A 6-year-old boy died on Tuesday night when a fire broke out in a refugee camp on the town on Thiva, some 60 km north of Athens.          . The boy was reportedly leaving with his parents and 4 siblings in a container. Local media reported that the mother reportedly managed …

Greece is looking into whether it can give an early green light to British tourists who have received the vaccine.

Boris Johnson has asked a new taskforce to look into how holidays can safely be resumed, with ‘vaccine passports’ seen as one potential long-term measure.

Greek Finance Minister Christos Staikouras said on Tuesday, said a nationwide lockdown in the country as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic translates into losses of three billion euros on a monthly basis, whereas the losses are currently calculated at 2.7 billion euros monthly. Specifically, he said that for every …

The European Parliament has launched an inquiry into “respect of fundamental rights” by the European Borders Agency Frontex. The new EP Frontex Scrutiny Working Group (FSWG) formally began its work on Tuesday 23 February with the appointment of its Chair and a rapporteur, the EP said in a statement issued …

Greece’s government has found a new tool to enable citizens to do their shopping in retail stores with sms to a different five-digit number, other that the one they usually use to exit their homes. The new number will be used exclusively for shopping in retail, Digital Governance Minister Kyriakos …

Daily coronavirus recorded a huge jump on Tuesday and reached 2,147, a new record since beginning of December 2020 and thus on the 110th day of lockdown. According to Greece’s health authorities also intubation increased to 357. Another 22 Covid-19 patients died in the last 24 hours. Death toll has …

Greece’s General Staff has dismissed the Turkish claims that Greek fighter jets harassed the vessel “Cesme” conducting research in international waters in the Aegean Sea. Claims by Turkish media that fighter jets of the Greek Air Force harassed Turkey’s vessel ‘Cesme’ “bear no relation to reality”, sources at the Hellenic …

Greek hospital doctors went on a day-long strike on Tuesday and dozens marched in Athens to protest “suffocating” conditions at hospitals on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. With around 6,000 deaths, Greece has fared better than much of Europe in containing the pandemic and prevented its health service, battered …

Turkey’s Defense Ministry has claimed that Greek fighter jets “harassed” research vessel “Cesme” conducting “scientific and technical research” in the international waters in the Aegean Sea. 4 F-16 fighter jets belonging to Greek Air Forces harrassed Turkey’s TCG Çeşme vessel on duty to conduct scientific and technical research in the …