Iraklio airport resumes flights after farmers end protest
Flights to and from Iraklio Airport on the Greek island of Crete resumed early on Tuesday, aviation officials said, after farmers who had been blocking the terminal ended a protest.
Flights to and from Iraklio Airport on the Greek island of Crete resumed early on Tuesday, aviation officials said, after farmers who had been blocking the terminal ended a protest.
The government will grant a pension of 1,700 euros per month and offer other tax relief to the victims and relatives of the 2017 floods in western Attica and the 2018 wildfires in Mati, the Finance Ministry announced Tuesday.
Value-added tax and personal income tax remain the two sources of problems for the tax administration, as they account for the majority of unpaid tax liabilities.
More than eight in 10 Greeks – 83% – believe corruption exists in Greece to a very large or fairly large extent, while nearly four in 10 say they became aware of at least one corrupt incident in the past 12 months, according to a nationwide survey conducted by Palmos Analysis for the National Transparency…
Police in Athens say they have arrested a man they believe may have been planning a murder, after they found automatic rifles in a car he had stolen.
Six individuals accused of being members of a criminal organisation carrying out contract killings were arrested on Tuesday, following a police operation in Attica.
In a significant distinction for Greek higher education, the internationally recognised university ranking publication Performance Ranking of Scientific Papers for World Universities has ranked the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) 191st worldwide.
Greek farmers protesting delays in the payment of subsidies forced the Nikos Kazantzakis international airport in Iraklio, the main town in Crete, to suspend all flights for the second time last night, escalating their labor action that has seen tractors blocking highways around the country.
Each day it seems clearer that we are living through something akin to what 1989 was for the Soviet Bloc – a chain of events leading to the collapse of the old and the establishment of a new order.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said Greece is consolidating its role as a key energy gateway for Southeastern Europe, highlighting the country’s economic progress and strengthening ties with the US in a recorded message to an investment forum in New York.