Where’s the fiscal space?
How can additional fiscal space be found to help financially weak households?
Greece to hold emergency energy meeting amid threat of shortages
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will on Thursday chair an emergency meeting at Maximos Mansion in response to Russian natural gas supply disruptions and skyrocketing energy prices in Europe. The meeting will be attended by Minister of State Giorgos Gerapetritis, Energy and Environment Minister Kostas Skrekas, Secretary General for Fiscal Policy in the Finance Ministry…
Greek airports running smoothly
Unscheduled and private flights are causing 20% of delays at Greek airports, while the remaining 80% of delays are due to a domino effect from abroad, Transport Ministry data for June have shown.
Expert: Covid is here to stay
The Covid-19 pandemic is here to stay and its effects are expected to possibly worsen, according to government adviser Sotiris Tsiodras, an expert in infectious diseases.
Mitsotakis remembers Axarlian, killed by N17 terror group in 1992
In a message on Twitter Thursday, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis paid tribute to Thanos Axarlian, a 20-year-old student killed during a botched assassination attempt by the now defunct November 17 terrorist group on July 14, 1992.
Open-Air Film Festival | Athens & Serifos
It’s a busy week for the Athens Open-Air Film Festival (aoaff.gr), which has struck out for the islands as well as the capital.
Crews work to contain wildfire on Samos
Firefighters continued working on Thursday morning to contain a wildfire on Samos in the eastern Aegean that spread overnight as abating winds helped greatly reduce the threat.
Liberal democracies will prevail – eventually
Francis Fukuyama was perhaps the most recognized political scientist in the 1990s when he wrote his much-discussed book “The End of History and the Last Man.”
First step blocking F-16s to Turkey
The US’ House Rules Committee has voted to include an amendment by Democrat Chris Pappas in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for the 2023 fiscal year, which would prohibit the sale of F-16 jets or modernization kits to Turkey unless certain conditions are met.
Owners challenge property tax
More than a thousand property owners in Greece are about to take recourse to the courts against their Single Property Tax (ENFIA) bill, as the government has already conceded that there have been some errors in their calculation.