February 15, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
A seal of the Greek antique manufactured in Argolida, Peloponnese, 4,000 years ago returned home.The Swedish embassy in Athens handed over the seal to the Culture Minister in a ceremony on Wednesday. In 1922 Half of the seal ended up in >half stayed in Greece, the Swedish embassy noted in …
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January 25, 2023
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
NATO has indefinitely postponed talks with Finland and Sweden at Turkey’s request. The talks were scheduled for February. Their applications have already been approved by 28 alliance countries, but Hungary and Turkey have not ratified them. NATO membership negotiations between Turkey, Sweden and Finland have been postponed indefinitely at Ankara’s …
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September 15, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greek parliament voted to accept Sweden and Finland’s NATO membership application on Thursday. The bill was supported by ruling New Democracy, main opposition opposition party SYRIZA, and opposition party PASOK. “Thank you, Greece! With a strong majority the Greek parliament today voted in favor of ratifying Sweden’s accession to …
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June 28, 2022
Turkey-GR
Turkey, Sweden and Finland sign memorandum on Nordic countries’ NATO bids after talks in Madrid on Tuesday evening. Finland, Sweden to take concrete steps on extradition of terrorists, preventing terrorist propaganda against Turkey. Turkey committed to agree to support at Madrid Summit invitation of Finland, Sweden to become NATO members. …
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May 20, 2022
Archeology, Culture
A gold sealing ring from the Mycenaean times, depicting a pair of sphinxes, was returned to Greece by the Nobel Foundation, in a ceremony held on Thursday, May 19 in Stockholm, the Culture Ministry in Athens announced. The ring was found in 1927, during the excavations of the Italian Archaeological …
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May 19, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece welcomes the historic decision by Finland and Sweden to submit their applications to join NATO, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday. “The accession of two additional European partners, with deep-rooted democratic traditions and respect for international law to the NATO family will further strengthen Europe’s collective security, …
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May 15, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece is “ready to welcome Sweden and Finland in the NATO family,” Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias said in Berlin Saturday. Greece has always had “excellent relations” with the two countries, Dendias said on arriving at an informal dinner of foreign ministers of NATO countries at Germany’s foreign ministry. “I am …
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May 13, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
Longstanding NATO member Turkey opposes Finland and Sweden seeking to join the North Atlantic Alliance and president Recep Tayyip Erdogan threatens with veto. He also accused Greece, a NATO ally, of using the alliance against Turkey, saying Ankara did not want a repeat of that “mistake,” when the NATO accepted …
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April 13, 2022
Greece, Politics
The operation “Nostos 7” for the evacuation of 47 individuals from Ukraine, including one Greek citizen, 25 ethnic Greeks and one Swedish citizen, has been concluded successfully, the Greek foreign ministry announced on Wednesday. The evacuees crossed the Ukrainian-Moldovan border at midnight and were in Bucharest on Wednesday, the ministry …
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July 16, 2020
Tourism
Greece ‘s Civil Aviation issued several air instructions (NOTAMS) on Thursday regarding direct flights to countries such as Sweden and Turkey, Albania and North Macedonia, the entry of non-EU citizens as well as instructions related to Passenger Locator Form (PLF). Sweden The flight ban for direct flights from Sweden to …
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July 13, 2020
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
Greece confirmed on Monday that it will resume direct flights to/from UK on July 15 and announced it will resume direct flights to/from Sweden on July 22, 2020. At the same time, it said it is considering resuming of flights to/from third countries such as the USA by the end …
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July 6, 2020
Tourism
Greece announced that it will open its borders to UK on July 15. The announcement was made by government spokesman Stelios Petsas during the daily briefing Monday noon. He did not make any relevant announcement for Sweden, though. “In cooperation with the British government and following experts’ recommendaitons, the government …
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July 2, 2020
Tourism
A chartered flight landed on the island of Rhodes from Stockholm on Thursday afternoon, although there is an official direct flight ban from Sweden until July 15, 2020. “There was a permit for a marketing flight,” Tourism Minister Haris Theoharis said. However, neither journalists nor TUI executives were on board …
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July 1, 2020
Tourism
Greece’s Civil Aviation Authority issued a new air notice (NOTAM) extending the flight ban to/from the United Kingdom, Sweden and Turkey until Wednesday, July 15, 2020 at 23:59. The NOTAM also extends a ban on non-European citizens entering the country. The following 14 countries are excluded from this airline (Notam): …
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June 29, 2020
Greece, Tourism
At a wide-ranging meeting under Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Monday, Greece decided that there will be no direct flights from the UK and Sweden until July 15, 2020, state-run news agency amna reports. The decision comes one day before the UK flight ban by the Greek Civil Aviation Authority …
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June 17, 2020
Tourism
Sweden will lift its advice against non-essential travel to 10 European countries from June 30, the foreign ministry said on Wednesday. The countries are Greece, Croatia, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Slovenia, France, Iceland, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg. For other European countries the advice against non-essential travel will still apply. A recommendation …
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October 5, 2017
Economy
Eurobank , Greece’s third largest lender, said it will sell a 1.5 billion euro pool of non-performing loans to Sweden’s Intrum, as part of efforts to reduce its load of sour debt and meet targets agreed with regulators. Greek banks are burdened by soured loans clogging up their balance sheets …
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May 12, 2017
Greece, World
A Greek court on Friday handed 15-year prison sentences to two suspected jihadists with Swedish passports trying to enter Turkey carrying combat items, a local justice source said. The suspects’ lawyer said the men, who have refugee status in Sweden, would appeal against the sentence. They will remain incarcerated until …
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April 12, 2017
Society, Very Mix
An Iraqi man who had kidnapped his own children from his Swedish wife has been caught in Greece. The man was driving a car with license plates from Sweden. He tried to smuggle his children. He was caught at the border crossing Kipoi, while he was trying to enter Turkey. …
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March 13, 2017
World
“Black Haired Pig” A powerful and shocking message against racism, sexism and xenophobia from a Greek-Swedish woman who has experienced first hand hate against migrants in Sweden ever since she moved there with her family at the age of six. In a powerful video, Alexandra Pascalidou, 46, a prominent personality …
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