A trilateral intergovernmental agreement on the planning of the EastMed natural gas pipeline will be signed by Greece, Israel and Cyprus within 2017, the energy ministers of all three countries decided during a meeting held in Thessaloniki on Thursday.
Four hundred and eighty two buildings in Lesvos out of 854 inspected so far been declared uninhabitable by teams of civil engineers from the Infrastructure ministry who are visiting villages to record the damages caused by Monday?s strong earthquake that resulted in one dead and several injured.
Greek Alternate Minister of Health Pavlos Polakis received a suspended 10-month prison sentence for a case regarding the illegal construction of a jetty. Mr. Polakis had been charged in 2011 with building a jetty without a proper permit from the competent authorities in the municipality of Sfakia, Crete when he was acting Mayor.