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Greece’s rapidly aging population and declining birth rate pose significant threats to country’s ability to grow, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis warned Wednesday, as he announced the creation of a national council tasked with reversing the negative demographic trends. “We are not dealing with a threat to our national identity, but …

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“The upgrade of Turkish arsenal by the USA is a problem,” Greece’s Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias told the Parliament on Thursday, during the debate on the Mutual Defense Agreement between Greece and the USA scheduled to be ratified today. In the shadow of the “rumored” decision of the Biden administration …

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The Athens International Airport was set on alert on Sunday morning when an airbus A333 of the Delta Airlines reported a problem with the brakes short before landing. With 248 passengers plus crew on board the plane was flying the route Atlanta, USA- Athens. Short before its scheduled landing in …

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The Greek government turns to local “influencers” to convince citizens to participate to the vaccination program as coronavirus infections started to increase again. Artists, mayors, athletes and priests are among the “influnecers” the government wants to mobilize, media report. Just a week after the announcement of the “Freedom Pass” – …

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Hundreds of tourists remain stranded on the island of Samothraki – Samohtrace – in the North Aegean Sea, since a week due to failure of ferries to transfer them to the port of Alexandroupolis on the mainland. The situation is a drag for visitors and locals who report of shortages …

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Hundreds of tourist who had booked their holidays on the island of Rhodes found themselves on the islands of Kos and Crete and even in Turkey, due to a operational problem in the airport “Diagoras” last Sunday and Monday (July 29 and 30 2018). The electronic systems of the airport …

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Forty percent of households and businesses in Greece’s second largest city  Thessaloniki have been left without tap water. The problem started on Tuesday due to a big damage in the main water pipeline of Aravisos that supplies with water the urban complex of the city together with the river of …

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Residents of Zakynthos turned to justice and sought the assistance of public prosecutor in order to find a solution to the tons of garbage laying on the streets over the festive days. The problem is not new. However, after the rain on Thursday spread the garbage across the streets, a …

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Mayors in Greece’s top touristic destinations on the islands appeal at locals to adopt a teacher even if temporary. A big accommodation problem emerged on islands like Mykonos and Santorini, when part-time teachers in primary and secondary education were assigned end of August the islands considered to be top tourist …

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For some weird reason, European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker believes that when the United Kingdom will leave the European Union, EU citizens will stop using the language that has been adopted by millions people as lingua franca: English! “English is losing importance in Europe” Juncker said and opted  to deliver a …

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Tax evasion in Greece is estimated to be between 11billion euros and 16 billion euros annually, a study has found. The study prepared by EY and commissioned by the DiaNEOsis think-tank was presented during an event hosted by the institute and the Federation of Hellenic Enterprises (SEV), Greece’s largest employers’ …

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Tension grew this morning around Victoria Square in central Athens, when local businessmen staged a protest about the situation in their area with hundreds of refugees and migrants to find a stop-over there before moving forward. As no otherwise expected, right-extremists joined the local businessmen and  anti-authoritarian groups came in …

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