Inflation is breaking record after record in Greece, with the wave of price hikes growing even larger last month, taking the European Union harmonized index to 5.5%, the bloc’s statistical service, Eurostat, announced on Wednesday.
Mobile its of the National Organization for Public Health (EODY) started vaccinating the homeless against Covid-19 in the port city of Piraeus on Wednesday.
With his government still reeling from the fallout from last week’s snowstorm and a toxic debate in Parliament, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sought on Wednesday to cap a difficult run of events on a more positive note, announcing the permanent reduction of the much derided ENFIA property tax by 13%.
Turkish warplanes struck suspected Kurdish positions in Iraq and Syria early on Wednesday in a new aerial offensive. The Kurdish-led administration in northeast Syria condemned Turkey’s airstrikes and urged the international community to intervene to stop what it called “Turkish aggression.”
Former president Christos Sartzetakis passed away early Thursday morning in a hospital in Athens. He was 93.
The main suspect in the murder of a 19-year-old man in Thessaloniki last Tuesday will appear before a prosecutor on Thursday.
Apart from the traffic and power disruptions, the snowstorm that swept through Attica last week also took a toll on thousands of trees.
An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 shook the small island nation of Cyprus on Wednesday night, the country’s Geological Survey Department said. No damage or injuries were immediately reported. The tremor struck at 11:04 p.m. and its epicenter was 53 kilometers (33 miles) off the island’s western coast at a depth of 24…
Hilton Athens, the capital’s landmark hotel, may have just closed for an overhaul and rebrand into Conrad and Waldorf Astoria, but the Hilton Group is developing two more units in Attica.
Police investigating the murder of 19-year-old Alkis Kampanos in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, in the early hours of Tuesday discovered a veritable hooligans’ arsenal at a soccer team fan club suspected of being linked to the perpetrators.