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Travelers with active European vaccination certificate will no need a mandatory Covid-19 test, Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced Friday noon. The European certificate is valid for nine months, while in Greece it will be seven months from next Monday. The measure will go into force as of Monday, February …

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Greece’s main opposition party SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance has called on the government to immediately scrap the sms messages citizens need to send to exit their homes. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis should end without delay the obligation to send an SMS in order for someone to go out during the Easter holidays, …

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The SMS system to <13033> to leave home during the lockdown in Greece will be scrapped and inter-municipality movement will be allowed again on Monday, May 3, when restaurants will reopen, media report on Tuesday. Speaking to ANT1 TV, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis said “We are very close to …

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Clock Change will end in Europe in October 2019, the European Commission announced on Friday. Each member state will have the freedom to decide for itself whether its citizens will live in endless summer or winter time. EU members will have to made their decisions by April 2019. “There will …

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Employees at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) are among the 19 people the Greek Police arrested for having formed a gang that was stealing railway equipment estimated worth of 7 million euros. Eight OSE workers – a manager and several employees  but also an employee at the Greek Public Power …

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European Council president Donald Tusk is to tell the EU summit on Thursday that the mandatory quotas for refugees relocation have been ‘divisive and ineffective’ and they should be abolished. The plan comes just days after the EU took three member states, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland to court …

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The government will scrap the special consumption tax on wine by end of the year, Minister for Rural Development, Vaggelis Apostolou, announced on Saturday. The measure not only did not meet revenue targets, it boosted illegal trade in wine and grapes. Inaugurating the Wine Days of Nemea 2017 in one …

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A Greek taxpayer no longer needs an accountant or a kind of consultant to tell him how to deal with the family income. The Greek Finance Ministry has appointed itself to this role. And it rules that when you have an income plus you must directly give it to the …

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Greek government took an important decision: to scrap the 23% Value Added Tax in private education and introduce gradually increasing VAT rates, while kindergartens and nurseries will be free of V.A.T as before September. According to Athens News Agency report Tuesday noon, the new rates will be: 0% for kindergartens …

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We normally call it a “horse trading”. But Greece makes the usual exception to the rule and invents a new term: The Beef Trading. In the hard and shrewd bargaining  with creditors, the Greek government achieved to lower the Value Added Tax of 23% to beef and beef products and …

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European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and EU Commissioner for Economic and Financial Affairs Pierre Moscovici signaled that they want to scrap the Troika, the representatives of International Monetary Fund, The European Union and the European Central Bank, dealing with the Greek bailout programs, the austerity time table and the so-called …

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We certainly all feel with the plight of Greek civil servants and the cuts they have been exposed to due to Troika austerity. Their already hard working life spiced with benefits, allowances, part-time work but full-time payments and all possible kinds of benefits a union-government alliance could think of is getting even harder. …

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