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A 26-year-old fifth-generation fisherman from the Greek port city of Piraeus has been named Europe's Young Champion of the Earth by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), a prestigious award that also provides seed funding and mentorship to promising environmentalists around the world.

Greece ranks 56th in the world in terms of average internet speed, according to WebsiteToolTester data published in the Daily Mail.

The average real download speed of files in Greece is 13.41 Mbps, while Taiwan tops the list with 85.2 Mbps.

Freezer and glass bottle and jar manufacturer Frigoglass saw its sales rise 14.2 percent in the second quarter of 2019, to 162.69 million, up from 142.44 million in the same period in 2018.
The growth allowed it to get into the black, with a net profit of 8.77 million, compared to an 836,000-euro loss in the same period last year.

Turkey's Agriculture and Forestry Ministry has carried out ghost net cleanups in seas in the last five years, removing 450,000 square meters of abandoned fishing nets claiming the lives of many marine creatures.

The average speed of internet connections in Greece has increased since last year but is still well below what is advertised, data from the Telecommunications and Post Commission (EETT) have shown.

SOFIA (Bulgaria), July 25 (SeeNews) - Bulgarian car battery manufacturer Monbat [BUL:5MB] said on Wednesday its consolidated pre-tax profit fell by 75.3% year-on-year to 3.5 million levs ($2.1 million/1.8 million euro) in the first half of 2018.

Average download and upload speeds in Romania via landline internet connections increased by 18pct in 2017 compared with the previous year, according to statistics released on Tuesday by the National Authority for Communications Administration and Regulation (ANCOM) based on tests conducted on Netograf.ro - the ANCOM application for testing Internet service quality.

BELGRADE - The signature of an agreement between the Serbian government and the Chinese company Huawei to build a new, faster internet network will help accelerate the development of the internet infrastructure in Serbia, the credit rating agency Dun & Bradstreet said in its June report.

Rasim Ljajic announced on Wednesday a plan to provide "every citizen" in Serbia with internet connections of a minimum 30 megabits per second.

The minister of trade and telecommunications, who is also one of Serbia's deputy prime ministers, added that "at least 50 percent of all households" will have 100 mbps download speeds.

The deployment of next-generation access (NGA) networks is beginning in Greece for fixed-line services.