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The online platform for submitting ‘Market Pass’ applications has opened on Friday, September 15, 2023. This applies for new beneficiaries as citizens who have received the previous ‘Market Pass’ will be automatically included in the process. Citizens can apply for financial aid to cover part of the increased household costs …

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A young Greek woman has died in Bordeaux, France, after dinner at a local 4-star restaurant. Her husband, an Irish national, and another 20 people, among them her parents got sick with botulism after consuming sardines, the owner himself had canned. The botulism outbreak took place in the famous restaurant …

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Deputy regional governor of Karditsa admitted that he ordered the opening of the  embankment of the Kalentzis river, the night that storm Daniel was sweeping across Central Greece, an opening that led to the flooding and destruction of Palamas village. The admission confirms locals’ denouncements from the very first morning …

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The government will table a supplementary budget of nearly 600 million euros over the massive cost to the economy caused by the storm Daniel, National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis told ANT 1 TV on Wednesday. Hatzidakis said that 450 million euros of the total would be earmarked for …

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Forty of the 104 survivors of the deadly shipwreck off Pylos, in south-western Greece in June 2023, filed a lawsuit against all responsible persons at the Maritime Court of Piraeus on Thursday. The suit was filed by their lawyers, according to a joint statement by the Network for the Rights …

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“Turkiye’s EU accession process cannot resume under the current circumstances,” the European Parliament’s (EP) said in its annual report for 2023. The EP also urged Turkiye and the EU institutions and member-states to “break the current deadlock” and seek a “realistic framework” for EU-Turkiye relations. In matters of Greek interest, …

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Athens-Thessaloniki highway remains closed at the height of flooded Thessaly in Central Greece also on Thursday, September 14, 2023, due to flood water and mud. Authorities suggest the highway may open to traffic on upcoming Saturday or maybe on Sunday, September 16-17. Essentially, Greece is cut in two, since the …

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In the aftermath of storm Daniel, infrastructure in Central Greece continues to collapse due to the huge volume of water, corrosion and botchery. The bridge at Palaiopyrgos collapse on Thursday morning. This particular bridge reportedly connects Paleopyrgos with Alexandrini, the coastal villages of the Municipality of Tempo and Strintzos and …

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The operation to locate the Austrian newly weds couple swept away in south Pilion by the storm Daniel beginning of the month seems to have a tragic end. Greek authorities are expecting the results of two DNA tests to identify the remains of a man and a woman who were …

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A total of 48 people in the regions of Larissa, Magnissia, Trikala, and Karditsa that experienced severe flooding were diagnosed with gastroenteritis and 65 with respiratory infections on Wednesday, according to a daily health report. The diagnoses were made at the 26 National Health System centers in the above regions, …

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Head of Greece’s National Organization for Public Health (EODY), Theoklis Zaoutis, resigned on Wednesday,and thus amid a situation of high health concern in flooded areas. The Professor for Children Epidemiology was EODY head since October 20212. He was forced to resign, media reported. His successor is Professor of Health and …

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A 62-year-old man was arrested in the northern town of Drama on Wednesday for the illegal hoarding of ancient artifacts in his garden. Police found in the man’s garden fragments of an associated sarcophagus cover, likely dating back to the Roman period, twelve built-in sections of inscribed Muslim sepulchral stele, …

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