Τhe steam train of Mount Pelion returned to tracks on Saturday, the Hellenic Train has announced on Friday. The two tourist train services restart operation are 10:00 a.m. on the route Ano Lechonia-Milies 3800 train, and 3:00 p.m. route Milies-Ano Lechonia 3801 train, on Saturdays and Sundays. The ascent to …
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Train and Proastiakos services gradually resume, passengers avoid front wagons
Some train services in Greece resumed on Wednesday for the first time since the deadly train collision that killed 57 people and injured dozens on February 28. The first train started at 4:45 a.m. from Larissis central train station in Athens for the village of Oinoi in north-western Attica. Even …
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Services of Athens Municipality now fully digitized
From January 1, 2023, citizens and professionals of Athens have the opportunity for fast and effective services during their transactions with the municipality of Athens after the completion of the digitization of the municipality’s agencies. The digitization of the total of the municipality’s agencies until the end of 2022 was …
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Christmas: Up to 25/50 believers in churches, up to 9 people in family gatherings
The conservative Greek government could not resist to the pressure of the Greek Orthodox Church and made concessions allowing one more service over the Christmas holidays and the increase of number of the participating faithful. The concessions to the Church leadership and a part of the voters’ body came after …
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Court: Vets from other EU states may provide emergency services in Greece
European veterinarians may offer their services in Greece on a temporary and incidental way, according to the Council of State (CoS) on Monday, partially cancelling two Agriculture Minister decisions of 2015. The contested regulations concerned the certification of veterinarians and their access to the newly established electronic database of pets, …
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Greek Post resumes mail services to several foreign countries
The Greek Post has resumed services to several foreign countries and sending of postal items is possible again after weeks of halting operation due to the pandemic. Restrictions on airmail transport worldwide, as a result of the COVID-19 crisis, also have an impact on mail transportation. Restoring Greece’s postal connection …
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Holy Week 2020: Seek and Hide between the Church, the Gov’t and the Coronavirus
A circular of the Holy Synod of the Greek Church set the country for one more time on fire amid the coronavirus pandemic. Churches will be open to the faithful so that they can individually pray during the Holy Week, Greece’s top clergy has instructed the bishops and the priests …
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Bishop calls on faithful to lie, break the lockdown and go to church
Τhe rapid spread of the covornavirus that sends thousands to hospitals and to graves around the globe does not impress the Greek Church. It insists on daily religious services with some ‘real revolutionaries in black” to even call on the faithful to break the lockdown. One local Bishop urged the …
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Coronavirus: Greece suspends services in worship places of all religions
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced late on Monday that services in all areas of religious worship of any religion or dogma are suspended. The conservative leader announced the decision on a tweet just an hour after the Holy Synod decided to suspend daily but not Sunday services at least …
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All Greek banks to implement extra charges for services free until now
Greek banks will impose charges on services that used to be free of charge until now. The charges on virtually all their services and customers’ transactions are an effort to offset their losses from interest rates taking, which have been in constant decline over the last few years, media report. …
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Reduced VAT for food, social services, hotels goes into effect as of May 20
Greece’s Independent Public Revenues Authority has issued a circular with regards to the new decreased Value Added Tax that goes into effect as of Monday, May 20, 2019. The circular analytically describes the sectors affected by the decreased V.A.T. It affects hundreds of food items, catering services but also hotels …
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Prices for consumer goods and services remain high in Greece despite crisis
Despite the economic crisis and the impoverishment of millions of Greeks, prices for consumer goods and services remained high also in 2017. According to a Eurostat report issued on Friday Though Greece slipped to 24th place on the list of the wealthiest countries in the European Union in 2017 from …
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V.A.T. to rise from 23% to 24% and make Greeks’ daily life “unaffordable”
As if it was not enough that supermarket prices get higher each and every week, now new Value Added Tax hikes will skyrocket thousands of products – food items not excluded – and services making daily life even more expensive. According to a proposal made by the Greek government to …
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Value Added Tax on fire: Crazy hikes in food & tourism
More than 40,000 food items are been sold with a poisonous 10% Value Added Tax hike as of today and expect to burden the average Greek household with at least 55 euro per month.Beef, coffee, tea, cocoa, spices, sugar, oils – except olive oil, ice-creams, chocolates, but also condoms and …
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