March 20, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR, World
Refugees and migrants flow from Turkey to Greece started to rise again. In last five days, a total of 566 people arrived to the Greek islands on boat coming form Turkey. Most affected are the islands of Lesvos, Chios and Samos. It is unclear whether the flow increase is due …
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March 8, 2017
Economy
Greece’s debt-ridden economy stagnated in 2016, the national statistics agency ELSTAT said in a first estimate on Wednesday, two days after quarterly data pointed to a small contraction. “GDP in volume terms recorded 0.0% annual rate of change in 2016,” ELSTAt said, adding that the figure was derived from non-seasonally …
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March 1, 2017
Tourism, Travel
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday informed World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) Secretary General Taleb Rifai that “year by year Greece is breaking records” regarding the number of visitors from abroad. The PM’s statement was made during a meeting he had with Rifai at the Maximos Mansion. Tourism Minister Elena Kountoura …
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February 11, 2017
Very Mix
The relocation scheme of the European Union has blatantly failed. From the target of 6,000 relocations per month, less than 13,000 people have been relocated form Greece to other EU-member countries within the whole year 2016. According to data released by the Relocation Unit of the Asylum Service, the total …
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February 9, 2017
Very Mix
A refugee and a migrant stole a boat and attempted to return to Turkey but they were captured by a Frontex vessel. The two men, a Syrian, 32, and an Egyptian, 28, stole the boat from Agia Ermioni port on the islands of Chios, just a couple of nautical miles …
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October 31, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
One hundred ten Syrian refugees among them also 36 unaccompanied minors left Greece for Finland on Monday in the context of the relocation scheme. Families, individual persons and unaccompanied minors boarded on a plane from Athens international airport Eleftherios Venizelos on Monday morning. According to Asylum Office, the group consisted …
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October 24, 2016
Society
230,000 children live in households without any income and 39.9% of Greece’s population cannot afford basic goods and services, like food and heating. According to the latest report published by the Greek Statistics Authority (ELSTAT) 39.9% of the population lacks basic material goods and services, such as food and heating. …
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October 19, 2016
Society
A Master’s degree, a PhD qualification. They doesn’t count much in Greece of the economic crisis, of the high unemployment and the flexible forms of work with reduced working hours and reduced wages. Full time jobs are a dream for the more than one million unemployed. Part-Time contracts rule the …
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October 5, 2016
Politics
“On the one-year anniversary of the EU plan to relocate 160,000 asylum seekers from Greece and Italy, the first countries of arrival, the scheme must be judged a farce, ” Human Rights Watch Advocacy Director Philippe Dam writes in his review about the failure of the European Commission sponsored Relocation …
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September 20, 2016
Very Mix
It was a hell of a night for the some 4,000 refugees and migrants in Moria hot spot. Mothers carrying their babies in their arms, fragile elderly, disabled, children and men… they all started to run away from the fire that was sweeping through the tents and the prefabricated containers. …
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August 23, 2016
Politics, Refugees
Greece’s Migration Minister Yannis Mouzalas warned on Tuesday that another 180,000 refugees and migrants would have come to Greece in the last three months, if there was no EU – Turkey deal. During a press conference, Mouzalas stressed that Greece would face an unprecedented wave of refugees and migrants, should …
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August 22, 2016
Society
Twelve districts of Greece have banned blood donations because of malaria cases some of them to have been contracted domestically and the majority of them to be “imported.” Over the weekend, the Hellenic Center for Disease Control and Prevention (KEELPNO) and the National Center for Blood Donation both issued blood …
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July 20, 2016
Society
One out of three Greece’s labor craft await 3 to 15 months for their salaries. This is one of the main slogans of the campaign for the rights of workers launched by opposition party To Potami. In a statement, the centrist party notes that “more than 1.2million people go daily …
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May 13, 2016
Politics
The number of migrants arriving in Greece dropped 90 percent in April, EU border agency Frontex said on Friday, in a sign that a deal with Turkey to send back those who make the sea journey between the two countries is working. “Fewer than 2,700 people arrived in Greece in …
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March 16, 2016
Politics, Refugees
The data released by the European Commission on the relocation and resettlement of refugees – asylum seekers -from Greece is as depressive as they could be and as everyone would have suspected. Not even 600 people have left Greece for another EU member country a total of 937 people were …
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March 10, 2016
Politics, Refugees
According to the Refugees Crisis Management Coordination body, there are 41,973 refugees currently in Greece. According to data released on Thursday. If there is confusion about the numbers of the registration, please, note that the number are real registrations and that they lag behind arrivals by a day or two. …
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March 10, 2016
Economy
While we have been busy with the Refugee Crisis, the institutions have been working for us. The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), for example, has been collecting economic data, evaluating them and comming to conclusion that The refugee crisis creates significant problems for the Greek economy and growth …
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January 31, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
At least 10,000 unaccompanied child refugees have disappeared after arriving in Europe, according to the EU’s criminal intelligence agency. Many are feared to have fallen into the hands of organised trafficking syndicates. In the first attempt by law enforcement agencies to quantify one of the most worrying aspects of the …
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January 15, 2016
Economy
The Season Greeting the Greek Finance Ministry sent this year to dozens of officials in several departments were as bit peculiar. The ministry advice “More hugs for less heating oil consumption”, with reference to the heating oil allowance. The Ministry knew very well that despite the tax tsunami it had …
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December 20, 2015
Society
Gone are the times when labor craft would get a full time job with a wage that would allow a descent living. The data published by the Greek Labor Ministry are grim. Not only 24,674 jobs were lost in the private sector in November. The data reflect also the absolute …
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