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A law amendment of the Labor Ministry that was approved by Parliament on Thursday has given a significant boost, worth 200 million euros, to the financial results of National Bank of Greece.

The pilot implementation of the new simplified birth registration process was launched on Monday in 15 maternity and general hospitals (3 in Athens, 12 nationwide) and is to be universally implemented by the end of February, the ministry of digital governance said on Monday.

Nicole Kidman and her husband Keith Urban donated $ 500,000 to help fight fires in Australia.

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The Labor Ministry is seriously considering the dissociation of the social security contributions calculation for 1.4 million freelance and self-employed professionals and farmers from their declared taxable income.

The increased bereavement allowances due to some 60,000 recipients will finally be paid out by the end of September, as the agencies of the Single Social Security Entity (EFKA) have completed the necessary software adjustment.

With over 11 per cent higher first quarter earnings than a year ago, reported by the National Social Security Institute. January-March costs are only 2.6 percent higher than in the first quarter of 2018. 99 per cent of the costs for the period are for pensions and social benefits. Over BGN 2.7 billion have been paid for them.

Top officials and representatives of countries gathered on April 24 at the site of one of World War I's bloodiest battles to pay respects to the thousands - Turkish, British, Australian, and New Zealand soldiers - who died fighting in the Gallipoli land campaign over 100 years ago.

More and more men are taking paternity leave, according to an analysis by the National Social Security Institute, reports Mediapool. 

Their number has increased by about 20% over the period from 2014 to 2017 and the latest figures are over 21,000.

Costs for pregnancy and childbirth benefits increased by nearly 28% over the same period. The total amount reaches BGN 368 million.

Labor and Social Security Minister Effie Achtsioglou admitted on Tuesday that the government's ratification of the so-called Katrougalos law in 2016, named after the then labor minister, constituted an "institutional and political" reform of the pension system, though not in full compliance with a verdict from the Council of State deeming the 2012 pension cuts as being in violation of the Const

A government minister has ordered a review of the decision to release a jailed power executive on health grounds.