Mobility

SGT Tsomokos is organizing on Wednesday an online public debate of the future of urban transport and the contribution of electric mobility in the economy's restart.

Titled "Shaping the Mobility of Tomorrow," the event includes the participation of Deputy Transport Minister Yiannis Kefaloyiannis.

The debate is free to attend after registering at shorturl.at/NPW27.

The new lift will serve people with mobility issues

Union of International Carriers and industry organizations from six other countries with a common position against discriminatory texts in the Mobility package.

The number of people who drive cars and pedestrians on the streets in Turkey has declined significantly amid the coronavirus pandemic, Apple's new mobility trends reports have shown. 

The data compiled and made publicly available by Apple show the change in volume of people driving, walking or taking public transit in their communities across the globe.

The reason is the general approach adopted by the Council of the European Union last week on the Mobility 1 package, which threatens with bankruptcy thousands of Bulgarian companies.

Several Greek island municipalities are in the process of drafting plans to promote sustainable transport and tackle the effects of a surge in the population from summer visitors.

Education Minister Andreas Loverdos Monday asked university and technical college directors to lift obstacles to disabled applicants studying at higher education institutions.

In a letter, Loverdos urged the managers to “revoke provisions... which violate the principle of equality and the right to higher education.”

Several members of the new cabinet sworn in earlier this month appear to be questioning decisions taken by their predecessors, particularly as relates to a much-delayed mobility scheme foreseeing a streamlining of the civil service.

Education Minster Constantinos Arvanitopoulos said on Friday that the government would do everything to ensure there are no layoffs of teachers at state schools, adding however that his hands were largely tied due to «commitments made in the past to the troika."