Athens News Agency - Macedonian Press Agency

13/01/2026

Hatzidakis, Tsiaras to meet farmers from Northern Greece on Wednesday.

13/01/2026

Deputy Prime Minister Kostis Hatzidakis and other high-level officials will meet with representatives of crop and stock farmers at 11:30 on Wednesday, following up on the farmers' meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis a day earlier.

13/01/2026

The blackout in the Athens Flight Information Region (FIR), which occurred on Sunday, 4 January, has been attributed to "digital noise" caused by desynchronisation across a range of heterogeneous systems and interfaces leading to the Athens-Macedonia Area Control Centre. According to the experts’ report, this resulted in the inadvertent activation and continuous transmission of a critical number of transmitters, as well as the degradation or interruption of essential telecommunications links.

13/01/2026

Three, not four, are finally the confirmed cases of Greek-owned tankers that were reportedly hit by unknown drones in the Black Sea on Tuesday while they were anchored and waiting to be loaded with crude oil at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) marine terminal off Novorossiysk.

13/01/2026

Today's "very substantive and sincere meeting with representatives of farmers from all of Greece I believe opened a new path for our primary sector," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday after a meeting lasting 3.5 hours at Maximos Mansion.

13/01/2026

The twenty-five representatives of the fourteen agricultural blocs and livestock farmers who took part in the meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, which lasted more than three and a half hours at the Maximos Mansion, stressed that "solutions are found through dialogue, and that is why we are here".

13/01/2026

A meeting between Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and representatives of crop and stock farmers concluded at Maximos Mansion after 3.5 hours of "productive and useful talks," government sources said on Tuesday evening.

13/01/2026

Recent extraordinary reviews of Armed Forces officers for 2026 have reduced the number of colonels and corresponding ranks by 372 across all three branches, sources of the National Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

13/01/2026

Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Minister Yiannis Kefalogiannis will travel to Madrid for a two-day working visit on Wednesday and Thursday. The visit is in the context of Greece and Spain's bilateral cooperation in the Civil Protection and crisis management sectors.

13/01/2026

Minister of Development Takis Theodorikakos met with the Board of Directors of the World Hellenic Inter-Parliamentary Union (WHIU), headed by the Union's president and US Senator Leonidas Raptakis.According to the Ministry, the meeting explored prospects for further investment in energy, infrastructure, supply chains and new technologies, as well as the momentum developing internationally around data centres.

13/01/2026

Minister of Environment and Energy Stavros Papastavrou participated on Tuesday in the Future Minerals Forum, organised by Saudi Arabia, entitled "Dawn of a Global Cause: Minerals for a New Era of Development."

13/01/2026

Meeting with farmers "is an opportunity to review the way in which the government has responded to several of the sector's demands," Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday at the start of a meeting with representatives of the agricultural sector at Maximos Mansion.

PM Mitsotakis with farmers