Greece has reduced the subsidies extended to consumers grappling with high energy costs to 95 million euros ($102.9 million) in February from 840 million euros in January, the energy minister said on Tuesday, citing a fall in gas prices.
Efforts are under way to reduce the bureaucracy that accompanies property transfers by the relevant departments of the Ministry of Finance.
Israel supports Greece’s sovereign rights and territorial integrity, the country’s foreign minister, Eli Cohen, said after meeting his Greek counterpart Nikos Dendias in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
Hundreds of taxi drivers gathered at central Athinon Avenue on Tuesday morning and began a motorcade to the Transport Ministry, north of downtown Athens, in protest at rising operation costs and unfair competition.
A prominent writer and outspoken critic of the Church of Greece was arrested on Monday after a candidate with the Christian nationalist Greek Solution party sued him for defamation and accused him of violating his religious freedom.
A sample from a Byzantine-era wall found at Thessaloniki’s under-construction Venizelos metro station sits under the microscope at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki’s Laboratory of Building Materials.
In the first visit of a European foreign minister to Israel after the inauguration of the new government on December 29, Nikos Dendias’ trip on Tuesday will focus on energy, investment, defense and the deepening of Greek-Israeli cooperation.
They came, they saw, they left: Several multinational retail and catering chains started operating in the Greek market and eventually left despite the fact that they are successfully in the rest of the world.
The more than 60-year saga of the Faliro Bay redevelopment appears set for more delays.
Skroutz is taking another step toward becoming the “Greek Amazon,” as its online shopping platform, Skroutz Marketplace, is now able to ship products to all eurozone countries. It will soon have an English version too.