News archive of April 2020

The government and the country as of 4 May will enter the next phase of the pandemic crisis with a gradual lockdown lifting which will put an end to SMS permission or written certificates that one has a serious reason (from a list of categories from exercising, grocery shopping, and walking the dog to caring for homebound citizens) to leave one's home.

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The Hellenic Police (ELAS) on Tuesday recorded a total of 1,567 violations of a public lockdown introduced last month to curb the spread of the coronavirus.
Of those transgressions, the majority (814) were in Attica, with 167 in Thessaloniki, 93 on Crete, 80 on the Ionian islands, 54 in Eastern Macedonia and Thrace and 46 in Thessaly.

A 63-year-old man accused of shooting and killing his 32-year-old son during an altercation at their family home on Sunday in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, was remanded in custody on Wednesday following his deposition to an investigative magistrate.

The government will include two scenarios on the economic contraction projected for this year in the Stability Program for 2020-21 to be submitted to the European Commission on Thursday in the context of the European Semester.

There will be no services on Friday on the Piraeus-Kifissia electric railway (ISAP) or the country's railways due to a strike called by the General Confederation of Greek Labor (GSEE) on the occasion of the May Day holiday. 

TUV Austria, TUV Hellas, SGS Hellas and Cosmocert are the four accreditation companies that the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) has authorized to draft integrated plans along with health and hygiene regulations for hotels and other accommodation units so as to contribute toward the government's effort to restart Greek tourism.

"We have a strong position, at least in the epidemiological part of the Crisis Staff, that it is necessary to remain on strict measure regime this time," Kon said, adding that, as far as he knows, there will be counseling tonight and that this issue will be on the agenda of Crisis Staff tomorrow.
He also said it is not time to relax.

Police in the Athens neighborhood of Petralona on Wednesday were investigating an attack on a young man by a group of assailants that left him with injuries including knife wounds.
The victim was approached and encircled by the attackers in Merkouri Square, according to the police, who did not give details about the suspected motive for the attack.

The severe material deprivation of the Bulgarians over the past 30 years has become something normal, but when we have to compare ourselves with other European Union (EU) countries, the reality begins to takes on even more unpleasant dimensions. According to Eurostat, Bulgaria remains at the bottom in terms of the severe material deprivation rate.