The government intends to boost the Energy Transition Fund’s revenues to finance electricity bill subsidies households and businesses via a new intervention in the retail electricity market to recover windfall revenues from electricity suppliers, tax refineries and the Public Gas Corporation (DEPA).
Sales of technology goods and home appliances showed a contraction year-on-year in January-August, despite the ongoing subsidy programs.
The tax administration intends to perform exhaustive auditing of retail businesses, freelancers and service companies with the aim of detecting the concealment of taxable material.
US Ambassador to Greece George Tsunis was made an honorary resident of Nafpaktia, western Greece.
Streamlining and restructuring the curriculum, placing greater emphasis on “essential” subjects, developing critical thinking and cultivating an interest in current affairs are among the key recommendations made by a committee of experts advising the Education Ministry on primary and secondary education reform.
Greece’s Culture Ministry has set up a committee to assess ways of conserving energy by turning off lights at certain historical monuments around the country during the winter, in line with efforts in other European countries to cut down on electricity use.
Ethnic voters drifting away from the two main political parties is one of the messages that emerged from the last election, as reported on June 13 in local newspaper The Age.
Sources have indicated that the government plans to cite national security in a petition to Parliament’s bureau to keep the discussion confidential, as it did for the proceedings of the special investigative committee.
Athens’ Agios Savvas Hospital is spearheading a Health Ministry initiative to provide at-home care for patients with chronic and serious illnesses that require frequent hospital visits.
Greece will likely be rewarded with a “gift” of a nominal value of 5.4 billion euros if next week’s evaluation, the first of the conventional post-program supervision, goes well; still, this depends on the 22 prerequisites left from the enhanced supervision.