August 7, 2023
Economy
A new ministerial decision bring additional measures to protect workers at the sector of delivery services. The new measures include obligations on both sides, from proper maintenance and insurance of motorbikes to proper equipment provided by employees including helmets and full-length waterproof jackets. These are “protection rules that will save …
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July 20, 2023
Greece, Politics
“The government will announce specific steps as regards the policy for forests, with the transfer of responsibilities for the protection of woodland around urban areas in Attica to the environment ministry, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced on Thursday. He added that the responsibilities transfer will facilitate funds for protection of …
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April 3, 2023
FEATURED, Social, Society
The 12-year-old girl that was raped and pimped by a 53-year-old man was injured in a knife attack in the home where she lives with her aunt and a younger brother, her lawyer revealed on Monday. In a different statement, the mother of the 12-year-old victim points out that the …
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April 4, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Strikes
Greece’s public and private sector unions, ADEDY and GSEE, will launch a nationwide 24-hour general strike on Wednesday, April 6, to protest the price hikes and the stagnation of wages. The general strike that is expecting to paralyze the country is the second in three years. Central demand of the …
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March 31, 2022
animals, FEATURED
Nobody knows how many horses, donkeys and mules there are in Greece, where they live, under what conditions, when and how they change ownership and how their life ends. This happens because Greece does not comply with the European Regulation which, since 2008, mandates that all equines in Europe be …
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July 22, 2021
Economy
Greece’s Finance Ministry on Thursday launched an e-platform on Thursday where economic vulnerable households can protect their first residence and settle their debts through a series of favorable measures. Vulnerable households can make : a) settlement of debt through an out-of-court mechanism in 240 tranches for arrears to the state …
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May 5, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
A priest in Halkidiki, northern Greece, warned those who have been vaccinated, had Covid-19 self test or wear a mask that he does not want them to attend services in the church. He went so far even to claim that these protection measures are dictated by the satan. In the …
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February 25, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Social
The Greek government has set up a #MeToo website where citizens can submit complaints get information on sexual harassment and abuse as well as power-based violence, actions taken against abusers and links where victims can seek help. The website metoogreece.gr will soon host announcements concerning initiatives designed to help people …
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April 10, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Extending the legal protection framework in Greece for owners of primary residence has reportedly “snagged” on opposition by the country’s European creditors, even amid the unprecedented situation with the coronavirus pandemic and its devastating effects on the economy. According to reports, European representatives were negative to a request by Athens …
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February 3, 2020
Economy
“Protection of the first residence harms the economy,” Development Minister and New Democracy Vice, Adonis Georgiadis, cynically stated over the weekend triggering strong reactions from the opposition. Addressing a meeting at the Greek Chamber of Commerce, Georgiadis argued that “there is no absolute protection of first residence in any advanced …
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May 5, 2019
Greece
Greece has proposed the creation of a European agency that should monitor and protect sites of cultural heritage that are at risk. Alternate Foreign Affairs Minister Sia Anagnostopoulou made the proposal during a Paris meeting of EU ministers of European affairs and culture in Paris on Friday. Anagnostopoulou said that …
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March 29, 2019
Economy
With an enhanced majority the Greek Parliament adopted the amendment for the protection of debtors’ primary residence on Friday. Article 68 of the amendment received 194 votes in a parliament of 300, as main opposition party New Democracy voted in favor. The roll-call vote took place among 231 lawmakers who …
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March 27, 2019
Economy
The Greek government submitted on Tuesday night a legislative amendment with the new framework for the protection of debtor’s primary residence. For the first time, corporate loans are included in the law. The upper limit of the value of the protected primary residence is 250,000 euros. This affects private loans …
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March 20, 2019
Economy
The Greek government plants to proceed with a unilateral action and submit a measure to protect the primary residence of debtors even if the country’s lenders will disagree. Government sources told media that the government will submit the scheme as successor of the so-called Katseli Law on the basis of …
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February 15, 2019
Economy
The Greek government and representatives of the country’s four systemic banks have finally agreed on the issue of debtors and the protection of the ‘first residence’. After weeks of negotiations, the government and the banks agreed on the framework that will protect the first residence of defaulting borrowers. The criteria …
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August 7, 2018
environment
In year 2007 diver Vasilis Mentogiannis was working on an underwater infrastructure project in a small remote gulf in the Chalkidiki peninsula in north Greece. Suddenly, a seahorse went swimming by. Then another followed, and then another. Ever since he discovered the seahorse habitat, Mentogiannis is campaigning to protect a …
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July 29, 2018
animals
After the shocking videos of donkeys abuse and the ugly incident where muleteers attacked animal rights activists, authorities on the island of Santorini finally decided to take measures for the protection of the troubled and abused in many ways animals. In a statement issued on Saturday, the Municipality of Santorini …
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April 12, 2018
Economy
Greece’s Finance Ministry submitted a regulation to the Parliament offering tax protection to occasional workers with low annual income. The regulation refers to incomes obtained in 2017 and was submitted ahead of the tax declarations to be made in coming weeks of 2018. The regulation allows low-income tax payers who …
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October 13, 2017
Economy
Residences worth up to 300,000 euros will be exempted from electronic foreclosure actions that are expected to be launched soon. The exemption follows an agreement of the Justice Minister with the banks. According to a report by athensnewsagency, all residences valued at 300,000 euros or less will be exempted from …
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October 12, 2017
Greece, Politics
After several written requests the European Commission finally took position on the return of the Parthenon Marbles in the context of Brexit. In a notion to SYRIZA MEP Stelios Kouloglou, the Commission said there is nothing it can do arguing the Marbles are old. MEP Kouloglou had already written twice …
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