Athens-Macedonian News Agency

Greece has a solid and reliable recovery and resilience plan that can meaningfully strengthen it in the face of future challenges, Siegfried Muresan, chairman of the European Union's Working Group for Budget and Structural Policies, said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

Two people have been confirmed dead and one is presumed missing after a boat carrying at least 60 migrants from Turkey went down off Lesvos in the eastern Aegean on Monday night, the Athens-Macedonian News Agency reported the coast guard as saying on Wednesday.

According to the report, police on the island found 57 undocumented migrants who survived the wreck and swam to shore.

Climate change is effectively reducing the year's seasons to two, according to the head of the Greek Meteorological Society.

"We have observed the expansion of summer into the fall, while winter - especially the winter of 2023 - is showing higher temperatures, mainly because of climate change," Panagiotis Nastos told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

TUI tourism group's head of communications, Aage Dunhaupt, has told the Athens-Macedonian News Agency that Crete, Rhodes and Kos remain top destinations for the German customers of the company, which this year is starting the summer season in Greece earlier than in any other year.

Most of the fines imposed by the Development Ministry for profiteering have already ended up in the public coffers, while, according to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency, new findings from the price control on baby formula seem to be leading to new high fines.

TUI tourism group's head of communications, Aage Dunhaupt, has said he expects Greece to be visited by a record number of tourists from Germany in 2024, adding that the islands of Crete, Rhodes, and Kos remain the top destinations for the company's customers.

I am going through articles from various European newspapers discussing the Greek economy and the accomplishments of this nation and its people in recent years. One publication that particularly caught my attention was an article in Germany's mass-selling Bild newspaper.

"It appears that the forecast for the turnover of the retail market in December - that it will exceed last year's 3.83 billion euros and peak at above €4 billion - is going to prove accurate, while the consumers' preferences regarding gifts remained the same, with clothing and footwear in first place, followed by gift items, toys and cosmetics," the president of the Piraeus Chamber of Commerce

Transport and Infrastructure Minister Christos Staikouras emphasized the importance of a project to build a new branch of the Proastiakos suburban railway in West Attica, from Ano Liosia to Megara, in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

The specially designed tanker of Gastrade, the offshore natural gas storage and regasification unit - about 300 meters long - which was converted into an FSRU at the Keppel shipyard in Singapore, sailed into the berth of Alexandroupoli port on Sunday.