News archive of September 2024

Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the cabinet, and numerous governmental and party officials of New Democracy are relocating to Thessaloniki over the next few days, with attention focused on the Prime Minister’s speech tomorrow at the Thessaloniki International Fair (TIF).

One in seven National Health Service (ESY) permanent doctors have reportedly stated their intention to open a private practice or collaborate with a private clinic or diagnostic center, taking advantage of the new institutional framework that permits them to work privately outside of their regular duty hours.

Overtime hours increased significantly in 2024, reaching 1.53 million in the first seven months, according to data from the ERGANI system. This rise is largely attributed to the introduction of the digital work card.

Passenger traffic at Athens International Airport took off last month, registering a 10.5% increase compared to August 2023.

According to data from AIA, passenger traffic reached 3.64 million in August 2024, up 10.5% compared to August 2023 levels.

A series of attacks in the Red Sea by the Iran-backed Houthi rebels have left a Greek flagged ship, the Sounion, stranded, threatening to spill its 1 million barrels of oil into the sea. Greece has taken the lead in coordinating efforts to evacuate and tow the Sounion, but the threat of environmental disaster remains large.

SAN FRANCISCO — When libraries across the country temporarily closed in the early days of the pandemic, the Internet Archive, an organization that digitizes and archives materials like webpages and music, had the idea to make its library of scanned books free to read in an online database.

With ruling New Democracy emitting a sense of fatigue and registering a significant drop in the polls - the result of wrong political choices but also of the arrogant behavior of some of its officials - and SYRIZA experiencing never-ending self-destructive infighting and sinking into an existential rut, PASOK is celebrating its 50th anniversary at a crucial time for its and the country's future

Shein and Temu, two Chinese e-commerce giants, are the targets of a proposed investigation by the United States government into the sale of “deadly products for babies and toddlers.”

The imposition of rules and inspections on the use of Greek beaches showed that where there is the political will, the state can effectively protect the public interest. 

The government initiative was a positive move that brought order to anarchy and gave citizens a sense that the state cares about them.