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The two scenarios for breaking the impasse

Neither the Arts Council England Guide nor the UK's Charities Act 2022 oblige the British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles. The decision depends on the discretion of the Trustees.

The revelation of the surveillance scandal rocked domestic politics, bridges of communication between parties collapsed, and political dialogue is becoming ever more toxic.

What will the possible results of the adoption of the measure adopted by the European Council for the Iberian Peninsula be ?

'At today’s meeting, the Committee of Experts, pursuant to the request of the government, recommended lifting the ban on entertainment with standing customers, the start of traditional school students’ trips, and the increase to 50 percent of capacity at athletics stadiums.'

There were arduous efforts to transcend the economic crisis, but without securing the desired reconstruction and recovery of the economy. That is because each time political conditions changed, purposes and objectives did as well.

The government has marshalled the military to extricate trapped drivers and passengers, who have been trapped for over seven hours, as the motorway has effectively been transformed into a huge parking lot. At a televised briefing this afternoon, Civil Protection Minister Christos Stylianides placed the blame on the company

In its second report on violence against women - released in November, 2021, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – the General Secretariat for Demographics, Family Policy, and Gender Equality cited 202 rapes reported in 2020.

A share of the responsibility belongs to rectors, who do not use the legal means at their disposal to isolate troublemakers, university students who cannot isolate instigators, and opposition parties, which often resort to double-talk.

Following the recommendation of the National Committee on COVID-19, the health ministry has announced the extension of public health restrictions imposed before Christmas through 23 January.

The National Committee on COVID-19 is considering loosening restrictions in two phases. The first is raising the maximum number of spectators at stadiums so that over 1,000 people (vaccinated or will a COVID illness certificate) can watch the games.

Unfortunately, COVID will not leave us any time soon. The Omicron variant is already demonstrating its potency internationally and has made compulsory a series of restrictions throughout Europe. The virus will follow us and pressure us tortuously in 2022

'It brings great sadness to a scientist and to the average citizen that an older scientific analysis is used as a means of political confrontation,' Tsiodras said.

'The hospital has spun out of control and the problem will soon become unmanageable. Hospital treatment and medical practice under these conditions is becoming ever more dangerous. The hospital cannot serve such a great volume of patientS.'

The obvious objective is to get unvaccinated citizens, especially the more elderly and thus more vulnerable, to rush to vaccination centres, as six months after complete vaccination a booster shot is needed to bolster their immunological defence.

The signs of collapse are already evident and one can predict how the situation will evolve, as experts project that the huge pressures on the system will continue in December.

The hardest hit regions, where the vaccination rate is exceptionally low, are Central Macedonia (including Thessaloniki, Greece’s second largest city, where even large hospitals are at the breaking point), Eastern Macedonia and Thrace, and Thessaly.

The Church acted straight after PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis yesterday defended his decision to exempt churchgoers from the requirement imposed on the general population that unvaccinated people produce a negative COVID-19 rapid or PCR test result before entering closed spaces.

Healthcare workers at Thessaloniki’s large AHEPA hospital say that they are treating intubated patients in simple beds. There are 137 patients being treated in ICUs in hospitals in Macedonia and Western Thrace.

What will happen in 2021, the new benefits and the pressures