March 30, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Greek households store food due to the war in Ukraine, a market survey has found. Turnover in value of food retail increased by 5.1% in the first week of March. According to NielsenIQ data, in the first week of March, many food categories, such as pasta, showed a very large …
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March 23, 2022
animals
Greece is sending more than 11 tons of pet food and sanitary equipment for the pets of Ukrainian refugees currently at the Polish-Ukranian border. A truck will leave Kalochori, Thessaloniki, and the aid will be distributed to Ukrainian refugees fleeing their homeland with pets: dogs, cats and rabbits. A make-shift …
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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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March 17, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece has turned down an informal request by Ukraine to send its aging, Soviet-era TOR-Μ1 and Osa-AK missile systems as the country believes they could still be needed by its Armed Forces, media report on Thursday. The rejection comes a day after the Chief of Greek General Staff Konstantinos Floros …
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March 16, 2022
Politics, World
Ukraine urges Greece to shut its ports to Russian vessels and stop doing business with Russian companies to increase pressure on Moscow to end the war, Ukraine’s ambassador to Greece said on Wednesday. “We ask Greece in particular to close the ports to Russian vessels… stop doing business with them …
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March 14, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
The president of the Federation of Greek Associations in Ukraine, Alexandra Protsenko has made a dramatic appeal to Greeks around the world and the international community to mobilize to prevent the imminent extermination of the Greek communities. In a letter to cnngreece sent written in an underground shelter in Mariupol, …
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March 11, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has shown the importance of NATO allies not being dependent on Russian military equipment, NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in his speech at the Diplomacy Forum in Antalya on Friday. While he did not explicitly mentioned the Russian S-400 missiles, both Turkish and Greek media understood …
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March 9, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Greece’s Atomic Energy Commission (EEAE) appears reassuring regarding a possible radiation leak from the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Ukraine and a risk for Greece. In an announcement the EEAE points out that the competent Greek authorities have recently drawn up a new, fully revised national emergency plan in the event …
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March 9, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Majority of Greeks are against the sending military equipment to Ukraine thinking this will place Greece in a difficult position and will also deteriorate relations with Russia, two public opinion polls have found. At the same time, they side with Ukraine rather than with Russia, a country with which Greece …
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March 9, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, World
Radioactive substances could be released from Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear power plant because it cannot cool spent nuclear fuel after its power connection was severed, Ukraine’s state-run nuclear company Energoatom said on Wednesday. It said fighting made it impossible to immediately repair the high-voltage power line to the plant, which was …
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March 7, 2022
Economy, FEATURED
Since the beginning of the war, the Athens Stock Exchange has recorded losses of 13.43 percent since the beginning of the war in Ukraine. The market’s capitalization has fallen by 9.345 billion euros. The Large Cap index has fallen by 15.0% and the Mid Cap index by 8.6%. The heaviest …
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March 6, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
Diplomatic sources in Athens said on Sunday that there are no reports of an attack on the OSCE building, which houses the Consulate General in Mariupol. Earlier reports also by international media claimed that the OSCE building had come under fire. Greek Foreign Minister Nikos Dendias is contacting international organizations …
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March 4, 2022
Greece, Politics
The convoy from Mariupol with 82 Greek citizens and journalists and diplomacy staff crossed the border into Moldova on Friday afternoon, the Foreign Ministry in Athens. On board of 28 vehicles, the evacuees left the war zone of Mariupol in eastern Ukraine on Wednesday for the safe West. For three …
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March 2, 2022
FEATURED, Greece, Politics
“Greece is on the right side of history,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said in his opening remarks to an online cabinet meeting on Wednesday. The main message from Tuesday’s parliamentary debate, he said, was that the country is determined, along with its allies in the EU, to uphold international law …
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March 2, 2022
Refugees
The Greek Forum of Refugees said on Wednesday that it is getting phone calls every five minutes from Ukrainian citizens seeking help for themselves or their families, who have been impacted by the war in Ukraine. They ask for information about how a Ukrainian can ask for asylum in Greece, …
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March 1, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on the EU to show the “same sensitivity” for Turkey’s application to join the bloc as it showed for Ukraine’s membership bid, slamming member states for being “not sincere.” “Will you put Turkey on your agenda when someone attacks (us) too?” he said, …
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March 1, 2022
Society, Very Mix
With a clear message in support of Ukraine thousands of people gathered at syntagma Squate in downtown Athens on Tuesday evening. Holding banners reading “Not To War” and chanting “Stop Putin – Stop The War – We Want Peace!” members of the Ukrainian community but also Greeks, Georgians, but also …
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March 1, 2022
FEATURED, Politics, Turkey-GR
Turkey has warned all riparian and non-riparian countries not to pass warships through its Bosporus and Dardanelles Straits, Foreign Minister Mevlut Çavuşoglu said on Monday evening. Yet Cavusoglu reiterated that Turkey cannot block all Russian warships accessing the Black Sea due to a clause in the pact exempting those returning …
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February 28, 2022
Culture, FEATURED, Politics, Refugees
Three buses carrying refugees from Ukraine arrived in Greece on Monday morning. On board women and children and elderly men, as those aged 18-60 are not allowed to leave the country. One buss with 36 people onboard arrived at Omonoia square in downtown Athens. The families were welcomed by relatives …
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February 28, 2022
Greece, Politics
Greece’s Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis expressed his support to Ukraine’s European prospects on Monday after the appeal of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for immediate European Union membership. “Full solidarity with President Zelenskyy and the people of Ukraine. We welcome Ukraine’s EU choice; they are one of us,” Mitsotakis said in …
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