Seventy-one migrants were aboard the ship that ran aground on Kythira on Thursday, the coastguard has said. The sailboat, which was the third such vessel with migrants to reach the island since Wednesday, was carrying 52 men, 7 woman and 12 minors.
Greece’s border fence on the northeastern border with Turkey will be extended by approximately 80 kilometers, Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis reiterated on Friday.
Senator Bob Menendez, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, visited Alexandroupoli and Spetses as part of a private trip to Greece this week.
With the stated objectives of supporting mainly young couples, unemployed people and students living far from home, the Public Employment Service (DYPA, formerly OAED) is expected to play a central role in the implementation of the government’s plan to relaunch Greece’s housing policy.
The Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE) has said it has identified 14 restaurants and cafes around the country that failed to issue receipts for 449,000 orders with a total value of €5.15 million.
The suspect in the murder of a 17-year-old Afghan man, whose body was found in a street in the Athens district of Votanikos last week, was arrested near the North Macedonia border on Thursday. Police spotted the suspect, a 24-year-old Afghan national, at Idomeni railway station.
Teenager Munasar Muhidin says he fled Somalia in 2020 after Islamist militants killed most of his family and that his brother died trying to cross by boat from Turkey to Greece. He hoped he had finally found a place of refuge in the Netherlands.
By Thursday, 93% of the expected income tax returns had been filed, with nearly two thirds of those (65.37%) assessed having to pay no extra tax beyond that already prepaid through payroll and other means, the Independent Public Revenue Authority said.
Turkey’s central bank shocked markets on Thursday by cutting its main interest rate by 100 basis points to 13%, saying it needed to keep driving economic growth despite inflation hitting nearly 80% and a monetary tightening trend among its peers worldwide.
It is an unlikely geopolitical flashpoint: a concrete pier in a little coastal city, barely used a few years ago and still occupied only by sea gulls most of the time.