November 20, 2023
environment, FEATURED
Dutch experts shed light on the causes of the floods disaster in Thessaly plain that destroyed agricultural land, farming animals, homes and businesses in September 2023. The experts hired to evaluate the causes of the floods have reportedly proposed a new water management model. Among their preliminary findings included in …
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March 31, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
With the daily coronavirus infections again on the rise, the Epidemiologists’ Committee recommended at their meeting on Wednesday that no further measures will be lifted until Easter, April 24, 2022 This means that both the Covid-Pass and the mandatory use of masks indoors will remain in force until at least …
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April 19, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Greece’s health experts will announce this week the measures over the Easter holidays and during church services, government spokesperson Aristotelia Peloni said on Monday. She stressed the the Epidemiologists’ Committee evaluates all the data, including the latest ones, and advises the government accordingly. “We are in a very fragile balance …
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February 3, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The next 48 hours are crucial for epidemiologists to decide in favor of even tougher measures, a so-called “hard lockdown” with curfew starting already at 6 p.m., in Attica and Athens due to a resurgence of coronaviurs cases. The number of daily infections today and tomorrow will be decisive for …
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December 17, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Health experts in Greece warn that family gatherings up to nine people on Christmas and New Year will most likely turn into a superspread coronavirus event. They call on people to either remain within the family or wear masks. At the same time they call on the government to review …
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June 28, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
All eyes are on July 1, the day when Greece will begin to receive international arrivals at all its airports and ports. The state plan for sampling and health protocols on the islands is ready, but – as authorities admit – “we are moving into unknown waters.” Coronavirus cases have …
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June 11, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Five schools of Primary Education and one kindergarten in the broader area of Xanthi, north-eastern Greece, have been shut down for ten days after two teachers were tested positive to coronavirus.80 teachers and other educational staff in total have been placed in house isolation, teams of the Greek health authorities …
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October 2, 2014
Archeology, Culture, Very Mix
As if taxes wouldn’t cause enough crumbling in our pockets now a new disaster emerges on the horizon of the crisis-ridden country. Our beloved Acropolis, the Monument of Monuments, is crumbling! Engineers investigating the rockfall of last January found out that part of the huge rock on which the Parthenon …
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July 14, 2014
animals
UPD July 29/2014: Despite all efforts and all the crocodile dundees who rushed to Crete, famous crocodile “Sifis” hasn’t bite so far…. The crocodile won’t bite. The slaughtered chicken in the traps got rotten and started to stink. “Sifis”, the crocodile of Crete, turns to be a clever cat, after …
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August 31, 2013
Economy
Stuck in recession, plagued by soaring unemployment and suicides – the Greek plight is dragging on, sending shivers across the EU. Greece is struggling to meet the conditions of its international lenders, who are pouring billions into the ailing economy. But when will the rescue package actually work? Or has …
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September 10, 2012
Earthquake, Very Mix
Our magma is swelling, our income is shrinking. These are Greek realities on Monday, September 10th 2012. Why our income is shrinking is very obvious and does not need surveys or experts to tells us why. But that the magma (the chamber of liquid rock) under the Santorini volcano is swelling is …
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