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Greece Health Ministry announced on Wednesday evening that all travelers will have to show a mandatory negative PCR test. The measure affects all travelers, whether they are vaccinated against Covid-19 or not and independently of the country of departure. Only exception is for travelers from Greece who have been in …

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Greece allows unvaccinated teenagers and children in closed restaurants areas provided they can prove a negative Rapid or Self-test, depending on the age group. A a ministerial decision ruled a day after the new restrictions for unvaccinated citizens went into effect on Monday. According to the ministerial decision published in …

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A survey conducted among Greeks showed that the consumer sentiment remained negative in the last six months, with low expectations for the next six-month period. A 70% of consumers spend more than 80% of their available income on a monthly basis, while a 9% spend more than 100 % – …

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Repeated rapid Covid-19 tests on crew members of cruise ship “Mein Schiff 6” on Tuesday morning were all negative , Greek media reported. The National Public Health Organization (EODY) carried out the tests after the cruise liner arrived at the port on Piraeus at 5 o’ clock in the morning. …

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Athens has criticized Cyprus for making a negative Covid-19 test mandatory for travellers from Greece. “I  do not understand the decision for a coronavirus test on visitors from Greece, this is a wrong decision,” Minister Haris Theoharis said on Monday. Speaking to Parapolitika FM, Theoharis expressed the country’s discontent over …

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Cyprus moves Greece to category of B countries, the Cypriot Health Ministry announced on Sunday after several people who arrived from Greek destinations tested positive to coronavirus. According to the ministry, from Thursday, August 6, 2020, Greece, which is currently in category A will be moved to category B. This …

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Coronavirus tests conducted on travellers who arrived in Greece directly from the United Kingdom on the first two days had negative results. Only two tests were positive but these two passengers from London came to Greece via transit airports. Direct flights from the UK were allowed on July 15. Health …

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Fines of 500 euros were imposed to flights passengers who arrived at Heraklio airport on Crete without to have previously filled up the “Passengers Locator Form” (PLF). According to local media, ekriti, it was mainly passengers from Germany who strongly protested saying that they did not have any information about …

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Greece has issued the joint ministerial decision on the mandatory negative Covid-19 test for tourists entering Greece via the Promachonas border-crossing with Bulgaria. The JMD was published in the official gazette on Saturday, July 11, 2020. Foreign tourists must show documents certifying a negative Covid-19 test at the checkpoint of …

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“I still believe that the Prespes Agreement was a negative agreement for Greece, but I will not expose the country to adventures,” Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said during an event in Thessaloniki. “Without risking the slightest destabilization we will closely monitor our neighbors’ obligations, our neighbors’ compliance with their …

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Film director Yannis Smaragdis announced that he will file lawsuits against film critics who wrote negative reviews about his latest film “Kazantzakis.” Smaragdis threats come a month after the film was introduced in Greek movie theaters selling 250,000 tickets. “I know that before they came in the movie theater, critics …

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Huh? I was told that Greece’s economy was recovering. Everybody has been saying that: the Greek coalition government, our Troika lenders, our EU partners, even our German ones. Apparently Greece’s recovery has been very fragile, a “giant” on shaking feet, a card-house built on sand that would be a risk …

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Germany is the most positively viewed nation in the world in this year’s annual Country Ratings Poll for the BBC World Service. More than 26,000 people were surveyed internationally for the poll. They were asked to rate 16 countries and the European Union on whether their influence in the world …

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 Ratings agency Standard & Poor΄s on Tuesday revised Greece΄s outlook to negative, saying the debt-ridden euro zone country could need more help from its international creditors. “Following delays in implementing budgetary consolidation measures and a worsening Greek economy, we believe Greece is likely to require additional financing for 2012 under …

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