Greece

Residents of four settlements and of a refugee camp as well as children from a summer camp were evacuated on Thursday afternoon as the fire in the Lavrio area is raging and the winds are pushing the flames towards the national forest of Sounio. The fire broke out near a …

A Tui flight departed from Gatwick yesterday morning to Rhodes, and people have been photographed arriving at Spata, east of Athens, this afternoon.

Fines of 500 euros were imposed to flights passengers who arrived at Heraklio airport on Crete without to have previously filled up the “Passengers Locator Form” (PLF). According to local media, ekriti, it was mainly passengers from Germany who strongly protested saying that they did not have any information about …

The Greek government on Wednesday gave the green light to 8 strategic investments worth 1.1 billion euros, contributing in the creation of 3,300 jobs. A teleconference meeting of the Interministerial Commission for Strategic Investmens, headed by Development and Investments Minister Adonis Georgiadis on Wednesday, decided to include seven investments in …

27 new cases of the new virus recorded yesterday in the country, of which 4 were detected after checks at the country’s gateways. The total number of cases is 3910, of which 54.7% are men.   1051 (26.9%) are considered related to travel from abroad and 2024 (51.8%) are related …

Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias has said that Greece will invoke Article 42 of the European Union founding Treaty if relations with Turkey derail and slip into a military confrontation. Speaking to Star TV, Dendias said the Greece will ask for military assistance by other EU member states if Turkey …

Greece’s health authorities announced 27 new confirmed coronavirus cases with 9 of them to have been detected among tourists. No new death recorded in the last 8 days. According to authorities statement on Wednesday evening, the number of total infections has reached 3,910 with the daily growth at 0.7% from …

The first direct flight from UK landed at Ioannis Kapodistrias airport on the island of Corfu at 2 o’ clock Wednesday afternoon. To honor the first UK landing after the pandemic lockdown, two fire service vehicles formed a welcome water arch. The only scheduled flight for Wednesday was from Birmingham …

Greece’s statistics authority ELSTAT launched a new website dedicated to statistics and information concerning the coronavirus pandemic and Covid-19. The aim of the new category is to provide users direct and easy access to all tactics and the new statistics compiled by ELSTAT during the pandemic. Furthermore it provides useful …

Ruling party New Democracy intends to propose the prosecution of former SYRIZA minister Dimitris Papangelopoulos on a series of charges when it presents its own report to the parliamentary investigative committee examining the former minister’s actions later on Wednesday. Among the charges for which the ruling party wants Papangelopoulos to …