October 12, 2023
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Defense Ministers of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania have agreed on Wednesday to extent NATO’s Fuel Pipelines Network towards the Alliance’s East Flank. The three ministers Nikos Dendias, Bulgarian Todor Tagarev and Romanian Deputy Minister of Defence Simona Cojocaru. signed a letter of intent on the sidelines of NATO defense ministers …
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August 1, 2022
Greece, Politics
Firefighters from France have arrived in Greece to assist their Greek colleagues to combat the numerous wild- and forest-fires ravaging the country. The French contingent consisting of 25 firefighters will be stationed in Attica throughout the month of August. 27 firefighters from Norway and 48 firefighters from Finland are expected …
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May 17, 2022
Very Mix
The former mayor of Bucharest convicted of corruption has been arrested in Athens on an international warrant. Sorin Oprescu, 70, who served as mayor in the Romanian capital from 2008 and 2015, was found guilty by the Romanian courts of bribery, setting up a criminal organization and abuse of power. …
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March 22, 2022
Greece, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias announced a humanitarian aid mission to Mariupol and the establishment of a coordination and reception group for Ukrainian refugees in Romania. The Foreign Minister will accompany the humanitarian aid mission, he said. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Dendias said that he has already sent an official …
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October 7, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Published reports about illegal pushbacks of migrants at the Greek border in the Aegean Sea as well as in Croatia should be thoroughly investigated, EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson said on Thursday. The Commissioner was referring to investigative reports by several European media outlets about violent migrants’pushbacks by …
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September 9, 2021
Greece, Politics
“A major challenge we share is the risk that some countries may try to instrumentalize migratory flows. We have witnessed this pattern several times in the past. And I am going to say clearly, to everybody, we will not allow this to reoccur,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said on Wednesday …
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July 25, 2020
FEATURED, Tourism
Greece’s Civil Protection decided on Saturday that flight passengers from Bulgaria and Romania will be allowed in Greece only with negative Covid-19 test. The temperate measure has been imposed due to the epidemiological data in these two countries and goes into effect as of Tuesday, July 28, 2020. A statement …
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July 10, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
New alert in northern Greece on Friday, after at least 29 travellers were tested positive to Covid-19. The travellers, holidaymakers from Bulgaria and Romania entered the country via the Promachonas border-crossing with Bulgaria. According to Skai TV, a total of 12,000 people from EU countries crossed Promachonas on Thursday and …
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July 4, 2020
CORONAVIRUS
The first confirmed coronavirus case of a foreign tourist vising the island of Crete has been identified on Saturday. It needed the help of local police to locate the patient. Health authorities are on alert. The identification of the first positive coronavirus case has been detected on Crete, just a …
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August 29, 2019
Very Mix
A 4-year-old toddler drowned in a beach of the island of Thassos in Northern Greece on Wednesday. The little girl was reportedly playing with an inflatable children boat when a wave filled it with water. The girl drank a lot of water and she was unconscious but still alive when …
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March 31, 2019
World
The leaders of Greece, Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia met at the Snagoy Palace by Bucharest on Friday to discuss a belt of interconnections among their countries and energy issues. At a joint press conference, the four leader said that the interconnection belt will link Greece, Bulgaria and Romania in the …
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January 5, 2019
Tourism
Dozens of Ryanair passengers were shocked to find themselves in Romania instead of Greece on Friday night. The plane from London to Thessaloniki landed in Timisoara airport in west Romania on Friday evening, as the pilots could apparently not land in Macedonia airport in Northern Greece due to low cloudiness. But …
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November 2, 2018
Sports
The leaders of four Balkan countries said on Friday that they will make a joint bid to host the World Cup 2030. The decision was taken during the Summit in Varna on Friday. The prime ministers of Bulgaria, Greece and Romania and the president of Serbia say their countries will …
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July 20, 2018
World
The European Commission refers Greece, Ireland and Romania to the Court of Justice for not implementing anti-money laundering rules, Brussels said on Thursday. According to a statement issued by the Commission, Greece and Romania have failed to implement the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive into their national law. Ireland implemented only …
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October 16, 2017
Social
More than one third of the Greek population is at risk of poverty or social exclusion. We have been reading this since 2012, occasionally it is been officially confirmed by European statistics authorities like the Eurostat. In the first two years of bailout agreements, the rates were below 30%. But …
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April 19, 2017
Social, Society
After the economic crisis and years of austerity, child poverty is on the rise in wealthy countries, according to Unicef. In Spain, the proportion of children living below the poverty line increased by nine percentage points between 2008 and 2014, to reach almost 40%. In Greece, one in four children …
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August 18, 2016
Politics
The story sounds kind of hard to believe: Super-power USA is abandoning the Middle East and plans to transfer some 50 tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) stationed in the air base of Incirlik in Turkey to European Romania? In an exclusive report, EU affairs website EurActiv.com quotes “sources” who claim the …
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December 3, 2014
Economy
Italy, Greece, Romania and Bulgaria are seen as equally corrupt among EU countries, while Denmark is the least graft-prone country, according to the yearly corruption perception index published by Transparency International on Wednesday (3 December). The index scores and ranks countries around the world based on how corrupt their public …
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October 30, 2013
Very Mix
Police in Yorkshire revealed on Tuesday that a DNA test carried out on a Romanian young man in Cyprus has proved he is not Ben Needham, who disappeared in 1991. An anonymous source had handed in the video of the young man attending an event in a church next to a …
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October 1, 2013
animals
Dozens of animal lovers gathered outside the Romanian Embassy in Athens on Monday to protest the despicable law that will allow the killing of thousands of stray animals and thus with the government approval. The protesters lit candles and symbolically carried plush puppies in trash bags. They wore t-shirts reading …
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