Residents around a burning waste management facility in Aspropyrgos, near Athens, have been told by the authorities to stay indoors and close the windows on Wednesday as the area has been shrouded by dense smoke.
The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF), a nonpartisan public policy think tank that focuses on relations between the US and Europe, hosts a conversation with Federica Mogherini, the European Union’s former foreign policy chief, on Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine, developments in the Mediterranean region and the state of the transatlantic partnership.
Senior European Union officials on Wednesday appealed to member countries to set aside their deep differences over migration and press ahead with a long-delayed overhaul of the 27-nation bloc’s asylum system as tensions simmer between France and Italy.
Attending an event marking the 50th anniversary since the organization Cerebral Palsy Greece/Open Door was first established, President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Wednesday described it as a “door open to life, to normal integration into society, to well-being and dignity.”
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 Thursday, in observance of Thanksgiving Day.
Tax exemptions amount to 26.7% of tax revenues, or 7% of gross domestic product, as they reach 12.9 billion euros.
Greek public transport operator OASA has launched a chatbot on its webpage (www.oasa.gr) which provides conversational access to information about its services.
The sovereignty of Greece’s islands is not up for discussion, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said, amid recurring Turkish provocations in the Aegean and the eastern Mediterranean.
The war in Ukraine is expediting the complete decoupling of the Hellenic Armed Forces from Russian-made weapons systems, as it is becoming abundantly clear that the rupture between Moscow and NATO is not conducive to the creation of conditions for their maintenance.
Athens Mayor Kostas Bakoyannis on Tuesday called for the introduction of a city tax to be paid by visitors toward the municipal authority to help it respond to increased pressure on services from the influx of tourists.