European Union's Recovery and Resilience Fund

Real estate market professionals say that, to succeed, the second round of mortgage subsidies should significantly raise the value of homes eligible for subsidized rates. This would widen the pool of available properties, they say.

Judging by the plans of Greece's biggest banks to use their central Athens properties to relocate their offices or to otherwise use them commercially, one can be excused for being under the impression they want to turn Stadiou Street, one of the capital's main streets and the one where commercial properties were hardest hit by the financial crisis, into a mini City of London.

The awarding of the contracts of several major projects, as well as the achievement of progress on the Exoikonomo subsidy program are the biggest issues pending for the submission of the fourth request for payments from the European Union's Recovery and Resilience Fund, now set by the government in April.

The second phase of the Exoikonomo 2023 funding program begins on Wednesday, with a total budget of 110 million euros and with exclusive beneficiaries for energy-vulnerable households.

Greece's Court of Audit has given the go-ahead for the construction of a new stadium for Athens soccer club Panathinaikos.

More than 36,000 interactive whiteboards will be installed in all elementary, middle and high schools.

The €150 million project is being financed by the European Union's Recovery and Resilience Fund. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday visited a primary school in the northwestern Athens suburb of Agioi Anargyroi, which has been equipped with the boards.