Accountants, lawyers start work processing pension applications
A total of 458 state-certified accountants and lawyers will help process new retirement applications insured in Greece’s three major social insurance funds, e-EFKA announced on Monday.
Surgeons reattach 11-year-old’s arm at the shoulder
An 11-year-old boy whose arm had been severed at the shoulder was recovering at Aghia Sofia Children’s Hospital in Attica on Monday after a team of surgeons from three different Attica hospitals performed the first successful surgery to reattach a limb at shoulder height ever carried out on a child in Greece.
Man sentenced to 20 years for raping three sex workers
A 39-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison by a court in Thessaloniki on Monday for raping and robbing three sex workers in March 2021 while pretending to be a police officer.
Enhanced surveillance and junk status
After 11 years, three bailouts, untold suffering and heavy sacrifices by the Greek people, Greece is still under a regime of enhanced surveillance by the European institutions.
New Covid-19 cases rise to 20,361
New cases of the coronavirus jumped to 20,361 for the 24-hour period ending 3 p.m. on Monday from 10,853 on Sunday, while deaths rose to 78 from 72 the day before.
Greece says two expatriates killed in eastern Ukraine, urges all Greeks to leave ‘immediately’
Greece’s foreign ministry said on Monday two Greek expatriates were killed and another two seriously injured in an incident involving Ukrainian soldiers in the country’s east near the front line of the conflict with pro-Russian separatist forces.
Cartoon by Ilias Makris (14/02/2022)
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PM chairs meeting on Ukraine crisis’ effects on natural gas supply
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday chaired a meeting focusing on the developments in Ukraine and the possible scenarios for ensuring the security of Greece’s natural gas supplies.
Greek-Turkish relations in the pre-election arena
Greek-Turkish relations are not moving forward. The prime minister may have started his administration believing that progress could be made, but today the impasse is obvious and no light can be seen at the end of the tunnel.
Greece seeking ways to counter Turkish drones
Turkey’s development of a homegrown drone industry and its active deployment of such aircraft in the Aegean Sea are a cause of concern for Greece’s armed forces, which are seeking ways to counter their presence.