In today's episode, the House passed a law making some 1,000 former bank employees eligible for unemployment benefits, in what some commentators earlier called a scandalous arrangement. In other news, civil servants can start and finish work half an hour earlier after the plenum approved amendments to their working hours to alleviate traffic issues. And the Larnaca district environmental office in cooperation with environmental NGO Cymepa (Σήμερα), and financial technology company TSYS, carried out a full clean-up of Spyros beach.

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