Greece

Cold front “Leandros” with dense snowfalls and very low temperatures has started sweeping across Greece and the National Meteorological Service EMY has issued a weather warning. The cold snap will bring snowfalls in areas of a higher altitude in northern and central Greece but even in the lowlands of Macedonia, …

Greece’s Migration and Asylum Ministry announced that it has submitted a request to the European Commission and the EU border agency Frontex for the immediate return of 1,450 foreigners who are not entitled to international protection to Turkey, based on the EU-Turkey Statement. Greece has requested the return to Turkey …

Greek Olympic sailing champion Leonidas Pelekanakis died of Covid-19 on Thursday. The 58-year-old athlete was fighting the illness in hospital for two months. The athlete did not have any underlying health issues. Still in October 2020, Pelekanakis was taking part in open sea sailing events. He had competed in the …

“The vaccination certificate will not be a precondition for somebody to travel to Greece,” Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis said on Thursday. He added that the relevant proposal by Prime Minister Kyrikaos Mitsotakis to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was aiming to stir the waters so that the European …

New book Greece: The Cradle of Western Civilization takes the reader on a journey through time from antiquity to modernity and across landscapes, from huge mountains to tiny islands.

An employee of the Athens metro  was hospitalized on Wednesday after he was beaten by two young men who had earlier refused to wear the mandatory masks inside the metro. According to a statement by the metro managing company STASY, the employee, a station manager, asked the two men on …

Greece’s Civil Protection placed the Regional Unit of Argolida and the Municipality of Sparti, in eastern and south Peloponnese respectively, into a regime of stricter lockdown measures due to a high epidemiological load and the rapid increase in epidemiological indicators of the last seven days. The measures are taken for  …

Greece’s health authorities announce don Wednesday evening, 671 new coronavirus cases and another 25 deaths in the last 24 hours. The number of Covid-19 patients intubated in hospitals across the country stands at 340. Death toll has reached 5,354 and the total cases stand at 146,688. Although there is an …

MailOnline takes a look at the wonderful technological marvels created by a young Greek engineer in the 1960s for the Beatles’ own tech company, Apple Electronics.

Despite objections by several university rectors, Greece’s Education ministry presented a bill providing, among others, the presence of police officers inside universities campuses. The bill foresees also other outdated “reforms” such as the establishment of a disciplinary council to punish students. On Wednesday, Education Minister Niki Kerameus and Citizens’ Protection …