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Archive - 2012

March 21st

They want life imprisonment for Laurentiadis

21 March 2012 / 20:03:59  
Prosecutors have required an immediate ban on the businessman to travel abroad, and his arrest. The ban on travelling abroad applies to some of Laurentiadis' closest associates involved in the case of Proton.


The revival of Athens

21 March 2012 / 17:03:01  
"The best way to predict the future is to plan it ourselves," said the Professor of Architecture at the Polytechnic School of Athens Panagiotis Tomikiotis, who is assisting in the "Rethink Athens" project to transform the city.


Expert from Google comes to a specialized seminar in Sofia

21 March 2012 / 14:03:27  
A special guest speaker from Google comes to the seminar "Effective advertising on Google AdWords™"


The licences of three cooperative banks in Greece have been revoked

20 March 2012 / 23:03:25  
The supervisors insist that revoking the licences of the three financial institutions will not affect depositors and they will not lose their deposits.


Port workers' strike has been cancelled

20 March 2012 / 22:03:09  
Removing the cabotage opposed by them could bring five million tourists a year to Greece, according to the tourism industry.


March 20th

Greeks have been spending less on health care after the crisis

20 March 2012 / 20:03:07  
Total expenditure of households on health care was calculated at 7.4% of the total budget before the crisis. Now there is a decrease in this type of expenditure by individuals and they do not spend more than 6% on health per month. These are the data presented by John Yfantopoulos, Professor of Economics of Health and Social Politics at the University of Athens.


More than 36,000 "unhealthy" recipients of social benefits cost the state 2.5 billion euro

20 March 2012 / 19:03:20  
The census of legitimate recipients has revealed the biggest fraud with social benefits. According to the Ministry, after the second round of checking, the number of people who are actually entitled to benefits will drop by half.