Tourism in Cyprus makes full recovery
Revenue from tourism in Cyprus reached pre-pandemic levels in October 2021, amounting to 310.2 million euros, compared to just €77.4 million in October 2020 and €299.4 million in October 2019.
Cyprus sees rise in value of bogus checks
The total value of unsecured checks issued in Cyprus in 2021 rose to 930,000 euros compared to €740,000 in 2020.
Poor Greek start of the year in the Euroleague
The year has not started well for Greece’s representatives in the Euroleague, as Olympiakos went down at Fenerbahce on Tuesday and Panathinaikos suffered a home drubbing to CSKA Moscow on Wednesday.
Subsidies aimed at reducing 39% youth jobless rate
Τhe Labor Ministry will try to bring down the unemployment rate among young people, which in November reached 39%, the highest in the eurozone, with the introduction of a subsidized net salary of 570 euros for the first six months of full-time employment of 18- to 29-year-olds.
Plans for 86,000 new jobs within 2022
The government is eyeing the creation of 86,000 new jobs this year, using funds from the European Union as well as national resources, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday.
ATHEX: Index reaches levels unseen since 2014
The Greek stock market continued its impressive rally on Wednesday, with the benchmark soaring to levels unseen since before SYRIZA and Alexis Tsipras’ stint in power from 2015 to 2019.
US Ambassador to Greece nominee testifying before Senate committee
George Tsunis, nominated by President Joe Biden to be the new United States Ambassador to Athens, is testifying before the US Senate’s Committee on Foreign Relations.
Greece must pick up the pace on geothermal energy
After the raft of commitments announced by the world’s governments at last year’s COP26 climate summit, the question on everyone’s lips is how much progress on reducing carbon emissions will actually be made.
Poker for grownups
Many European governments are complaining because Washington and Moscow have left them out of talks about the Ukraine issue, which is, in fact, extraordinary, because the subject of talks is Europe’s new security architecture.
Train halted after colliding with wild boars
A train en route from Athens to Thessaloniki was stopped in its tracks on Wednesday after colliding with a singular of wild boars.