Pending applications for main pensions were reduced by 22.4% within a year, but more than 240,000 applications for main and auxiliary pensions remained outstanding at the end of 2021, according to a report released by the Parliamentary Budget Office on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced new measures to support Greeks during widespread price hikes in a televised address on Wednesday. Specifically, the prime minister announced that 1,1 billion euros will be used to relieve 3,200,000 lower-income Greeks and households.
Ukraine urges Greece to shut its ports to Russian vessels and stop doing business with Russian companies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the war, Ukraine’s ambassador to Greece said on Wednesday.
The Greek Consul General in Mariupol, Manolis Androulakis, reached the city of Zaporizhzhia in south-eastern Ukraine on Wednesday according to diplomatic sources available to Kathimerini. He will spend the night in the city as there is an ongoing curfew.
Hellenic Petroleum, Greece’s biggest oil refiner, has clinched an initial deal to get additional crude oil supplies from Saudi Arabia, two sources from the refiner said on Tuesday.
New talk of compromise from both Moscow and Kyiv on a status for Ukraine outside of NATO lifted hope on Wednesday for a potential breakthrough after three weeks of war.
Greek health authorities announced 23,748 new cases of Covid-19 on Wednesday, a drop from Tuesday’s 26,536, as well as 44 deaths.
European Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, Stella Kyriakides, will visit Athens on Thursday to meet with Health Minister Thanos Plevris and discuss the continuing humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the support for neighboring countries and the preparation of the healthcare systems for the reception of people that need medical support.
Greek Defence Minister Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar discussed the importance of reducing tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean on the sidelines of the extraordinary NATO Defence Ministers meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, the ministry said.