In waters off Greece, where the coastal zone accounts for about 69% of the national economy, a marine heatwave last year ravaged the country’s mussel harvest, halving production and wiping out 80% of the baby mussel seed for this year.
Several municipalities across Greece are expected to demand corrections to the property zone rates implemented in January 2022, which led to large hikes in the Single Property Tax (ENFIA) in those areas.
Over 116,600 young people, aged between 13 and 30 years, will be entitled to offers and discounts on products and services at about 380 enterprises as well as 43,500 offers across Europe, upon receiving the European Youth Card.
The Defense Ministers of Greece, Italy, France, and Cyprus met on the sidelines of the Council of the European Union’s Foreign Relations/Defense meeting on Tuesday and discussed coordination and collaboration before security threats in the East Mediterranean region.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has encouraged the public to get the flu vaccine, especially if there are people over 60 in their families.
The US State Department has joined the European Commission in rejecting the decision to the Organization of Turkic States (OTS) to grant observer status to the so-called “Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.”
Turkey’s demand for a two-state solution in Cyprus is “unacceptable” and “undermines all efforts to resume negotiations for resolving the Cyprus issue in the framework of UN resolutions,” Greece said on Tuesday, on the 39th anniversary of illegal declaration of a “state” in the Turkish-occupied north part of the island.
Despite a decline during the coronavirus pandemic, Greece still topped all EU member-states in the consumption of antibiotics outside hospitals, doctors say.
Greece confirmed 55,917 new SARS-CoV-2 cases in the week of November 7-13, the National Public Health Organization (EODY) said in its weekly statistics report on Tuesday.
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