Greek F-16 fighter jets took off on Sunday afternoon to escort a Ryanair civilian airplane Boeing 738 to International Airport Eleftherios BVenizelos in Athens after a bomb alert. In the last few moments, a Ryanair flight, FR6385, was escorted into Athens by F-16s following a bomb threat against the flight. …
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Greek PM calls emergency meeting after Russia cuts gas supply to Poland, Bulgaria
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has called an emergency meeting with ministers in charge on Wednesday after Russian energy giant Gazprom halted natural gas supplies to Poland and Bulgaria. Goal of the meeting is to discuss the sufficiency of natural gas in the country and the impact of the Russian …
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Greece sends over 11 tons of pet food to Ukrainian refugees
Greece is sending more than 11 tons of pet food and sanitary equipment for the pets of Ukrainian refugees currently at the Polish-Ukranian border. A truck will leave Kalochori, Thessaloniki, and the aid will be distributed to Ukrainian refugees fleeing their homeland with pets: dogs, cats and rabbits. A make-shift …
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Greece to send transport mean to Poland for Ukrainian refugees’ resettlement
Greece will send buses or airplanes to Poland to resettle Ukrainean refugees in the country following an appeal by the Polish government, Migration and Asylum Minister Notis Mitarakis said on Thursday. The appeal came as more than 1.3 million Ukrainians have sought refuge in Poland. The minister stressed that the …
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EU approves coronavirus state support for Greece, Portugal, Poland
The European Commission has approved a series of multi-billion-euro state support packages for Greece, Poland and Portugal to help soften the economic impact of the coronavirus through grants and loan guarantees. The Commission, which enforces EU anti-trust regulation, loosened its rules last month to allow EU governments to support businesses …
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Excellent performance of Greek Athletes in European Team Championship
Miltiadis Tentoglou, Katerina Stefanidis and Voula Papachristou: three Greek athletes with excellent performance at the European Athletics Team Championship in Bydgoszcz, Poland, on Saturday. Miltos Tentoglu has confirmed that he is one of the world’s leading jumpers at this time. The Greek champion jumped at 8.30 and moved form 12th …
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UPD Polish tourist Andrzej Weber missing in Chania area, relatives ask for help
Local authorities are on alert about 64-year-old Andrzej Weber who arrived on the island of Crete on April 6 and went missing three days later. His last phone call to his family was on April 8, 2019. Weber went missing in the region of Sougia on Tuesday, April 9. According …
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“Greece & Poland should join forces for WWII Reparations” says German historian
Greece and Poland should join forces also with other countries and demand together WWII reparations from Germany from damages they suffered during the Nazi occupation. “Germany has an obligation to pay,” says German historian Karl Heinz Roth who has also published a book on the German WWII debt to Greece. …
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Polish mother and son die while fleeing wildfires in Athens
Two Polish nationals, a mother and her son, have died following the wildfires raging in North-East Athens on Monday.Their bodies were found in the sea and most probably were drowned when the boat they used together with other tourist to flee the fire capsized. “They were on the boat among …
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President Duda promises Poland will strive to resolve conflicts in the Balkans
President Andrzej Duda has promised that Poland will strive to resolve conflicts in the Balkan region after talks in Athens with his Greek counterpart Prokopis Pavlopoulos. Duda’s pledge came in response to Pavlopoulos’ statement that the European Union faced challenges regarding Macedonia and Cyprus. Polish media write that Athens has …
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Court of Justice ECJ rules Hungary, Slovakia obliged to accept refugees from Greece & Italy
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) on Wednesday dismissed a challenge by Slovakia and Hungary against the EU’s relocation policy for asylum seekers, upholding the EU’s right to oblige member countries to take in refugees. In response to the migration crisis that hit Europe in the summer of 2015, the …
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EU official: We have tools and power to make members accept refugees
The European Union’s commissioner for migration says there are ways to make all EU members states comply with the program of relocation of refugees among them. Dimitris Avramopoulos made the statement last week in Warsaw, where he is visiting the growing European border guard agency, Frontex. Poland is refusing to …
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Survey: 55% of Europeans against further Muslim Migration
Europeans are afraid of migration from mainly Muslim countries. A recent research poll conducted in among 10,000 people in ten European countries shows that the levels of public anxiety over immigration from mainly Muslim states are significant and widespread. The survey was conducted before US president Donald Trump signed the …
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Blame Game? Greece strikes back & accuses Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Czech R. of “xenophobia”
Balme game in Migration crisis? Greece strikes back. The office of Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras named four East European countries and accused them of “xenophobic and far-right rhetoric.” Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic are the countries that trying to develop a different EU policy and and put …
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Tusk: “Gave Over” Tsipras: “Greece’s 1.5m jobless & 3m poor are not a Game”
Croupier and European Council President Donald Tusk told Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras during the EUCO Summit on Thursday”Gave over.”Prompt and tough was the answer by the PM. “Greece has 1.5 million jobless, 3 million poor and thousands of families that living on grandparents’ pension. This is not a game”. …
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New horsemeat burgers scandal: Irish company with EU customers
Irelands’ “number one” burger producer suspended production after after tests showed that horsemeat was found in firm’s raw material ingredients. Ireland’s agriculture department confirmed the findings pointing the finger at Poland as the country of origin for the raw materials. Irish beefburger producer Rangeland Foods has customers in the UK, Greece, Belgium, Sweden, …
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Greece, Cyprus, Poland, Portugal opt out of Eurovision Contest Due to Financial Difficulties
While the Euro Zone still manages to withstand the negative vibrations, the Eurovision is falling apart exactly due to these financial off keys. After Poland and Portugal, Greece and Cyprus plan to opt out of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2013 as well. According to TO VIMA newspaper, government spokesman Simos …
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Athens: Migrant Stabbed With a Sword – Five Racists Attacks in the last days
Incidents of migrants stabbed on the streets or at public transport means have increased during the last days, with the latest two attacks to have taken place within 20 minutes. One man from Albania and two men from Poland fell victims to what it seems to have been ‘racist attacks’. Eyewitness …
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