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POLITICS
Independent Authority for Public Revenues
Mammoth €995,000 fine on manager of 199 undeclared Airbnb villas
The Dispute Resolution Directorate upheld the businessman's hefty fine of €995,000 euros after he took on the management of 199 opulent villas in Mykonos in 2022 and rejected his appeal in which he requested to have the fine canceled.
GREAT SEA INTERCONNECTOR
All eyes on Mitsotakis - Christodoulides meeting
The open issues that are still outstanding are a concern for the project's implementation, despite the initial optimism that the Cypriot Council of Ministers gave the project the go-ahead. All eyes are now on the meeting between the Cypriot President, Nikos Christodoulides, and the Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Athens.
IPTO
Green light from Cyprus for the electricity interconnection with Greece
Yesterday, the Cypriot cabinet gave the go-ahead for the €1.9 billion project for the energy interconnection between Greece and Cyprus to move forward with the agreement with the Greek government and IPTO.
European Commission
Greece takes the Sustainable Transport and Tourism portfolio
The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, has announced her proposal to the European Parliament for the composition of the new European Commission for a five-year term of office (2024-2029), with the Greek proposed Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas taking the portfolio of Sustainable Transport and Tourism.
Independent Power Transmission Operator
Everything points out to a deal with Cyprus for the electrical interconnection
Last minute consultations of the Greek and Cypriot sides on the major issue of the electrical interconnection between the two countries, a project for the implementation of which Tel-Aviv has clearly positioned itself in favour of, as it includes the prospect of (co)connecting Israel to the Great Sea Interconnector.
Financial Times
Mitsotakis' letter to von der Leyen - Calls for intervention on the protracted energy crisis
Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in a letter to Ursula von der Leyen, calls on Brussels to take political action to urgently address the "protracted crisis" that has driven electricity prices to extreme levels, according to a report in the Financial Times.
PASOK
Candidates for the presidency officially announced
The PASOK-Chinema for Change Movement's Ethics Committee for the Application of the Constitution and Certification will ultimately nominate six candidates for the leadership of PASOK.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Greece will not accept to bear a disproportionate burden for the migration issue
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Austrian Chancellor Karl Nehammer. This is the Prime Minister's first bilateral visit to a European capital during the new European period and before the first meeting of the European Council on 17-18 October.
GOVERNMENT
12 new pay rises and 12 new tax cuts
Kostis Hatzidakis, the Minister of National Economy and Finance, presented the new measures announced at the TIF, which have as their main axes 12 new salary increases and 12 new tax cuts.
Kyriakos Mitsotakis
A trilateral meeting of Christodoulides, Tatar and Gutiérrez will be held in New York in October to relaunch the Cyprus talks, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis told Mega Channel.
SYRIZA
Motion of censure against president approved
The 300-member central committee of the main opposition party on Sunday approved a censure motion against SYRIZA leader Stefanos Kasselakis.