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State support for sectors with losses
Commercial enterprises that suffer the greatest loss in turnover this holiday season will receive most of the fifth and sixth phases of the "Deposit To Be Returned" after Christmas, Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis promised on Saturday, referring to the cheap state loans program for entrepreneurs and the self-employed.
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Bookshops, salons open as other stores start curtsied pickups
A bookstore prepares for Monday's opening with a limit of four customers per 100 square meters. Hair salons also open Monday. Visits to both can be done only by appointment. Also Monday, retail stores will inaugurate the click-and-collect system, which allows customers to physically pick up items they have bought online or by phone.
Restrictions on retail sector to be announced Friday
Government spokesman Stelios Petsas and Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis will announce the restrictions on the retail sector that will apply during the holiday season on Friday at 11 a.m.
Reports said that the reopening will be "reasonable and conservative," as per the recommendations of the committee of health experts advising the government on Covid-19.
Bosnia Charges Serb Chetniks with Inciting Ethnic Hatred
The Bosnian state prosecution said on Thursday that it has filed an indictment charging Dusan Sladojevic, alias Krvce or Cica, Slavko Aleksic, alias Vojvoda, and Risto Lecic with inciting hatred between Bosnia and Herzegovina's main ethnic groups at a rally in Visegrad.
Hair salons set to open Saturday or Sunday, says business body
Hair salons will likely open on Saturday or Sunday, the Athens Chamber of Commerce announced on Thursday, citing a telephone conversation between the head of the body, Yiannis Hatzitheodosiou and Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis.
The Chamber said these businesses will open first as it is believed that it is easier to enforce the health protocols.
Greek e-commerce platforms to receive funding, Greek Minister of Development announces
Adonis Georgiadis said the small and medium-sized businesses would receive funds via the EU NSRF
Jansa’s Media War is a Dead End for Slovenia
To understand Jansa's war with the media, it is important to recognise that his political capital rests on the ideological basis of nationalism, which substantiates national sovereignty by the principle of ethnicity.
A man looks at Slovenian newspapers. Photo: EPA/IGOR KUPLJENIK
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Stores with seasonal goods to reopen on December 7
Shops selling Christmas trees and decorations will reopen on December 7, the Development Ministry announced on Thursday.
At the same time, the ministry is lifting a ban on the sale of similar items by supermarkets which had been imposed on November 10 in response to concerns of unfair competition.
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Turning Elliniko into a Greek Monaco
Greece aspires to turn the new development at Elliniko into a Monaco-like magnet for wealthy entrepreneurs and businesses from abroad, not just for pensioners permanent relocating to Greece.
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ICU head fears third Covid wave
The head of intensive care units at a large Thessaloniki hospital says the system is under intense pressure from the rising number of coronavirus cases and that he fears a third wave of the pandemic early next year.
"The situation is desperate, the ICUs are full," Nikos Kapravelos, head of the ICUs at the Papanikolaou hospital, told Skai TV Sunday.
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