The government's efforts to tackle the country's economic problems will move in three main directions, Prime Minister George Papandreou said on Tuesday: reducing public debt, promoting growth and accelerating legislative and institutional measures. Papandreou stressed that the government's primary duty was to save the economy.
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) party leader Antonis Samaras, speaking during an off-the-agenda debate in Parliament on immigration policy and the granting of citizenship on Monday, said that his party will vote against the PASOK government's bill on citizenship for immigrants and will also abolish it when it comes to power.
The Voras and Rodopi mountain ranges have every reason to pride themselves on their magnificant fauna and flora, including forests of the rare Balkans-endemic five-needle white pine tree Pinus Peuce (Molika Pine), two of the just 17 such forests in the entire Balkans.The molika pine is an autochthonous taxa of five-needle pine originating from the Tertiary Period, and Mt. Voras, the third highest mountain in Greece, has relics of an ancient Pinus peuce forest dating back to the Ice Age, while another remarkable feature are several expanses of aged chestnut woods
All Greek tax-payers will have a tax-free allowance of 12,000 euros a year under the new income tax scale unveiled on Tuesday.
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The government on Tuesday unveiled major changes for the country's pension system, aimed at ensuring its viability in the coming decades
A strike by the civil servants union ADEDY on Wednesday is expected to seriously disrupt air transport
The commanders of Greece and Turkey's coast guards met in Athens Tuesday, with talks touching on the burning issue of illegal migration
Stocks recovered spectacularly at the Athens Stock Exchange on Tuesday, reflecting strong gains in bank shares after a 4-day sharp
The government's draft bill on migrants, the changes in taxation and social security, the economy and planned labour mobilisations
