The current state and the prospects of the shipping industry, the latest technological advances in the shipbuilding sector and the opportunities for commercial and financial cooperation between Greece and Korea in the maritime sector were among the main topics discussed at the 2016 Korean-Hellenic Maritime Cooperation Forum that took place at the Sofitel Athens Airport hotel in Athens on Wednesday.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will visit Lesvos on June 18 to meet with migrants, asylum seekers and the volunteers who support them.

Greece needs to adopt a “second generation” of reforms as the policy mix followed during the crisis didn’t favour economic growth, Finance Minister Euclid Tsakalotos said on Thursday during a debate in a panel on structural reforms, at the Brussels Economic Forum.