Greece

“Turkey undermines stability in the region, it should abandon its neo-Ottoman dreams,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Tuesday describing the neighboring country as regional “bully.” Turkey’s “goal is to politically and militarily control the entire Eastern Mediterranean region,” Mitsotakis said adding  “they want to have a say, they …

Thirteen new coronavirus cases and one more death, have been announced by Greece’s health authorities on Monday evening. The 13 new cases and another 9 on Sunday have raised the number of total infections t0 3,134. Death toll stand at 184, after a patients from Echinos in Xanthi, north-eastern Greece, …

Police buses arrived at Victoria Square in downtown Athens on Monday evening to transfer recognized refugees to accommodation centers. Hundreds of people, among them many children, arrived from the Moria camp on the island of Lesvos to Piraeus by ferry and from there to Athens on Thursday night. They have …

The first flight from abroad after three months of lockdown landed with 160 on board at Macedonia airport in Thessaloniki from Munich, Germany, at 13:30 on Monday. The flight of the Aegean Airlines was welcomed with a water arch, symbolically, as this is usually the case during the reception of …

The Greek government was forced to open again the country’s only Children Cardiac Surgery Clinic following an unprecedented outcry on social media. For several days, for over a week, hundreds of Greek internet users have being posting again and again over the closure of the clinic, the only one performing …

Greece lifts more restrictions on June 15, 2020, on the same day it opened its borders to foreign tourists from some 30 countries. Among the business back to operation are seasonal accommodations, museums and brothels with the latter having to follow a 10-point guide tailored by the National Health Organization. …

Kilometers-long queues reaching up to 20 km were formed at the Greek-Bulgarian border crossing Promachonas on Monday as travelers from the neighboring country and other states wanted to come into Greece the day it opened its gates to foreigners without enforced quarantine. Tourists and professional drivers were waiting for hours …

The overambitious plan of Athens Municipality the Great Walk of Athens turned into the Great Traffic Jam on Monday morning, when local authorities decreased the six lanes of Panepistimiou Avenue into three for vehicles including public transport means like buses and trolley buses. Central roads in downtown Athens but also …

RAKIBUSTERS is a comedy video dealing with the contemporary problem of our times: the pandemic. Three Cretan kazanarides (ie raki producers) follow the instructions of a crazy expat scientist who discovers the substance to get rid of the new virus. That’s right! That’s the famous national drink on Crete, the …

Greece’s international airports in Athens and Thessaloniki are lifting  some restrictions for incoming international flights on Monday, June 15, 2020, with specific health safety protocols in place on the ground. Specifically, as of Monday, Athens International Airport (which continued to receive international flights from specific countries during the last three …