Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has returned from last week’s NATO Summit aware that international developments may decisively determine whether elections will take place in spring 2023, as he has insisted thus far, or as early as September.
Workers at banks and supermarkets started clocking in and out on Friday using the digital labor card, a government measure aimed at safeguarding the working hours of employees.
The Greek state’s Hercules asset protection mechanism, launched in December 2019, is entering its final leg, with new securitizations of bad loans amounting to 4.5 billion euros by October.
The first of more than 200 firefighters from six European countries that will help their Greek colleagues in fighting wildfires arrived in Athens on Friday.
The Municipality of Athens is providing subsidized housing, training and work to a total of 56 homeless citizens under its Housing and Work for the Homeless program, which is funded by the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs to the tune of 826,356 euros.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau would probably have been surprised to learn that the wreck of the World War I Britannic (the sister ship of the legendary Titanic) he discovered in 1975 off southwestern Kea would be listed as an underwater historical site almost 50 years later.
Nearly 200 firefighters and dozens of municipal workers and volunteers spent the night battling a big blaze in the Peloponnese that started under “suspicious” circumstances on Sunday afternoon and was brought under partial control by Monday morning.
The government of the Republic of Cyprus took several steps on Friday to break the island’s reliance on fossil fuels.
A total of 53 wildfires broke out in the 24-hour period to 6 p.m. Sunday but most were put out at an early stage, a Fire Service spokeswoman said.
The Greek men’s national water polo team has followed up its Olympic silver last summer with a bronze at the FINA World Championships on Sunday.