World Health Organization spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic lays out the good and the bad news around the Omicron variant of Covid-19. Omicron is milder than Delta, he says, but it remains a dangerous virus – and it will most certainly put a strain on the healthcare system.
Greek households’ disposable income grew 6.2% in the third quarter of 2021, totaling 33.52 billion euros, from €31.55 billion in the corresponding period in 2020.
This week’s snowstorm and the huge problems it created in Athens once again highlighted in the most unpleasant way the chronic weaknesses and functional shortcomings of Greece’s much-berated civil protection apparatus.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development’s investments in Greece totaled 838 million euros last year, it said on Thursday, making the country one of its top five funding recipients.
Police arrested a 40-year-old man in an Athens hotel on Friday on suspicion of sexually exploiting a 14-year-old girl who was with him.
A prosecutor in Kozani has ordered an urgent preliminary investigation into possible offences in the case of a 41-year-old pregnant woman who was unable to receive emergency hospital treatment after the seven-week-old fetus she was carrying had died but remained in utero.
The summer wildfires and the snowstorm that hit Greece this week demonstrate that Greece “must as soon as possible acquire or rather establish a modern and effective crisis management system,” President Katerina Sakellaropoulou told the prime minister on Friday.
Heavy rain and storms can be expected in central and southern parts of the country from Friday night until Sunday, National Meteorological Service (EMY) warned in an emergency bulletin issued on Friday.
“I saw him in my sleep again.” It’s an experience shared by many of those who knew and worked with Theo Angelopoulos.
French hotel investor and operator Boissee Finances is making a dynamic entry into a new tourism market in Athens that so far only short-term rentals have tapped.