"The tension between Turkey and Cyprus for raw materials in the eastern Mediterranean is escalating," the German newspaper Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) observes in a report from Turkey, referring to the "arrival of ExxonMobile's Stena Icemax drilling machine at plot 10, 150 km southwest of the divided island."

The prospects for joint development and cooperation with the Balkan countries are "the prospects of the future" for reorganising production in northern Greece and Thessaloniki, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Thursday.

Fifteen statues made by the Chinese artist Xu Hongfei will decorate Pier I of Thessaloniki port between December 17 and December 24, as part of Culture Week and a worldwide tour of the artist's sculpture exhibition, which will begin in Thessaloniki.

The Prespes Agreement will go forward and history will be very kind to Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and FYROM Prime Minister Zoran Zaev, said U.S. Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt, speaking at the Thessaloniki Summit 2018.