President Prokopis Pavlopoulos noted the need to defend the welfare state by “raising a wall to intercept the extreme inequalities that directly threaten social cohesion”, during a speech at the state dinner he hosted to honour visiting U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday evening. 

Starting out by addressing reporters in Greek, U.S. President Barack Obama on Tuesday recognised the very difficult times faced by ordinary Greek men and women during the long years of crisis, in joint statements with Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in Athens.

Public Power Corporation Renewables, a subsidiary of PPC, plans to build 12 new windpower parks with a total power of 31.8 MW in Sitia (Crete), Evia and Aegean islands.