Yesterday’s News Wrap-up includes the following:
Main opposition New Democracy (ND) deputy Marios Salmas was expelled from the party’s Parliamentary group on Monday, as widely expected, after his recent high-profile and scathing criticism of a culture ministry tender to award a concession for canteens and vending machines at some museums and archaeological sites around the country.
A coroner’s report released on Monday confirms that the death of a 33-year-old tourist attempting to hike through Crete’s famed Samaria Gorge last Wednesday amid a sudden squall was due to massive blood loss, although the latter was not caused by falling rocks.
An insolent but overly greedy attempt by scammers to con a 13-year-old youth out of all the money and jewelry in his family home by unknown callers, who claimed his mother had run over a child with her car and faced jail time, led to the arrest of at least one suspect over the weekend.
An 81-year-old man lauded as a hero by Greek media after rescuing 15 people during the storm front “Daniel”, which ravaged central Greece in September 2023, has passed away.
The Bank of Greece (BoG), the country’s central bank, forecasts a 2.2% growth rate this year, rising to 2.5% of GDP in 2025 and easing to 2.3% in 2026, while inflation is forecast to reach 3% on an annual basis this year, nearly one percentage point above the 2% target set by the European Central Bank (ECB).
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