“Running whets your appetite for life,” amateur runner Stelios Prassas tells Kathimerini. At the age of 90, Prassas became the oldest person to run the 42.195 km Athens Marathon on November 14, finishing in 8 hours.
Leading British entrepreneurs and investment firms expressed their considerable interest for investing in specific projects in Greece during a meeting with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis at the residence of the Greek ambassador in London last Wednesday, as well as in other contacts made during the Greek premier’s visit to the UK.
Energy regulators and administrators are on full alert regarding the state of the country’s energy system at the beginning of winter, given the extension of the rates crisis in Europe, with growing concerns over sufficiency.
Corporate turnover in 2021 has almost matched that of 2019, as the third quarter of the year proved decisive for Greece’s economic rebound.
A 35-year-old man was arrested after robbing a gas station in the district of Stavroupoli, in Thessaloniki, early Monday morning.
Greece no longer has the highest unemployment rate among EU members; at 13.2% at the end of August it is second to Spain’s 14%, although almost double the European Union average.
The number of registered unemployed people in October came to 987,763, an increase of 4.27% from September, but a drop of 5.36% from October 2020, the Manpower Organization (OAED) said on Friday.
A total 1.2 million appointments have been booked for the third dose of a Covid-19 vaccine and 444,000 for the first one in the last 30 days, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Monday, pointing to a rebound in the inoculation drive after a long slump in the past few months.