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Sixteen prominent constitutional law professors have strongly criticised Greece's chief prosecutor Isidoros Dogiakos after he issued a controversial legal opinion arguing that the independent authority responsible for privacy, ADAE, cannot conduct audits of telecommunication companies to find out who is under surveillance by the country's intelligence agency.

The Deutsche Telecom IT hub (DT) in Thessaloniki will be employing over 500 people by 2024, as high-ranking executives of OTE revealed today, on the occasion of the visit of the Minister of Digital Governance, Kyriakos Pierrakakis, to hub facilities.

Russia's latest "game" with natural gas is causing serious turmoil in the Greek stock market, which is currently moving with significant losses. In particular, the general index is falling by 1.55% to 924.35 points, with a turnover of more than 15 million euros.

The Greek stock market is currently doing balance exercises around 890 points, which is unable to change level as the majority of portfolios remain on hold. In particular, the general index is moving with gains of 0.25% at 893., 66 points.

The General Index of the Stock Exchange has been moving upwards since the beginning of the session, exceeding the levels of 920 points.

At 11.00 the General Price Index stood at 921.27 points, marking an increase of 0.75%.

The value of the transactions amounts to 4.05 million euros.

56 stocks are up, 13 are down and 12 are flat.

The General Price Index of the Athens Stock Exchange is also moving against the international downward trend today, which at 10.49 am was at 901.15 points, strengthened by 0.25%.

At the same time, the turnover amounted to about 2.5 million euros.

The prices of 26 shares strengthened, 24 recorded losses, while 15 remained unchanged.

Greece's Culture Ministry on Monday signed an agreement with Cosmote, the mobile phone unit of the country's largest telecom company OTE, to expand free WiF access to the visitors of the most prominent archaeological sites and museums around the country.

The program started several years ago but the new deal extends broadband coverage to 25 sites and museums, from the current 14.

Increasing pessimism on the coronavirus pandemic's impact on the economy weighed heavily on most blue chips at Athinon Avenue on Monday, including banks, with the benchmark only just remaining above the 600-point level. Prices also suffered pressure from some negative results issued by listed companies over the last few days.

Greek broadband internet users have to wait from one to three weeks for connections to be repaired, according to data from the National Commission for Telecommunications and Post (EETT).

Greece has seen an increase of at least 50 percent in internet use in recent days following the government's decision to restrict citizens' movements to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, according to officials at the Digital Governance Ministry who indicated however that telecommunications networks are handling the strain so far.