Greece

Commission extends post-programme framework for Greece

The European Commission has today adopted a decision to extend the enhanced surveillance framework for Greece by six months, as provided for under Regulation (EU) No 472/2013 (part of the so-called ‘two-pack').…

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Photo Story: Heavy snowfall in Athens

People make their way on Filoppapos hill, across Acropolis during heavy snowfall, in Athens, Greece. As the cold front Medea sweeping over Greece was in full progress and heading south,…

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Earthquake of magnitude 5.0 strikes near Greek town of Nafpaktos

An earthquake of magnitude 5.0 struck early on Wednesday near the Greek seaside town of Nafpaktos on the north shore of the Corinthian Gulf, the Athens Geodynamic Institute said. The…

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Greece woos private family wealth management services

Greece is preparing new measures to attract family offices offering dedicated wealth management services to ultra-rich clients, as it seeks to overhaul its image as an investment destination, two senior…

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Greece extends lockdown to more regions to contain COVID-19 pandemic

Greece extended the full lockdown imposed on metropolitan Athens earlier this week to more regions of the country in a bid to contain the spread of COVID-19 infections, the deputy…

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Greek unemployment drops to 16.2% in November, lowest since April 2011

Greece's jobless rate dropped to 16.2% in November from a downwardly revised 16.4% in the previous month, data from the country's statistics service ELSTAT showed on Thursday, the lowest rate…

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Greek restaurants plea for help as COVID restrictions crush business

Greek restaurant and cafe owners pleaded for additional government support to protect livelihoods and jobs after months of crippling restrictions on their businesses to help stem the spread of COVID-19.…

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Four EU states urge EU to safeguard Johnson & Johnson vaccine supply

ATHENS, Feb 5 (Reuters) - The leaders of Denmark, Austria, the Czech Republic and Greece have urged the European Commission to act quickly to secure supplies of the COVID-19 vaccine…

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Greek premier orders full lockdown in Athens after surge in coronavirus cases

ATHENS, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday announced a full lockdown in the capital Athens and the surrounding region to curb a resurgence in coronavirus…

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Greece extends restrictions on international flights to Feb. 22

ATHENS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Greece said on Sunday it was extending restrictions on domestic and international flights until Feb. 15 and Feb. 22 respectively to help curb the spread…

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Greek PM defends centralised EU vaccine purchasing

ATHENS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis defended a decision to coordinate EU member states' vaccine purchases through the European Commission, saying the bloc's smaller countries would…

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Greece, Turkey to resume exploratory talks by early March – PM

ATHENS, Feb 4 (Reuters) - Greek and Turkish officials are likely to meet again at the end of Feburary or in early March to revive efforts to resolve a maritime…

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Thesssaloniki, Greece

A man walking at the waterfront as the shadow of a staute of Alexander the Great is silhouetted, in Thesssaloniki, Greece. Via EPA-EFE/DIMITRIS TOSIDIS

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EPA’s Eye in the Sky: Thessaloniki, Greece

Streets in the centre of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Photo: EPA-EFE/NIKOS ARVANITIDIS

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Greek foreign minister hopes for ‘positive’ spirit from Turkey in talks

ATHENS, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Greece's foreign minister said he hoped Turkey would have a positive approach towards a meeting next week aimed at reviving long-stalled efforts to open negotiations…

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Photo Story: University students protest against the education ministry’s new bill on Higher Education

University students holding placards attend a protest against the education ministry's new bill in front of Greek Parliament, Athens, Greece, 21 January 2021. Students and professors protested against proposals for…

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Greece optimistic about talks with Turkey but won’t discuss sovereignty

Greece will approach talks with Turkey next week over their disputed territorial claims in a hopeful spirit but will not discuss issues it considers as sovereign rights, Prime Minister Kyriakos…

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Greek coastguard recovers one dead, rescues 27 on Lesbos island

Greek coastguard officials recovered the body of one man and rescued 27 people from a rocky beach on the island of Lesbos after they apparently arrived by boat from Turkey, authorities said on Tuesday. "We have rescued 11 men, 15…

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Greek companies incur losses of almost 35bn euros due to pandemic

eKhatimerni - All Greek companies, and not just those that were forced to close during the lockdown, suffered losses in revenue reaching almost 35 billion euros in the period from January…

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Turkey and Greece may resume talks over disputed waters

ANKARA/ATHENS, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Turkey and Greece said on Monday they wanted to resume suspended exploratory talks over territorial claims in the Mediterranean Sea which brought them close to…

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Greece submits bill on western territorial waters extension

ATHENS, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Greece's conservative government has submitted a bill to parliament to extend the western limit of its territorial waters in the Ionian Sea to 12 nautical…

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UPDATED: Greek PM reshuffles cabinet

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis reshuffled his cabinet on Monday in an attempt to give a boost to his conservative government, but left key ministers in place to give policy…

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Greece detects four cases of new coronavirus variant

Greece has detected four cases of the new coronavirus variant in people who recently travelled from Britain, according to a Health Ministry official. The new variant of the coronavirus, now…

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Photo Story: Interactive light installations in Athens

Photos from the interactive light and sound installation at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre, in Athens, Greece, over the Christmas season. Via EPA-EFE/KOSTAS TSIRONIS

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Greece to tighten Covid restrictions

Greece will tighten Covid restrictions for a week from Sunday, closing hair salons, bookstores and some other shops that had been allowed to reopen in the run-up to Christmas, the…

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France’s Axa signs deal to sell Greek businesses to Generali

French insurer Axa has signed a deal to sell its businesses in Greece to Italian competitor Generali for 165 million euros ($202.9 million) as part of its strategy to streamline…

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First batch of vaccines arrive in Athens

The first batch of Greece's Covid-19 vaccines arrived in the capital early on Saturday (December 26) aboard a temperature-controlled truck. Two boxes containing 9,750 vaccine doses from drugmakers Pfizer and…

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Photo Story: Christmas decorations in Thessaloniki Greece

Aerial views of the Christmas decoration in Aristotelous Square in the centre of Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Via EPA-EFE/NIKOS ARVANITIDIS

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Photo Story: Europe’s largest Christmas Nativity Scene in Thessaloniki, Greece

A view on Europe's largest Christmas Nativity Scene, as part of the Christmas decoration, displayed in Thessaloniki, northern Greece. Set up inside the at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC) of…

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No toys this Christmas, Greek retailer Jumbo says toys stuck at ports because of Covid-19

Greek retailer Jumbo said thousands of containers filled with toys it ordered months before Christmas remain stuck at ports around the world as warehouses in Greece are overwhelmed due to…

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Greece to keep schools, restaurants shut until after Christmas

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece said on Monday that it will not re-open schools, restaurants and courts until Jan. 7, effectively extending most of the restrictions the country imposed last month…

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Greece extends nationwide lockdown again, to December 14

Greece has extended to Dec. 14 a nationwide lockdown imposed last month to contain a surge in new coronavirus cases, government spokesman Stelios Petsas said on Thursday. The lockdown, the…

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Coronavirus response: €183.5 million to support Greek economy

The Coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic presents a major challenge to the entire European Union. National, regional and local communities are on the front line in countering the disease and its…

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Greek government considers capital injection for Aegean Airlines

The Greek state is considering providing capital support for the country's biggest carrier Aegean Airlines, of around 120 million euros ($142.55 million), a government spokesman said on Monday. Under the…

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Coronavirus deaths jump to daily record in Greece, hospitals pressured

Greece reported 108 coronavirus-related deaths on Saturday, a daily record, with hospitals in the north of the country under pressure as available intensive care beds filled up from the surge…

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Greece to build new camps, cut migrant reception stays on islands

Greece, on the front line of migration into Europe, promised to build new reception centres for asylum seekers and cut the maximum stay in camps on its now-overcrowded islands. The…

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Greece plans to set up more than 1,000 vaccination centres

Greece plans to set up more than 1,000 vaccination centres as it awaits a successful vaccine against COVID-19, its health minister announced. Announcements over the last two weeks that two…

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Head of Greek church, Archbishop Ieronymos, tests positive for COVID

The head of the Church of Greece, Archbishop Ieronymos, has tested positive for COVID-19 and is being treated with mild symptoms in a central Athens hospital, Greek media reported on…

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Greece misses surplus target, finances clobbered by COVID-19

Greece undershot its surplus targets for the first ten months of the year as the COVID-19 pandemic whittled down state finances. The country, which saw a quarter of its national…

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Greece tightens COVID-19 lockdown, shuts primary schools

Greek authorities announced the closure of nurseries and primary schools until the end of November, tightening a nationwide lockdown after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Greece has fared better than…

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Greece tightens COVID-19 lockdown, shuts primary schools

Greek authorities announced on Saturday the closure of nurseries and primary schools until the end of November, tightening a nationwide lockdown after a spike in COVID-19 cases. Greece has fared…

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Greece find COVID-19 among mink at two farms

Greek authorities have found COVID-19 in mink at two farms in northern Greece, an agriculture ministry official said on Friday. The COVID-19 strain in the mink had not mutated, the…

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Doctors in Thessaloniki warn hospitals at breaking point

A surge in coronavirus infections in Greece’s northern city of Thessaloniki is pushing the hospital system to its limits, doctors at a medical facility say, as the second wave of…

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Greece to offer 50% tax break for returning professionals and “digital migrants”

Greece is preparing a law that will offer a hefty tax incentive to workers who move there from abroad, with the aim of creating more professional jobs and reversing its…

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Greece orders nationwide lockdown to curb COVID-19 surge

Greece ordered a nationwide lockdown for three weeks on Thursday, its second this year, to help contain a resurgence of COVID-19 after a sharp increase in infections this week. Prime…

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Greek government prepares more curbs to contain COVID-19 spread

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis is expected to announce new restrictions to curb a resurgence in COVID-19 cases, government officials said. Greece has reported fewer cases than most European countries…

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Greece says Turkey encroaching on continental shelf with new hydrocarbon search

Greece urged Turkey on Sunday to rescind a naval advisory announcing hydrocarbon exploration activity in the Mediterranean, saying the area it covered included Greek continental shelf. NATO members Turkey and…

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Greece to shut most bars, restaurants in country for month from Tuesday

Greece will expand a night-time curfew on movement and shut restaurants and bars in the most populous areas of the country for one month from Nov. 3 to contain a…

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6.6-magnitude earthquake in Turkey and Greece death-toll reached 35

Rescue workers on Saturday fought their way through the rubble of eight buildings which collapsed in Turkey's western city of Izmir, where a 6.6-magnitude earthquake killed at least 35 people. Three…

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Greece is next to enter partial lock-down

Greece will expand a night-time curfew on movement and shut restaurants and bars in the most populous areas of the country for one month to contain a resurgence in COVID-19…

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Greece introduces regional lockdown in north after COVID-19 spike

Greece imposed regional lockdowns on its second-largest city of Thessaloniki and two other regions from Friday after a spike in cases of COVID-19, the government said. The country has recorded…

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Photo Story: People stand in line for free Covid-19 test in Thessaloniki, Greece

People queue for free COVID-19 rapid tests that are provided throughout the day by Hellenic National Public Health Organization, in Thessaloniki, Greece, 29 October 2020. In a further steep record…

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Photo Story: Fly over to mark the Ohi Day national holiday in Greece

Military helicopters fly over buildings to mark the Ohi Day national holiday, in Thessaloniki, Greece, 28 October 2020. The national holiday marks Greek government's rejection of the ultimatum of surrender…

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Greece exceeds 1,200 daily COVID-19 infections for first time

Greece recorded a single-day record of 1,259 confirmed coronavirus infections on Tuesday, health authorities said, while the education minister tested positive for the virus. Tuesday’s jump followed 715 new cases…

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Greek Navy Ship collides with Portuguese cargo ship outside Piraeus port

A Greek Navy minesweeper "Kallisto", has collided with a Portuguese cargo ship "Maersk Launceston" just outside the port of Piraeus, Greece in the early hours of Tuesday (Oct.27). Two people…

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Turkey extends exploration in disputed Mediterranean area to Nov. 4

Turkey said it was extending the seismic survey work of its Oruc Reis ship in a disputed area of the eastern Mediterranean until Nov. 4, taking a step which was…

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Greece to impose night curfew to control Covid-19

Greece will impose a night curfew in areas most affected by COVID-19, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Thursday, announcing restrictions on movement in several areas of the country including…

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