Ferry workers walked off the job on Wednesday morning, launching a 24-hour strike intended to express solidarity with the family of a man killed by colleagues on the Blue Horizon last week.
Pension payments will now start within a month of the date beneficiaries reach retirement age, Cyprus’ minister of labor and social insurance, Yiannis Panayiotou, said on Tuesday.
Property transactions in Cyprus are on a high, with a record expansion in the number of applications for sales filed with the authorities during the first eight months of the year.
Greece plans to raise up to 7 billion euros from debt markets in 2024 through new short- and long-term bond issues and will allow retail investors to participate in treasury bill auctions, two government sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
Government rescue workers began to reach some devastated mountain villages in Morocco on Monday, but many more settlements were waiting desperately for help, three days after the country was hit by the strongest earthquake in the area in more than a century.
Expectations for employment in Greece remain positive, with IT and software communication equipment companies presenting the highest prospects for job growth, at the same time of course that eight out of 10 employers declare an inability to find skilled workers.
Greece experienced two extreme events last week: the drowning of Antonis Karyotis at the port of Piraeus due to the actions of three ferry workers, and the unprecedented flooding caused by storm Daniel.
After swinging from negative to positive several times on Tuesday, the benchmark of the Greek stock market settled for moderate losses upon closing.
Several steps have been taken to restructure Hellenic Post (ELTA), the oldest state-owned company, founded in 1828.
Christos Stylianidis was sworn is as the new minister of shipping and island policy on Tuesday after the resignation on Monday of Militiadis Varvitsiotis.