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Turkey said on Wednesday it was preparing a case in the European Court of Human Rights over Greece’s treatment of migrants, and added the EU has so far made no concrete offer to deal with thousands trying to enter the bloc. Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met European Council President Charles …
Read More »Coronavirus: Greece confirms 21 new cases, all pilgrims to Israel
Greece’s health authorities announced 21 new cases tested positive to coronavirus, raising the total number of infections in the country to 31. In a press conference Thursday noon, spokesman of National Health Organization, Sotiris Tsiodras said that the 21 infected people were co-travelers of the 9. confirmed case, a 67-year-old …
Read More »Just 4 EU states willing to accept “unaccompanied minors” from Greece
Only four EU member-states are willing to accept unaccompanied refugee minors from Greece. Germany said it will only do so under the precondition that also other member-states will join the action. Four members states said that they will relocate unaccompanied children from Greece to their countries, Alternate Migration and Asylum …
Read More »Turkey to dispatch 1000 policemen to “prevent pushbacks at Greek border”
Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu announced the dispatch of 1,000 police officers to the country’s North-West border in order to”prevent Greece to push migrants back to Turkey.” In an interview with CNN Turk on Thursday, Soylu said that the EU border protection agency Frontex and Greece have pushed 4,900 migrants …
Read More »Greek Navy NAVTEX restricts Navigation around 3 islands to prevent migrants’ influx
Greece is stepping up deterrence measures at the sea border to Turkey as the government expects the pressure at the Evros borders to be transferred to the northeast Aegean islands. The Greek Navy issued a Restricted Navigation Warning (NAVTEX) for the sea areas within the Greek territorial waters and for …
Read More »Millennial couple in their 30s quit their jobs to live out their retirement dreams on a Greek island
Steph, 30 and Matt Trott, 34, from Sussex, decided to leave their jobs as dog walkers to move to the small village of Houmeri, in Rethimno on Crete, where they only for during the summer months.
Read More »Coronavirus Greece: 10. case confirmed, health authorities on alert in Patras
Greek health authorities confirmed the 10. case of coronavirus infection on Thursday morning. The affected patient is the wife of the 67-yea-old man (9. case) currently in isolation in the designated public hospital in Patras, West Peloponnese. Also the wife was in the trip to Israel and Egypt. The woman …
Read More »EU Interior Ministers Council calls on Turkey to implement 2016 deal
The Council of the Interior Ministers of the European Union has expressed solidarity with Greece and called on Turkey to fully implement the provisions of the 2016 EU-Turkey deal on Migration. It also strongly rejects Turkey’s use of migratory pressure for political purposes. The Council conveyed on Wednesday following a …
Read More »Germany sends 1 helicopter, 20 policemen to boost Frontex in Greece
Germany is dispatching to Athens one helicopter and twenty police officers to boost the guarding of the Greek-Turkish border, the German Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. The police officers will join the EU’s Frontex border control force in Greece, where another sixty German police officers are already posted. Two German …
Read More »Coronavirus ALERT: Emergency measures in Achaia, Zakynthos, Ilia
Greece’s Health authorities announced on Wednesday evening preventive emergency measures against the coronavirus for the prefectures of Achaia and Ilia, in Peloponnese, as well as for the island of Zakynthos. The measures are considered as preventing and are implemented following the latest coronavirus case confirmed earlier today. According to National …
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