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A draft bill setting up a microfunding framework for small businesses passed by wide majority vote in parliament’s plenary session on Wednesday evening. The microbudning bill submitted by the Finance Ministry was voted by ruling New Democracy, main opposition SYRIZA and KINAL (Movement for Change). Communist party KKE, Elliniki Lysi …

Employees at a beach bar in Pieria, western Macedonia, were stunned to see a ship of the Greek Nay slowly sailing to the shore and mooring right in front of the beach. Landing ship LESVOS L176 anchored right there, in front of the umbrellas and the sunbeds of the beach …

Greece’s hoteliers are angry at the government following a ministerial decision obliging them to create special “Covid-19 rooms” that is isolation rooms within their facilities to host cases of coronavirus Covid-19, patients who do not require hospital care. The ministerial decision comes less than a week before the country opens …

Greece’s health authorities announced 8 new confirmed COVID-19 cases on Wednesday evening raising the number of total infections to 3,310 in the last 24 hours. Two of the new cases refer to tourists arriving to the country from abroad. Short after the daily briefing by the Health Ministry, one more …

The group of 28 migrants infected with the virus off the coast of Sicily is the largest cluster among new arrivals. A handful of cases were identified among a group trying to enter Greece in May.

Over the coming weeks, 300 healthy people will each be given two doses of the jab.

Jordan Walker-Brown tells the BBC he posed no threat to officers during the incident in May.

The iconic-symbol of Zakynthos, the “shipwreck” seems it won’t be accessible to the public from the cliff viewpoint. A recent report by the national TV channel “OPEN”, talked about how the area will be “off limits” this year due to a number of reasons. The first and main reason is …

A panel of the Athens Criminal Court, issued on June 11, gives a new twist to the multi-year judicial and political thriller with the disputed transfer of about 14,500 acres to Zakynthos, in an area near the famous Navagio beach, to a company allegedly owned by the royal family of …

Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell visited the military border post at Kastanies border crossing with Turkey, in the Prefecture of Evros, on Wednesday morning. The two officials walked up to the ‘chain’ at the border …