Before Easter the "inflation check" will be paid to vulnerable social groups. This is an emergency supplement for the approximately 1.2 million citizens, which the government is preparing from the state budget, with the aim of relieving, even temporarily, hundreds of thousands of households that are "victims" of inflation.
Food service firms are preparing to raise prices from 5% to 15% on their products, stating that the surge in operating costs due to energy and raw material costs no longer leaves them room to absorb the extra costs.
Proposed bilateral business and trade agreements with an initial value of two billion euros were the first results of talks on the sidelines of a closely watched Saudi Arabia-Greece business forum this week in Riyadh.
Speaking on Fox News, Keith Kellogg, formerly the National Security Advisor to former Vice President Mike Pence, remarked that if the West won’t let Ukraine have additional MiG fighter jets, they should seek anti aircraft missiles from certain NATO-member countries. The general said two Balkan countries, Greece and Bulgaria, along with fellow NATO member Slovakia, all have S-300 missile technology that itself was originally designed by Russia. “The thing they should do is go to Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Greece, which are three NATO nations, and they’ve got a system called the S-300, which is a Russian system that shoots down ballistic missiles and anti-aircraft [projectiles] as well, and put it around those point-targets and defend it,” he said. “It’d be kind of nice to have a Russian system shoot down a Russian aircraft,” he said.
Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias and VISA Europe CEO Charlotte Hogg signed a collaboration agreement in Athens on Tuesday.
An operation for the safe evacuation of Greek Consul General in Mariupol Manolis Androulakis and staff from the city's branch of the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) began on Tuesday, said Greek diplomatic sources.
Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias met with the leadership of the Greece-France Interparliamentary Friendship Group of the French Senate, made up of the group's Chairman Didier Marie and deputy chairmen Francoise Dumont and Laurence Harribey, according to an announcement on Tuesday.
The necessity to deescalate of tension between Greece and Turkey and support stability in the East Mediterranean, in the shadow of the war in the Ukraine, was the joint understanding at the meeting of Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Sunday, Greek government sources said.
Space Hellas, in collaboration with the Laboratory of Optical Communications and Photon Technology of Athens University, implemented and demonstrated the first pilot application of Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) technology, which is done for a public body in Greece. The pilot application concerned the needs of the Presidency of the Government, was carried out at its facilities and was related to the provision of communications critical to national security.
February 2021 marks one year since SKY express opened its wings to Europe starting with Cyprus, creating an important international airline network for Greece that connects tens of thousands of passengers with top European destinations.
Organized retailers and suppliers are in the throes of a new round of rising energy costs and commodity prices, with commodity price hikes a one-way street.
The European and world economies are facing the risk of stagflation (stagnant inflation) due to the war in Ukraine. Big increases in the costs of energy, raw materials, goods, food and transport are creating the conditions for a new big jump in inflation at a time when sanctions and inflation are threatening the economies, which were trying to recover from the big problems caused the pandemic.
The government may rule out a 24% reduction in Excise Tax and VAT on motor fuels (petrol and diesel), but will return the additional revenue to economically vulnerable groups.
