With two “last-minute” announcements, the year and the cycle of announcements of new benefits for 2024 comes to a close. In his speech before the new state budget was passed in parliament yesterday, in addition to announcing the measures for banks, Kyriakos Mitsotakis also outlined a small package of benefits (“exhausting to the fullest the fiscal margins,” he said), emphasizing 130.000 minimum wage earners who are exempt from paying for their medicines and will get them for free, and additionally 150,000 uniformed workers who will be recognized for the dangerousness of the services they provide.

One more mafia-style execution in Greece took place on Sunday with the deadly ambush of two men outside a cafe in Athens’ Thracomacedones district, resulting in one 45 year old being killed on the spot and a second man seriously injured.

In the Catholicon of the Old Monastery of Taxiarches in Aigialeia, just 15 kilometers from Aigio, two layers of frescoes of high artistic quality from the late Byzantine period are preserved. These reflect the aesthetic trends of Constantinople.

As 2024 reaches its end, the President of the Greek Community of Toronto sends his wishes and a message to all members of the Community.