The European Commission on Tuesday published two financing decisions, worth 560 million euros, to support inclusive quality education initiatives, including access to higher education through scholarships, for refugees in Turkey as well as for border protection.
People enjoy the light show at the waterjet feature of the newly inaugurated Ellinikon Experience Park, a fraction of the pleasure grounds being planned around the former Athens airport plot development.
Wooing back young scientists who went abroad “is one of the Education Ministry’s key objectives,” Angelos Syrigos, the deputy minister for higher education, tells Kathimerini.
A 24.7-million-euro plan for upgrading the airport on the eastern Aegean island of Chios was signed at the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry in Athens on Tuesday.
The European Commission on Tuesday adopted rules that will make the European Union Covid-19 certificate valid for travel nine months after the completion of the primary vaccination schedule, an EU official told Reuters.
A 39-year-old man was remanded to pretrial custody in the northern port city of Thessaloniki on Tuesday after answering to attempted murder and rape charges and failing to plead his case for release to a magistrate and a prosecutor.
The government is not planning to introduce additional coronavirus safety measures ahead of the Christmas and New Year’s holidays, nor will revelers be required to take a registered rapid test before attending gatherings, a cabinet meeting decided on Tuesday.
Seven people had to be rescued from a fishing boat that ran aground on Monday afternoon off the northern coast of Makronissos, a tiny island near the Greek capital in the western Aegean.
This year has seen a record number of corporate bond issues by Greek listed companies, a relatively new form of borrowing for enterprises that only started in 2016 with the issue of a listed bond by Housemarket.
In a bid to increase protection in the community and avert a holiday surge of new Covid-19 cases, the city of Thessaloniki will be offering free vaccines, without an appointment, on Thursday.