Determined to entrench the institution of personal doctors, Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis announced changes on Wednesday, in line with the standards set by other European countries and the World Health Organization.
Tax inspections will be speeded up in order to avoid issues of limitations, the Finance Ministry has decided.
A program launched a year ago providing subsidies to companies to hire former drug addicts, ex-convicts, victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking, and others to assist them in re-entering the labor market has reportedly been crowned with success.
A central issue in Greek politics for decades has been that politicians view everything as a zero-sum game. In colloquial terms, they believe that the political death of their opponent equates to their own survival.
An anonymous tip led to the arrest of a 44-year-old antiquities smuggler in Vatondas on the island of Evia on Monday for attempting to sell 38 Hellenistic-era silver coins.
A network of thousands of underground spaces are scattered beneath Athens. Pedestrians hurry past them, not suspecting that the metal lid of a manhole they have just stepped on is one of the gates to a vast web of spaces, which for decades has been sealed in silence and oblivion.
Education Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Wednesday that lawmakers had dismissed the five objections submitted by opposition MP questioning the constitutionality of a bill allowing the establishment of private universities.
“The Last Five Years” returns to the Greek National Opera Alternative Stage (367 Syngrou, nationalopera.gr) after a sold-out run last year.
Two seafarers were killed in a Houthi missile attack on a Red Sea Greek-owned freighter on Wednesday, British and US officials said, the first fatalities reported since the Iran-aligned Yemeni group began strikes against shipping in one of the world’s busiest sea lanes.
A draft legislation by the ruling Conservatives that would enable the establishment of private universities in Greece received five objections regarding its constitutionality as soon as it was tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.