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Kikilias signs €23.8 million contract for seven new Hellenic Coast Guard patrol boats
The shipping minister highlighted the growing demands facing the Hellenic Coast Guard amid a challenging geopolitical environment

Dendias tells Jordanian ambassador protecting Christian communities in Middle East is a priority for Greece
The Greek defence minister spoke by telephone with Jordan’s ambassador to Greece and offered his condolences to the victims of the attack on St George’s Greek Orthodox Church in Karak

Thessaloniki celebrates its Patron Saint, Saint Demetrius, and the 114th Anniversary of its Liberation
The official doxology is being held at the Church of Saint Demetrius in the presence of the President of the Republic, Konstantinos Tasoulas. The customary official doxology for the dual celebration will also take place, presided over by Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece
Mitsotakis launches party unity drive with regional visits and MP meetings as Turkish-Libyan Memorandum and Karamanlis speech cause headaches
Statements by ND MPs Dimitris Kairidis and Dimitris Kalogeropoulos on the Turkish-Libyan Memorandum have angered the Prime Minister’s Office, while Karamanlis’s intervention and Samaras’s barbs have brought internal party tensions back into focus

Cable survey vessel sails from Naples, due in Heraklion on Tuesday as NAVTEX awaited
The NAVTEX is expected in the first 10 days of November and will provide precise details of how and where the French-flagged survey vessel will operate

Mitsotakis: Single-party majority is the only political way forward – Pizza Fan is the ‘big fish’ we want to catch
The government has “both the ability and the will” to enforce the law everywhere, the prime minister told a public gathering in Vrilissia. He also took aim at Alexis Tsipras, saying he had left Greece with 18% unemployment and islands overwhelmed by migrants

Turkey presses ahead with new NAVTEX over EMC cable linking Saudi Arabia and Greece
Ankara insists that surveys by the KOBI RUEGG are taking place with Turkish approval, while Greece maintains that the area falls within its continental shelf. The dispute comes as another vessel prepares to carry out surveys for the Cyprus-Crete electricity interconnection


