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A total of 149 people drowned in Greece between January 1 and July 24, according to data released by the Greek Coast Guard. The data were released on Saturday in the wake of warnings by health experts for people to show greater caution when swimming amid reports of 413 deaths …

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Polling stations for European, regional and local elections opened at 7 o’ clock Sunday for the 9,922,294 registered voters. 528,000 Greeks will vote for the first time. Among them are , 106,760 17-year-olds who will vote following a recent law amendment that lowered the voting age. 39,063 polling stations have …

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A 24-hour telephone helpline for police officers has reduced their suicides to zero in 2018, Greek Police has said. The helpline was introduced two years ago, police chief Manolis Koufakis added. Koufakis said that there were no recorded suicides among police men and women in 2018, compared to the total …

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Vegan dietary habits are gaining more and more fans in Greece and Vegan Food Festivals are organized in one city after the other. After a Vegan event held in Athens last October attracted more than 20,000 visitors, the city of Thessaloniki in Northern Greece is preparing for its First Vegan …

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Short-term lease via the platform Airbnb is spreading in Greece as more and more apartment and home owners prefer to lease to tourists and visitors. However, they are surprised to see that the revenues they were anticipated to earn are decreasing. Reason for this is the plethora of offer that …

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One third of Greek pensioners receives a monthly pension of no more than 500 euros. According to data from the Helios database of the Greek Labor Ministry for August and September 2018, the average monthly pension was 724.18 euros. Supplementary pension was 172.32 euros per month, while dividend paid monthly …

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The first one hundred asylum-seekers from Moria Camp on the island of Lesvos left for Kavala on board of a ship early Friday morning. They are heading to a new camp in Volvi area near Thessaloniki in Northern Greece. The new camp has a capacity for 1,400 people. The group …

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Animal abuse in Greece has increased by 22% in the last couple of years. 870,000 animals fall victim of passive or active abuse on annual basis. The shocking numbers were reported by state ERT TV on Tuesday, however without further details or name of source. Not all cases of animal …

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Athens Wildfires – Missing People – Online Platform: An electronic data based platform was opened on Tuesday morning for the people who went missing in the Athens wildfires in East Attica on Monday. The platform was set up at 9 o’ clock in the morning when a group of web …

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The “Golden Visa” program offered to foreigners who invest in real estate worth more than 250,000 euros in the country is growing strongly, Elias Athanasiou, CEO in Enterprise Greece said last week. The Golden Visa program has been initiated since 2012. During the first years of operation, demand for visas …

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The number of refugees, asylum seekers and people with no citizenship in Greece totaled 58,000 in early June, according to figures released by the Greek chapter of the UNHCR on Wednesday, World Refugee Day. Sabine Wahning, head of the Thessaloniki office, says that there is a rising trend in the …

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In the first five months of 2018  Greece has been Europe’s top entry point for refugees and migrants. According to the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, Frontext, over 19,800 people entered Greece during January – May 2018. At the same time, the land border crossing from Turkey to Greece …

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Hundreds of pensioners marched in downtown Athens in one more protest against cuts in main and supplementary pensions during the austerity years. The protest was staged as the recalculation of pensions is imminent due to the so-called Katrougalos-Law of 2016. The pensioners from the private and public sector said that …

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Greece is planning to replace the current ID cards with new ones containing biometric data. The new IDs will have the size of a credit-card and will be available at a cost of estimated 8 to 10 euros. If one adds the cost to 8-10 euros for the pictures, the …

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Shares in Eldorado Gold were slightly up on Tuesday after the company announced full-year production that came in line with production guidance, but suspended its semi-annual dividend payment “pending the results of the technical reports and potential subsequent capital requirements.” In a press release, the Vancouver-based miner revealed that, including …

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Greece’s independent statistics agency ELSTAT said the country’s economy grew by 1.3 percent on the year in the previous quarter, failing to meet ambitious growth expectations from the government and European Union. Without a revision, the July-September growth figure announced Monday suggests that Greece could miss its target of annual …

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Airbnb refused to provide the Greek Finance Ministry with information on property rentals thus delaying the launch of  an online platform where owners should register the rental transactions and pay the necessary taxes. According to information obtained by economic news website economy365.gr,  the Finance Ministry has tried for five months …

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German daily Tagesspiegel has published The List, a document and a piece of art with the names of 33,293 people who have died trying to reach Europe. 33,293 names 33,293 fates 33,293 dead The work is compiled by Turkish artist Banu Cennetoğlu. The List comprises data about thousands of immigrants, …

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Foreign nationals have invested €1.1 billion to purchase Greek real estate under Greece’s “Golden Visa” program. Since the program’s inception in 2013, 1,725 golden visas have been issued, entitling investors and their families to five-year residence permits in Greece. The “Golden Visa” program entitles national form third countries, i.g. outside …

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A 70-yeart-old British tourist died while he was swimming in Fournoti beach, west of Agia Roumeli in the southwest of the island of Crete on Tuesday morning. The man reportedly became unconscious while he was swimming. Other swimmers rushed to help him. They brought the man ashore, a private boat …

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