Projections show that pensioners will remain below the bar. More than 3 million citizens will suffer a real reduction in income this year. While the announcement of the minimum wage completed the income policy for 2026 – means that what was to be done in terms of income increase has been done – the fear …
Constantinos Floros. [InTime News] An Athens court on Monday convicted a far-right lawmaker of physically assaulting a fellow MP in Parliament and handed him a suspended sentence of four years in prison. Constantinos Floros, an independent lawmaker elected with the Spartans party, was found guilty of violently attacking Vassilis Grammenos from the populist right-wing Greek …
Ukraine, which has begun building up gas reserves for next winter, is interested in increasing LNG supplies through Greek terminals and the pipelines of the Vertical Corridor system, Ukrainian energy company Naftogaz said on Monday. Ukraine is already receiving US liquefied natural gas via Greece through the Vertical Corridor, but its share of total imports …
[InTime News] More than 1,070 people have been fined nationwide in the last week of March for riding motorcycles or e-scooters without crash helmets in a slight decline from the previous week, officials said Monday. In recent months, Greece has sharply stepped up policing for traffic violations such as failure to use crash helmets or …
[InTime News] Authorities have arrested a 54-year-old man after the bodies of his mother and sister were found in an advanced state of decomposition inside a sealed room in his apartment, officials said Tuesday. The arrest in the Athens neighborhood of Zografou was carried out following a prosecutor’s order, after the two women were discovered …
The increase in the minimum wage could spread for all salaries and not just at the base of the wage pyramid, the government says, but this spread is neither automatic nor uniform. It depends on factors such as the effect of collective agreements, labor costs and the resilience of businesses. Therefore, the new increase of …
[InTime News] Energy rate hikes are expected to bring intense pressure on households and businesses, after the high fluctuations triggered by the crisis in the Middle East. In the one month of military conflict, the average price of gasoline at the pump has increased by 17.2% and of diesel by 34.2%, with both products being …
[InTime News] Christos Mavrikis, a former figure in a high-profile political wiretapping scandal of the early 1990s, was sentenced Monday to six years in prison and fined 20,000 euros for attempting to bribe a judge, court officials said. The Three-Member Court of Appeals for Felonies rejected a request to suspend the sentence, ordering Mavrikis to …
Greece’s main opposition party PASOK is seeking to expand its political base following the recent split within the New Left party, as positioning intensifies ahead of the next national elections, Kathimerini understands. PASOK has made a targeted approach to Alexis Charitsis, who recently resigned as leader of New Left, as well as to officials aligned …
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has often insisted on a stable electoral calendar, with elections toward the end of a government’s four-year term. But rumors and scenarios of earlier elections keep persisting, and not only because the media love to speculate about them. Kathimerini understands that the debate about the next election has been going on …