Theodoros Skylakakis

The Foreign Ministry opted for a mild response Wednesday to Turkish allegations that Greece is undermining the climate of relatively good relations, but officials increasingly believe that the Turkish government, partly due to domestic political pressure, may opt, at a time of its own choosing, to return to the period of high tension that prevailed from 2020 to 2023.

The importance of the second power grid connection between Greece and Bulgaria for the Southeast European electricity market was highlighted at the project's formal inauguration on Friday, during the ministerial meeting of the Central and Southeastern Europe Energy Connectivity (CESEC) group.

Environment and Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis announced the reading of meters for electricity consumption every month for all categories of meters by the Hellenic Electricity Distribution Network Operator (DEDDIE) in an interview with Antenna TV on Thursday.

Environment and Energy Minister Theodoros Skylakakis announced a series of new measures for the reduction of electricity rates while speaking at an Institute of Energy for Southeast Europe (IENE) conference on Tuesday.

After jointly attending the humanitarian conference convened by French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Cypriot President Nikos Christodoulides returned to Athens for the inaugural Greece-Cyprus High-Level Cooperation Council. The Council is scheduled to commence at 12 p.m., with joint press statements to follow.

In the effort to tackle power theft, the government has announced that businesses that steal electricity face temporary or permanent shutdown while electricians who make illegal connections will lose their license. It will also crack down on so-called "strategic defaulters," defined as consumers who have changed providers at least twice in a period of five years while having unpaid debts. 

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will chair a meeting on Tuesday morning to assess the scale of the destruction by the hundreds of wildfires that have ravaged Greece and discuss the restoration of forests, mainly in the northeastern region of Evros and Mount Parnitha in Attica, the areas that suffered the worst.

WWF Greece has brought attention to the critical environmental challenges that Greece's new conservative government must confront. They addressed letters to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and the new Environment Minister Theodoros Skylakakis, emphasizing the urgency of preserving natural ecosystems and climate stability over the next four years. 

The good news is that a public discussion has started on how much the measures and benefits being announced by the political parties if they win the elections are going to cost. That said, the discussion tends to be limited to the old question: Where will the money come from?

The government has submitted a third request to the European Commission for disbursement of funds from the Recovery and Resilience Fund (RRF) worth 1.72 billion euros.

The request was submitted by Alternate Finance Minister Theodoros Skylakakis, who is responsible for the implementation of the Greece 2.0 national development plan.