January 19, 2023
Greece, Politics
The court in Brussels confirmed Thursday evening that Eva Kaili remains in prison in pre-trial detention after she appeared before judicial council earlier. In an official announcement the council said that Kaili can appeal the decision within 24 hours, but she will have to appear before the Indictment Chamber at …
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July 28, 2022
Society, Very Mix
Greece’s National Public Health Organization (EODY) announced on Thursday that the total number of confirmed monkeypox cases in the country has risen to 32 from 20 a week earlier. All of the cases concern men, whose average age is 38 years old. They patients have all recovered or are recovering …
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June 8, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The first case of monkeypox has been confirmed in Greece, national health care organization EODY announced late on Wednesday. Infected with the virus is a man with a recent trip to Portugal, health authorities said.. The patient is 49-years-old and returned from Portugal 15 days ago, ANT1 TV reported Thursday …
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December 20, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Confirmed cases of the Omicron variant in Greece have reached 26, health authorities announced on Monday morning. The majority of them are not related to travel. Dozens of suspected cases under examination. The confirmed cases of the Omicron variant have reached 26 on Monday from 17 last Thursday. President of …
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December 6, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Τwo suspected cases have been confirmed positive to Omicron variant of Covid-19, the Institute for Biological Research of the Academy of Athens (IIBEAA) announced on Monday. The two cases have been detected in Attica. the patients are reportedly Greeks living in South Africa who traveled in Greece before the country …
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December 2, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The first case of the Omicron variant of Covid-19 has been detected and confirm in Greece, Health Minister Thanos Plevris announced on Thursday morning. According to the Health Minister, the infected “zero patient” is a Greek citizen, who arrived from South Africa to Athens and from there he traveled to …
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April 3, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Six people died in Greece between Friday morning and afternoon, increasing the death toll due to coronavirus to 59. Three of the deceased were hospitalized in northern Greece, one in Athens. One of deceased was from the village Echinos, placed under quarantine since March 25. One of them was a …
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March 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greek Health Authorities announced the ninth confirmed case of coronavirus in the country on Wednesday noon. The patient is the first coronavirus in western Greece after confirmed cases in Thessaloniki and Athens. The patient is a man currently in isolation in a designated public hospital in Patras, West Peloponnese. According …
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February 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greece’s Health Ministry confirmed on Friday morning that a woman has been tested positive on coronavirus. The infected patient is the second confirmed case in Athens and the fourth in the country. The 36-year-old woman had recently traveled to Italy, in a region hit by the virus. She is in …
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February 26, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
The first case of coronavirus has been confirmed in Greece on Wednesday. It was announced by Sotiris Tsiodras, in charge for the conoravirus infections on behalf of the National Health Organization short before noon. The infected patient is a 38-year-old Greek woman who recently returned from a trip to North …
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December 6, 2019
Social
Results of laboratory tests conducted in UK’s Public Health Laboratory have confirmed that the 8-year-old boy was positive in the strain of diphtheria toxin, the Greek National Public Health Organization (ESA) said in a statement. The child that passed away due to severe respiratory infection in a public children’s hospital …
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July 28, 2018
Social
One more child missing in the Athens wildfires has been confirmed dead on Saturday: 13-year-old Dimitris Alexpoulos. With every DNA match the tiny spark of hope dies together with the missing beloved one, the many victims of the fires. Authorities confirmed the death of the 13-year-old boy who went missing …
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July 26, 2018
Social
Irishman Brian O’Callaghan-Westropp has been confirmed dead after he was reported missing following wildfires in Greece. Mr O’Callaghan-Westropp and his wife Zoe Holohan were celebrating their honeymoon when wildfires consumed the coastal town of Mati. The news was confirmed by Ireland’s Ambassador to Greece Orla O’Hanrahan who said her sympathies …
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May 24, 2018
Turkey-GR
Greece’s Council of State has confirmed the ruling of Asylum Committee to grant asylum to one of the 8 Turkish servicemen who fled to Greece after the failed coup of 2016. The Council of State said that asylum to one of the eight Turkish servicemen is definite and irrevocable. the …
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June 30, 2015
Economy, Politics
Greece is one minute before 12. Midnight sharp we will not all turn into pumpkins but rather into default, should we believe local and foreign media. As the whole reporting about “Greece’s Doomsday” is strongly influenced by the pro or contra propaganda with regards to Referendum on upcoming Sunday, I …
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April 9, 2015
Economy
Managing director of International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde confirmed that Greece paid the €450-million euro tranche on Thursday. “Greece paid the installment for April,” she said after a speech she held somewhere in Washington. “I collected my money,” Lagarde said characteristically. It’s not YOUR money, babydoll!
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January 16, 2015
Economy
Bank of Greece sources confirmed to several media that two Greek banks made a request for Emergency Liguidity Assistance (ELA) funding from the Bank of Greece in December. However, they did not confirm the amount of liquidity that it was asked, neither did they disclose the names of the banks. …
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November 13, 2012
Economy
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble confirmed on Tuesday evening that news that Germany considers to the payment of three bailout tranches of total 44 billion euro. As expected, Schaeuble stressed the need of an ‘enhanced control mechanism.” “You’ll run up three tranches by the end of the year,”Schaeuble told reporters today in Brussels, …
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