The Parliamentary Budget Office spoke on Thursday in favor of targeted support measures as opposed to horizontal ones, with its head Franciscos Koutentakis clarifying once again he does not consider a reduction of the Special Consumption Tax on fuel appropriate.
Last week the EU finalized a natural gas agreement with Israel and Egypt, building on what’s been a busy month when it comes to energy in the Eastern Mediterranean.
A 66-year-old taxi driver in the town of Iraklio, Crete, was arrested early Friday morning after injuring two police officers who were conducting checks at the city’s airport taxi stand.
Amid spiraling speculation about imminent elections over recent days, three government officials on Thursday sought to play down any certainty.
A 53-year-old man wanted by police for allegedly stabbing his wife to death in their apartment in central Athens early Friday morning was injured when he drove his car off a cliff on the coastal Athens-Sounio road while trying to flee.
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou visited the former Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp on Thursday.
Israel on Thursday dispatched two water-dropping aircraft to help battle a large wildfire that has scorched at least 10,000 acres (4,000 hectares) of forest in the foothills of the Pentadaktylos mountain range in the Turkish-occupied north of ethnically divided Cyprus.
A recent decision by the so-called “Advisory Committee for the Turkish Minority in Western Thrace” to expel two of its most popular members reveals the role and clout within the bowels of the Muslim minority of Thrace of extra-institutional mechanisms that act on the orders of the Turkish Consulate in Komotini.
Athens is fully prepared to take on and refute Ankara’s claims and allegations at the forthcoming NATO summit in Madrid next week, with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis conveying the message from Brussels where the European Council is meeting that it has the backing of the European Union.
More than half (53.4%) of taxpayers with debts to the tax authorities in Greece do not owe any more than 500 euros each, and therefore the tax office cannot take forced collection measures against them, such as the confiscation of bank deposits.