Budget is €2.42 bln better off due to property tax, VAT
The Single Property Tax (ENFIA) and value-added tax (VAT) sent budget takings soaring in January-May, according to data the State General Accounting Office published on Monday.
Staikouras meets with Vestager
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras spoke about “great, complex and supranational challenges ahead of us,” in his statements after a meeting with European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager on Monday.
Travel receipts may beat 2019
With hotel and flight seat occupancy for the coming months moving to pre-pandemic levels and average travel spending having risen significantly above the last pre-pandemic season, estimates for travel receipts this year point to 10% growth compared to 2019.
Tsitsipas wriggles out of trouble to reach Wimbledon second round
Stefanos Tsitsipas snapped his first-round hoodoo at Wimbledon when he ended Swiss qualifier Alexander Ritschard’s first Tour-level match with a 7-6(1) 6-3 5-7 6-4 win on Tuesday.
Attica hotel revenues at 74% of 2019 in January-May
Despite several optimistic outlooks and a visible-to-all rise in incoming tourism flows to Athens, the first five months of 2022 saw a 26.8% drop in capacity and a simultaneous 25.8% drop in revenue per available room, compared to the same five months in 2019, the Athens, Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association said on Monday.
Surviving Russia’s ‘filtration camps’
Thousands of refugees from Ukraine have been sent to so-called filtration camps, where they have been interrogated and then forced to resettle to Russia. Some Ukrainians escaped to Estonia. They told us their stories.
Cypriots turn more pessimistic
Economic sentiment deteriorated in Cyprus in June due to weaker business confidence in services, industry and retail trade. The Economic Sentiment Indicator (ESI) compiled by the University of Cyprus’ Economic Research Center (ERC) declined by 1.4 points in June dropping to 99.8 points compared with 101.2 points the month before.
Chocolate maker Ion to be bought out by Bespoke SGA Holdings
The buyout of one of Greece’s major chocolate and confectionery manufacturers, Ion, has been approved by the Hellenic Competition Commission (HCC).
They found two new craters on the moon and discovered a new mystery
After months of scrutinizing photographs of the lunar surface, scientists have finally found the crash site of a forgotten rocket stage that struck the far side of the moon in March. They still do not know for sure which rocket the wayward debris originated from.