Finance Ministry bill obtains wide parliamentary support
The Greek parliament has granted its approval in principle to a Finance Ministry bill on utilities, in a vote held late on Wednesday.
Children’s lives don’t belong in the arena
I am always surprised at how polarization can make a public debate become so brutal. It happened in the case of the 38 refugees trapped on an islet in the Evros River and of 5-year-old Maria, who allegedly died of a scorpion sting there.
Erdogan’s own goals
Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s abrasive attitude toward Greece is not just intensely frustrating for us – which the Turkish president could not care less about – it also exposes him internationally and does little to help relations with the United States and the European Union.
Tiered subsidies for electricity
Electricity rates for the vast majority of household consumers (up to 500 kilowatt hours) will be contained next month to 14 to 17 cents per kilowatt-hour, thanks to the high state subsidies absorbing 90% of the increases.
Former Tenedos residents reminisce half a century after leaving
Vasiliki Karveli (from l), Paraskevi Marangou and Georgia Liberiou are members of the Greek community of Bischwiller in northeastern France to which dozens of Greeks who were born and lived on Tenedos migrated until there was no more life for them on the island.
Receipt app yields results
More than 700 complaints about fake and falsified receipts were reported to the Independent Public Revenue Authority (AADE) through the Appodixi application on its first day of operation, through smartphones.
ATHEX: Benchmark dips to new 2-month low
Stock markets across Europe reflected the pessimistic view that there may be a possible escalation in the war in Eastern Europe, while the rally of global interest rates and the soaring inflation continued to eat away at the value of money.
Reining in Erdogan
On the centenary of a crime against humanity on the Mediterranean shores of Asia Minor, the statue of Turkish General Mustafa Kemal Ataturk on horseback facing and pointing West inscribed with the quotation “Armies, your first target is the Mediterranean Sea.
Cartoon (23/09/2022)
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Lack of blood donors behind chronic shortages
Greece needs 600,000 units of blood annually for the needs of its patients, and according to figures from the National Blood Donation Center, these could be adequately met if the country had 300,000 active blood donors.