Professor Stathis Kalyvas, the author of the recent piece in Kathimerini “A Summerless Greece?”, joins Thanos Davelis to discuss how the incredible surge in visitors to the country is dramatically changing its tourism landscape.
Greece’s Coast Guard has categorically denied pushing back migrants who were trying to reach the country, resulting in the death of six people including children.
The Thessaloniki Criminal Court of Appeal on Tuesday handed sentences of 19 to 141 years to 14 Pakistani nationals who were convicted of being members of a trafficking gang.
Greece’s National Vaccination Committee on Tuesday said it recommends the updated Covid-19 vaccines for people over 60 years of age and health professionals, among others.
A Turkish Unmanned Air Vehicle (UAV) entered Athens’ FIR without submitting a flight plan and violated Greek airspace in the eastern Aegean on Wednesday, authorities said.
The European Union is set to unveil plans on Wednesday to skim off windfall profits from energy companies and impose cuts in electricity usage across the bloc, in a package designed to shield citizens and businesses from surging energy prices.
Hotel occupancy rates have reached 90% on Mykonos in September, the same as in July and August, with arrivals expected to exceed 2019 levels, Andreas Ferentinos, head of the New Democracy party’s tourism department and former president of Mykonos hoteliers, said on Tuesday.
More than 40 local elected officials across Russia signed a two-sentence petition on Monday that ended with: “We demand the resignation of Vladimir Putin from the post of president of the Russian Federation!”
Around 8,000 passengers and 2,000 cars have made the Limassol-Piraeus ferry trip this summer with Cyprus’ Deputy Minister of Shipping Vassilis Demetriades telling Kathimerini Cyprus’ Oriana Papantoniou he was satisfied – since the total number of passengers exceeded expectations – but he remained cautious, stressing that this number may not be indicative.