Tourism contributes 13% of GDP
South Aegean, Crete and Attica regions contributed most of the industry’s revenue last year.
South Aegean, Crete and Attica regions contributed most of the industry’s revenue last year.
Two young men, aged 18 and 16, were killed in a car accident early Tuesday morning in Prespes, northern Greece, while a third person was seriously injured.
Environmental organizations Arcturos and Callisto have raised serious concerns about the Environment Ministry’s interference in the national action plan for the brown bear, developed under the European Union’s LIFE program.
The conclusion of the tourism season, coupled with the loss of 133,300 jobs in the tourism and food service sectors, led to the second-worst October for the domestic labor market in 23 years, according to data from the Labor Ministry’s “Ergani” database.
Greece’s 2025 budget includes 2.95 billion euros for interventions related to raising disposable income, exercising social policy and dealing with the low demographic issue.
Liquefied natural gas tanker ETYFA-Prometheas is currently stationed in the Malacca Strait in Malaysia.
The financial incentives provided months ago to Greeks who wish to relocate to northern Evros is a pilot program for all rural regions in Greece, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview to the newspaper Ta Horiatika in Proti, near Serres, on Saturday.
The government received an additional 1.8 billion euros from fighting tax evasion in 2024 and the money was spent on social policy, National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis said in a TikTok post on Sunday.
All electronic devices sold in the European Union will use the same type of battery charger, USB-C, as of last Saturday, New Democracy Euro MP Dimitris Tsiodras told Skai TV on Saturday.
The new smart electricity meters that are gradually being installed across the power network will provide consumers with special electricity tariffs for heating, the possibility of pre-purchasing energy at a discount and automatic fault management, among other features.