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Dimitris Koutsoumbas, the general secretary of Greece's Communist Party (KKE), has stood by his remarks suggesting that the imposition of university tuition fees in Scandinavian universities has led young female students there to date older men for money in order to cover their educational expenses.

A program launched a year ago providing subsidies to companies to hire former drug addicts, ex-convicts, victims of gender-based violence and human trafficking, and others to assist them in re-entering the labor market has reportedly been crowned with success.

Minister of Shipping and Island Policy Christos Stylianidis is close to securing subsidies and credits of the order of 1.5 billion euros to finance new coastal passenger ferries, which will drastically reduce the sector's carbon dioxide emissions.

The president spoke briefly with the factory workers and wished them happy work.
The production process was presented to him.
"This looks amazing," commented the president of the machine shop.

Thirty years after farmers first started blocking roads with their tractors, little has changed in the primary sector. Farmers are aging and their number is shrinking, good arable land remains relatively scarce and cooperatives exist mainly as a lever of pressure on the government of the time, while training is still lagging.

Amidst a fervent outcry, 26 agricultural organizations will gather outside the Council of Ministers, demanding the immediate resignation of Agriculture Minister Kiril Vatev. Defiant against government negotiations, these longstanding groups, boasting a collective 20 years of existence and employing over 300,000 individuals, assert their legitimacy.

As it emerged from the constructive debate in Parliament on Friday, government incentives to attract foreign capital, such as the Golden Visa program, have ended up causing more distortions in the property market than benefiting the national economy.

The acuteness of the housing crisis, but also the traces of opacity, justify a complete revision of the current regime.

Protesting farmers with their tractors take part in a rally outside an agricultural fair in the port city of Thessaloniki, northern Greece, Thursday. Greek farmers - hit by rising costs and crop damage caused by recent floods and wildfires - are threatening to block highways to press demands for tax relief and higher subsidy payments. [Giannis Papanikos/AP]

The municipality of Kyustendil published an online map, including paid parking spaces and instructions for their usage. In actuality, the implementation of the "Blue Zone" was already initiated in the past, after a decision approved by the Municipal Council in 2016 and confirmed in 2022, but it has not been activated until now. The parking fee will amount to 1 lev per hour (0.50 euros).

The debate between private schools and parents about increasing fees has reignited with the start of the new year.

According to the criteria that "No increase may exceed the figure obtained by dividing the sum of the previous year's PPI and CPI by two and adding five points," there will be an increase of approximately 60 percent in private school fees in the 2024-2025 academic year.