The state’s permanent electricity subsidy mechanism is being launched under particularly difficult circumstances, as the Finance Ministry will need to allocate more than 650 million euros for just one month to keep down the power costs of some 5 million households and 1 million professionals in July.
The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) has announced on Wednesday that starting on Friday, July 8, there will no longer be a daily briefing on the course of the pandemic which will instead be given weekly on Fridays.
The European Union has an obligation to “prevent any kind of precedent that can be mimicked by prospective troublemakers down the line,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told lawmakers in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, in comments during a speech addressing the war in Ukraine but seen also as a tacit reference to Turkey.
Greek health authorities announced 19,303 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, a drop from Tuesday’s 25,566, and 22 virus-related deaths. The National Organization for Public Health (EODY) also announced that there are currently 96 intubated patients being treated in Intensive Care Units.
Shipping Minister Yiannis Plakiotakis announced that he has tested positive for Covid-19 on Wednesday.
Four people had been arrested by Wednesday afternoon in an ongoing police operation to smash a criminal ring that was defrauding victims by pretending to help them find properties they could use for commercial gain.
Greek firefighters continued to battle multiple scattered fronts of a large forest blaze near the seaside town of Porto Germeno, west of Athens, for a second day on Wednesday, one of several burning around the country.
Responding to an address by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis in Parliament on Wednesday, main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance leader Alexis Tsipras spoke of a speech with “so many, many lies,” in which the prime minister had attempted to present himself as “supposedly pro-labor.”
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reiterated his plan to terminate a so-called solidarity tax surcharge on incomes as of 2023 and allow for pension increases, frozen for the past 12 years as part of stringent fiscal rules imposed by the country’s creditors during its debt crisis.
Athens will host the prestigious 44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly from July 16 to 24, considered the pinnacle of global space research and technology conferences.