December 5, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
In a wide-ranging interview, Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsosakis said the current fleet of 24 Rafale fighter jets is ‘sufficient,’ reversing earlier plans to acquire up to 12 more newly built Rafales upgraded to the latest F4 standard, the avionist.com reported on Thursday. Greece will not buy additional Dassault Rafale …
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October 6, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said on Friday that he will ask for more resources to deal with migration. The Greek PM is in Granada, Spain, for the informal summit of European Union leaders. Talking to reporters before the summit, Mitsotakis said he was glad a preliminary agreement has been …
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July 25, 2022
Social, Society
Roula Pispirigou, the woman accused of killing her nine-year-old daughter Georgina and under investigation for the earlier deaths of her two younger daughters, was taken to the examining magistrate on Monday for an additional testimony. 33-year-old Pispirigou faces an additional charge for the attempted murder of her 9-year-old daughter Georgina. …
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January 4, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
With the Omicron variant prevailing in Greece skyrocketing the daily infection cases and slowly affecting the operation of hospitals and public services, epidemiologists in the country advising the government are reportedly considering a package of new restrictions in an effort to contain the spread of coronavirus. The additional measures implemented …
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December 27, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced early Monday evening a series of measures against the spread of the coronavirus and thus on the same day as the country experiences a negative record of all times since the start of the pandemic: 9,284 new coronavirus cases confirmed in the last 24 …
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December 26, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
The Εpidemiologists committee at Greece’s Health Ministry will convene tomorrow, Monday, December 27, in the context of the constant epidemiological supervision and evaluation of the condition under the shadow of Omicron variant. Τhe committee is reportedly highly concerned over a new significant worsening of the pandemic. The committee will examine …
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November 29, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s epidemiology experts and the government are considering additional restrictions to contain the spread of the coronavirus in the country, especially after the new Covid-19 variant Omicron. At the same time there is a dramatic increase of Covid-related deaths that have been an average of 85-95 per day. Recorded is …
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December 22, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED, Tourism
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority extended quarantine for travelers from UK to 10 days over the Christmas holidays and an additional mandatory PCR test at the end of the self-isolation tine. However, in a new announcement Tuesday noon, it changed the date from which the measure will be implemented. In the …
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September 18, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis sounded alarm over the spread of the coronavirus in Attica, especially in districts and suburbs of Athens and announced that additional restrictive measures are due. “The government is prepared to impose additional measures to contain the spread of coronavirus in Attica,” the prime minister said after …
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July 30, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has given the green light to epidemiologists to propose and impose additional restrictions they consider as necessary to contain the spread of the coronavirus. Mitsotakis held an extraordinary teleconference on Thursday with the participation of the country’s top epidemiologists and ministers involved in health issues …
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October 12, 2017
Economy
The International Monetary Fund insists on additional austerity measures and reiterates that the primary surplus of 3.5 percent of GDP cannot be achieved. In its Greek report published on Thursday, the IMF projects a primary surplus of 2.2% of GDP in 2018. IF the IMF’s forecast is not revised, Greece …
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May 22, 2017
Economy
Greece struggles to reach a deal at the Eurogroup meeting on Monday, May 22 2017. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he hoped for a political agreement on Monday’s Eurogroup. However, the deal the German minister hopes to happen is not just the deal Greece and the International Monetary Fund …
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April 26, 2017
Greece, Politics
Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said that the additional austerity measures 2019-2020 will not be implemented if there is no measures for debt relief. In an interview to private ANT1 TV on Tuesday evening, the Prime Minister clarified that the government will legislate for the additional pension cuts and higher …
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February 4, 2017
Economy
Is the Greek government preparing to capitulate to creditors’ demands for additional austerity measures that have to be legislated now or risk to miss the closure or the second review? The government reportedly tries to come to an agreement with creditors and close the second review thus proposing an alternative: …
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June 22, 2015
Economy, Society
The Greek additional proposal to the creditors has been leaked to the press. Athens offers earth and water – in creditors’ language “taxes and revenues” worth €7.899 billion for 2015-2016 that is in the next 18 months. Specifically, the Greek government aims to collect €2.697 billion until the end of …
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January 27, 2015
Economy
The eurozone has ruled out debt forgiveness for Greece and warned Alexis Tsipras that his anti-austerity coalition government must honor all past agreements with international creditors. In a meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Brussels on Monday, a day after left-wing SYRIZA won the parliamentary elections, the euro bosses warned …
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December 1, 2014
Economy
Greece’s resistance to Troika’s demand did not last long. Just a couple of days after the negotiations failure in Paris, the country’s lenders e-mailed the Greeks that they should definitely need to impose additional austerity measures and fill the hole of estimated 2.5 billion euro in the budget of 2015. …
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October 25, 2013
Economy
What if coalition government leaders PM Antonis Samaras and deputy PM Evangelos Venizelos repeatedly assured there would not no new austerity measures. Appointed and not-elected finance minister Yiannis Stournaras gave things a sober approached and even indirectly announced where the new cuts will come from: from social security funds. “We …
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September 21, 2011
Economy
The new and additional austerity measures, the new uncontrolled taxation of low incomes, are here and they have been given to the stunned Greeks via a written statement. I guess, no government minister dared a televised announcement fearing that the television screens would be covered with yogurt – and who can spare even a …
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