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A 742,000-euro fine was imposed on the food company Ainos, a seller of frozen vegetables, at the orders of Development Minister Kostas Skrekas on Monday. € According to a ministry announcement, the fine was imposed for violation of article 54 of legislation passed in July 2023 for curbing unjustifiable profiteering, …

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An Israeli shipping company in Piraeus became the target of an attack with a homemade explosive device in the early hours of Wednesday. The attackers used a sledge hammer to break the glass door and they reportedly left the explosive device made of gas canisters. Nobody was injured from the …

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At the end of each olive harvest year, the World Association of Writers and Journalists of Wines and Spirits (WAWWJ) collects and ranks all the olive oils that have been distinguished in 32 recognized international competitions in every continent, for their taste and quality, with the method of blind tasting, …

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Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday that majority of the excess profit of energy companies will be taxed and so that they will contribute to address the losses sustained by the citizens during the energy crisis. Speaking at the Parliament the Prime Minister said that energy companies will be …

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The City of Athens has filed a lawsuit against a private electricity supplier for deliberate overcharges in municipality fees that are collected via the electricity bills. The company has been doubling the rate of calculating the fees private citizens and businesses have to pay per square meter of home or …

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Greece’s telecommunications giant mobile phone operator Cosmote and parent company OTE have been slapped with fines of over 9 million euros by Greece’s Data Protection Authority over a breach of user records in September 2020. The Greek watchdog fined Cosmote 6 million euros for failing to protect a file containing …

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Thirteen people, most of them sales representatives and executives of a pharmaceutical company, have been arrested on suspicion of bribing doctors and illegally prescribing medicines. Sources told the state-run news agency amna on Friday, that police moved in after a months-long investigation that also involved the legal tapping of the …

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Leading dairy company FAGE has announced it planned to build a new manufacturing facility in the Netherlands. The new manufacturing facility at the Riegmeer Hoogeveen business park, budgeted at 150 million euros, will initially contribute an additional 40,000 tons of yogurt production capacity annually, FAGE said, and create 250 full-time …

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A home-made incendiary device exploded at the former premises of a company founded by the Greek prime minister’s spouse, on Wednesday night. The explosion at 20:30 p.m. blackened the entrance of 6 Taki Street in the Psyrri neighborhood of Athens, which once housed the fashion company Zeus+Dione that Mareva Grabowski-Mitsotaki …

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The company managing the Corinth Canal said in a statement that marine traffic has not be halted. There is only a partial limitation for ships crossing, the company said in a statement. Early Thursday afternoon, rocks fell into the Canal and local media reported that the passage was closed to …

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New era in relations between the atheist left-wing government and the Church of Greece? A secret meeting between Prime minister Alexis Tsipras and Archbishop Ieronymus II took place on Wednesday, October 3, newspaper Ethnos revealed on Sunday. Top on the agenda was the issue of Church properties and how to …

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A prosecutor on Friday charged the former head of the Hellenic Society for the Protection of Intellectual Property (HSPIP) and members of the company’s board with seven felonies including mismanagement and embezzlement of up to 30 million euros. € HSPIP is an independent body established to administrate and protect intellectual …

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One of Greece’s biggest bakery chains announced it will offer bread free of charge to pensioners, poor, jobless and large families in an effort to help vulnerable society groups to cope with capital controls and bank holiday. According to an announcement by Venetis Bakery, the offer will be valid as …

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Irelands’ “number one” burger producer suspended production after after tests showed that horsemeat was found in firm’s raw material ingredients. Ireland’s agriculture department confirmed the findings pointing the finger at Poland as the country of origin for the raw materials. Irish beefburger producer Rangeland Foods has customers in the UK, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, …

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