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A tow-truck driver called by police to remove a vehicle belonging to a drunk driver in central Athens on Sunday morning was himself found to be intoxicated, Greek police reported. The driver, who had a contract with Greek traffic police, was summoned to tow a car from a checkpoint on Panepistimiou Street in the early …
[Civil Protection Ministry] Vassilis Papageorgiou, General Secretary for Civil Protection, has resigned, stating that the primary purpose of his decision aims to facilitate Greece’s judicial investigation into the Tempe railway disaster just over two years ago. Papageorgiou submitted his resignation to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday. He faces charges for possible tampering with the site …
Individual taxpayers will have to pay an additional 1 billion euros at least this year compared to 2024, with the largest part of this burden expected to be reflected in their 2025 tax returns. The increases in incomes and in “invisible” measures – such as the non-indexation of the tax scale, as well as an …
Just before breaking the Ramadan fast on Sunday evening, Hasan Zaheda played basketball with his son in the tiny courtyard of the basement-level apartment on Rome’s outskirts where the refugee family is rebuilding their lives. They have no pictures from their native Syria – they fled Damascus at the height of the civil war with …
[Intime] Inflation in Greece is estimated to have fallen slightly to 3% in February, from 3.1% in January, according to a preliminary estimate released on Monday by Eurostat. This is the European Union-harmonized index, that often differs slightly to the national consumer price index that the Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) publishes. Food inflation in Greece …
More than 450 new five- and four-star hotels and another 244 three-star hotels have started operating in the last five years, corresponding to three new hotels almost every week since 2019. This is a very rapid pace of growth, which, although having significant positive impacts on Greece’s economic activity, also creates serious challenges related to …
Chios airport [File photo] Ten 10 state-owned airports have been certified according to the standards of the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), a milestone that “constitutes an important step towards strengthening aviation safety and improving the quality of services to passengers and airlines,” according to the Ministry of Infrastructure and Transport. EU regulations stipulate that …
[InTime News] Two men and a woman died and two other people were injured on Monday in a traffic accident on Athens’ Katehaki Avenue. The crash, which involved three cars and a taxi, occurred at about 4 p.m. A 91-year-old driver and his 83-year-old wife died in the collision, while their 56-year-old son died later …
Athens’ Ermou Street continues to be the most expensive commercial street in Greece, with rents in prime locations reaching an average of €300 per square metre in the last quarter of 2024, up from €290 per sqm in 2023, according to a recent study by Cushman & Wakefield Proprius. Thessaloniki‘s Tsimiski Street has now overtaken …
Clean Monday means the skies are full of hexagonal kites flown by delighted children. [George Drakopoulos] Nobody is quite sure where the kite-flying tradition came from. Some say that the ancient Greek mathematician Archytas of Tarentum designed and flew the first kite to test aerodynamics, while others believe it started when people would write wishes …