Greece hopes to raise more than 5 billion euros ($5.29 billion) in 2024 from the sale of state assets including a stake in Athens airport and concession deals for two toll roads, a senior privatization official said on Wednesday.
In recent years, rent costs in Greece have risen at a much faster rate than salaries. According to a new global poll performed by the British company Online Mortgage Advisor, average workers in Athens currently need to spend 55.9% of their income to pay the rent for their home. In 2018, the proportion was 42.4%.
SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis on Wednesday unveiled the shadow cabinet of the left-wing opposition party.
The televised debate between the two mayoral candidates for Athens, the incumbent Kostas Bakoyiannis and Haris Doukas, is scheduled for Wednesday at 9.15 p.m. and will be broadcast on ERTNews and ERT1.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is scheduled to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomaios at Maximos Mansion on Wednesday at 4 p.m.
Around 70,000 tons of waste are expected to find their way to the landfill serving the regional units of Karditsa and Trikala in Thessaly in the aftermath of the devastating floods that left entire villages reduced to rubble, local officials say.
The selection of the preferred investor for electrical and electronics goods chain Kotsovolos by British parent group Currys is in the final stretch.
Deputy Finance Minister Haris Theocharis will lead Greece’s delegation to the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Marrakech.
Foreign Minister George Gerapetritis held a meeting with his Emirati counterpart, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al Nahyan, in Abu Dhabi, on Wednesday.
New SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis issued a warning on Wednesday directed at dissenters within the party, just before revealing the lineup of the opposition party’s new shadow ministers.