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Boutaris: Smoking ban to be enforced after EasterThessaloniki Mayor Yiannis Boutaris said on Friday that municipal officers will begin enforcing Greece’s largely flouted smoking ban in all enclosed public spaces after the Easter holidays.Local authorities have informed bar, cafe and restaurant owners of the imminent crackdown since the beginning of March.
Tax bureau: 2 out of 3 businesses in Greece in 2017 reported zero profits; losses total 47 bln€Two out of three companies and other legal entities in Greece declared no profits to the tax bureau for 2017, statistics released recently by the Independent Public Assets Authority revealed.Specifically, out of 255,018 legal entities that filed tax returns in 2018 - for 2017 - 163,273 (or 64.02 percent) declared losses or zero revenue/profits.Exactly 100,021 businesses of various types (39.22 percent) reported losses for fiscal 2017, with total losses for the specific year exceeding a whopping 47 billion euros. More than 63,000 legal entities reported zero revenues.Conversely, 91,745 businesses declared net taxable profits reaching a meager 13.368 billion euros.
Alpha Bank after-tax profits of 53 mln€ in 2018Alpha Bank reported after-tax profits of 53 million euros in 2018, up from 21.1 million in 2017.
EU Tackles Marine Pollution, Bans 10 Single-use Plastic ItemsIn view of dangerously increasing pollution of waters and beaches across its territories, the EU approved this week a law that bans a wide range of single-use plastic items, including straws, cotton buds, cutlery, and plates, by 2021.The law foresees the ban of 10 single-use plastic items as well as abandoned fishing gear and oxo-degradable plastics; sets a target to collect and recycle 90 percent of beverage bottles by 2029; and aims to introduce design requirements to connect caps to bottles, as well as target to incorporate 25 percent of recycled plastic in PET bottles as of 2025, and 30 percent in all plastic bottles starting in 2030.Fishing gear accounts for 27 percent of all beach litter.Greece holds the top spot in Europe in terms of per capita use of plastic bag exceeding the EU average of 175 per person.
Police chief’s housewarming party ends in an almighty row and three complaints to her own force It had been a relatively sedate evening; the Devon and Cornwall police chief and a handful of local Tory councillors discussed the forthcoming elections over salmon and a few bottles of wine.But Alison Hernandez’s cosy housewarming party ended on a rather different note, with three complaints made to her own force when an almighty late night row erupted with fellow residents over parking spaces.
Six baby elephants stuck in muddy pit rescued by Thailand park rangers Six baby elephants who were trapped in a mud hole and separated from their parents have been rescued in northeastern Thailand.Park rangers came across the elephant calves on Wednesday afternoon as they were struggling to climb the pit’s slippery banks, officials of Thap Lan National Park said.Some of the rangers went to get help, while others spent the night with the baby elephants.On Thursday, as the elephants wallowed together at one side of the pit, rangers at the other side spent four hours using hoes and pickaxes to dig out enough mud to form a ramp.Footage of the rescue released by the Department of National Parks shows the animals climbing out of the muck one by one and quickly heading into the forest, a few dozen metres away.The rangers cheer the elephants on, with comments like “Go, go on, child!”One elephant can be seen to struggle, slip and fall, but finally all make it out of the muck.The last of the animals then lingers, after all the others have made it past the tree line.It faces the rangers for a moment, turns, pauses and finally runs into the jungle.“Gone, they’re gone,” cries a ranger, as the rescue crew comes together to celebrate.
Magnitude 5.3 Earthquake Rattles Central GreeceA magnitude 5.3 on the Richter scale earthquake hit southwest of Itea in Central Greece at 12:46 PM local time (10:46 UTC) on Saturday.The epicenter was 15 kilometers (9 miles) southwest of the town of Itea in Sterea Ellada region, northwest of the Greek capital Athens.According to the Institute of Geo-dynamics of Athens, the focal depth was 13.7 kilometers (8.5 miles).The jolt was felt in many parts of Greece, including Thessaly, the Peloponnese and Attica.The scientists are now watching the phenomenon closely.
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