‘Christmas Basket’ to start next week
The ‘Christmas Basket,’ the government measure presenting and comparing the prices of several seasonal goods, is returning this year.
The ‘Christmas Basket,’ the government measure presenting and comparing the prices of several seasonal goods, is returning this year.
The US welcomes the upcoming meeting of the Greece-Turkey High Cooperation Council to be held this week in Athens, the State Department said.
As the international stage thrums with tension from the war in Ukraine, strain in the Balkans, civil wars in Africa and the new tragedy unfolding in the Middle East, Greek-Turkish cooperation and dialogue acquire fresh political dimensions.
The National Intelligence Service (EYP) has sent a letter to members of Greece’s Cabinet warning that their telephones are not safe from wiretaps and eavesdroppers, Kathimerini has learned.
Athens taxi drivers joined a nationwide cabbies’ strike on Tuesday morning and will be off the clock for 48 hours and possibly longer if a contentious tax reform bill delays being voted in Parliament until Thursday.
In an effort to ensure the effective implementation of its announced reforms in the field of criminal justice – particularly the regulation stating that penalties exceeding three years, for all offenses, will now be served – the government is working on a plan to establish new prisons nationwide.
A wide range of so-called “low diplomacy” issues will be revised on Thursday when Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan travels to Athens, accompanied by a number of Turkish government ministers.
The Greek police said its officers seized a flick knife, a hammer, a firebomb, two wooden bats and the handle of a sledgehammer from the site of a brawl between rival youth gangs in northern Athens.
The investment community recognizes the momentum of the Greek economy.
The interest rate spread between new deposits and loans remained almost unchanged at 5.71% in October as the weighted average interest rate on new deposits increased to 0.46%, while the corresponding rate on new loans remained almost unchanged at 6.17%, the Bank of Greece said on Monday.