The Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority issued a new aviation directive (NOTAM) on Wednesday, extending travel ban and restrictions to several European and Balkan countries. The NOTAM aims to protect passengers and residents…
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New coronavirus measures turn Thessaloniki into a ghost town after midnight. On Monday, the Greek government announced a series of new emergency measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The new rules include…
Greece recorded 196 new cases of COVID-19 in the latest 24-hour reporting period. This raises the total number of cases to 5,942. 1,503 are considered to be related to travel from abroad…
The Greek government announced a series of new emergency measures to curb the spread of the coronavirus, amid a surge of cases. Deputy government spokeswoman Aristotelia Peloni made the announcement at a press…
The Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday issued an aviation directive (NOTAM), regarding flights from Sweden, Turkey, Albania and North Macedonia. According to the NOTAM, flights have been banned to and from Sweden until…
Greece is examining the resumption of flights from non-EU countries, such as the US, Government spokesman Stelios Petsas stated. During his daily press briefing, Petsas noted that direct flights from the UK…
A flight from Sweden landed on Rhodes on Thursday, despite not being on the list of “green light” countries, whose residents are allowed to enter Greece. Initial reports stated that the flight…
Greece has extended its ban on flights from the UK and Sweden until July 15. Flights will remain restricted from the two countries even after Greece reopens its borders to international visitors…
From July 1, tourism in Greece will “open” as international arrivals will be allowed to enter from all airports in the country and not just Athens and Thessaloniki. According to sources used…
At the top of The Times list of Europe’s 25 secret islands without crowds this year, was Andros. The British daily national newspaper praises the excellent initiative of Andros Routes and the walking…
In view of forecasts for a dry summer ahead, Greek civil protection authorities are gearing up with more staff, new planes and improved infrastructure to address the potential outbreak of wildfires, GTP…
Wild comments were made on ‘TGRT Haber’, a Turkish television station loyal to President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, that called for Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) to assassinate Turkish journalists who live abroad.…
As governments around the world try to mitigate the economic impact of the pandemic, a spike in mental health cases come as no surprising consequence. The sudden overhaul of daily life has…
Turkish journalist Abdullah Boskurt has made revelations about the action of the Turkish intelligence agency, known as the MIT in Greece, in an interview with Ethnos tis Kyriakis. The day Turkish journalist…
Making the rounds on Turkish media are the comments an Afghan migrant recently made: “We love Turkey very much. We do not love Greece at all.” Fair enough, everyone is entitled to…
Health Ministry spokesperson and infectious diseases expert, Professor Sotiris Tsiodras received rave reviews from Sunday’s edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), a national German newspaper. FAZ describes Sotiris Tsiodras as “a…
With online shopping on the rise due to the pandemic lockdown measures, Greece and Cyprus are well below the EU average in online shopping compared with the rest of the member states.…
The leader of the Swedish Democrats, Jimmie Akesson, travelled to Greece to tell migrants that the Nordic country is already “full”. Akesson traveled to the Turkish border city of Edirne along with…
Greece has the lowest rate of generating new enterprises within the European Union, according to Eurostat data released on Monday. According to the data, Greece recorded the lowest rate of new enterprise…
Greece recorded over 24,000 cancer-related deaths, at 249 per 100,000 inhabitants, just below the EU average whilst Cyprus recorded the lowest rate with 194 deaths from cancer per 100,000 inhabitants, followed by…