Haris Theocharis

Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis urged banks and terminal service providers to reduce fees for small-value transactions made via point-of-sale (POS) terminals, during a meeting with representatives from banks and payment service providers on Wednesday. 

The deadline to pay traffic fees has been extended to February 29, stated National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis on Thursday.

The decision was announced earlier by Deputy Economy and Finance Minister Haris Theocharis, who added there will be no further extension.

Private debt in Greece remains stable and lies below the European Union average, Deputy Finance Minister Haris Theocharis said in Parliament on Friday.

Tax evasion may be ranging between 8 and 10 billion euros per year, according to rough calculations, and half of that could be recovered, Deputy Minister of National Economy and Finance Haris Theocharis told Skai Radio on Thursday.

The die is cast. The reshuffle is now a fact and it held surprises.

At first, an autonomous Ministry of Civil Protection was set up, with a surprise minister: Retired Admiral Evangelos Apostolakis.

The Minister of Tourism, Mr.

A letter to the Minister of Tourism, Haris Theocharis, was sent by the Panhellenic Hoteliers Federation (PHF), in which it refers to the lack of available rooms in quarantine hotels and asks tourists who are positive for the virus to be isolated in the places they have rented.

A number of Greece's most popular islands will be confronted with a local lockdown where there has been over the last two weeks a continual steep rise in confirmed COVID-19 cases Some experts have projected a possible 10,000 cases a day by mid-August.

That is over three times the number of cases in the last 24 hours (2,691) announced today by the National Public Health Organisation.

The "day after" for Greek hotels, through the utilization of the available financial tools of the National Recovery Plan "Greece 2.0", was discussed today at the conference on "The next day of the Greek Hotel, utilizing the financial means" co-organized by the Ministry Of Tourism and the Hotel Chamber of Greece, at the Lighthouse of the Cultural Center Stavros Niarchos Foundation (KPISN), with

"It is a given that this summer would be difficult, it is an exercise of great balance", stressed the Minister of Tourism, Haris Theocharis.

"We are trying to make sure that we take as few restrictive measures as possible, but without endangering the health of our tourists and citizens," he said, referring to the rise of the Delta mutation in Britain.