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Trans Atlantic Gas Pipeline Construction to Start Soon in Kastoria

The construction of the Trans Adriatic gas Pipeline (TAP) in the Kastoria region of northwestern Greece, is expected to start in coming months, according to the mayor of Kastoria, Anestis Angelis. The mayor pointed out that the construction will last...

Trans-Adriatic Natural Gas Pipeline Nearly Complete

Katerina Papalexandri, the manager of the Greek section of the new pipeline, announced on Monday that the construction of the Trans-Adriatic Pipeline is nearly complete. Speaking with the state-run AMNA news agency, Papalexandri said that the excavations to lay the pipe...

Greece Pivotal to Plans for Natural Gas Pipeline

A strategy by successive governments to turn Greece into an energy hub is moving into form with the promotion of a series of investment plans focusing on the country. The TAP (Trans Atlantic Pipeline), IGB (Greek-Bulgarian pipeline), East Med...

Greece, Turkey, and Bulgaria Discuss Gas Pipelines Project

Greek Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Change Yiorgos Papakonstantinou had meetings with Turkish Energy and Natural Resources Minister Taner Yildiz and Bulgarian Energy Minister Traicho Traikov within the 3rd Black Sea Energy and Economic Forum (BSEEF), organized by...

Democrats in Greece Look to Biden to Stop Erdogan

Holding that President Trump's diplomacy in the Eastern Mediterranean has failed the expectations of Americans in Greece, the Greek department of Democrats Abroad are expressing the hope that a Biden win could finally make headway toward satisfying solutions in...

Pompeo Solidifies US-Greek Relations in Visit with Foreign Minister Dendias

Greece and the United States reaffirmed their excellent bilateral relations and mutual desire to further deepen cooperation in a series of areas on Monday, in a meeting of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Greek Foreign Minister Dendias. The areas...

USA and Greece Issue Joint Statement on Strategic Dialogue, Expanding Areas of Cooperation

JOINT STATEMENT The Governments of the United States and Greece held the second United States-Greece Strategic Dialogue in Athens, Greece, on October 7, 2019. Greek Minister of Foreign Affairs Nikos Dendias and US Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo together launched...

FT: Tsipras Will Not Find Salvation in Russia

The meeting between Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in Moscow will not resolve Greece's bailout problem, says a Financial Times report. There is speculation that after the impasse in negotiations between Greece and...

A Complete Guide to Scuba Diving in Greece

by NEO magazine/Gregory Sioris* A few years ago while sitting at a cafe on Manhattan’s East Side I was speaking with another patron born in Greece. During our conversation I revealed that I had often gone scuba diving in Greece....

Greece Has Role in Balkans Security

With conflicts in the Middle East and Egypt not far from its borders, intelligence agents in the region – including Greece – need to keep close links of co-operation to ferret out trouble and identify flashpoints, a security conference...