May 29, 2023
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 26-year-old tourist from Great Britain was struck and killed by a lightning, while he was swimming on the island of Rhodes early afternoon Monday. The man was in the sea area of Agia Agatha and incident occurred short before 2 o’ clock During the rain the young tourist was …
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May 2, 2023
Archeology, Culture
Vienna museum is in talks aimed at lending two marble pieces of the Parthenon to Greece, Austria’s foreign minister said on Tuesday, a development his Greek counterpart said he hoped would help in talks with Britain over its much larger hoard. The Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna has a tiny collection …
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April 21, 2023
Tourism
Arrivals of British tourists in Greece are expected to exceed 4 million in 2023, Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias said on Thursday at meeting with UK’s Ambassador Matthew Lodge at the Cycladic Museum of Art. Kikilias thanked United Kingdom Ambassador to Athens Matthew Lodge for his contribution to the record numbers …
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March 27, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
The British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek community are seeking to raise £35,000 to symbolically repay the UK Parliament. The amount is the one the UK Parliament paid to Lord Elgin to buy the Marbles. Fundraising – Press Release Over two hundred years ago …
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March 13, 2023
Archeology, Culture, FEATURED
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ruled out changing a law which prohibits the British Museum handing the Parthenon marbles permanently back to Greece. Sunak said there are no plans to amend the legislation, which states the museum can only dispose of objects within its collection in limited circumstances. However, the …
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September 5, 2022
Greece, Politics
The Greek Foreign Ministry congratulated newly elected British Prime Minister Liz Truss on Monday. “Congratulations to Liz Truss on becoming the next British PM. During her tenure as Foreign Secretary, our bilateral relations gained a renewed momentum by signing with Nikos Dendias the MoU on Strategic Bilateral Framework between Greece …
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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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May 29, 2022
Social, Society
UK national on vacations on the island of Samos, ARCHIBALD GREEN, 73 years old, went missing on May 26, 2022. He went missing On Thursday morning in the area of Marina by Pythagorio, Greece’s Silver Alter service said in a Missing bulletin. Green has blue eyes, is 1.90 m tall and …
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May 22, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
The foreign national currently treated in an Athens hospital is not infected with the monkeypox virus but with chickenpox, first results of laboratory tests showed on Sunday night. The 29-year-old tourist was considered the first suspected case of monkeypox in Greece. In laboratory tests conducted at the Attikon hospital and …
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May 21, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
The first monkeypox suspicious cases has been detected in Greece. Affected is reportedly a 29-year-old foreign national who together with his partner was having vacation on the island of Kefalonia in the Ionian Sea. According to media reports on Saturday night, the man from the United Kingdom has skin rashes …
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May 19, 2022
Archeology, Culture
Greece and the United Kingdom have agreed to hold formal talks on the possible return of the Parthenon Marbles to the country of their origin, the UNESCO announced in a report on Tuesday. On the eve of International Museum Day, celebrated on May 18, UNESCO made the surprise announcement that Greece …
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May 12, 2022
FEATURED, Very Mix
Drunk British tourists on the flight from London to Chania, Crete, did not hesitate to beat even the pilot when he tried to intervene and put an end to the chaos that had unfolded in the plane of WizzAir. Ar least two drunk men harassed, swore and even beat other …
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April 18, 2022
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
Due to the unusually high incidence of acute hepatitis in children in United Kingdom, Greece’s health care organization EODY issued an announcement on Monday in which it calls on clinical doctors in the country to be vigilant. There have been no cases of the pediatric hepatitis, so far, EODY stated. …
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February 13, 2022
Politics, Turkey-GR
“Greece’s sovereignty over these islands is unquestionable,” the European Union said on Sunday, a day after also the US State Department expressed the same position following Turkey’s provocations by the Foreign Minister.. “Greece’s sovereignty over these islands is unquestionable. Turkey should respect it, refrain from provocative statements and actions in …
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November 15, 2021
Greece, Politics
The entire spectrum of Greek-UK bilateral relations, from the significant prospects for deepening economic and trade ties and increasing investments, to the great margins for upgrading tourist traffic in 2022, the return and reunification of the Parthenon Marbles in Greece, the Cyprus issue and the resumption of Turkish aggression in …
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October 28, 2021
CORONAVIRUS, Tourism
European Union member states will accept digital Covid certificates from Armenia and the United Kingdom, according to two new European Commission decisions announced on Thursday. The two countries will also recognize the EU Digital Covid Certificate. The decisions will enter into force on Friday, October 29, 2021, Greek state news …
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October 25, 2021
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias and Foreign Secretary Elizabeth Truss signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on Strategic Bilateral Framework between Greece and the United Kingdom in London on Monday. No details of the MoU were given to the press other than the signed agreement enables individual agreements to be reached …
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October 24, 2021
Greece, Politics
Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias will be in London on Monday to co-sign with his British counterpart Liz Truss a bilateral cooperation agreement which will cover a wide range of sectors including defence and foreign policy. “The agreement is not purely on defence as the agreements with France, USA and …
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October 19, 2021
FEATURED, Society, Very Mix
A 61-year-old grandfather drowned on the island of Crete on Tuesday afternoon as he tried to rescue his grandchildren from the rough sea. The grandfather and the children aged 7 and 9 went for a swim at the Agios Konstantinos beach of Gouves, west of Heraklio, where the family was …
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