Greece

Greece lifted lockdown restrictions Monday for hotels, open-air cinemas, golf courses and public swimming pools as the country ramped up preparations for the crucial summer tourism season to start in two weeks. Primary school children also returned to class. Strict public safety measures have kept Greece’s COVID-19 infection rate low. …

Migration flows to the islands and through the land border of Evros keep on falling and reached record high drop in April and May. Citing government sources, media report that a decrease of 97.26% was recorded in April when compared to the same month in 2019. The decrease was at …

Turkey plans to start drilling south of the Greek islands of Crete, Karpathos, Kasos and Rhodes, claiming it is justified to do so according to its maritime boundaries with the Tripolis-based government in Libya. Requests for drilling submitted by the company Turkish Petroleum Corporation (TPAO) to the General Directorate of …

Primary schools, pre-schools, kindergartens and special schools in  Greece opened their gates again on Monday, after having being shut down for two and a half months due to the coronavirus pandemic and the imposed lockdown. It is unusual to see these schools open on June 1, when they normally run …

Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a weather warning with main features be powerful rainfalls and thunderstorms, locally hail falls and gusty winds. Rain and thunderstorms are forecast to start as of Monday noon, June 1, 2020, and affect both the mainland and the Aegean islands. The weather warning …

Further to speculation about whether UK flights will be allowed into Greece from the 15 June, we can confirm the following. Confirmation from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Greek Ministry has now confirmed that a number of country’s citizens will be allowed to fly into Athens under the phase …

Britain has 13 high-risk airports including Gatwick, Heathrow and Stansted. But Edinburgh, which before the pandemic had direct flights to Greece, is not considered high-risk.

Ministers have been sent a list of 45 countries to prioritise for quarantine-free ‘air bridges’, it emerged last night. Airlines drew up the index last week at the request of the Government.

Greece ‘s Tourism Minister, Haris Theoharis clarified the terms according to which foreign nationals will fly to the country as of June 15, 2020. Greek authorities focus on the departure airports and not the nationality of the travelers, he said on Sunday. list refers only to countries or to nationalities …

Six police officers were injured and five citizens were detained, after residents of Malakasa blocked Athens-Lamia national highway to protest the presence of two refugee and migrant reception centers. According to police protesters tried to break the police chain protecting the camp and threw stones and other objects at the …