Three new bills, in addition to the new fiscal framework, are being prepared for submission to Parliament within 2024, National Economy and Finance Minister Kostis Hatzidakis revealed on Tuesday, while speaking at the Real Investment Summit 2024.
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An opposition lawmaker on Monday called on Interior Minister Niki Kerameus to take steps that would satisfy a public petition for former transport ministers to be prosecuted for the deadly train crash at Tempe last year.
The government’s university reform bill, which paves the way for private universities to set up branches in Greece, is set to be debated and voted on this week in parliament.
Parliament on Thursday ratified the draft law on the use of public property in coastal areas with the inclusion of some revisions that had been requested by social organizations.
A bill relaxing the rules of coastal exploitation was passed in Parliament on Thursday with 158 votes from the government majority in the 300-seat House, with all eight opposition parties voting against it.
The Education Ministry’s bill on higher education was introduced in the competent Parliament committee on Tuesday and is expected to be passed on March.
In Islam, homosexuality is a grave sin that is believed to incur the wrath of Allah. In some strict Islamic countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, punishments such as flogging, stoning, and burning at the stake are prescribed.
Eight environmental organisations are calling on the government to withdraw controversial provisions in a law on costal zones that was tabled in a parliamentary committee on Wednesday which erodes environmental protections and plan a national policy for climate resilience.
A series of demolitions scheduled on Tuesday to remove illegal constructions by businesses lining the beach of Ierapetra town on Crete have been postponed.
A new law in Greece allows same-sex couples to marry but excludes them from future parenthood through surrogate mothers, which could lead to it being challenged in court, according to legal experts.
The protesting farmers’ descent on Athens with their tractors and the visit of European Parliament President Roberta Metsola are expected to dominate the agenda in the week ahead.
The government welcomed the passage of the bill on same-sex marriage on Thursday with feelings of relief and satisfaction and wants to put the controversy it created behind it.
Niko Efstathiou, an Athens-based journalist and author who has reported extensively on the marriage equality bill, joins Thanos Davelis to look at Greece’s approval of the landmark bill, and the ripple effects it is having beyond the country’s borders.
L.D., aged 32, gave birth to twins by caesarean section in September. The midwives did not place the newborns on her chest, as is customary. There were other arms waiting for them with anxiety, love and emotion, a few floors above.
Establishing equal rights in political marriage is an important step in our politics and social progress.
Only hours after the Greek Parliament passed a bill on marriage equality on Thursday night, the first marriage notice of a same-sex couple, comprising two male partners from the Nea Smyrni suburb of Athens, was published in the Ta Nea newspaper on Friday.
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