Varvitsiotis

Varvitsiotis spoke at a panel on “The Eastern Mediterranean 3 + 1 Corporate Scheme: A View from National Parliaments”

The new president of main opposition party New Democracy Kyriakos Mitsotakis is planning on carrying out a number of changes...

New Democracy MPs Giorgos Koumoutsakos and Miltiadis Varvitsiotis were assaulted by Golden Dawn supporters outside...

The president of New Democracy Antonis Samaras has decided to call an informal Political Council, in an effort to overcome the...

The Norman Atlantic will be arriving in the port of Brindisi today, where it will be thoroughly search in order to find any of the...

The Italian authorities have raised the number of people who died in the Norman Atlantic tragedy to 13, after recovering the...

The huge operation to rescue the 422 passengers and 56 crew members that began on Sunday has concluded and five people are...

The Minister of Shipping Miltiadis Varvitsiotis has estimated that the negotiations with the creditors will not be complete by the...

The total contribution of coastal shipping to the Greek economy in 2013 has been estimated to be about 11.8 billion euros, or about...

The Coast Guard has issued a statement, detailing how it rescued a total of 42 migrants in two rescue operations which took...

The Minister of Shipping and the Aegean Miltiadis Varvitsiotis spoke to Vima 99.5 FM regarding the Coast Guard’s recent operations...

Following the Coast Guard and Police operation from last week that resulted in the confiscation a ton of heroin from a warehouse...

The Coast Guard announced today that it confiscated 1,133.420 kilos of heroin as a result of a combined operation that took place in Attica...

The candidate of the European People’s Party for the presidency of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker is scheduled to visit the Ministry of Shipping...

The Ministries of Shipping and Education are planning a series of meetings in order to come up with a plan to overcome the difficulties and establish private...

The privatization process for the Port Authority of Piraeus (OLP) will be discussed today in Parliament, with the MPs expected to formally announce the initiation of the sale via TAIPED, while the nationwide federation of dockyard employees OMYLE goes on a 24-hour strike in protest. The Minister of Shipping Miltiadis Varvitsiotis is expected to appear […]

The Minister of Shipping Miltiadis Varvitsiotis met with his South Korean counterpart Yoon Sang-jick, with whom he discussed the possibility of Greek shipping companies and South Korean shipyards cooperating. At the meeting, the Greek and South Korean Ministers had the opportunity to exchange ideas on further expanding the business ties between the two countries, including […]

The appeal trial over the sinking of the Sea Diamond has been postponed to the 13th of February so that the court can hear all remaining cases in its backlogs and to be updated on the case file. In the July 2013 trial, nine of the thirteen defendants who received suspended sentences launched an appeal. […]

The recent developments in immigration are expected to be discussed at the upcoming session of the Parliamentary Committee on Production and Trade which will take place at 2pm on Wednesday the 29th of January. The Minister of Shipping and the Aegean Miltiadis Varvitsiotis took the initiative, after discussing the matter with the President of parliament […]

According to the sixth study of the Hellenic Center for Marine Research (ELKETHE), the shipwreck of the Sea Diamond cruise ship has not had any obvious impact on the marine ecosystem of Santorini. The study shows that the presence of heavy metals in the water is similar to the concentrations found in the open sea, […]