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Greece officially opened the all-important 2021 summer holiday season on Friday, with tourists from a variety of countries allowed to vacation with a recent negative Covid-19 test to show, or with a vaccination certificate

As expected, the port of Piraeus, the biggest and business port facility in Greece and one of the most important in the Mediterranean, has the “lion’s share” of cruise ship activity in the island-dotted nation.

The previous (1997-2007) decade before the real estate “bubble” burst witnessed a 170.4-percent cumulative increase in the prices of residences

Internet use has reached 96% of Greeks 13-74 years old, while this was seen in almost 90% of 55-64 year olds

The “Introduce yourself” application enables citizens to automatically update their details with banking institutions through the state registries

Greece is no longer the black sheep of Europe, as in the previous decade of the Memoranda. Also, the political risk of the period 2015-2019 has disappeared. Of course, the deep, structural problems in the country’s economy have not been eliminated.

According to reports, a meeting with the management of Hellenic Petroleum (Hel.Pe) focused on resuming operation of a fuel pipeline that connects the Greek petrochemical group’s refinery in Thessaloniki with Skopje.

The training will be conducted online – via the Cisco Networking Academy – and is part of a MoC signed between Greece’s unemployment and vocational training agency with Cisco Systems

Aside from the EU [including Germany, which has always maintained a particularly friendly stance toward Turkey], Turkey's two-state proposal has been openly rejected by the US and Russia.

Bourla also said Pfizer’s goal for the year is an incredible three billion vaccine doses and four billion in 2022 – nearly half of the necessary doses for the entire planet’s population

He also noted that Greece posted significant progress in 2019, with the subsequent pandemic devastating all European countries, an unprecedented economic crisis, as he said, but quite different from the one that plagued the EU the previous decade

Nikos Papathanasis estimates that the 32 billion euros fromthe Recovery Fund will leverage another 30 billion from the private sector

During the meeting of the Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis with the Vice President of the European Commission in charge of Competition and Digital Policy, Margaret Vestager, discussions were held on the major infrastructure projects of the country.

It is worth noting that last April, the sales of new cars had dropped by 80.6% due to the coronavirus pandemic.

 The General Secretary of the Hellenic Tourism Organization, Dimitris Fraggakis, discussed the challenges and prospects facing Greek tourism

Tourist traffic is expected to pick up from the end of June-beginning of July

The German press on the measures of Berlin, which unlock the holidays in Greece, the violence in Israel and the dependence of the western Balkans on Beijing.

Hugo Velez, CEO of HipoGES, believes that Greece has been slow to organize the three major debt managers who are called upon to restructure the debt situation of the banks

The government’s overarching objective is to improve the relationship between the army and those who are called to service by utilising their skills and offering more mutual benefits.

The creation of the Ecological Park is part of the Public Investment Program