Thursday
31 August 2023

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ECONOMY

Restrictions on short-term leases

The government is moving toward a clear distinction between small owners who rent their property for a few days a year to foreign or Greek visitors and owners or companies who rent a larger number of properties systematically under the short-term rental scheme.

Foreign investors drive property boom

Housing costs stress incomes

ECONOMY

Salvaging power grid connection project

A solution appears likely for the funding snags for EuroAsia interconnector, the planned high-voltage direct-current cable that will connect the power grids of Greece, Cyprus and Israel.

NEWS

PM to address Parliament, welcome Italian PM Meloni on Thursday

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address Parliament regarding the fires in Greece at 10:30 a.m on Thursday morning, his office said.

NEWS

Women summoned to testify over illegal adoptions

Dozens of women have been summoned to testify in the Department of Organized Crime’s preliminary investigation on the island of Crete after a request by the competent prosecutor in connection with the case of a fertility clinic in the city of Hania that may have operated as a front for an illegal adoption racket.

SYRIZA to approve list of candidates for leadership contest on Saturday

NEWS

SYRIZA to approve list of candidates for leadership race on Saturday

Greece’s leftist main opposition is holding its standing congress to approve the candidates running for party leadership at the Foundation of the Hellenic World on Saturday.

LATEST NEWS

08:21Restrictions on short-term leases

08:00Women summoned to testify over illegal adoptions

07:15SYRIZA to approve list of candidates for leadership contest on Saturday

05:23NATO post draws Greek ire

04:06EU regulators backs Pfizer’s updated vaccine for dominant Omicron subvariant

03:30Checking email? You’re probably not breathing

02:41Suspects back in court over Singapore’s swoop on major money laundering ring

23:00The duty of local authorities

22:49Russia’s exit from Black Sea Grain Initiative

22:28Stocks slide after four days of gains

22:05Cartoon (30/08/2023)

21:41Urbanography | Athens | To March 3, 2024

21:40A rebetiko sensation with a laika heart

21:19Migrant trafficking group unraveled on Rhodes

20:53Rama says justice to rule on Beleri and that he treasures minority

20:30Insta-politics

20:04ELIAMEP, ACG bring future leaders together at Olympia

19:02PM to address Parliament, welcome Italian PM Meloni on Thursday

18:12Investors flock to Porto Heli, buying businesses and land

17:33Bus falls into a roadside ditch in Laconia

17:04Salvaging power grid connection project

16:1165-year-old man killed in traffic accident involving police car

16:03Ministry announces measures to support fire-stricken region of Evros

15:43Wildfires cause villages to evacuate in Evros

15:21Interest rates set to rise further

14:19EU’s largest wildfire in northeastern Greece burning for 12th day despite firefighting efforts

14:15Rescues underway for migrants on board sailboats off the coast of western Greece and in Cyclades

14:12Second job could raise your pension

13:52Cyprus tourist arrivals up 27% y-o-y

13:18Three-year-old boy dies after choking on grape

13:09Man accused of fatally shooting dog in Ermioni

12:42Zakharova: Lavrov to hold talks with Turkish counterpart

12:30Trucks to be monitored in real time via satellite in Greece

11:45Stocks limit early gains,end up 0.16%

11:11Over 82,600 hectares consumed in Evros by Aug 28, fresh satellite data show

10:39Firefighters battle flare-ups in Evros, smaller fronts in Parnitha

10:17Greece revises EU-aided plan

09:51SYRIZA candidate making waves

09:13Lower oil prices affect refiner Motor Oil’s results

ALL NEWS

Insta-politics

ANALYSIS

Personal challenges and public policies

It’s been a difficult summer. Citizens feel angry and insecure.

OPINIONS

EDITORIAL

The duty of local authorities

GEORGE J. TSUNIS

Russia’s exit from Black Sea Grain Initiative

ALEXIS PAPACHELAS

Insta-politics

EDITORIAL

Challenge for new universities

TOM ELLIS

Greece and India

CARTOON

Ilias Makris29.08.2023

Checking email? You’re probably not breathing

ALISHA HARIDASANI GUPTA

In 2007, Linda Stone, a former Microsoft executive, realized that even though she did breathing exercises every morning, when she sat down at her laptop and opened up her inbox, it all went out the window.

INTERVIEWS

EDI RAMA

The arrest of Beleri ‘has nothing to do with me’

NARENDRA MODI

Greece is India’s ‘gateway’ into the EU

PETROS BABASIKAS

Climate change: Saving Athens from itself

Artificial pancreas revolutionizes treatment of type 1 diabetes

PODCAST

Greece, the US, and the work to advance LGBTQI+ rights

VIDEO

‘Do no harm’: OB-GYNs weigh the legal impact of abortion bans

As anti-abortion laws take effect across the country, doctors treating patients with high-risk pregnancies are facing difficult decisions – and legal risks – over their standards of care.

NEWS

About 150 migrants rescued from two sailboats off western Greece and in the Aegean Sea

About 150 migrants were rescued from overloaded sailboats provided by smugglers in two separate incidents Wednesday far off a western Greek island and off a Cycladic island near the Greek capital, the coast guard said.

NEWS

NATO post draws Greek ire

Diplomatic sources say Greece’s representation to NATO has sent a protest letter to NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg, following the congratulatory message to Turkey by NATO’s Allied Land Command (LANDCOM), based in Izmir, on the occasion of Turkey’s “Victory Day,” the anniversary of the defeat of the Greek forces in Asia Minor in 1922. It is also known as Turkish Armed Forces Day.

NEWS

Suspects back in court over Singapore’s swoop on major money laundering ring

NEWS

Migrant trafficking group unraveled on Rhodes

NEWS

Rama says justice to rule on Beleri and that he treasures minority

NEWS

Bus falls into a roadside ditch in Laconia

ECONOMY

CONSUMER PRICES

Greek inflation strikes back

Eurostat’s provisional data on the harmonized consumer price index on Monday showed a rebound in inflation in Greece in July instead of a further de-escalation

ECONOMY

Stocks slide after four days of gains

ECONOMY

Ministry announces measures to support fire-stricken region of Evros

ECONOMY

Interest rates set to rise further

ECONOMY

Second job could raise your pension

ECONOMY

Cyprus tourist arrivals up 27% y-o-y

ECONOMY

Trucks to be monitored in real time via satellite in Greece

SOCIETY

A rebetiko sensation with a laika heart

Apostolos Nikolaidis started working in construction at the age of 13, singing as he climbed the scaffolding.

ELIAMEP, ACG bring future leaders together at Olympia

Advancing precision medicine with Greek software

Is Omonia about to become livable again?

On a charred migrant trail, firefighters find 19 bodies

From vine to glass: The story of Malagousia

A tale of two Greek-Australian diaspora poleis

SPORTS

US eases past Greece 109-81 at Basketball World Cup to advance to 2nd round

The first required step at the Basketball World Cup for the Americans is now complete. They're going to the tournament's second round.

SPORTS

Marijuana odor bothers Maria Sakkari during her loss in the US Open’s first round

Even while she was rolling on the court, Maria Sakkari was bothered by the smell of something off it. "It was weed," Sakkari said.

CULTURE

WHAT'S ON

Urbanography | Athens | To March 3, 2024

The National Gallery – Alexandros Soutsos Museum presents the urban experience of 1950s-70s Greece through paintings, sculptures, installations and film clips.

CULTURE

Mendoni: British Museum lost argument that Parthenon Sculptures safer in London

WHAT'S ON

Pavlos – The Roots | Messinia | To September 10

CULTURE

Association of Greek Archeologists’ announcement on the British Museum debacle

CULTURE

Lanthimos premiering ‘creepy gothic thriller’ in Venice

IMAGES

Investors flock to Porto Heli, buying businesses and land

Porto Heli in the Peloponnese has drawn intense investor interest, to the point of raising concerns of overdevelopment, balanced by expectations of profitable growth.

PARTNER CONTENT

Greece can become a major international education destination

From my perspective, as it continues to recover from the nearly decade-long financial crisis as well as the Covid pandemic, Greece has a strategic opportunity to follow a path that can lead to a dynamic and prosperous future.