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Polling stations for European, regional and local elections opened at 7 o’ clock Sunday for the 9,922,294 registered voters. 528,000 Greeks will vote for the first time. Among them are , 106,760 17-year-olds who will vote following a recent law amendment that lowered the voting age. 39,063 polling stations have …
Read More »Toll-free on Greece’s highways on EU Elections day, May 26
Motorists will travel through Greece’s highways toll-free on the day of European, local and regional elections on Sunday, May 26th 2019. The measure will be implemented in order to facilitate voters who have to travel to exercise their voting right. Toll booths will be open for toll-free passage from 00:00 …
Read More »Tax inspectors find 12 tax violations in “golden Calamari” restaurant on Mykonos
Tax inspectors paid a visit to the high end restaurant at Platis Gialos on the island of Mykonos that was shamed on internet for over-charged prices. Inspectors have reportedly found not one, not two but 12 tax violations. The denouncement that a group of US tourists paid 836 euros for …
Read More »ND leads with 6.5%-7% against SYRIZA ahead of EU elections
Greece’s main opposition party, conservative New Democracy keeps the leading trend according to the latest public opinion polls with a margin of 6.5%-7% just two days before the European elections on Sunday. According to a survey conducted by MARC for private ANT1 TV, the gap between ND and SYRIZA is …
Read More »Briton with severe head injuries in ICU after fight in Laganas resort, Zakynthos
A 35-year-old Briton is hospitalized with severe head injuries after a fight outside a bar in the resort of Laganas on the island of Zakynthos. The father of two was transferred to a hospital in Athens due to the severeness of his condition. The victim was beaten by two young …
Read More »Funeral office owner runs for Greece’s local elections with gallows humor
His election campaign leaflets looks like funeral announcements, one of his campaign video shows him as he takes measures from a co-candidate. Konstantinos Baboulas is the owner of a funeral office in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, and runs for the regional elections. His surname that translates into “bogeyman” matches perfect to …
Read More »14-year-old commits suicide after parents denounce her molester to police
A 14-year-old girl fell into the tracks of the urban train ISAP in Moschato station in south Athens and was immediately dead on early Thursday afternoon. The suicide reveals a tragedy, as the girl was having an affair with a 43-year-old man and her parents had denounced him to police. …
Read More »Without tolls
For the convenience of citizens in the upcoming European and local elections, 26/05, a decision of the Minister of Infrastructure and Transport foresees no charge, for transit on all the motorways of the country, the Rio-Anti-rio Bridge and Attiki Odos. Free transit through all the countries toll stations will be …
Read More »Ex PM Samaras: Merkel offered me Grexit in August 2012
Former Prime Minister of Greece Antonis Samaras said German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered him a temporary “Grexit, a withdrawal of the country from the Eurozone amid its large-scale economic crisis. He immediately rejected the offer, he said. “I immediately cut her short and said: ‘We will not continue this discussion, …
Read More »EU court rejects investors’ calls for ECB compensation over Greek bailout
The General Court of the European Union said on Thursday the European Central Bank does not have to compensate private holders of Greece’s sovereign debt who were forced to take losses during the 2012 international bailout of the country. Some investors were seeking compensation for the haircut they were forced …
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