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As American companies prepare to bring large numbers of workers back to the office in the coming months, executives are facing one of their most delicate pandemic-related decisions: Should they require employees to be vaccinated?
The emblematic lignite-fired power plant at Kardia in Western Macedonia was consigned to the country’s energy history books on Thursday.
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Turkey’s finance minister said on Thursday that the country’s gross domestic product will grow at a more than 5% rate this year, helped along by export growth of between 16% and 20% after a pandemic-hit 2020.
Geneva-based banking software company Temenos announced on Thursday that Eurobank has selected Temenos Wealth to strengthen its position in wealth management and affluent segment services.
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Switzerland has removed Greece from its list of high-Covid-risk countries, as the so-called “red list” published on Wednesday does not include this country anymore.
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There is much to wonder and laugh at in the database of questions compiled by the Interior Ministry for the exams foreign nationals need to pass in order to qualify for Greek citizenship.
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion dropped 10% in the European Union last year amid the coronavirus pandemic, according to estimates from the EU’s statistical office.
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Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos Pierrakakis presented a new digital platform named “Know Your Customer” to Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday which allows citizens to complete transactions and requests online instead of in person at banks.
A 36-year-old woman accused of a vicious acid attack against a perceived romantic rival will stand trial for attempted murder, a judicial council ruled on Friday.
Online pharmacy turnover jumped 38.3% in the first quarter of the year compared to January-March 2020, according to figures from Convert Group, showing that this is a market segment that retains its momentum and still has great scope for growth.
Residential property prices remained on a growth path over the first quarter of the year, as the housing market appears to be emerging from the pandemic largely unscathed.
The participants in last week’s informal meeting on the Cyprus problem left Geneva satisfied with the fact that each could blame the other for the meeting’s failure.
The ongoing debate over who was the first to propose that Athens should push for the patents of the Covid-19 vaccines to be suspended is for domestic consumption only.
On the day that 1.2 billion new Piraeus Bank shares started trading on the Greek stock market, following the local lender’s reverse split, the drop that ensued was the main factor in the benchmark’s slump below the 900-point mark.
Hellenic Petroleum, Greece’s biggest oil refiner, plans capital expenditure of 3.5-4 billion euros by 2025, about of half of which will be on clean energy projects, its top executive said on Thursday.
