February 2, 2022
Politics, Refugees
Greece’s Migration Minister has denied Turkey’s allegations that 12 migrants froze to death in the land border between the two countries following deadly pushback by Greek border guards. Among the dead were reportedly also children. Earlier on Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu had posted on Twitter that 12 migrants …
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January 31, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias visited the Organization for Security & Cooperation in Europe’s (OSCE) Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine in the city of Mariupol (Marioupolis) and met also with ethnic Greek communities in the city. Dendias tweeted that he was “briefed on the security situation on the ground and …
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January 31, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The censure motion against the Greek government was rejected with 156 votes in a Parliament of 300 late on Sunday night. In favor of the motion tabled by main opposition party, left-wing SYRIZA, voted all opposition parties, a total of 142 MPs from SYRIZA, KINAL, KKE, Greek Solution and MeRA25. …
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January 27, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
On the International Holocaust Remembrance Day, the President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou honored the victims. At an event for the Day of Remembrance of Greek Jewish Martyrs and Heroes of the Holocaust, Sakellaropoulou said: “The Holocaust concerns us all, not just the Jewish people. It reveals the naked …
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January 27, 2022
Greece, Politics
Main opposition left-wing SYRIZA submitted a censure motion against the conservative government of Kyriakos Mitsotakis over its mishandling of the snowstorm that swept through central and south Greece since Monday. The motion was submitted short before Thursday noon during a debated over a new development law. “The snowstorm buried the …
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January 26, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis offered a “personal and sincere apology to our fellow citizens that underwent hardship for many hours, trapped in Attiki Odos,” on Wednesday. “There are very clear responsibilities of the concessionaire for the way that it handled this latest snowstorm. These will be fully investigated based …
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January 24, 2022
Greece, Politics
After eleven years, the Greek-Turkish Joint Economic Committee met again in Athens on Monday and concluded its talks with the signing of a Protocol by Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for Economic Diplomacy and Openness Kostas Fragogiannis and Turkish Deputy Minister of Trade, Mustafa Tuzcu. According to a joint announcement, …
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January 21, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The Greek Parliament on Thursday voted an amendment submitted by the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection approving the repayment of more than eight million euros to the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) for providing firefighting support to Greece between 2011 and 2016. The debt, totaling 8,457,481.64 euros, concerns administrative …
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January 19, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Social
The Culture Ministry has announced plans to repeal a decision accepting a donation from a private foundation that has recently become the subject of controversy following a high-profile gang-rape case in the northern port city of Thessaloniki. The donation was aiming to revamp the museum on the island of Delos. …
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January 19, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The roaring sound of Greece’s first six Rafale flying over the Acropolis at Wednesday noon were heard all over the Greek capital. It must have been the most expensive sound ever heard. The flying cost for each super-fighter jet per hour is estimated to be at least 14,000 euros. The …
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January 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
The first 6 of 24 Rafale fighter jets for Greece’s Air Force are expected to arrive in the country on Wednesday. They will take off from Istres in France and will land at the 114 Tanagra Air Base. The Rafale jests are scheduled to fly over the Acropolis shortly after …
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January 18, 2022
Greece, Politics
Movement for Change (KINAL) MEP Eva Kaili was on Tuesday elected Vice-President of the European Parliament as a candidate of the Socialists & Democrats (S&D) party. Kaili gathered 454 of the 690 votes total, thus securing her elected position as one of 14 European Parliament VPs in the first round …
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January 13, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for a “direct dialogue” with Greece on Thursday as a fresh row sparked between the two neighboring countries over the Pontus Greeks Genocide following statements by President Katerina Sakellaropoulou. During a meeting with EU ambassadors in Ankara Erdogan and referring to tensions between Greece …
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January 13, 2022
Refugees
A woman who went missing in a mountainous area in Serres regional unit, northern Greece, on Wednesday while trying to cross a swollen torrent amid rainstorms along with a group of migrants was found dead on Thursday. The 24-year-old Iranian national was accompanying her 37-year-old husband who drowned while trekking …
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January 12, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The historic newspaper of the Greek left, Avgi,will hold its daily edition after 70 years. The newspaper has apparently fallen victim to financial problems as other daily newspapers in the recent past due to changes in the landscape of printed media and readers habits. Its director posted on social media …
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January 11, 2022
Politics, World
The president of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, died in the early hours of Tuesday (11 January) in hospital in Italy, his spokesperson announced on Twitter. Sassoli, who was 65-years-old had been in hospital since December 26, where he was being treated against a dysfunction of his immune system. Before …
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January 10, 2022
Greece, Politics
A Greek appeals court has suspended the six-year prison sentence of former Golden Dawn MP Nikos Michos. With the ruling, which was issued despite the prosecutor’s recommendation that Michos remain in jail, the former neo-Nazi deputy will imminently be released from the high-security Domokos prison in central Greece until the …
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January 9, 2022
Greece, Politics
With a non-paper the US State Department has ‘ended” the EastMed project, Greek media have been reporting in the last two days. With a length of 1,900 km and a cost of some 6 billion euros, the Eastern Mediterranean pipeline (Eastmed) was planned to transfer natural gas from the Levantine …
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January 9, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
Greece should refrain from testing Turkey’s patience with provocations, including with a threat to extend its territorial waters in the Aegean, Turkey’s defense minister warned on Saturday. Speaking to a group of journalists in Ankara, Hulusi Akar also said Turkey wanted to resolve disputes with neighbor and fellow NATO member …
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January 8, 2022
FEATURED, Refugees
The body of a young child was washed up on a beach of the island of Naxos on Saturday. Authorities suggest the child was one more victim of the recent shipwrecks with migrants in the central Aegean Sea. It is the third body of a child washed up on the …
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