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European States must step up their efforts to protect child refugees and migrants who have endured not only difficult and dangerous journeys but continue to face risks and hardship once in Europe, including unsafe accommodation, being incorrectly registered as adults, and a lack of appropriate care, UNHCR, the UN Refugee …
Read More »Turkey’s warning to allow millions of Syrian refugees to Europe “not a bluff”
Turkey’s warnings that it will allow millions of Syrian refugees to head West if the European Union continues to consider sanctions over military operations in Syria and hydrocarbon drilling off Cyprus is “not a threat and it is not a bluff,” Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told Germany’s Deutsche Welle. “We …
Read More »Full impact of Thomas Cook collapse “not apparent yet,” says SETE
The repercussions for Greece from the collapse of Thomas Cook, the second largest travel agency in the world, have not yet become fully apparent, the president of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE) Yiannis Retsos said in an interview with the Athens-Macedonian News Agency (ANA). He noted the damage to the …
Read More »Gov’t change, July elections increased Greeks’ libido, claims Poll
A rather uneblievalble public opinion poll claims that the change of the government in July has increased the Greeks’ libido and sexual performance. In fact, Greeks saw the positive changes in their sexual life already during the elections in July, the survey notes. The poll on behalf of the Andrology …
Read More »Ankara furious at Turkish-Cypriot leader Akinci criticizing Syria Operation
Turkey’s vice president condemned Turkish-Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci for having criticized the operation in Syria. In a post on his Facebook account Akinci wrote “we call it Operation Peace Spring, yet it is not spilled water, but blood.” Akinci’s posted triggered an outrage in Turkey. “I condemn [Mustafa] Akinci who …
Read More »Moscovici: The crisis had Greeks suffer, not the austerity
EU Finance Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has described as “socially brutal” the austerity policy implemented in Greece during the bailout agreements. However, he blamed the economic crisis for the austerity and not the other way around. “It was not the austerity and politics of the troika that made the people suffered, …
Read More »Kurds protest Turkey’s invasion in Syria, set Erdogan’s posters, flag on fire
Together with local solidarity groups, hundreds of Kurds living in Greece joined rallies in Athens and Thessaloniki to protest the Turkish operation in Syria and the “ethnic cleansing of the Kurds in northern and eastern Syria.” They set posters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and a Turkish flag on fire. …
Read More »Criminals set up “drugs supermarket” in downtown Athens, 10 arrests
Greek Police has cracked down a drug-traffickers ring that was selling all kinds of drugs in downtown Athens. The criminals had set up their business that was operating on 24/7 basis in an abandoned building near the Economic University of Athens. They were supplying with drugs clients in neighboring areas, …
Read More »Two Earthquakes strike the island of Zakynthos in the Ionian Sea
Two earthquakes measuring 4.4 and 4.3 on the Richter scale stroke the island of Zakynthos (Zante) on Saturday. The epicenter of both earthquakes was in the sea area South of the islands in the Ionian Sea. The first tremor hit with 4.4 R at 01:43 a.m., its epicenter was in …
Read More »Metro, urban Train, Tram on work stoppages, Oct 17
Workers at Athens Metro, Urban Train ISAP/Metro Line 1 and the Tram have announced two work stoppages for Thursday, October 17, 2019. The two work stoppages will take place from begin the morning shift until 09:00 a.m. and from 09:00 p.m. until the end of the night shift. During the …
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