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“We can’t stay in lockdown forever,” Professor for Infectious Diseases and spokesman of National Health Organization Sotiris Tsiodras said on Saturday, as Greece is preparing for the gradually lifting of coronavirus -related measures on May 4. However, some Greeks feel uneasy about the end of restrictions.  Tsiodras efended the government …

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An academic study warns of the danger of a new pandemic wave in Greece, even in August, should the lockdown measures be lifted early and without the necessary precautions of safety distances, gradual increase of the contacts among the citizens and the epidemiological surveillance of the population. The study by …

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Countdown for gradual lifting of the lockdown restrictions in Greece. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will address the nation on Tuesday and will reveal the thorough plan about how and when which economy sectors will open again, a process expected to conclude in two months. Mitsotakis’ address is scheduled for Tuesday …

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Lockdown restrictions are extended for one more week, until May 4, 2020, government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced on Thursday. According to the last decision, the lockdown restrictions were to expire on April 27, but like many other countries, Greece also evaluates the development of the coronavirus curve every two weeks …

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“Sectors of the economy will gradually open in May and June always in the interest of public health,” government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Wednesday, warning that the “next crash test” for the course of the coronavirus pandemic and the lifting of lockdown will be the long weekend around May …

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The days around the Greek Orthodox Easter are considered crucial for the battle against the coronavirus and the lifting of the lockdown. How Greeks behave over the last days of the Holy Week, the Resurrection Saturday and Easter Sunday (April 16-19, 2020), how they comply with the lockdown measures, avoid …

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Government spokesman Stelios Petsas announced that the gradually lifting of lockdown restrictions may start in the first days of May and may be completed by mid-June, if the course of the coronavirus pandemic continues in the same modus, the virus curve flattens and there is no resurgence of the pandemic …

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Roughly 50 vessels exceeding 50 meters in length are expected to be added to Greece’s mega-yachting sector if the existing cabotage* regime is lifted for third country registries (outside the EU and EEA). Under the present (and strict) legislative framework a pleasure craft registered outside the EU-EEA cannot be hired …

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From a depth of 580 meters, teams of the Greek Air Force recovered important parts of a Mirage 2000 that crashed into the sea area between the islands of Skopelos and Euboea. The Mirage 2000 crashed into the sea on May 29 2017. The 28-year-old pilot was rescued with a …

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Lifting of capital controls is allegedly not expected to take place before at least the end of 2018. The restrictions were imposed end of June 2015, after the European Central Bank drained Greece’s banks and depositors were massively were withdrawing money out of a fear the country could exit the …

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Man! One day after the President of Greek Banks Association, Louka Katseli, said that Capital controls would be lifted by end of the year, there comes Fitch-ratings agency and warns that Greek systemic banks would default if the deposit restrictions are lifted. Fitch Ratings affirmed the Long-Term Issuer Default Ratings …

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Governor of Bank of Greece and former finance Minister Yannis Stournaras told reporters in Thessaloniki on Friday “If we have an agreement on May 24th and everything goes according to plan [he said exactly: according to wish], then capital controls will be lifted.” When he was asked to determine when …

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Greece’s Finance Ministry ‘sees’ the lifting of capital controls in the second half of 2016. Speaking to the Greek Parliament Budget Committee, deputy finance minister Giorgos Chouliarakis said that the capitals controls were expected to be lifted by the end of the second quarter of 2016 – which is in …

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The Greek authorities will try everything to get back to the banks what depositors withdrew before the capital controls were imposed on June 29th 2015. The financial ministry and its high-ranking state officials and interim government ministers are determined and will try everything to get the money back to the …

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These days I try to avoid watching on television candidates from political parties praising their program and their positions. It mostly makes me sad to see either new and totally unknown faces or veterans MPs of all colors and ideological directions insisting that they know how to economically save me;  …

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