Ryanair is opening two Greece bases in Athens and Thessaloniki from where it will launch nine new routes. As part of a $280 million investment, the budget carrier will base two aircraft in Athens and one in Thessaloniki from April. Its Athens base will operate 154 weekly flights and serve …
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A summary of KTG posts Nov 27-28, 2013
For those who missed our posts on KTG.wordpress… below I copy paste the news. This is actually a service for the RSS Feed and E-mail subscribers: Rhodes floods: body of missing teacher washed ashore in Turkey Nov 27, 2013 The body of the teacher who went missing in Rhodes floods was …
Read More »Greek coastguard intercepts Sierra-Leone flagged vessel with 20,000 Kalansikov rifles
A mystery cargo ship, allegedly loaded with weapons, was intercepted by Greek coastguard Greek coastguard in the Aegean Sea on Friday. Cargo ship “Nour-M” with Sierra Leone flag carrying large quantities of weapons and ammunition. the vessel was intercepted in the south-eastern Aegean Sea near the islet of Imia by …
Read More »Symi: man suffers heart attack, faints in front of closed health centre due to personnel shortage
A man is being found unconscious in front of the closed doors of health centre in the remote island of Symi, near the borders with Turkey. The man, a shop-owner, had reportedly underwent a control by the financial crimes units (SDOE). After the control. he fell uneasy and went to …
Read More »How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part VIII)
The issue of negative stereotypes towards Greeks in the crisis and the lack of understanding from the side of people living abroad are been featured here in the story I received a couple of days ago. And I would say “yes”, it’s difficult to understand how the system works here …
Read More »How expats experience “three years Greece in the crisis” (Part IV)
This is another story I received today for the series “How expats experience three years Greece in the crisis“. Because as often mentioned, the Greek crisis affects all of us living here: whether Greek or expat. The story was submitted by Katerina from UK. Below the story by Katerina: “It …
Read More »Turkish research vessel “Bilim 2” violates Greek sovereignty
Turkish oceanographic research vessel “Bilim 2” set sail and started research in the waters between the islands of Rhodes and Kastelorizo, in South Eastern Greece. Reason enough for Athens to protest, even though Greece has failed so far to declare its own Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ). Even though the relevant maritime …
Read More »UPD Channel 4: Greek student films the true face of Golden Dawn
National Film and Television student Konstantinos Georgousis spent a month in summer 2012 filming members of extreme-right party Golden Dawn – wandering through the streets of Athens, harassing migrants. The result is shocking. So shocking that I refuse to display the video footage here. Speaking to UK Channel 4 News about …
Read More »Finnish Guild of Travel Journalists awards “Greece as Destination of Year 2013”
The Finnish Guild of Travel Journalists is proud to award Greece as our Foreign Destination of the Year 2013, Finland’s biggest travel media Rantapallo reports. “Statistics just published by the Association of Finnish Travel Agents confirm that Greece continues to be one of the most popular summer leisure destinations for Finnish tourists …
Read More »Shortage of Drugs Due to Pharma Embargo to Greek National Health Service
The never ending story of the Greek patient: While private pharmacists continue to block prescription medicine on credit, drugs have started to disappear from the pharmacies shelves of EOPYY. Patients have now to seek state pharmacies in hospitals to get life-saving medication. Gerasimos Voudouris, president of National health Care Services EOPYY, …
Read More »One in Two Foreign Laborers in Greece Work Without Insurance and Social Security
One in two foreign employees in Greece work without insurance and social security. That was the result of control checks conducted by the Greek Labor Ministry in the first six months of 2012. According to ministry data, 47.4% of the foreign laborers work without insurance and social security. Labor ministry, …
Read More »Interested in Buying a Greek Port? Samaras Government Transfers Rights of 23 Ports & Marinas
Are you interested in operating a Greek port? You could slowly start to scratch your money together because Greece is readying to make them available to those willing to invest in the debt-ridden country. 23 Greek ports and touristic ports (marinas) will pass from Greek hands to investors’ willing to operate …
Read More »Greek Media: Russian Warships Entered the Aegean Sea on Syria Mission
Citing Greek military sources, Greek media reported on Tuesday, that four Russian warships are sailing through the Aegean Sea to the Eastern Mediterranean. Two amphibious ships from the Russian Black Sea Fleet, the CAESAR KUNIKOV and the NIKOLAI FILCHENKOV, and two tug-boats SHAKHTAR and OKHTENSKY passed through the Turkish Straits this morning …
Read More »Powerful Earthquake 6R Shakes Greek Islands and SW Turkey
A powerful earthquake measuring 5.8 on the Richter scale occurred at 03:44 p.m. on Sunday in the sea area between the Greek islands of Rhodes and Kastelorizo and the Turkish South-Western coast. The Seismologic Institute Kandili in Istanbul/Turkey gave the earthquake intensity with 6.1R. There were no deaths but some …
Read More »Greek Cancer Patients in Dire Need of Drugs as Health System Collapses
Cancer patients are in dire need of live-saving drugs as the health system in debt-ridden Greece collapses. Cancer-patients supporting NGOs, and pharmacists report of serious shortages of the expensive drugs against cancer due to a) public spending cuts b) reluctance of pharmacists to stock out of fear they won’t be paid …
Read More »Ferry Boat Tickets: 6% Hikes as of April 1, 2012
Talking about promoting tourism and being competitive… Passengers are due to pay 6% more for ferry boats tickets and car transportation as of 1. April 2012. For a family of four that travels with car, that’s 20 euro more, considering that the kids will have reduced fares. According to news …
Read More »Patras, Chania: Tear Gas Parade; Protests across Greece, Mar 25/12
While the parade in Athens was relatively quite due to highest security measures, people’s outrage against the government austerity policies could be tamed only with the use of tear gas. The protesters were armed with the usual “ammunition”: eggs, yogurt, coffee, water bottles and bitter oranges that grow wild on the …
Read More »First Time in Greece: A Prosecutor for the Animal Protection
For the first time in Greece, a prosecutor has been assigned and will be responsible for the protection of the animals and the strays. Prosecutor Constantina Aggelopoulou will oversee the cases of animal abuse, poisoning and torturing animals, and all other cases that violate the new animal protection law. Meanwhile the …
Read More »National Day Parades (Mar 25/12) To Take Place as Usual – Despite Fear of Protests
The National Day parades on March 25th 2012 will take place as usual, the Papademos government decided on Monday, despite fears of mass protests. At a meeting of the ministers of Interior, Education, Defense, Justice and Citizens’ Protection under PM Papademos, it has been also decided that all the members of the government …
Read More »Austerity Kills Patients in Greek Hospitals
Austerity translated into “medical personnel shortage” started to formally kill patients in the Greek public hospitals where conditions resemble more and more those of a Third-World country and human lives are sacrificed on the altar of the economic crisis. The tragic incident occurred in the state hospital in Alexandroupolis. A neuro-surgeon was …
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