Israel and Cyprus agreed on Wednesday to pursue ways to set up a maritime aid corridor to Gaza, a move Israel said was an “important step” towards disengaging economically from the enclave it has invaded to wipe out Hamas militants.
Athens is looking into sending a Hellenic Navy frigate to the multinational force led by the United States that will maintain unfettered access to the Red Sea for commercial ships.
The Bank of Greece has already detected the first signs of a slowdown in the housing market, which, as it notes in its Interim Monetary Policy report published on Wednesday, “potentially point to an imminent period of price correction, especially for property uses, features and locations of lower demand.”
Addressing the phenomena of “profit inflation” and tax evasion, as well as the acceleration of the absorption of European resources and of course the reduction of public debt, are matters at the forefront of Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras’ policy proposals.
Hailing a true historic reform in higher education, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis presented a bill titled “Free University” on Wednesday that will allow for the establishment of nonprofit, non-state institutions of higher education.
The Greek government has expressed its satisfaction at the completion of the political negotiations between the Council, the European Parliament and the European Commission for the adoption of the new European Pact on Immigration and Asylum, three years after the start of the discussions.
The European Union finance ministers reached a compromise agreement for the new Stability and Growth Pact on Wednesday during an Ecofin teleconference, after weeks of arduous consultations on the new reform framework on the pace of debt and deficit reduction by member-states.
The director of the Independent Authority for Public Revenue (AADE), Giorgos Pitsilis, in a presentation at the 5th Tax Law Conference on Wednesday, presented the plan for the introduction of artificial intelligence in its services.
A new section that provides information on key aspects of e-mobility is now available on the website of the Greek Infrastructure & Transport Ministry, it was announced on Wednesday.
PPC announced the signing of a binding agreement on Wednesday between its subsidiary PPC Renewables and Intrakat Group for the joint development of a renewable energy sources (RES) portfolio with a total capacity of up to 2.7 gigawatts.