The demand of the new mayor of Athens, Haris Doukas, for an increase in the fees imposed on accommodation in the capital’s hotels in order to finance the increased needs for infrastructure and personnel created by the increase of tourists in the capital has triggered a confrontation with hoteliers.
“Belarus is a crucial element for Putin but also his weakest link,” argues the exiled politician and leader of the Belarusian opposition Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in a Kathimerini interview.
Catalytic overturns and impactful changes in the international system and its supporting structures, along with the great powers’ contest for influence, cause multifactorial coalitions with “pack mentality” and “bandwagon” effects on other nations, on an illusory world security.
The younger Olympiakos fans who took part in the incidents in the Renti district of Athens last December that led to the death of a police officer outside a stadium during a volleyball match have been described by the police as the “strike force.”
Salaries may have risen in Greece in 2023, but the tax burden has also increased.
Greek tennis champion Stefanos Tsitsipas suffered a first-round knockout from the Madrid Open on Saturday, losing to Thiago Monteiro.
Authorities in Athens are investigating a potential data breach following a break-in at the Interior Ministry’s election directorate.
Thirty-one defendants appeared in court on Saturday to answer to 12 felony charges, including murder and causing an explosion, along with 16 misdemeanors.
Leftist opposition SYRIZA will request the establishment of a preliminary investigative committee to examine the decision made by authorities to fill the site of last year’s railway disaster in Tempe, central Greece, with gravel and concrete.
Bank of Greece data for the first quarter of the year confirm the recovery of financing to businesses that will support credit expansion in 2024, as the net flow of financing moved into positive territory, in the order of of 333 million euros.