Athens Municipality foresees revenues of over 1 billion euros (up from 917.6 in 2022), an increase of investments by 153% compared to 2019 and funding form European and national resources worth 510 million euros in 2023, according to the city’s 2023 budget agreed on Monday.
The platform for the granting of support to households in grocery stores, the so-called Market Pass, will be ready by mid-February, Finance Minister Christos Staikouras told Skai Radio on Monday.
Recent actions by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, which included a threat to fire a Typhon missile at Athens, are “not only disturbing, they are totally unacceptable,” Bob Menendez, chair of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Monday.
The Nicholas J. and Anna K. Bouras Foundation, a philanthropic organization that provides aid to Greek Orthodox agencies, churches and to human service organizations, has completed its US$1 million matching grant to the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew Foundation.
Starting on December 21 and on a number of dates through January, the Greek National Theater is presenting the premier of Greek playwright Penny Fylaktaki’s “The Other One” with English surtitles.
A tax office on Crete was badly damaged in a fire that broke out in the early hours of Tuesday morning. Firefighters spent three hours trying to bring the fire on the first floor of Iraklio tax office under control. The tax office remains closed for business.
Police officers operating in central parts of Athens are installing portable cameras on their uniforms during Christmas week. In particular, the cameras will be deployed from 6 a.m. on Tuesday to 6 a.m. until December 27 in the jurisdiction of the police departments of Exarchia, Omonia, Kolonos, Kypseli, Agios Panteleimon, Syntagma and Acropolis.
Athens Water and Sewerage Company (EYDAP) bills will not rise in 2023, CEO Harry Sachinis said in a press conference on Monday.
Greece remains top of the list of preferred holiday destinations for the Poles, who love the Greek people, history and food, concluded the B2B Greek-Polish Tourism Workshop held last week in a Warsaw hotel with the participation of the Greek National Tourism Organization.
High-profile Twitter users were suspended without warning or explanation, then abruptly reinstated.