Draft bill proposes replacing stamp duty with digital fees on over 600 transactions
A draft bill ending stamp duty in more than 600 transactions is now at the public consultation stage.
Ship brings rocky clues to life’s origins up from ocean’s ‘Lost City’
Researchers have long argued that regions deep in the Earth’s oceans may harbor sites from which all terrestrial life sprung. In the Atlantic, they gave the name “Lost City” to a jagged landscape of eerie spires under which they proposed that the life-preceding chemistry may have churned.
Mobile banking use growing at rapid pace
Mobile banking users in Greece have reached 6.2 million, more than users of internet banking through PCs, which number 3.6 million.
Greece ranks third globally in attracting mobile millionaires
Greece is expected to be third among European countries in attracting globally mobile millionaires in 2024, behind Italy and Switzerland and ahead of Portugal, British investment migration consultancy Henley & Partners said.
ATHEX ends flat after gaining 1%
The Athens Stock Exchange closed only marginally higher and far from the intraday high Friday. In that, it followed the general caution displayed by European markets and Wall Street.
Wind parks help contain wildfires, scientists say
An association of scientists says that wind parks, whose construction has often run into local opposition, actually help local forests.
Turkish workers on Rhodes arrested over espionage suspicions released
Three Turkish nationals involved in the maintenance work of a mobile phone antenna in Rhodes were released on Friday after Greek authorities’ suspicions of espionage were not confirmed.
Summer heroes
The large screen that is set up every summer at the village kafeneio is not just showing soccer this year.
Boosting airport capacity
Almost €2 billion will be invested by 2028 in expanding Greek airports’ capacity in view of the rapidly rising number of visitors.
Cyprus refutes social media claims of involvement in Middle East conflict
The government of Cyprus refuted on Friday reports widely circulating on social media, claiming that Cyprus is providing access to its military facilities to countries involved in the conflict in the Middle East.