Greece

We are lucky on Zakynthos to have so many volunteers who want to help keep our island clean. The Green Activists cleaned up for two days around the area of Laganas and the forest there. Car bumpers, televisions, several meters of pipes, 75 garbage bags full of garbage and much …

Greek police arrested the former artistic director of the National Theater early  Saturday evening following an arrest warrant issued by two public prosecutors investigating two lawsuits against 56-year-old theater director and stage actor Dimitris Lignadis. The warrant cites multiple counts of rape. The man resigned from his position on February …

Greece’s health authorities announced on Saturday, 1424 new coronavirus cases and another 23 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of Covid-19 patients intubated in hospitals across the country remains at 325. Death toll has reached 6,272 and the total cases stand at 178,918. On Friday, the Civil Protection …

In Attica, on Saturday, February 20, most new cases of coronavirus in our country were detected. To be precise, 680 cases have been recorded in Attica in the last 24 hours out of a total of 1,424 cases in the country. In Thessaloniki, according to the announcement of EODY, 155 …

Part of an abandoned historical building on the busy Patision Avenue in the center of Athens collapsed on Saturday noon time. 10 firefighters with 6 trucks are operating at the spot, while men of the Fire Service Rescue unit EMAK with a trained dog rushed to search for people trapped …

Greece’s grid operator DEDIE and Public Power Corporation PPC said that they will compensate customers with discounts on the bills due to power outages caused by the snow weather. Approximately 1,000 households are still without electricity in the northern suburbs of Athens on Saturday, following the snow falls on Monday …

Greece filed a request with Frontex and the European Commission for the immediate return of 519 migrants to their countries of origin, Migration Minister Notis Mitarachi said on Friday. In a follow-up request for the return to Turkey of 1,450 migrants living in hotspots on the Aegean Islands, Greece also …

Skopelos is a charming island in Greece’s Sporades archipelago that’s just 30 square miles. It is a favourite destination of the Daily Mail’s Stephen Bayley, who hopes he can visit again soon.

Eleven investors have expressed interest in an auction for a minority stake in Greece’s sole power network operator, HEDNO, power utility Public Power Corp (PPC) said on Friday. Strategic investors, grid operators and investment funds submitted expressions of interest for a 49% stake in HEDNO by Friday’s deadline, PPC, which …

Head of Civil Protection and deputy minister Nikos Hardalias presented the updated Covid-19 map on Friday evening and announced which regions are going red that is in hard lockdown and where the hard lockdown is lifted. Several regional units and municipalities including islands are placed in hard lockdown as of …