11.00 News in brief
Tremors continue in Albania. Two aftershocks were recorded yesterday, measuring 4.5 and 4.4 on the Richter scale 17 minutes after midnight in the city of Durres.
The death toll has reached 40, while those injured reach 685. There are 20 persons still missing and authorities have intensified efforts to find them under rubble.
Schools on the island of Kithira operate normally today. Experts did not detect any serious damages in school buildings after yesterday’s earthquake measuring 6.1 on the Richter scale, in the sea area between the island of Crete and Anti-Kithira.
The Greek economy is expected to grow at a rate of 1.9 percent this year and 2.4 percent next, the country’s central bank chief told an event in the port city of Piraeus on Wednesday.
“The pace of economic growth, even though it has dropped one percentage point in Europe and affects our exports, is seen rising,” Bank of Greece Governor Yannis Stournaras has said.
Τhe coast guard rescued 72 migrants and refugees in three different incidents, in the sea area of Alexandroupolis and Samos.
In the last 24hours, 133 migrants and refugees have reached the island of Lesvos.
The European Commission is taking Greece to the Court of Justice of the European Union for failing to comply with a 2017 ruling that called on the government to recover 135.8 million euros in illegally granted aid to the Larco mining company.
Stores and consumers in Greece are gearing up for Black Friday – the last Friday of November- as the shoppers’ “holiday” when many retailers reduce their prices and provide special offers has been embraced by the local market too, following the example of the US.
European government ministers will vote on Thursday on a new directive that would require multinational companies to reveal how much profit they make and how little tax they pay in each of the EU’s 28 member states.
Clothes should be cherished, re-worn and even passed on to the next generation, Anna Wintour, the influential editor of Vogue magazine said αt an event in Athens, calling for more sustainability in the fashion world and less of a throw-away culture.
And the weather forecast…
Sunny in Attica this morning with the temperature expected to reach a high of 19 degrees Celsius.
More news in brief tomorrow morning at 9.
