Tag Archives: EU Funds

The government says it will renew a request for European Union funds in 2022 to extend a border wall along the country’s frontier with Turkey and promised to expand a powerful surveillance network aimed at stopping migrants entering the country illegally. A public order minister, Takis Theodorikakos, told a parliamentary …

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A small group of young people from the remote mountains of Thessaly in central rural Greece returned home to realize that their village Sarantaporo still had not internet access. Telecom companies had no interest in investing to bring the necessary infrastructure there, so the group set out to create a …

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The European Commission has published a list of recipients of funds to Greece to deal with the migration crisis. An amount totaling 1.6 billion euros has been allocated to non-governmental organizations, international organizations and Greek authorities, even though only half of it has been disbursed. The Commission released €650 million …

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The prosecutor of Greece’s Supreme Court has launched an inquiry into alleged mismanagement of EU Funds given to Greece for handling the migration crisis. The investigation follows reports and claims in Greek press. Supreme Court Public Prosecutor Xeni Dimitriou on Monday ordered the start of a preliminary investigation into press …

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The Director of Refugees Reception and Identification Centers in Greek Ministry of Migration was fired early afternoon Thursday.  Previous to his dismissal, Andreas Iliopoulos had given an interview to a Greek newspaper in which he was asking the prosecutor’s intervention with regards management of EU Funds for the refugees and …

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Three major transport and environment project are to be inaugurated this week with EU funds totaling 1.3 billion euros, the European Commission said on Wednesday. In addition, 121 million euros investment has been adopted for the motorway connecting the Aktio Peninsula with the Ionian highway . The Commission said in …

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EU’s  anti-fraud watchdog  OLAF is  investigating the potential misuse of EU funds meant to provide food for refugees in Greece, a spokesperson for the agency said Tuesday. The news follows the detention on Saturday of the publisher, the editor in chief and one journalist from Greek newspaper Fileleftheros following a libel suit filed …

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The European Commission temporary suspended all projects funded through the European Regional Developments Funds for the period 2014-2020 claiming there is a suspicion that a construction cartel has been exploiting the funds flowing into Greece. EC’s official justification for the suspension of funds amounting €13.5 million is the “distortion in …

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 EU’s Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) stands accused of failing to investigate cases of misused EU funds in Greece, despite tip-offs submitted by a Greek official. Anti-corruption officials in Brussels have reportedly failed to investigate reports of squandered EU funds at a training institute in Greece, German daily Süddeutsche Zeitung reported last …

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That’s really a very ambitious plan: Greece’s finance ministry wants to investigate whether the EU subsidies funds (NSRF) given to companies for further investment were misused or not. You know, for the usual purpose: privately… According to Greek media, financial crimes units (SDOE) in 13 regions are due to start …

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Things are confusing and do not look good. Some Greek media reported on Friday, that the European Commission rejected the plan of Greek Labour Ministry to finance temporary work places for 400,000 families that have no employee. The program worked out by the Labour Ministry was to subsidize temporary work …

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