Some 800,000 businesses in Covid-19-quarantined Greece will benefit from emergency stimulus measures, the relevant finance minister announced this week, in unveiling an expanded package that extends to 1.7 million wage-earners,…
WWII Greek resistance icon Manolis Glezos died on Monday at the age of 98 in Athens. He was born on Sept. 9, 1922 on the large Cyclades island of Naxos.…
The death toll in Greece from the coronavirus outbreak has reached 38, with another six fatalities added to the macabre tally since a day earlier, the state’s coordinator for the…
The biggest telecoms provider in Greece, Cosmote, this past month announced its selection of Ericsson as a strategic partner for developing a 5G network in the east Mediterranean country, following…
Greece ranks in 40th place worldwide in the number of confirmed Covid-19 infections as of March 28, down from 32nd place just a week ago, a development that is met…
Confirmed coronavirus infections in Greece neared the 1,000-mark on Friday, with 28 related deaths reported. The number of new cases increased by 74 from a day earlier. Sixty-six people are…
Confirmed coronavirus-related deaths in Greece reached 26 on Friday, with the average age of the victims listed at 73 years old, and with the gender breakdown being 21 males and…
The Greek government on Thursday appointed Prof. Elias Mossialos as the country’s representatives to international organizations now dealing with the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
Mossialos had previously served as minister of…
The relevant labor minister in Greece this week responded to heightened opposition criticism over a coronavirus outbreak-related directive by the government allowing employers in the country to designate up to…
Fraport Greece and the Copelouzos group, the majority and minority partners of the consortium that manages 14 regional airports around Greece on a long-term concession, have announced the donation of…
Members of a powerful culture-ministry affiliated archaeological council (ΚAS) have reportedly approved of building demolitions at the former Athens airport, which takes up the larger part of the coastal Helleniko…
The Greek government on Tuesday denied a bevy of same-day press reports, accompanied by an “echo chamber-effect” in social media, that capital controls would be imposed due to the ongoing…
A relevant civil protection deputy minister said 1.3 SMS messages had been received by a platform to issue approval to people wishing to move in public around Greece for specific…
Total coronavirus infections in Greece have reached 743 and fatalities 20, according to the coordinator of the Greek state’s efforts to prevent and treat the pandemic, prof. Sotiris Tsiodras.
The…
The latest reports from Greece on Monday morning referred to a 17th fatality related to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak, the same day as a “lockdown” is being enforced to restrict…
The Greek government on Sunday evening detailed the ban a wide array of public movements throughout the country, as the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak reached almost 100 over…
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis said a ban on residents’ unnecessary movement in public will be in place as of 6 a.m. for the entire country, an even stricter restriction to…
Greece’s prime minister will again take to the airwaves at 6 p.m. (16.00 GMT) on Sunday, with media reports rife over the weekend that the government is considering additional restrictive…
Police have arrested three foreign nationals in connection to a fire that destroyed a primary school within a migrant/refugee “hotspot” on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos two weeks ago.…
Another three Covid-19-related deaths were reported in Greece on Saturday, bringing the total to 13 in the east Mediterranean country of roughly 11 million residents.
All three of the victims…
Friday was the worst day so far in terms of Covid-19-related deaths in Greece, with four patients dying from the virus, bringing the death toll to 10 in the east…
The “Covid-19 effect” is forecast to throw the Greek economy back into a recessionary spiral, according to Scope Ratings, with its revised projection for 2020 pointing to a GDP decrease…
The Greek government on Friday announced restrictions to ferry boat travel to the country’s numerous islands, with the intent of preventing so-called “coronavirus holidays”. The new measures will allow travel…
A seventh death related to the coronavirus (Covid-19) was reportedly recorded in Greece on Friday, with an 87-year-old man identified as the seventh victim.
The deceased in the seventh confirmed case…
The Greek government on Thursday significantly upped the ante of an emergency economic response to keep the economic afloat amid and after the ongoing coronavirus “lockdown”, after essentially being freed…
More than 26 people, described in press reports as Kurds from Turkey, were detained and a cache of weaponry seized on Thursday during a raid of a building in central…
More than 26 people, described in press reports as Kurds from Turkey, were detained and a cache of weaponry seized on Thursday during a raid of a building in central…
The Greek government is expected to announce a ban on passenger flights to and from the country, as of Sunday, with the prime minister cited by media reports as confirming…
The ongoing and increasingly explosive coronavirus outbreak in Europe, now described as a global Covid-19 pandemic by epidemiologists, has knocked down at least one previous crisis-era barrier for Greece, as…
China delivered 50,000 surgical masks to Greece on Wednesday for use by the country’s public health system.
The cargo was delivered during a brief ceremony attended by Chinese ambassador to…
