic policy next year.

NEWS

Greek Navtex is a message to Libya

The navigation warning (Navtex) issued by Greece Saturday expanding the area of seismic surveys for oil and natural gas deposits off the coast of Crete was in response to a request by US oil firm ExxonMobil, which has been granted exploration rights, but also serves a geopolitical purpose.

Greece issues Navtex expanding area of seismic surveys south of Crete

Ankara announces Med drilling

NEWS

State hospital workers striking over NHS bill

Greek state hospital workers have announced three days of strike action over a draft bill allowing National Health System (NHS) doctors to practice privately and even use public hospital facilities to treat their private patients.

TOURISM

US tourists are big spenders in Greece

American tourists are proving more than simply worthy substitutes for the Chinese and the Russian visitors in terms of the expenditure they make during their stay in Greece for shopping, data have shown.

NEWS

King Charles, Mitsotakis to discuss royal estate restoration

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who is in London to attend a Greek Investment Conference jointly organized by the Athens Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley, will meet with King Charles III at the Windsor Castle Monday evening.

LATEST NEWS

09:22Erdogan says Turkish, Egyptian ministers to meet in process of building ties

09:16State hospital workers striking over NHS bill

08:58Some changes made to draft surveillance bill

08:07Inflation clouding 2023 budget

07:59Greek Navtex is a message to Libya

07:00From Salamis to Kyiv: 4+1 lessons

04:00Cyprus’ anti-money-laundering efforts

02:35Power consumption declines

20:57King Charles, Mitsotakis to discuss royal estate restoration

17:55Online communities trump nationality, religion

16:22Incentives needed to keep intensive care doctors

15:49Mt Athos car accident leaves one dead

14:45Athens metro Line 4 will help keep cars off the road

13:48Affordable homes for the young

12:45Timing of national elections is pivotal

11:38Witnesses in children’s charity probe are exposed

10:48New tourism campaign focused on sustainability

09:43Locals decry eco-destruction in Syngrou Forest

08:12Honey Festival starts at SEF on Friday

05:51At protests, guns are doing the talking

05:44T-bill sale scheduled for Wednesday

03:01EU approves €3.6 bln Recovery Fund tranche for Greece

02:37Georgiadis lauds household basket

23:35Inside the castle or out?

22:35Museum offers glimpse into history of the Greek Resistance

22:00Laws and sausages

21:31Do miracles happen in Greece?

21:02Time for a reward

20:25Cartoon (26/11/2022)

20:23Varvakeios Symposium | Athens | November 27

18:16SNFCC gears up for the holidays

18:00Man shot in Menidi

17:40Thessaloniki metro station opens to visitors

17:16PM: Domestic violence victims ‘can now speak freely’

16:50Greece, France in joint drills south of Crete

15:03Bypassing the Bosporus

14:45Holiday magic returns to SNFCC on Dec 1

13:33Greece issues Navtex expanding area of seismic surveys south of Crete

12:55Child care institutions come up short

ALL NEWS

From Salamis to Kyiv: 4+1 lessons

ANALYSIS

Laws and sausages

Posting the new draft bill on wiretapping for public consultation without seeking the input of or at least notifying the Authority for Communication Security and Privacy (ADAE) was a major misstep.

OPINIONS

GERARD ROLAND, NIKOLAS NEOS

From Salamis to Kyiv: 4+1 lessons

MARIA KATSOUNAKI

Inside the castle or out?

PASCHOS MANDRAVELIS

Laws and sausages

KOSTAS KALLITSIS

Do miracles happen in Greece?

EDITORIAL

Time for a reward

CARTOON

Ilias Makris25.11.2022

At protests, guns are doing the talking

MIKE MCINTIRE

Across the country, openly carrying a gun in public is no longer just an exercise in self-defense — increasingly it is a soapbox for elevating one’s voice and, just as often, quieting someone else’s.

INTERVIEWS

SINAN CIDDI

Erdogan keeping the army close with Aegean tension

ANDREAS AKARAS

Turkey in the dock over US attack on protesters

BRAD SMITH

Building defenses for cyberwarfare

CIHAT YAYCI

Materializing the ‘Blue Homeland’ doctrine

PODCAST

Is Erdogan planning a wider military operation in Syria?

VIDEO

‘Do no harm’: OB-GYNs weigh the legal impact of abortion bans

As anti-abortion laws take effect across the country, doctors treating patients with high-risk pregnancies are facing difficult decisions – and legal risks – over their standards of care.

NEWS

Erdogan says Turkish, Egyptian ministers to meet in process of building ties

Τurkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in comments broadcast on Sunday that a process of building relations with Egypt will start with ministers of the two countries meeting and that the talks would develop from there.

NEWS

Some changes made to draft surveillance bill

The government has decided to make some changes to the draft bill on surveillance and wiretappings as the result of the public consultation process.

NEWS

Incentives needed to keep intensive care doctors

NEWS

Mt Athos car accident leaves one dead

NEWS

Athens metro Line 4 will help keep cars off the road

NEWS

Timing of national elections is pivotal

ECONOMY

ENERGY

Power consumption declines

The government announced on Friday it will spend another 435 million euros next month to support households and companies facing extremely high electricity rates, but data show Greeks are increasingly saving on energy consumption with tangible results.

ECONOMY

Cyprus’ anti-money-laundering efforts

SOCIAL POLICY

Affordable homes for the young

ECONOMY

New tourism campaign focused on sustainability

ECONOMY

Honey Festival starts at SEF on Friday

ECONOMY

T-bill sale scheduled for Wednesday

ECONOMY

EU approves €3.6 bln Recovery Fund tranche for Greece

SOCIETY

The mysterious ‘frying pan’ of Syros

NAMA 4974, aka the “frying pan with a representation of a ship,” baffled archaeologists when it was first discovered in 1889-1890. What is it? And what was it used for?

Canadian Embassy joins UN campaign for stopping gender-based violence

US consular services to close for Thanksgiving

George Lois, icon of ads and magazine covers, dead at 91

The Germans are coming, for the warm winters

Digital nomads with all the bells and whistles

Goulandris museum researchers find saffron slows Alzheimer’s

SPORTS

BASKETBALL

Home wins for Greens and Reds in Euroleague

Olympiakos and Panathinaikos scored rather comfortable home wins at the end of a busy week in the Euroleague, as the Reds downed Alba Berlin on Thursday and the Greens saw off Villeurbanne on Friday.

BASKETBALL

Reds succumb in Tel Aviv but Greens edge out Virtus

Olympiakos slipped up at Maccabi on Tuesday but remained second in the Euroleague, but Panathinaikos edged out Virtus Biologna in overtime at home.

CULTURE

Museum offers glimpse into history of the Greek Resistance

The house of General Napoleon Zervas (1891-1957), leader of the National Republican Greek League, or EDES, a nationalist guerrilla force that fought the Axis occupation of Greece during World War II, has been converted into a museum offering a glimpse into the history of the Greek Resistance.

WHAT'S ON

Varvakeios Symposium | Athens | November 27

CULTURE

SNFCC gears up for the holidays

CULTURE

Holiday magic returns to SNFCC on Dec 1

WHAT'S ON

The Callas Birthday | Athens | November 26 – December 30

IMAGES

Mitsotakis, Kerry discuss cooperation against climate change

Greek-US cooperation in facing climate change and achieving the goal of net-zero emissions by 2050 was the focus of a meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and US Special Presidential Envoy on Climate John Kerry on the sidelines of the United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, at Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt on Tuesday.