The operator of an amusement park ride that claimed the life of a 19-year-old boy in Halkidiki, northern Greece, turned himself in to the authorities on Tuesday, state broadcaster ERT reported.
In an effort to cut down on costly and lengthy court disputes and obtain as much tax revenue as quickly as possible, the government will start offering significant fine discounts to individuals or companies that admit wrongdoing and accept the results of inspections.
A fire at a fertilizer plant in Aspropyrgos on Tuesday prompted authorities to evacuate the factory and warn residents in the industrial West Attica town to stay indoors with their doors and windows shut as toxic fumes spewed into the air.
From 2020 to the end of 2023, gross earnings rose 11% and the income tax corresponding to these earnings rose 41%.
The government would love to see the money from the concessions of Attiki Odos and Egnatia Highway reach its coffers this year, in order to help pay back part of the country’s debt. Increasingly, this seems unlikely.
Greece’s dairy industry is recovering, after a steep rise in the wholesale price of milk hurt sales. The lower retail price of milk allowed dairy industries to regain market share from private label producers.
Marking the August full moon, the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki opened for free on Monday night.
A total of 76 irregular migrants from Syria, Egypt, Sudan and Bangladesh traveling in three separate boats landed on the shores of Gavdos, a tiny island south of Crete, in the early hours of Tuesday.
Turkey’s interest was again piqued on Monday by the conduct of surveys for the laying of electrical interconnection cables by the Italian-flagged research vessel Ievoli Relume south of Kasos and Karpathos in the southeast Aegean.
The Athens Stock Exchange closed only marginally higher Monday on very low turnover. Nonetheless, it extended its winning run to six sessions, with a cumulative rise of 3.61%.