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Greece’s Civil Protection has launched a coronavirus information campaign for tourists arriving in Greece as of July 1, 2020, when the country opens all its regional airports, border-crossings and ports. The campaign message “Enjoy your Stay – Stay Safe” contains nine directives regarding necessary protection measures during the pandemic. According …
Read More »Decision on summer holidays will be taken TODAY: Boris Johnson expected to approve air bridges
The Government’s coronavirus committee, led by Michael Gove, will meet this afternoon to decide which countries will have the 14-day quarantine restrictions lifted.
Read More »Air bridges to EVERYWHERE: Boris Johnson faces pressure to open up holiday routes to the whole EU
The British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is due to give the green light to foreign holidays next Monday. Pictured, a beach in Greece.
Read More »Novartis Hellas to pay $225 million to resolve U.S. bribery charges
The U.S. Department of Justice said on Thursday that Novartis Hellas, a Greece-based unit of the Swiss drugmaker, entered a deferred prosecution agreement and will pay a $225 million criminal fine. Novartis will also pay $112.8 million to settle related civil charges by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Novartis …
Read More »US State Dept. calls on Turkey to maintain status of Hagia Sophia
The US State Department has called on Turkey to maintain the status of Hagia Sophia as a museum and to not convert it into a mosque. Ambassador at Large for International Religious Freedom, Sam Brownback, posted on Twitter on Thursday: “The Hagia Sophia holds enormous spiritual & cultural significance to …
Read More »Actor suggests “all Greeks grow mustache” to celebrate 1821 Revolution
Greek actor Renos Charalabidis made a breathtaking suggestion with aν utterly high symbolism. Ahead of the celebrations for the 200 years after the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire in 1821, he suggested that all Greeks grow a mustache – probably to look like the heroes of the great Greek …
Read More »Greek PM urges tourism entrepreneurs to make plans for the next decade
As tourism doesn’t properly roll this year, let’s skip it and wait next year. This is what more or less Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday speaking at the 28th Ordinary General Assembly of the Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE). “The first victim of the coronavirus in the world is …
Read More »Greece attempts to build “axes of malice” with EU, claims Turkey
“Greece attempts to build axes of malice against Turkey,” the Forieghn Ministry in Ankara claimed on Thursday, obviously angry about the visit of EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell at the Evros border on Wednesday. Turkey fumed about the visit and the statements made by …
Read More »13 new coronavirus cases in Greece, 5 “imported”, first on Syros
13 new confirmed coronavirus cases, among them also 5 imported, and one more death were announced on Thursday evening by the Greek health authoriti8es. The number of total infections stands at 3,321 and the death toll at 191, after a 64-year old patient died on Wednesday evening. New Cases – …
Read More »Greek Minister threatens with jail prosecutor investigating Novartis scandal
Development Minister Adonis Georgiadis is known to have a big mouth. On Wednesday, he went so far to threaten the head prosecutor investigating possible involvement of politicians to the Novartis bribes scandal with imprisonment. Corruption prosecutor Eleni Touloupaki, “should go to jail because she violated the Constitution” for pressing charges …
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