ATHENS – By the end of this week or the middle of the following week, at the latest, the rules for the operation of restaurants will have been decided, Interior Minister Takis Theodorikakos stated to ANT1 on Wednesday.
Referring to the regulations decided at Tuesday's video conference chaired by Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Theodorikakos said that additional space will be provided for tables and seating outdoors where possible, without the venue owners paying additional municipal fees. The only condition will be that they not obstruct the passage of pedestrians. In cases where it is not possible to give additional space, municipalities will be able to reduce fees for occupying public spaces by up to 50 pct for the specific businesses.
Regarding the possibility of opening restaurants before June 1, as is currently planned, the interior minister noted: "I wish we could open them before June 1, we would like for them to open earlier, provided everything goes well in May and the number of new cases is zero, because this is the main factor that will guide the decisions of the Infectious Diseases Committee, under Professor Tsiodras."
Asked about the possibility of a reduction of VAT for restaurants, Theodorikakos replied: "It would be a great convenience but it is something that the financial staff must decide. Yesterday, however, there was no discussion on this issue. "
ATHENS - The rising PASOK-KINAL Socialist party has taken over second place in another survey, supplanting the declining SYRIZA as Greece’s major opposition party behind the ruling New Democracy.
FALMOUTH, MA – The police in Falmouth have identified the victim in an accident involving a car plunging into the ocean on February 20, NBC10 Boston reported.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. George Santos of New York is facing a critical vote to expel him from the House on Friday as lawmakers weigh whether his actions, fabrications and alleged lawbreaking warrant the chamber's most severe punishment.
MANCHESTER, England (AP) — After a record-breaking start as Tottenham manager, Ange Postecoglou is experiencing the other side to life in a job that has proved too much for some of the biggest names in soccer.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House voted on Friday to expel Republican Rep.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, an unwavering voice of moderate conservatism and the first woman to serve on the nation’s highest court, died Friday.
He wasn’t the first one to think about it but a humor columnist for POLITICO suggested - ironically, of course - that if Greeks want back the stolen Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum that they should just steal them back, old boy.
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