Fiscal leeway of 900 mln euros
The 2022 budget figures released last week came in better than forecast and bolstered the government’s arsenal for a possible new and final round of benefits ahead of the elections.
The 2022 budget figures released last week came in better than forecast and bolstered the government’s arsenal for a possible new and final round of benefits ahead of the elections.
Here we are consumed by our domestic affairs when important and unpredictable developments are taking place around us that have a direct bearing on us.
AEK has gone top of the Super League table for the first time this season, as hitherto leader Panathinaikos lost 1-0 at Asteras Tripolis on Monday.
We pity Greek democracy for the toxicity of its public political discourse, forgetting that the same and worse things happen elsewhere. Fortunately, our Parliament has not been attacked by an armed mob.
One of the two pilots aboard the F-4 “Phantom” fighter jet that crashed in the Ionian Sea on Monday was found dead. According to the Hellenic Air Force, the search to find the second pilot is ongoing.
A pair of Turkish F-16 fighter jets flew over three Greek islands, including Chios, after they violated Greek airspace and entered the Athens Flight Information Region without submitting a flight plan on Monday afternoon.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday met his Japanese counterpart Fumio Kishida at the prime minister’s residence in Tokyo, where they signed a Joint Statement of Strategic Cooperation between Greece and Japan.
An appeal court in Thessaloniki on Monday upheld a prior prison sentence handed to a 40-year-old man who shot dead his neighbor after the victim complained about loud music.
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will pay an official visit to Israel on Tuesday, the first visit of a European foreign minister to Israel since the country’s new government was sworn in on December 29, 2022.
National Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos announced a three-day period of mourning in the country’s armed forces on Monday.