January 20, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Greeks and foreigners will finally get the chance to pay their taxes, duties and levies in Greece using cards issued abroad. The Independent Authority for Public Revenue has reportedly already began a public consultation process and the contractor to undertake the project will be decided within 15 days. Payment to …
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January 14, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED
To celebrate the 200 years of Greek independence, public radio station Kosmos 93.6 asked ten foreign musicians who live and work in Greece to chose a favorite song and cover it in their native language -and music genre. The results were compelling, and the show was broadcasted on March 24 2021, …
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August 20, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece has offered “holiday vouchers” to firefighters from foreign countries that responded to the call for assistance. A joint ministerial decision was legislated last Friday, August 13, 2021, as a form of gratitude for the foreign aid. According to the legislation, members of the foreign missions of the fire brigades, …
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August 16, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Officially and unofficially Greece showed its gratitude to the foreign firefighters who assisted the country in the battle against the devastating wildfires in Attica, Evia and Peloponnese. Local communities danced together with the foreign firefighters, local teams took souvenir pictures and the convoys departed with a hell of a noise. …
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April 8, 2021
CORONAVIRUS
Students who are foreign nationals will be issued a provisional social security identification number (AMKA) so they can buy a self-testing kit ahead of the reopening of schools on Monday, a senior official of the Education Ministry told Kathimerini on Thursday, responding to complaints from private schools that several pupils …
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March 24, 2021
Greece, Politics
The Greek government has issued a schedule of meetings with visiting foreign leaders and officials expected in Athens on Wednesday and Thursday to celebrate Greece’s bicentennial of the Greek Revolution against the Ottoman Empire in 1821. Events include meetings of Russian, British and French officials with Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis …
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May 15, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
Greece is ready to accept foreign tourists as of July 1, 2020, providing the course of the pandemic will develop according to the plans, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said. It is not clear, though, whether Greece will open its borders to EU nationals only or also to nationals of third …
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July 29, 2019
Very Mix
Greek police has ordered an urgent internal investigation into an incident where a police officers kicks a foreign passenger at the Athens International Airport ‘Eleftherios Venizelos.’ The incident was captured on a video and posted on social media by the brother of the harassed passenger. Arash Hampay has reportedly complained …
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June 5, 2019
Tourism
Spotlights are again on the island of Mykonos, after a Greek visitor denounced that that a local grill sells the famous Greek snack Souvlaki at two different prices: one for Greeks, the cheaper, and one for tourists, the more expensive one. The denouncement comes just a few weeks after a …
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March 10, 2019
World
The German government has tightened its travel advice for Turkey, warning of possible arrests, after officials in Ankara denied accreditation to foreign journalists – some from Germany – without offering a reason. It was only last week, when the Turkish Interior Minister, Suleiman Soylu, warned that foreign tourists, journalists, academics …
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September 25, 2018
Sports
The FIFA has forced the Super League in Greece to import foreign referees in bid to control overzealous owners and unruly fans, writes ap. Under the FIFA-supervised ‘reforms’ enforced on Greek Football, a referee selection committee is headed by retired Portuguese referee Vitor Melo Pereira, along with two other overseas …
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September 4, 2018
Greece, Politics
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has announced to facilitate Greek citizenship for three foreign laborers who work as fishermen and who saved the lives of dozens of people from the sea on the horrible night during the Athens wildfires on 23. July 2018. “We consider these people already our fellow citizens,” …
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August 25, 2018
Economy
Foreign laborers must often struggle to receive compensations for injuries as well as pension payouts. Egypt’s Labor Representation Bureau in Athens succeeded in acquiring and delivering a compensation of €97,000 for a citizen who was injured while working in the country, Minister of Labor Mohamed Saafan announced Wednesday. The worker …
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August 13, 2018
Very Mix
Dozens of foreign nationals have been arrested at two airports of western Greece this year while attempting to use fake passports to travel outside the country. More than 40 people traveling with counterfeit documents have been detained at the port of Kalamata in southwestern Greece since the beginning of this …
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July 5, 2018
Economy
Sixty percent of CEOs of multinational companies operating in Greece expect that the country’s image as investors’ destination will improve in the next years. According to a survey conducted by Metron Analysis, 83% of the respondents said the taxation was the biggest obstacle for investing in Greece. The survey was …
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April 16, 2018
environment
A 46-year-old foreign national was arrested by police in Pyrgos, following charges by the Fire Service that he accidentally caused a fire in the Frixa area in Andritsena-Krestena, in Ilia Predecture in South-West Peloponnese. The man will be led before a prosecutor on Tuesday morning, athensnewsagency reported. The nationality of …
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April 10, 2018
Social
The number of foreign nationals granted citizenship in Greece recorded an increase of 138 percent in 2016 compared with the previous year, a Eurostat report said on Monday. A total of 33,210 individuals received Greek citizenship, of which 86 percent were Albanian nationals, 1.5 percent Ukrainians and 1.2 percent Russians. …
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December 7, 2017
Economy
The main aim especially of the first Greek bailout was to rescue investors outside Greece, outgoing Eurogroup chief Jeroen Dijsselbloem admitted in the European Parliament on Thursday. Odd. Less than a month ago, Dijsselbloem said that the bailout was used to save the banks. “There were mistakes in the first …
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February 13, 2013
Society
Greek police arrested the head of the 2. police station of Egaleo suburb of Piraeus after a foreign shop owner filed a complained. The police director was allegedly blackmailing foreign shop owners from Pakistan and Bangladesh, threatening them with infringed law violations, if they would not give him money. In this …
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