October 15, 2022
FEATURED, weather
Greece’s Civil Protection sent a message via emergency line 112 on Saturday evening to the residents of the islands of Karpathos, Kasos, Rhodes, Halki and Kastellorizo. The message warns citizens of possible dangerous weather phenomena in the next 24 hours in their area and calls on them to avoid unnecessary …
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May 10, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
The European Commission has prepared an emergency plan for the case of an energy blackout. According to Spanish daily El Pais the Commission intends to present the plan on May 18. The plan contains several actions to be taken by EU member states for the worst case scenario in which …
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September 28, 2021
Very Mix
The double sirens testing was successful at least in our neighborhood in Athens on Tuesday morning. 11 o’ clock sharp, a rather weak alarm sounded intermittently and at varyi8ng levels for 60 seconds. The second alarm was penetrating loud and consistent and lasted also for 60 seconds. Χαμουλης! #σειρήνες pic.twitter.com/H8BtkiNvrx …
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June 24, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Ηead of Civil Protection, Greece’s top epidemiologist Sotiris Tsiodras are holding an emergency meeting with local authorities from Crete over the spread of the Delta variant of Covid-19 on the island. Τhe meeting takes place hours after the head of Greek National Health Care Organization EODY, Panagiotis Arkoumaneas warned of …
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March 31, 2021
Greece, Politics
An extraordinary emergency grant due to the pandemic will be allocated to the Church of Greece, the Church of Crete, the Holy Metropolises of Dodecanese, the Central Israeli Council of Greece, Ecclesiastical Legal Entities and Religious Legal Entities, the Education & Religious Affairs Ministry decided on Wednesday. The allowance is …
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December 6, 2020
Greece
The European Parliament voted a resolution last month, urging that the European values of democracy must prevail even in a state of public emergency like Covid-19. The EP warned against “abuse of power” and called on the EUropean Commission to step up its efforts by taking legal action where necessary. …
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August 26, 2020
Very Mix
An aircraft flying the route Istanbul-Manchester made an emergency landing at the airport of the island of Corfu on Wednesday evening after a passenger ran amok. Due to an “emergency” situation, the aircraft was exceptionally allowed to land at the airport I. Kapodistrias as Greek airports are closed to flights …
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August 11, 2020
Greece, Politics
Greece has requested that an extraordinary meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers be held on the subject of Turkey’s expanding provocations and illegal activity, Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Tuesday. This request comes at a time of clear threat on the part of Turkey against peace and security …
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March 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Very Mix
Greece’s Health authorities announced on Wednesday evening preventive emergency measures against the coronavirus for the prefectures of Achaia and Ilia, in Peloponnese, as well as for the island of Zakynthos. The measures are considered as preventing and are implemented following the latest coronavirus case confirmed earlier today. According to National …
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November 8, 2019
Very Mix
An airplane of Egypt Air was forced to an emergency landing in Athens International Airport “Eleftherios Venizelos” short before 10 o’ clock on Friday morning. The airplane sent a danger signal while it was flying in FIR Athens and over the island of Chios in the Eastern Aegean Sea. Reason …
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April 3, 2018
Politics, Refugees
The European Commission has announced on Tuesday new funding of €180 million for aid projects in Greece, including to scale up the flagship ‘Emergency Support to Integration & Accommodation’ (ESTIA) programme which helps get refugees into urban accommodation and out of camps and provides them with regular cash assistance. The funding …
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February 4, 2013
Economy, Society
If comes as expected: nothing is more permanent than the temporary. The so-called ’emergency property tax’ originally planned for two years is going to be permanent. It will be embedded in the new unified property tax currently worked out by the Greek finance ministry. The necessity of adding together one …
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January 16, 2012
Society
It took the Greek Health Ministry almost a year to find out that public hospitals managers were illegally raising a levy of €5 from each patient seeking the accident and emergency departments. The relevant law provided that a fee of €5 would be paid only by people seeking the outpatient clinics at …
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October 24, 2011
Economy, Society
With an appeal to the Supreme Administrative Court/Council of State “Greek Taxpayers’ Association”, one private person and the “Lawyers’ Association of Athens” request the annulment of the decision for the emergency property tax to be paid via the electricity company bills. It is the first filed application against the temporary …
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