October 16, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
World Health Organisation (WHO) will located its offices for the Quality of Health Care and Patient Safety in Athens, Greek Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias and the WHO Regional Director for Europe, Hans Kluge, announced on Friday after a meeting in Copenhagen. “The choice of Greece is a recognition of the …
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October 15, 2020
Greece, Politics
Greece’s top court, the Council of State annulled the joint ministerial decision that defined traffic regulations for the Athens Great Walk as “due to COVID-19.” The decision exposes Mayor Costa Bakogiannis and his project he described as “temporary” thus for a cost of 2 million euros. The CoS ruled that …
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October 13, 2020
weather
The storm that hit Attica in early morning Tuesday caused unprecedented damages in several suburbs of the Greek capital. Mostly affected was Neo Heraklio in north-western Athens, where heavy rainfall and powerful winds uprooted dozens of trees and power columns, and broke even windows in houses and other buildings. Three …
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October 12, 2020
Greece
“We respectfully bow to the memory those who fought for freedom, expressing the wish that we will never again see in our country – the country which gave birth to democracy – sympathizers of ideologies that threw the world into a bloodbath… the supporters of Nazism, fascism and bigotry,” President …
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October 9, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece is temporarily freezing plans to introduce new restrictive measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus because citizens are fatigued, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Friday morning. He even announced that the government may consider to extend the operation of restaurants, bars and similar facilities until 1 o’ …
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October 9, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The City of Athens has launched an information campaign about the Covid-19 pandemic for migrants and refugees in 12 languages. In a statement on Thursday, the Municipality said that the campaign will be supported by closer cooperation with migrant and refugee communities which participate in the Council for the Integration …
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October 7, 2020
Greece
The Greek ambassador to Azerbaijan has been summoned back to Athens by order of Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias, according to an announcement on Wednesday, after assertions made by the Azerbaijani government that the Greek State was allegedly showing tolerance for the preparation of terrorist actions. A statement issued by the …
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October 7, 2020
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Large crowds of people have gathered outside the Appeals court in downtown Athens on Wednesday morning, awaiting for the verdict of the neo-nazi Golden Dawn party. Five and a half years after the trial started and 453 sessions, the moment for the judges to announce the decision that will write …
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October 6, 2020
Greece
“It is up to Turkey to close the road to the crisis and pave the way for a solution. We are ready to meet it on this second path,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said during joint statements with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg after a meeting in his office …
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October 6, 2020
Economy
The effects of the Covid-19 pandemic were also reflected in air travel in September, with passenger traffic at Athens International Airport (AIA) down 68 pct from the same period last year. According to AIA statistics, passenger traffic reached 861,000 passengers, compared to 2.7 million passengers last year. Passengers on both …
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October 5, 2020
Greece, Politics
The Israeli embassy in Greece and Greek officials condemned the desecration of Athens’ Jewish cemetery with anti-Semitic graffiti, with posts on social media on Monday. In three separate tweets, the embassy wrote: “The heinous anti-Semitic graffiti found today on the walls of the Athens Jewish Cemetery during Jewish High Holidays …
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October 2, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Greece
The Greek government efforts to find solutions to the crowding of commuters in public transport means in Athens has so far turned into a fiasco. The Transportation Ministry has been delaying measures to strengthen the bus network in the Greek capital of 4 million inhabitants, the daily coronavirus cases are …
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October 1, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
At least 40 people, elderly and personnel, have been tested positive to Covid-19 at a care home in downtown Athens in the last few hours setting health authorities on alert and enforcing a 10-day lockdown of the facility. Ambulances were seen on Thursday morning transferring elderly to various coronavirus designated …
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September 30, 2020
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
In a spectacular light show, the Greek Culture Ministry and the Onassis Foundation inaugurated the new lighting system that has the Parthenon and other monuments of the Acropolis shine in Athenian nights. The inauguration ceremony on the Pnyx Hill was attented by the President of the Hellenic Republic, Katerina Sakellaropoulou, …
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September 27, 2020
animals, FEATURED
Dozens of animal lovers rushed to rescue animals from a shelter that was threatened from a wildfire. The fire broke out Saturday noon at the feet of mountain Hymettus in eastern Athens and threatened the shelter in the municipality of Vyronas that hosts some 70 dogs. On social media, the …
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September 24, 2020
Social
A baby was found in the public park Pedio toy Areos in downtown Athens Thursday noon. The infant was wrapped in a blanket, next to it there was a bag with a few diapers. The baby is a girl and estimated to be 4 to 10 days old. The baby …
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September 23, 2020
FEATURED, Greece
The ambitious “Great Walk of Athens” didn’t walk, it was just a “pilot and temporary program” and a “simulation”, Mayor Costas Bakoyiannis said on Tuesday announcing a …new project for downtown Athens. What certainly walked to some pockets were 1,8 million euros from the Municipality’s cash registers. Money that were …
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September 22, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greek officials reiterated in the past hours the possibility of a lockdown should the latest measures do not decrease coronavirus infections and continue to put the health system under pressure, especially in Attica. Epidemiologists reportedly awaiting for the latest restrictions in force September 21 – October 4 to flatten the …
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September 18, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece’s authorities announced a package of stricter measures for Athens and the broader region of Attica in order to contain the spread of the coronavirus. The measures come two days after another series of restrictions were imposed. The additional measures include stricter crowd control, return to work from home for …
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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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