I Remember ’22 | Athens
The City of Athens is hosting an expansive exhibition commemorating the 1922-24 Asia Minor Disaster at Technopolis cultural center through October 31.
Indirect increase in public sector wages
Apart from the abolition of the solidarity tax already announced by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the ministries of Finance and Labor are mulling the abolition of a special 1% contribution imposed under the 2011 bailout memorandum on the regular wages and additional remuneration of civil servants insured with the TPDY social security fund.
Employment continued its expansion in June
The employment balance in Greece remained positive for the fifth month in a row in June, as hirings outnumbered layoffs, resulting in the creation of 19,113 new jobs.
Document shows Uvalde officials sought favorable account of police action
Days after the massacre at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, the leaders of the grieving city fumed during a closed-door meeting with Steven McCraw, the state’s top police official.
Cargo plane operated by Ukraine carrier crashes near Kavala
An Antonov cargo plane operated by a Ukraine-based air carrier crashed Saturday near the city of Kavala in northern Greece, authorities said.
Prospects of a better tourism year than 2019 growing
Greek tourism is likely to see another record year, perhaps even outmatching 2019 in terms of arrivals and revenues, a leading hotelier has said.
European response
Europe is already unreasonably late in drawing a common line of defense against the energy crisis.
The post-assessment of universities
Manos Matsaganis, a professor of public finance at the Polytechnic University of Milan who has been living abroad for years, never ceases to be surprised by developments in other countries and saddened when comparing them to Greece.
Video showing police running red light probed
A preliminary investigation was ordered by the Head of the Athens District Prosecutor’s Office on Friday into a video published on the website news247.gr showing two police officers in a car apparently breaking a red light while the siren was on and with two women sitting in the back seat.
DEMO Pharmaceuticals launches R&D hub in Thessaloniki
DEMO Pharmaceuticals has launched a new research and development center, one of the largest in Greece, in the northern port city of Thessaloniki.