Berlin appreciates Greece’s efforts to contain migrant flows into the European Union but it is also hoping to discuss ways of reducing secondary migration to Germany, the country’s new ambassador to Greece, Andreas Kindl, tells Kathimerini in his first interview from his new post in Athens.
Greece ranks among the worst performing countries in terms of time taken to diagnose HIV patients (2.9 years on average), along with Italy, Spain, Portugal, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Slovenia, according to data from the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).
The changes to the taxation of the self-employed and freelancers proposed by the Finance Ministry brought to mind a discussion I had in 2012 in Washington with Poul Thomsen, the then head of the International Monetary Fund’s mission for Greece and later the Fund’s director for Europe.
In their latest clash with the Digital Governance Ministry, notaries have decided to strike until December 11, saying that the digital platform for property transfers that will be created will not also be under the responsibility of the Justice Ministry.
More than 250 individuals were arrested across Greece on Wednesday by the police.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis spoke of Artificial Intelligence applications to the public sphere in the event celebrating the 15th anniversary of Google’s presence in Greece on Thursday, in a fireside chat alongside Engineering & Research Vice President at Google Yossi Matias.
George Seaton’s film “Miracle on 34th Street” remains one of the best-loved Christmas classics of all time, conveying a message of hope and love.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis will brief party leaders and representatives of parliamentary parties on Friday about the upcoming High-Level Cooperation Council with Turkey taking place in Athens on December 7.
Paco Osuna, founder of global techno force Mindshake Records, lands in Petralona’s Oddity (61 Iraklidon) for an intense club night.
Interior Minister Niki Kerameos and Deputy Minister Theodoris Livanios gave further details at a press conference on Thursday on the introduction of postal voting to the European elections.