Athens-Macedonia

A helicopter has crashed into the sea off the coast of the Saronic island of Poros, reports said Tuesday.
According to Greece's state-run Athens-Macedonia news agency, the aircraft, said to be a privately-owned Agusta 109 helicopter, tangled in power lines before plummeting into the water.

A package of benefits announced in recent weeks are part of a broader plan and signal that Greece is turning a page following its exit from international bailouts last year, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos has told the Athens-Macedonia news agency, adding that criticism of the handouts by some foreign officials has been "severe." 

Terna Energy SA, a Greece-based company engaged in the renewable energy sector, has signed a deal to acquire a 200-MW wind farm in Texas, US.
The total value of the investment is around 275 million euros, the company said.
Terna, which already operates wind farms in Elmore County, Idaho and Scurry County, Texas, has plans for another project in Texas.

Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Katerina Papacosta has come under fire for comparing the anarchist stronghold of Exarchia, where residents are protesting rising lawlessness,to the Parisian district of Montmartre.

Deputy Citizens' Protection Minister Katerina Papakosta has come under fire for comparing the anarchist stronghold of Exarchia, where residents are protesting rising lawlessness,to the Parisian district of Montmartre.

Damjan Mancevski, North Macedonia's Minister of Information Society and Administration of the Government, hailed Tuesday's scheduled visit to Skopje by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, saying it paved the way for closer economic cooperation between the two countries.

A ministerial decree approving the environmental reports for hydrocarbon exploration and exploitation west and southwest of Greece's island of Crete was signed on Tuesday by the Environment Ministry.

Restaurants and bars in Patra, western Greece, are to remain closed on Monday as part of a 24-hour strike announced by the union of business owners in protest at excessive taxation, the Athens-Macedonia news agency reported.

In comments to the agency, Spyros Stergiou, the head of the association, said that all business owners would be joining the protest action.

Members of the union representing food delivery workers in Thessaloniki participated in a motorcade in the northern port city on Monday to protest the latest in a string of incidents involving physical and verbal abuse of staff by employers.

Unionists representing farmers in Nikaia, central Greece, are to meet on Monday to discuss whether to scale up their protest action, which has involved road blockades over the past week, if the government does not satisfy their demands for tax breaks and other benefits.