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Student’s mother sues school claiming Covid self-tests were harmful UPD

April 15, 2021 CORONAVIRUS, FEATURED 13

Α student’s mother filed a law suit against the principal of a lyceum in Thessaloniki to protest the mandatory Covid-19 self-tests for students. She claimed that the self-tests were harmful and insisted that her 15-year-old son attends in-person classes despite the law provision that students without testing at home are …

“Totally unacceptable”: Cyprus and Greece join forces, reject EU draft on Turkey

March 24, 2021 Greece, Politics Comments Off on “Totally unacceptable”: Cyprus and Greece join forces, reject EU draft on Turkey

Cyprus has rejected the draft on Turkey prepared for the summit of European Union leaders as “totally unacceptable.” Also Greece has raised objections saying that it does not reflect the balanced report submitted on Monday by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell. Both the Cypriot …

Greece’s Asylum bill: Drastic changes to facilitate “fast track” deportations

October 22, 2019 Greece, Politics Comments Off on Greece’s Asylum bill: Drastic changes to facilitate “fast track” deportations

The new Asylum bill is heading to the Greek Parliament by the conservative New Democracy government despite objections by human rights organizations. The bill introduces a series of measures and drastic changes aiming to restrict access to asylum, reduce asylum procedure times or terminate stages of procedures and proceed with …

Hard times before PM flies to China: COSCO Greece says key elements of Piraeus Port deal altered

June 30, 2016 Economy 11

Chinese Shipping corporation COSCO Greece objected on Wednesday to terms submitted to parliament for the sale of Piraeus Port to China COSCO Shipping, saying they were inconsistent with those previously agreed with the Greek privatization agency TAIPED. COSCO blames Greece for amending the original Piraeus Port deal agreed between the …

Turkey exhausts Allies’ patience, as NATO suggests “Commander of SNMG2 to determine operational areas in the Aegean”

February 24, 2016 Turkey-GR 1

The nerves of the NATO Allies must be jumping around like crazy at this moment in Brussels, where the Military Committee is trying to conclude the operational plan for the deployment of a small naval force in the Eastern Aegean Sea to stem the refugees and migrants flow to Europe. …

Turkey tries to torpedo NATO’s Operational Plan: serious objections or bargain chips?

February 22, 2016 Politics, Refugees, Turkey-GR, Very Mix, World 3

Good old Turkish tactic. While all parties concerned are eager to see the NATO operation in the eastern Aegean Sea launching its mission, Turkey seems to put some obstacles in the operation plan of the North Atlantic Alliance. Ankara insists on a series of issues and refuses to cooperate in …

EU decides on 120K refugees’ relocation and hardly anyone believes in the project’s success

September 22, 2015 Refugees, Very Mix 2

The European Union needed several dozens drowned kids and hundreds of men and women lost in the Mediterranean Sea, several incidents of refugees’ abuse and mistreatment…, it needed to see again and again the footage of young and strong, of old and fragile walking the long marches through the Central …

Fair compromise: Tsipras fired Varoufakis; now Merkel’s turn to send her radical FinMin home

July 11, 2015 Politics Comments Off on Fair compromise: Tsipras fired Varoufakis; now Merkel’s turn to send her radical FinMin home

Here we go again: The three institutions received and evaluated the Greek proposals and sent their commendation to the Eurogroup. In their assessment, the creditors reportedly accept Greece’s proposals as basis for negotiations for a new agreement but they also say that Greece must do much more in form of …

Greece -Creditors race for a deal, Parliament vote maybe over weekend

June 23, 2015 Economy 2

Eurogroup meetings, Institutions meetings, Euro Leaders meetings. Monday’s race between Greece and the creditors ended … early Tuesday without a deal. But with a perspective for a deal. And a bombastic package of austerity measures worth 8 billion euro for 2015 and 2016. Three Shades of Grey – …

Troika vs Greek FinMin: 100 installments for debts to tax office; do the maths…

November 11, 2014 Economy, Society Comments Off on Troika vs Greek FinMin: 100 installments for debts to tax office; do the maths…

After a planning that lasted several months,, Greek Finance Ministry set the guidelines for debtors to the the tax and customs offices. “Outstanding debts can be paid back in 72 or 100 installments,” mainstream media herald adding that “this is a big gift by the General Secretary of Revenues” to …

Nea Dimocratia would love to make strikes difficult, if it weren’t the gov’t partners

February 11, 2013 Politics Comments Off on Nea Dimocratia would love to make strikes difficult, if it weren’t the gov’t partners

I’m afraid democracy in Greece tends to adopt more and more authoritarian features. Labour Minister Yiannis Vroutsis plans to radically change the strike law and make it more difficult for unions to declare strikes. According to information leaked in the Greek press on Sunday, the absolute majority of the workers (that is: …

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