Indirect taxes account for 60% of all tax revenue
In 2022 indirect taxes brought revenues of 33.2 billion euros to the state budget, compared to €28.1 billion in 2021.
Did Turkey target Syrian Kurdish leader and US personnel with a drone strike?
This weekend missiles from a drone nearly hit a US convoy carrying American personnel and Mazlum Kobane, a top American ally in the fight against the Islamic State and the commander in chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Turkey is believed to have carried out the attack. Michael Rubin joins Thanos Davelis to look into…
Easter exodus begins at Piraeus port
Ferryboats leaving the capital’s port of Piraeus for the islands of the Aegean reported occupancy rates of as high as 90% on Tuesday, in the runup to Easter, the biggest religious holiday on the Greek Orthodox calendar.
Publisher Giorgos Bobolas, 95, dies
A prominent businessman and former publisher, Giorgos Bobolas has died at the age of 95, it was announced on Tuesday.
Crackdown on spread of chairs and tables in public spaces
Seeking to send a message to proprietors encroaching on public space with illegally placed chairs and tables, the Municipality of Athens has already singled out 10 catering establishments that have repeatedly failed to comply with the rules.
A Turk searching for the family of a Greek woman buried beneath his house
It was discovered in the summer of 2017: a marble slab with an inscription in Greek, embedded in the concrete floor, beneath the old tiles being replaced by two cousins in their grandparents’ home in Karacakoy, northwest of Istanbul.
Hooligans involved in attack against soccer fans to face prosecutor
The four men who were arrested in Ioannina in northwestern Greece last Friday, after security camera footage showed them beating four fans of a local soccer team will appear before a prosecutor on Tuesday on charges of attempted manslaughter.
Top judge quits over legal dispute
A legal dispute involving the government’s attempt to prevent a far-right political party from running in the general election scheduled for next month led to the resignation of a vice president of Greece’s Supreme Court on Monday.
Tupperware’s Greek plant shutting down after 56 years
A factory in Thiva, central Greece, that has been producing kitchen products for the iconic US firm Tupperware since 1967 is shutting down on Thursday, as the company struggles to stay afloat with shares nosediving 90% over the past year.
Thessaloniki Port revenue up 5.6% in 2022
Thessaloniki Port Authority SA last week announced an increase in its consolidated revenue to 82.2 million euros last year, including the €1.7 million of revenues of its ThPA Sofia EAD subsidiary.