June 26, 2022
FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
Tourists from the UK could be refused entry to European countries such as Spain, France, Greece and Portugal under a new waiver scheme set to launch next year. Because of Brexit, British holidaymakers will soon have to obtain a new visa waiver to enter EU nations. A fee will have …
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June 8, 2022
Arts, Culture, FEATURED, Tourism, Travel
British artists will not need a Schengen work visa to enter Greece, if they come to the country for an event or performance a circular by the Foreign Ministry in Athens has regulated. This initiative is part of the deepening of bilateral relations in the post-Brexit era, the Ministry said …
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March 12, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
US President Donald Trump has announced sweeping new travel restrictions on Europe in a bid to combat the spread of the coronavirus. But he said the “strong but necessary” restrictions would not apply to the UK, which has 460 cases of the virus. “We will be suspending all travel from …
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December 5, 2017
Greece, Politics
More and more countries seem to increase security measures for flight passengers arriving from Greece. Following Germany and Italy, strict controls are also imposed by Belgium. There are several reports that security controls have increased at the airport in Brussels and passengers arriving from Greece have to stand in long …
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December 2, 2017
Tourism, Travel
The leader of Greece’s main opposition party, conservative New Democracy, Kyriakos Mitsotakis complained about the passport controls at German airports. He described the procedure as humiliating and said he felt embarrassed as a Greek. “I felt embarrassed as a Greek when I was taken into a different terminal of the …
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November 23, 2017
Greece, Politics
Germany, Greece and the European Commission have reached an agreement on the control procedure at German airports for passengers arriving from Greece. The agreement was reach in a trilateral meeting in Brussels. Commission spokeswoman Natasha Bertaud said that Germany has agreed that from now on passport controls for passengers coming …
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November 21, 2017
Greece, Politics
More and more Greeks have been complaining about the long queues and the controls they have to undergo when they arrive at the airports of Germany. Berlin has practically suspended Schengen regulations for flights arriving from Greece as of November 12th 2017. The passport control regulation will be valid until …
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April 11, 2017
Tourism, Travel
The leadership of the Greek Police (ELAS) has decided to suspend stricter border controls at airports and entry points into country – as part of tighter rules introduced within the Schengen area – after travelers suffered serious delays on the measure’s first day of implementation on April 7. Besides citizens …
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March 2, 2017
Politics, Turkey-GR
At the behest of the EU Greece is to install a “coastal surveillance system covering the whole sea border between Greece and Turkey.” The latest report from the Hellenic delegation to the Council of the European Union on “serious” deficiencies in the application of the Schengen acquis envisages the construction …
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January 26, 2017
Politics, Refugees
The European Commission is recommending that 5 nations from the borderless Schengen travel zone be allowed to extend internal frontier controls for another three months because of the exceptional circumstances caused by migration into Europe. The European Union’s executive said Wednesday that EU nations Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and non-member …
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June 7, 2016
Politics
The European Court of Justice ruled that a national of a non-EU country who has not yet been subject to the return procedure cannot being imprisoned solely because he or she has entered the territory of a member state illegally across an internal border of the Schengen area. This is …
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May 4, 2016
Politics, Refugees
For one more time, our European partners and the European Commission are using Greece as pretext to extent internal Schengen border controls for another six months and for only 5 countries which are in fact the following two: Germany and Austria. Despite the presence of the NATO force, the enhancement …
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March 3, 2016
Politics
European Council President Donald Turk is visiting Athens today to talk about the Refugee Crisis. He met with Prime Minister Alexisi Tsipras and both men agreed that Unilateral actions by European Union member states to deal with the migrant crisis troubling the bloc is hurting solidarity and must stop. “We …
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March 2, 2016
Politics, Refugees, World
Germany and The Netherlands are setting up the agenda on the EU – Turkey Summit on March 7th 2016. based on statements made by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte it comes down to this: refugees and migrants would have to apply for asylum in Greece …
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February 13, 2016
Very Mix
This has been the strategy of the European Union for quite sometime. It has been a well-though plan of action designed to achieve a long-term covering up of EU’s failures and help EU politicians and technocrats sleep comfortable at night. strategy applied in order to cover up failures and inabilities …
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February 1, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
The EU blackmail of “Schengen expulsion” apparently worked. Greece will speed up the establishment of five migrant registration centers (hot spots) and two relocation camps. After a meeting with several ministers, the Prime Minister’s office said that: the completion of 5 “hot spot” registration centers for refugees and migrants on …
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January 28, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
It was back in November 2013 when the European Commission warned Greece and Bulgaria to stop turning down Syrian refugees at their land/river borders with Turkey, after the UN issued a similar call just a few days before. Two and a half years later, in January 2016, it is Belgium, …
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January 27, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
It has been the old European Union strategy since 2010: if something doesn’t work within the EU blame Greece! You can’t go wrong with this. Oh! And stress the “common European interests”. Tou can’t go wrong with this either. And so they did. The College of EU Commissioners discussed a …
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January 26, 2016
Refugees, Very Mix
We have been there, we have seen that for countless times since 2010: in times of crisis and EU’s inability to cope with crises, everyone feels obliged to fire a salvo of incredible nonsense, mis-considering it to be a proof of divine inspiration. The latest example is the Belgian Interior …
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December 28, 2015
Refugees, Very Mix
We might have been considering the Christmas Grinch as a pure ‘fictional character”. But reality proves we were wrong: the grumpy, the anti-holiday spirit exists. And thus not alone but together with its clones. This year’s Grinch came from Germany and outright in a double pack. In form of Finance Minister …
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