The recent rise in retail prices has had a significant impact on households – reducing their purchasing power – as well as on employment, according to the Labor Institute of the General Confederation of Greek Labor (INE GSEE).
The government is mulling a plan for the renewal of Greece’s ageing fleet of cars and transport, as part of a priority given to better mobility, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Costas Karamanlis said at the 5th Ecomobility Conference held on Thursday.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias on Thursday marked one year since Greece’s Parliament voted to extend the country’s territorial waters in the Ionian Sea from six out to 12 nautical miles.
The headmaster of Athens’ 1st High School in the northern suburb of Papagou says that squatters who occupied the building in the first week after the winter break in protest at coronavirus-related regulations have caused serious damage to the facility.
World number four Stefanos Tsitsipas was made to work hard by Sebastian Baez on Thursday before raising his game to beat the upcoming Argentinian 7-6(1) 6-7(5) 6-3 6-4 and reach the third round of the Australian Open.
Greece is ordered to pay a lump sum of 5.5 million euros as well as a fine of more than 4 million euros every six months for its delay in recovering the illegal state aid granted to troubled nickel producer Larco, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) said on Thursday.
Teachers, students and parents were planning a rally in central Athens on Thursday to protest the lack of sufficient protection measures against coronavirus in schools, and denounce the government policy on the the pandemic.
Vassilis Nedos, Kathimerini’s diplomatic and defense editor, joins The Greek Current to talk about the arrival of the first six advanced French Rafale jets to Greece, their unique capabilities, the impact they will have on the Greek air force, and more.
The new National Health System (ESY) which the government plans to implement in the post-pandemic era was laid out this week by Alternate Health Minister Mina Gaga to all the doctor MPs in ruling New Democracy at the party’s headquarters.
The government announced Wednesday that existing measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus, like obliging restaurants and bars to close at midnight, will be extended for another week from January 23 until the end of the month.