Greece will face widespread industrial actions starting from Wednesday, May 17 with the country’s largest unions, General Confederation of Greek Workers (GSEE) and the Civil Servants’ Confederation (ADEDY) leading numerous social groups and professionals in protests against the new wave of harsh cuts and austerity measures the Greek government plans to pass in parliament. planned on Thursday, May 18.

Turkish navy ships violated Greek national waters without interception from Greek naval forces for 20 minutes around the waters of the island of Agathonisi near Kalymnos in the south Aegean Sea.

Sources from ExxonMobil have stated that a delegation will visit Greece in the next days to sign an agreement with Hellenic Petroleum and France’s Total for initial hydrocarbon surveys in Block 2 in the Ionian Sea.