Deputy Sports Minister Giannis Voutsis introduced new measures to combat fan violence on Wednesday which include restricting each team to a single fan club, mandatory electronic security systems in Super League and Basket League stadiums, and €10,000-€100,000 fines for “low-level fan violence.”
Greece’s Environment Ministry and Thessaloniki’s municipal town planning authority issued on Dec. 19 the building permit for the construction of the city’s Holocaust Museum, with work expected to begin next year, the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki announced on Wednesday.
Endy Zemenides, the Executive Director of the HALC, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss the efforts to press the Biden administration to move the F35 sale to Greece forward, and break down why progress in Greek-American relations should not be affected by the dysfunctional relationship between the US and Turkey.
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.