The revised plan for projects to be financed through the EU’s Recovery Fund that was submitted by the Greek government Thursday notably requests an extra €795 for projects that will help in the transition to green energy, from households making their homes more efficient to production of biomethane and carbon capture projects.
With the final deadline for submission of income tax statements at 3 p.m. Thursday, tax authorities announced that additional tax payments – beyond tax withheld at source, mostly for salaried employees and pensioners – was 12.5% higher than last year.
Against the backdrop of the scandal of the theft of hundreds of valuable objects from the British Museum, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni has told MPs that “the government has a strategic plan regarding the claim for the Parthenon Sculptures.”
Helleniq Energy would consider either acquiring full control of the country’s biggest gas supplier DEPA Commercial or fully disinvest from the company, its top manager said. Helleniq holds a 35% stake in DEPA with the state privatisation agency HRADF owning the rest.
A human skull which was found in the grounds of an air base in Koropi, eastern Attica, will undergo a forensic examination. The bones were collected by police officers and sent to the forensic service of the University of Athens, state broadcaster ERT reported.
A group of twenty-five individuals, believed to be undocumented migrants, was discovered in the burning forest of Dadia in Greece’s northeastern region near the Turkish border, where a wildfire has been raging for the 14th consecutive day.
Greek stocks declined slightly in August’s last session at the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE), as investors locked in profits, although on a limited scale.
Greece’s Harmonized Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) dropped slightly in July, from 3.5% to 3.4%, preliminary data from the European Union’s statistics agency Eurostat showed Thursday.
The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) highlighted dire conditions at Korydallos Psychiatric Hospital for prisoners in a report issued on Thursday after an ad hoc visit last November.
The US Embassy in Athens and its Consular Section, the US Consulate General in Thessaloniki, and all US government offices in Greece will be closed on Monday, September 4, in observance of Labor Day, a US federal holiday.