September 30, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
It should be the European nations that decide who enters the European Union, “not the human traffickers,” Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at the end of the EUMED9 Summit held in Valletta,Malta, on Friday. He stressed that considerable progress has been made about this issue at European level. It …
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November 9, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece has issued a NAVTEX for the upcoming gas exploration southwest of Crete that will be carried out by ExxonMobil.The NAVTEX includes the Maltese Jurisdiction. The NAVTEX, an international urgent marine safety information to ships, was issued right after Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announced the immediate start of seismic surveys …
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October 15, 2021
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Migration and Asylum minister, Notis Mitarakis, and Malta’s Interior Minister, Byron Camilleri,have agreed that the new European Migration and Asylum Pact which is under negotiation is not a prerequisite for action regarding external relations, border protection and returns. The two ministers met in Valletta on the sidelines of the …
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August 13, 2020
Tourism
Italy ruled on Wednesday that people travelling from Croatia, Greece, Malta and Spain must be tested for the coronavirus on arrival, as new infections increase in the four countries which are popular holiday destinations for Italians. “We have to continue with a prudent approach to defend the results we’ve achieved …
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August 7, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The Greek government announced on Friday stricter emergency measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus after the recent surge of Covid-19 cases. Standing customers in bars are banned and so are religious processions. For travelers from Malta a negative Covid-19 test will necessary. Following suggestions by the Committee of …
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June 15, 2019
World
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said that Turkey’s natural gas exploitation vessel Fatih started drilling right in the West of Cyprus.” “We’ve sent our drill ships [to the Eastern Mediterranean] in order to protect the rights of Turkey and the TRNC [Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus],” he said. But Greek …
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June 14, 2018
Uncategorized
A Greek Court of Appeals confirmed the decision to not extradite whistleblower Maria Efimova, a Russian national, to Malta. The request for the extradition of Pilatus Bank whistleblower Maria Efimova has been denied by the Greek Court of Appeal in a decision delivered on Thursday. Maria Efimova was the source …
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May 19, 2018
Greece, Politics
Cyprus, Greece and Malta on Friday enhanced already-close cooperation on shipping matters, at their 6th trilateral meeting, in Nicosia, aiming to strengthen their collective voice in the EU and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO). Natasa Pilides, Deputy Minister of Shipping chaired the meeting with her two counterparts, Greece’s Shipping and …
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April 13, 2018
Politics, World
A court in Greece rejected two Maltese requests to extradite Russian whistleblower Maria Efimova to Malta on Thursday. Efimova was the whistleblower who reportedly helped Daphne Caruana Galizia’s investigation into high-level corruption in Malta. Caruana Galizia was murdered in a car bombing in October 2017. Judges in Athens said the …
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March 10, 2018
Uncategorized
The European Commission has put Malta, Greece and Cyprus on notice of infringement proceedings for not levying the correct amount of Value Added Tax on the provision of yachts. And some wonder why this when an identical system is used in France. This issue can generate major distortions of competition and …
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October 18, 2017
Uncategorized
A Greek member of the European Parliament calls on the EP to send investigators for an independent inquiry into the brutal murder of Maltese journalist and blogger Daphne Caruana Galizia. The 53-year-old investigative journalist and member of the Panama Papers team was teared apart when a powerful n explosive device …
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April 25, 2017
Refugees
EU countries would get €60,000 for every asylum seeker they take in above their EU-set quota as part of a plan drawn up the government of Malta that currently holds the rotating presidency of the Council of Europe. The government of the island state believes that financial incentives will persuade EU …
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April 10, 2017
Greece, Politics
Three former ministers and ten more members of the Central Committee of ruling left-wing SYRIZA asked for early elections before ratifying the additional austerity measures agreed with creditors in Malta. “The only one who can decide about the own life are the Greek people,” said the dissidents. They submitted a …
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April 9, 2017
Greece, Politics
“Angela, once you called me about my finance minister. Now, I call you about yours.” This is what Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Wednesday, two days before the Eurogroup meeting in Malta on April 7,2017. It was Tsipras’ phone call to Merkel that unblocked the …
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April 8, 2017
Economy
Odd things are happening. The Eurogroup did not reveal details of the agreement between Greece and its euro area creditors in Malta on Friday. The statement makes a simple reference to the agreement adding a Tweet by Eurogroup head, Jeroen Dijsselbloem. Greece The Eurogroup was briefed on developments in the …
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March 31, 2017
Politics, World
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker hit back at Donald Trump’s support for the U.K.’s withdrawal from the European Union, joking that he would champion American states like Texas that wanted to secede from the union. “The newly elected U.S. president was happy that Brexit was taking place and was asking …
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November 2, 2016
Economy
Thousands of Greeks have opened or registered their companies in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Malta or in other neighboring countries with low tax rates in recent years in order to escape the over taxation in Greece. Now the General Secretariat of Public Revenues targets exactly these companies and threaten the owners with …
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May 25, 2016
Politics
Weird things are happening in the Mediterranean Sea. Almost simultaneously three countries in the Mediterranean have closed their airspace and territories for aircraft departing from Libya. The exceptions are very few and could hind on the transport of military and evacuees. At the same time, three NATO exercises are taking …
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December 11, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
The European Commission increased pressure on Greece, Italy, Malta, Croatia and Hungary to register the fingerprints of all refugees and economic migrants entering the European Union. In a statement released on Thursday, the EC threatens the 5 EU-member states with “infringement proceedings” for failing to comply with the EU directives …
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November 24, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees published data about the arrivals of people to Europe by the sea. The data refer to arrivals from January to November 2015. A total of 862,901 people have arrived to Europe via Spain (3,592), Malta (105), Italy (143,700), and Greece (715,704). 3,485 people trying …
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