A significant surcharge, between 7% and 9%, is coming in 2023 to over 1.2 million freelancers, self-employed professionals and farmers, as based on the Vroutsis social security law all self-employed contributions will have to increase in line with the previous year’s rate of inflation.
The government is planning changes to the income and asset criteria and the benefit policy with the aim of directing support measures to beneficiaries who really need them.
Greece remains attractive as an investment destination and many of its individual indicators are improving despite an extremely grim international environment.
The president of the Council of Economic Experts, Michael Arghyrou, expressed his belief that Greece meets “all the criteria to be the pleasant exporting surprise of Europe.”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan seems to be obsessed with the northern Greek port of Alexandroupoli.
Employment in Cyprus increased by 1.9% in the second quarter of 2022, in comparison to the corresponding quarter of the previous year, reaching 458,706 persons.
It might be getting overshadowed by the recent domestic political turmoil, but the fact is that Greece faces a risk of aggression that is unprecedented even by the standards of its revisionist neighbor.
A court in Cyprus ordered a former senior state official and three others to stand trial for suspected corruption next month in connection with a lucrative cash-for-passports scheme abandoned in 2020.
The benchmark of the Greek stock market reached the verge of 850 points on Monday with gains that diminished during the day but sufficed to offer it notable growth after a week of significant ups and downs.
The frequency of management meetings, both at large energy-intensive groups and less energy-dependent companies, is increasing as their executives have entered crisis management mode.