August 22, 2024
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Angry residents on the island of Leros in the eastern Aegean Sea prepared an anything but warm welcome for the controversial Health Minister Adonis Georgiadis. Frustrated about the deterioration of the public health care system and the severe personnel shortages in hospitals, they called him a “clown”, “depraved” and a …
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July 25, 2024
environment, FEATURED
Alarm bells for water scarcity have been ringing for quite some time with the problem being significant on the islands in the peak of the tourist season where water consumption needs skyrocket and following a minimum of rainfalls in the last few months. The problem on the islands worsens not …
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June 22, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
Greece,s National Health Care Organization EODY published on Wednesday the latest epidemiological data on the positivity of coronavirus tests on islands and in the mainland. There is also an increased recorded in the urban viral load in wastewater in several cities. Note also that on Wednesday’s daily bulletin, EODY recorded …
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February 22, 2022
FEATURED, Social, Society
Τhe still-smoking Euroferry Olympia is being towed to a safe harbor in western mainland since Tuesday morning to facilitate the work of firefighters and rescuers. The removal of the ferry from the north of Corfu to the Astakos on the mainland coast has triggered outrage among the relatives of the …
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February 20, 2022
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
There is a small improvement in the course of the pandemic in Greece as the recently updated official COVID-MAP shows. Updated on February 15, 2022, the Covid-Map shows that while the overwhelming majority of the mainland and the big islands remain in “deep red”, the highest pandemic level, while some …
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September 13, 2021
Economy
The Municipal Council of Salamina has come out strongly against a tunnel link between the island and mainland Attica. The Council has reportedly objecting the project citing safety, environmental, social and economic reasons. Τhe Council wants to postpone the approval of the study (ie the environmental licensing of the project) …
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July 16, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED
The Greek government has announced new measures to address the rapid spread of the Delta mutation and decided to make self-tests mandatory for those returning from the Greek islands to mainland or travel by boat even per sea taxi. According to a decision issued by the Ministry of Shipping and …
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May 28, 2021
Greece
Greece’s Health Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced on Friday an incentives program to encourage National Health System doctors to serve on the Greek islands and remote areas on the mainland. The incentives program will include financial, tax and educational incentives for the doctors’ families if they serve in the specific areas, …
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November 12, 2020
FEATURED, Tourism
The UK has placed mainland Greece placed on quarantine list. Travellers returning to the UK from mainland Greece will have to self-isolate for two weeks from 4am this Saturday. Only the islands of Corfu, Crete, Rhodes, Zakynthos and Kos remain exempt from quarantine rules. Travellers returning to the UK from …
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May 28, 2020
Refugees
The Greek government is proceeding with its plan to stop hosting asylum-seekers with recognized refugee status in camps and EU subsidized apartments and hotels. Some 11,000 refugees will have to leave the facilities as of next Monday, June 1, 2020. As little has been done regarding the social integration of …
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May 17, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
Greece is proceeding with the third phase of easing the lockdown measures imposed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic. Greeks will be allowed to travel outside the prefecture of the residence on the mainland as well as to the the islands of Crete and Evia only. Students older than …
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May 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
Free movement to Greece’s mainland and Crete is possible as of May 18, 2020, Head of Civil Protection Nikos Hardalias announced on Tuesday. Travel to the island of Crete was added as there are sufficient health facilities, he added. Hardalias said that movement to the remaining islands may take place …
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April 29, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
No COVID-19 confirmed cases in the hotspots on the islands and not a single life has so far been lost to the novel coronavirus in accommodation facilities for refugees and migrants in Greece, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis said on Wednesday. Replying to a relevant question by former Migration …
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March 14, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Greece
The Greek Asylum Service of the Migration Ministry announced it will not receive applicants at its mainland and island offices and will not provide services to the public from today (March 13) until April 10, in order to protect public health and limit the further spread of coronavirus. All administrative …
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October 18, 2019
Greece, Politics
20,000 refugees will have been transferred from the islands to the mainland by the end of the year, Minister for Citizen Protection, Michalis Chrysochoidis, said on Thursday. Transferred will be families that will be hosted in hotels and accommodation facilities. The option to host them in military camps has been …
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September 18, 2018
Greece, Politics
After repeated appeals for asylum-seekers relocation from overcrowded Moria camp in the island of Lesvos, the European Commission reportedly plans to finally take take action. A total of 3,000 people are to be relocated to the Greek mainland. An EU source told New Europe that “the European Commission, having repeatedly alerted …
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July 22, 2018
environment
The Greek Civil Protection has issued a fire warning for Monday, July 23rd 2018, drawing citizens’ attention to the high risk of fire outbreak due to high temperatures. In the statement issued Sunday noon, the Civil Protection said: There is a Very High Risk (Level 4) for the Prefecture of …
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March 16, 2018
Economy
Time has come: the linking of Cyclades islands to the mainland’s electricity network will be inaugurated on Monday, March 19, 2018. Syros, Paros, Mykonos and Tinos, four of the largest islands of the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea will be supplied with power via an underwater cable. The inauguration …
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December 23, 2017
Politics, Refugees
The European Commission announced to grant an additional €7 million in emergency assistance to Greece to provide an immediate response to urgent needs for shelter, catering, hygiene and cleaning services for refugees and migrants. According to an EC statement, the European Commission has today awarded an additional €7 million in …
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August 29, 2017
weather
Greece’s National Meteorological Service (EMY) has issued a ‘weather deterioration’ report and warns of extreme rainfalls, storms, hail and very strong winds in several regions across the country. The EMY warning refers to today, Tuesday, and tomorrow, Wednesday, August 29-30 2017. The forecast predicts that the extreme weather deterioration will …
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