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Elias Xirouchakis is the new CEO of the Fund

The market value of medical cannabis is expected to reach $ 56 billion by 2028, according to Evan Michailidis, Partner at law firm Duane Morris

“Ports should become energy hubs, where the production, storage and distribution of electricity will coexist,” said the secretary general of Energy and Mineral Resources.

The school will utilize all possible bioclimatic means aiming at almost zero energy consumption

The total number of unemployed receiving benefits for the month of April 2021 amounts to 217,604 people, ie one in about five unemployed

In an emergency briefing, the Deputy Minister of Civil Protection and Crisis Management, Nikos Hardalias, presented the latest data from the front.

Ominously, among 36 OECD member-states, Greece places an unenviable fourth place for highest taxation of wage-earners with children, with only Turkey, France and Sweden ahead.

The memorandum submitted by the citizen’s protection minister to the Supreme Court’s prosecutor with the names and addresses of 500 individuals with organised crime links is the first step toward registering and charting a plan.

There is as yet no indication whether the health ministry might recall the batch of AstraZeneca vaccines distributed in Crete. Unlike countries such as the UK, Greeks when vaccinated are not supplied with the batch number.

Public registrations will start on May 19, 2021,10:00 a.m. Greek time and will be completed on May 21, 2021, 4:00 p.m. Greek time

Citigroup economist Giada Giani added, predictably, that a revived tourism sector this week will be felt in the second half of the year, coinciding with the “plentiful” resources from the Union’s recovery fund, (NextGenEU)

Higher private sector investment

TUI said 23 flights landed in Greece since last week carrying its customers.

The first tests were successful, the transmission operator announced.

According to the Athens-based consortium, led by German multinational Fraport, the works at the regional airports – located in the country’s premier holiday destinations – were completed three months before schedule

There is a potentially explosive combination of newer, aggressive COVID-19 variants, the drop in the average age of new confirmed cases to 39, and the fact that there are more admissions of COVID-19 cases to hospitals than releases.

Minister Adonis Georgiadis referred to a successful international tender to privatize the company, while noting that Plasan’s management has already begun to renovate the plant – located in Thessaloniki’s industrial park – and is proceeding with hirings and the development of a business plan

Pangalos wrote a letter to the current deputy premier, Panagiotis Pikrammenos, in which he described the manufacturer and model of his old car, how many kilometres it had racked up along with its problems and repairs.

During this same four-month period, ordinary budget revenues reached to 13.746 billion euros, 13.062 billion euros the corresponding period of last year.

The investment of the pharmaceutical industry Pfizer in the second hub in Thessaloniki amounts to more than 100 million euros, according to the head of the second hub of the company in the city, Antonis Hatzimanolakis