Education funding for labor market needs
The Education Ministry plans to provide incentives to universities to orient their curricula toward modern developments in science and technology, the demands of the economy and the needs of the labor market.
Athens rebuffs Ankara on new law on Thrace muftis
Greece rejected claims by Turkey that a new legal framework on the election of Muslim clerics (muftis) in Thrace, northeastern Greece, denies the community the right to elect their own muftis, saying it is “fully compatible with the constitution of Greece and the country’s international obligations.”
Special House inquiry over phone tapping not ruled out
The possibility of setting up a parliamentary commission of inquiry into the case of the attempted tapping of the phone of socialist opposition PASOK leader Nikos Androulakis is expected to dominate the agenda with the resumption of the House plenary and committee meetings of the Parliament shortly after the August 15 holiday.
The demographic challenges facing Thrace and the efforts to revitalize the region
Steven Tagle joins Thanos Davelis to break down the demographic challenges facing Greece’s northern region of Thrace.
Swimmer found dead in the Pagasetic Gulf
A 35-year-old man was found dead off the coast of the Pagasetic Gulf, in east central Greece, on Wednesday night.
SNF to fund construction of three new hospitals in Greece
The Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Health Initiative will pay about $750 million for the design and construction of three, new, state-of-the-art hospitals in the cities of Komotini, Thessaloniki, and Sparta, as part of an effort to improve healthcare outside the Greek capital.
Tourist arrivals in southern Aegean islands surged in July
Tourist arrivals at the islands of the Southern Aegean surged in July with over one million international flights, exceeding by 20 percent the number of the same month last year, which was a year-record at regional level.
Months into war, Ukraine refugees slow to join EU workforce
Liudmyla Chudyjovych used to have a career as a lawyer in Ukraine and big plans for the future. That was before the Russian invasion forced the 41-year-old woman to put her daughter’s safety first, and leave both her job and home behind.
Supermarket online sales drop in H1
Online supermarket sales dropped in the first half of the year compared to the same period last year as consumers switched to cheaper products to compensate for rising prices.
Credit ratings are still at risk
The EuropeanCentral Bank’s new bond purchase scheme, the Transmission Protection Instrument (TPI), will reduce the fiscal risks associated with a rise in interest rates but will not protect eurozone member-states from higher borrowing costs, Fitch Ratings warned in a statement Wednesday.