The number of empty lots – properties without buildings – not declared to the national property registry is about 3.3 million, or 22% of the total. Similarly, undeclared built properties, including flats in apartment buildings, exceed 147,000.
A border guard who was injured after being shot by unknown assailants from the Turkish side on Saturday afternoon in Soufli, Evros, is now hospitalized and out of danger, it was reported on Sunday.
The Agriculture Ministry is sending its entire team of veterinarians to Central Greece starting on Monday as it seeks to get ahead of a serious outbreak of ovine rinderpest, which is threatening to decimate livestock farmers’ sheep and goat flocks in the region of Thessaly.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, speaking in the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in Nicosia Saturday, said “that Hellenism will not stop fighting until Cyprus is reunited.”
A Greek border guard was shot in the abdomen Saturday while patrolling an area of the Greek-Turkish border where undocumented migrants seek to enter the European Union.
Glafka Capital fund is seeking to ensure the financial viability of Casino Thraki in Alexandroupoli.
It took 50 years for the Greek state to develop more effective systems to contain tax evasion. This is not said to mock or denigrate the state; quite the opposite.
Greece has missed out on investments of the order of 500 million euros in the field of pharmaceutical research in recent years, which could have translated into an increase of the gross domestic product by €1.1 billion.
Anniversaries serve as a good opportunity to look back and take stock of what we did wrong. The dark anniversary of the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus brings a deep national wound back into the spotlight of public discourse.
A veteran hotelier in Athens used to say, “Tourism is like a storm; for three years you might ride high on the waves and for the next two, you struggle to keep your head above water.”