The focus of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should be the war in Ukraine and not another source of instability within its ranks, Greek Premier Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, as heads of state were preparing to meet again to discuss the latest developments in Russia’s invasion.
A bus driver in Thessaloniki was handed an eighty-month suspended sentence on Wednesday for exposing a minor to danger after he ordered an 12-year-old passenger off his bus because the child was not wearing a mask.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said on Wednesday he expected a swift ratification of Sweden and Finland’s membership of the military alliance.
In the next few days the Independent Authority for Public Revenue will release the precise amounts to be repaid by the 600,000 companies and professionals who received government loans amounting to 8.3 billion euros, collectively known as the “Deposit To Be Returned.”
A 52-year-old sailor was injured on Tuesday night when he was struck by a cable of the passenger ferry Dionysios Solomos that got entangled in the left propeller, as it was departing from the port of Piraeus.
The Single Property Tax (ENFIA) and value-added tax (VAT) sent budget takings soaring in January-May, according to data the State General Accounting Office published on Monday.
Stefanos Tsitsipas snapped his first-round hoodoo at Wimbledon when he ended Swiss qualifier Alexander Ritschard’s first Tour-level match with a 7-6(1) 6-3 5-7 6-4 win on Tuesday.
With hotel and flight seat occupancy for the coming months moving to pre-pandemic levels and average travel spending having risen significantly above the last pre-pandemic season, estimates for travel receipts this year point to 10% growth compared to 2019.
Finance Minister Christos Staikouras spoke about “great, complex and supranational challenges ahead of us,” in his statements after a meeting with European Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager on Monday.
Despite several optimistic outlooks and a visible-to-all rise in incoming tourism flows to Athens, the first five months of 2022 saw a 26.8% drop in capacity and a simultaneous 25.8% drop in revenue per available room, compared to the same five months in 2019, the Athens, Attica & Argosaronic Hotel Association said on Monday.