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Greece to enable tax payments via foreign credit and debit cards

Greeks and foreigners will finally get the chance to pay their taxes, duties and levies in Greece using cards issued abroad. The Independent Authority for Public Revenue has reportedly already began a public consultation process and the contractor to undertake the project will be decided within 15 days. Payment to …

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Greece offers “holiday voucher” to foreign firefighters

Greece has offered “holiday vouchers” to firefighters from foreign countries that responded to the call for assistance. A joint ministerial decision was legislated last Friday, August 13, 2021, as a form of gratitude for the foreign aid. According to the legislation, members of the foreign missions of the fire brigades, …

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Foreign students promised AMKA ahead of schools opening with mandatory self-test

Students who are foreign nationals will be issued a provisional social security identification number (AMKA) so they can buy a self-testing kit ahead of the reopening of schools on Monday, a senior official of the Education Ministry told Kathimerini on Thursday, responding to complaints from private schools that several pupils …

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Police kicks foreign passenger at Athens International Airport (video)

Greek police has ordered an urgent internal investigation into an incident where a police officers kicks a foreign passenger at the Athens International Airport ‘Eleftherios Venizelos.’ The incident was captured on a video and posted on social media by the brother of the harassed passenger. Arash Hampay has reportedly complained …

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Mykonos: One Souvlaki, Two Prices: €3.5 for Greeks, €5 for Tourists

Spotlights are again on the island of Mykonos, after a Greek visitor denounced that that a local grill sells the famous Greek snack Souvlaki at two different prices: one for Greeks, the cheaper, and one for tourists, the more expensive one. The denouncement comes just a few weeks after a …

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Germany warns of “possible arrests” during traveling to Turkey

The German government has tightened its travel advice for Turkey, warning of possible arrests, after officials in Ankara denied accreditation to foreign journalists – some from Germany – without offering a reason. It was only last week, when the Turkish Interior Minister, Suleiman Soylu, warned that foreign tourists, journalists, academics …

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Greece to import foreign referees to keep its Super League matches under control

The FIFA has forced the Super League in Greece to import foreign referees in bid to control overzealous owners and unruly fans, writes ap. Under the FIFA-supervised ‘reforms’ enforced on Greek Football, a referee selection committee is headed by retired Portuguese referee Vitor Melo Pereira, along with two other overseas …

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Greek citizenship for Fishermen who saved dozens of lives from Athens wildfires

Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced to facilitate Greek citizenship for three foreign laborers who work as fishermen and who saved the lives of dozens of people from the sea on the horrible night during the Athens wildfires on 23. July 2018. “We consider these people already our fellow citizens,” …

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Egyptian laborer receives €97,000 compensation from Greece

Foreign laborers must often struggle to receive compensations for injuries as well as pension payouts. Egypt’s Labor Representation Bureau in Athens succeeded in acquiring and delivering a compensation of €97,000 for a citizen who was injured while working in the country, Minister of Labor Mohamed Saafan announced Wednesday. The worker …

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Tax system and bureaucracy the biggest obstacles for foreign investment in Greece, survey shows

Sixty percent of CEOs of multinational companies operating in Greece expect that the country’s image as investors’ destination will improve in the next years. According to a survey conducted by Metron Analysis, 83% of the respondents said the taxation was the biggest obstacle for investing in Greece. The survey was …

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UPD Foreign national, 46, arrested for wildfire in Ilia on Sunday

A 46-year-old foreign national was arrested by police in Pyrgos, following charges by the Fire Service that he accidentally caused a fire in the Frixa area in Andritsena-Krestena, in Ilia Predecture in South-West Peloponnese. The man will be led before a prosecutor on Tuesday morning, athensnewsagency reported. The nationality of …

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