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Mobile alerts via SMS or Viber will be sent to consumers with smart meters when the price of electricity in the next day’s wholesale market is about to exceed 200 euros a megawatt hour.

In an effort to protect consumers from soaring energy costs, Greece's Regulatory Authority for Energy (RAAEY) has announced a new initiative aimed at providing timely notifications regarding fluctuations in electricity prices. 

The Communist Party of Greece (KKE) has warned that a deepfake video is circulating in which its general secretary, Dimitris Koutsoubas, appears to announce that the party has submitted a legislative initiative for "investments in oil and natural gas companies."

EMC (Electronic media council) is Silent: For Another Year, the Media Bypasses the Law and Shows Preliminary Results All Day Long

For another year, the media bypasses the law and shows preliminary results throughout the day.

Bulgaria's Ministry of Internal Affairs has launched 20 new electronic administrative services, aiming to alleviate the administrative load for citizens and businesses, according to an official announcement. With this addition, the Ministry now offers a total of 74 electronic services, enhancing the application and processing of existing services.

Citizens in Greece are losing faith in the news delivered by traditional media, partly due to perceptions of undue political and business influence on journalism, according to the annual Digital News Report 2023 by the Reuters Institute based on a YouGov survey of over 93,000 online news consumers in 46 markets covering half of the world's population. 

A friend of Qamili and a cousin had both shown her similar messages they had received months earlier, containing the same kind of vulgar content and the same spelling errors. They suspected the same person was harassing them, using a dialect of Albanian that pointed to their hometown, Kicevo in North Macedonia.

"Bulgarian Railways" (BDZ) expands the possibilities of accessing information about train schedules, and for additional convenience, Viber users can use the newly created chatbot "BDZ-Information".

Two suspects of Pakistani origin are set to appear before an investigating magistrate on Friday on charges of planning an attack on a Jewish center in the busy downtown area of Psyri. The suspects allegedly received orders from a fellow Pakistani who is currently evading arrest in Iran.

Greek Police, Athens, Photo: EPA-EFE/GEORGE VITSARAS

It follows reports in the media on Sunday, January 29, of secret conversations between police officers and people involved with the fuel mafia.