News archive of May 2024

PASOK climbs to 2nd place, poll shows

Socialist PASOK has leapfrogged over leftist SYRIZA to second place, while ruling New Democracy leads the pack by 18 points, according to a new opinion poll of voter intentions based on expected valid votes conducted by Prorata. 

PM plans postal vote and new ballot paper

The government plans to make three modifications to the way the next national elections will be conducted. According to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, his government will seek to introduce the postal vote in national ballot box for both Greeks overseas and voters in Greece. 

Turkish, US top diplomats discuss Gaza,Caucasus

Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken met on the sidelines of an informal meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Prague on Tuesday, discussing the latest situation in Gaza as well as maintaining peace in the Caucasus.

Ankara plans to prospect, drill in Blue Homeland

Turkey's Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said on Thursday that Turkey will continue its research in the areas of its "own continental shelf" in the so-called Blue Homeland, which is a doctrine expressing Ankara's claim in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.

Chasm between higher education and labor market

To achieve the growth leap that Greece needs to significantly reduce unemployment and replace the 1 million jobs lost due to the economic crisis and the brain drain, Greece must create a few hundred thousand highly skilled jobs in the coming years, according to a study by EY Greece, ELTRUN, the E-Business Research Center of the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB) and Endeavor Gre

Rafah strikes intensify as Israel seizes key Gaza-Egypt corridor

Intense shelling and gunfire rocked Rafah in southern Gaza on Thursday, after Israel declared it had seized a strategic corridor along the Palestinian territory's border with Egypt.

Israel launched its military incursion into Rafah in early May despite international objections over the safety of civilians sheltering in the city.

Online declaration of closure

The Independent Authority for Public Revenue is planning the complete automation of communication with the tax office, with many obligations already completed digitally.

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