Greece stands to receive additional funding of 1.9 billion euros for support in migration issues, European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas said after meeting with Migration Minister Notis Mitarakis on Thursday.
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The Embassy of Canada in Greece on Thursday said that it will be joining International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women by lighting up its chancery in orange, the official color of the United Nations’ campaign for raising awareness about gender-based violence.
Police on the eastern Aegean island of Chios carried out a raid on Thursday on the local branch of the Ark of the World children’s charity, which is under investigation for abuse and other crimes.
The President of the Hellenic Republic Katerina Sakellaropoulou on Thursday visited the 332 Air Force Fighter Squadron in Tanagra, Attica where the Hellenic Air Force’s Rafale aircraft are stationed.
Greek authorities say a dilapidated fishing boat crammed with migrants that was towed to port after losing steering in rough seas south of Crete was carrying a total of 483 people who had sailed from Libya.
The sovereignty of Greece’s islands is not up for discussion, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, amid recurring Turkish provocations in the Aegean and the Eastern Mediterranean.
Beneficiaries of the heating allowance have posted a record number of applications in the 16 days that the online platform MyThermansi has been open.
A Chief Master Sergeant of the Greek Air Force was killed while attempting to cross a main avenue in northern Athens early Thursday morning.
The secretary of the main opposition SYRIZA-Progressive Alliance parliamentary group and former minister Olga Gerovassili said on Thursday that her back accounts and social media accounts were hacked.