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With the latest increase, the minimum wage will exceed 800 euros a month, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in an interview on SKAI television on Tuesday morning, in which he explained that the government was striving to fight the high cost of living by raising salaries. Mitsotakis said that the …

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Greece’s Finance Ministry has promised a bonus of up to 3,000 euros to citizens who will report tax dodgers who either discover fake receipts, receipt not automatically send to tax authorities. or no receipts at all. To facilitate the whistle-blowing the Independent Public Revenue Authority AADE has a mobile phone …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced an extra Christmas bonus to health workers, low-pensioners and people with disabilities who receive allowance. The extra bonus is aiming to absorb price hikes for the benefit of those combating the pandemic and the vulnerable groups of the society. The bonus is one off payment. …

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The platform for the 150-euro bonus for vaccination of those aged 18-24 will open on Tuesday, July 20, 2021, will open on Tuesday 20 July, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said on Monday. Eligible for the prepaid ‘Freedom Pass” are those aged 18-24 who  will get the first dose of …

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Olympic pole vault champion Katerina Stefanidi is fighting the Greek Government’s demand that she and team mate Paraskevi Papachristou repay medal bonuses earned at the 2016 World Indoor Athletics Championships in Portland in Oregon. The 30-year-old United States-based athlete is concerned that the Greek Ministry of Sport is now excluding …

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European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson and Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis announced the creation of a temporary mechanism for the voluntary return of 5,000 migrants from the Greek islands to their countries of origin. The mechanism will be temporary, lasting only one month, and will offer the …

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Labor Minister Efi Ahtsiglou announces a 400-euro one-off Christmas bonus to young unemployed aged 18-24 who are normally not  eligible to unemployment allowance. The bonus is described as “youth solidarity” allowance and is expected to be distributed by the end of the month. Eligible are unemployed aged 18-24 who are …

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Stunned and with hanging jaws Greeks saw and heard Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras announcing that he will hand out 1.4 billion euros as one-off “social dividend” in December. “The welfare benefits  totaling 1.4 billion euros, is more than double than that paid out last year (600 million euros) and this …

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EU countries would get €60,000 for every asylum seeker they take in above their EU-set quota as part of a plan drawn up the government of Malta that currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe. The government of the island state believes that financial incentives will persuade EU …

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The International Migration Organization and Greece have reportedly laid a plan with additional financial incentives to rejected asylum seekers. According to German magazine Der Spiegel, the incentives are thought in order to discourage asylum seekers from appealing the decision and stay longer in the country. The cash grant is double …

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One more lawmaker of ruling SYRIZA admitted that he received the Christmas Bonus (13th pension) for low-pensioners although he receives a good and mostly tax-free salary from the Greek Parliament. Are these the only MPs? Hardly. Triantafyllos Mitafidis said on Friday that the mistake in granting the so-called once-off 13th …

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The solidarity aid system has a huge hole and grants money to those who already have it. An acting lawmaker from ruling SYRIZA received the so-called “13th pension” an extra aid for low-pensioners distributed by the government last Christmas. But the issue raises also questions  about the pensions in Greece’s …

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