The good news from the European Central Bank, concerning its pledge to continue supporting Greek bonds, predictably drove local stocks higher on Thursday, with banks showing the way up and the vast majority of stocks following, on improved turnover too.
No system can cure chronic problems when it is under the pressure of a crisis. The National Health System (ESY) was not easy to change in the midst of a pandemic.
Labor unions led by the Communist Party staged a protest during a parliamentary budget debate Thursday to demand a return of wage and pension levels that were axed during three successive international bailouts.
Russia has moved nearly 100,000 soldiers into position near its border with Ukraine over the past several weeks. If that weren’t ominous enough, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has said his security services have uncovered evidence of a Russia-backed coup plot against his government.
SYRIZA on Thursday expelled one of its MPs from its parliamentary group after he accused government MPs in parliament of “murdering” thousands of people during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Greece lags behind in home insurance coverage, Minister for Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Christos Stylianides told the seventh annual Hellenic Entrepreneurs Association (EENE) Economic Forum on Wednesday.
The Environment and Energy Ministry’s released its first three Special Environmental Studies related to Natura 2000 regions for public consultation on Thursday.
“If someone had told me two years ago that I would be where I am today, I would not have believed them. I hardly believe it now,” says Eric, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo now studying economics in France.
Police in the Cretan capital of Iraklio arrested a 62-year-old pharmacist on Thursday after receiving complaints that he was issuing bogus rapid test results.