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New clashes erupted on Saturday between refugees and Greek police in Diavata, Northern Greece, with dozens of people demanding to be allowed to leave the area and walk to the borders with North Macedonia. Protesters started to throw stones at police that responded with tear gas. One photographer was slightly …
Read More »Thessaloniki residents recycle their plastic waste, turn it into street furniture
Residents of Thessaloniki, North Greece, have started recycling their plastic waste transforming it into 3D printed street furniture with the help of new technologies. They use a new laboratory set up studio The New Raw and project Print Your City that makes furniture for the city from plastic waste. The Zero …
Read More »Greece’s Council of State rules homes in forest areas are “unconstitutional”
Bad news for homeowners in forest areas. Greece’s Council of State’s plenary session turned down as “unconstitutional” the legislation which allowed clusters of homes within forest areas. On Friday, the Council of State annulled a ministerial decision (34844/11.07.2016) which allowed small clusters within designated forest areas and could have led …
Read More »Two Coast Guard officers injured in ambush in Exarchia, downtown Athens,
What does the Greek Coast Guard do in downtown Athens and thus in Exarchia, a district without sea? This is what many Greeks wondered about after hearing that two Coast Guard officers were injured when they chased drug dealers and their unit was attacked by a group of about 50 …
Read More »Weather warning: Heavy rainfalls, storms-stormy winds and Sahara Dust (videos)
Greece’s National Meteorological Service warns of a weather deterioration with heavy rainfalls and storms, locally with hail-falls and stormy South-East winds of up to 9 Beaufort in Central and South Greece. The stormy south winds will transfer particles of Sahara Dust to the country. The weather deterioration sets in late …
Read More »Asylum-seekers clash with Police in Diavata, block train station in Athens (videos)
Mothers with children in their arms tried to break through the riot police chain in Diavata as hundreds of asylum-seekers want to reach the borders to North Macedonia and from there go to Europe, most likely to Germany. In an unprecedented incident a man is holding a little girl in …
Read More »Wildfire is burning down Natura 2000 protected Strofilia Forest (videos)
A huge wildfire has been burning down the forest of Strofilia, an amazing natural reserve under protection of Natura 2000 and the Ramsar Convention. The fire broke out early Tuesday afternoon the area area by Kounoupeli, Ilia, in West Peloponnese. The Fire Service speaks of a “dangerous wildfire due to …
Read More »ECHR elects Greek judge Sicilianos as its new President
Greek judge Linos Alexandre-Sicilianos has been elected President of the European Court of Human Rights. “His term as president will begin on 5 May 2019,” the ECHR statement said. It is the first Greek to hold the court’s presidency. Sicilianos has been a judge of the ECHR since 18 May …
Read More »Tough passport controls at Athens International Airport also for EU citizens to/from non-Schengen
Greek Police will conduct tougher passport controls at Athens International Airport also for EU citizens coming from or departing for non-Schengen countries. Reason for this is the implementation of EU directive 458/2017, which Greece implements with a delay of two years. The EU directive does not refer to domestic flights …
Read More »Bella Hadid meets Antiquities as VOGUE returns to Greece
Iconic star model Bella Hadid met Greek antiquities as fashion magazine VOGUE returned to Greece after seven years of absence on Sunday, March 31. The 22-year-old American beauty has posed for the magazine’s cover of its April 2019 comeback edition. Vogue Greece will be the luxury magazine’s 26th international edition. …
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